Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls Elon Musk the 'ultimate GPU'

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Jensen Huang called Elon Musk "the ultimate GPU."

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  • Jensen Huang said that Elon Musk is capable of keeping "all of the interdependencies" of supercomputing in his head.
  • "He's the ultimate GPU," Huang said, praising the Tesla CEO and major Nvidia customer on the "BG2 podcast."
  • Musk is building xAI's Colossus II, which aims to be the "world's first
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She made $250K secretly juggling two jobs. Now she's making $195K and dodging a five-day RTO mandate.

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A millennial (not pictured) made $250K juggling two jobs in secret, but "overemployment" eventually became unsustainable.

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  • A millennial mom secretly worked two full-time jobs for 18 months, earning $250,000 annually,
  • Burnout and return-to-office pressures led her to give up "overemployment."
  • She shared how she's navigated financial and childcare changes — and avoided her
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Mark Cuban shared 7 tips for investors and founders navigating AI, inflation, and the American dream

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Mark Cuban urged entrepreneurs to focus on customers, embrace AI wisely, and protect their intellectual property in an uncertain economy.

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  • Mark Cuban urged founders to stop chasing VCs and focus on winning customers first.
  • Speaking at the Clover x Shark Tank Summit in Las Vegas, Cuban shared 7 tips to survive and scale.
  • He said entrepreneurs must love selling their products — or they're in the
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I was homeless at 17 while starting my company. Now it makes millions in revenue and has clients around the world.

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Harry Sanders was homeless at 17 and by 27 was a millionaire.

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  • Harry Sanders was homeless for a year when he was 17.
  • His social worker and mentor encouraged him to keep hope.
  • His SEO company quickly expanded from Australia to the US and UK.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Harry Sanders, founder of StudioHawk. It has been edited for length and clarity.

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Inside the rise of Ashok Elluswamy, the Elon Musk lieutenant leading Tesla's self-driving gamble

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In 2022, Elon Musk made a gamble that rattled his top engineers. The Tesla CEO scrapped the ultrasonic sensors that helped power the company's self-driving technology, and its vehicles began relying entirely on cameras.

No other self-driving car company had attempted anything like it. Complicating matters was the recent departure of Andrej Karpathy

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Here's the chatter from hedge fund conferences run by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citi, and Kepler

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Kepler held its sixth conference at Wembley Stadium

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  • September is a month full of hedge-fund conferences in New York, Connecticut, London, and more.
  • People on the ground at these events told Business Insider what the chatter was about.
  • Goldman Sachs and Kepler hosted events at sports stadiums, while Morgan Stanley and Citi opted for smaller venues.

September brings cooler weather

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