Chip shots: breaking Nvidia’s AI grip
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The Economist
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🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to the chips used in artificial intelligence, one firm has the market locked up. We look at the rivals minded to steal Nvidia’s crown. The death toll from the war in Gaza has been disputed since the start; we cut through the numbers to find a reliable estimate (10:19). And our correspondent examines the great rematches of fiction (16:07).
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| 1:01.8 | The Economist. |
| 1:08.9 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:23.3 | It's all but impossible to know with precision just how many lives have been cut short by the war in Gaza, |
| 1:29.9 | and many have quibbled with the death toll published by the Hamas-run Ministry of Health. |
| 1:35.1 | We look at how reliable the numbers are and have been. |
| 1:40.0 | And a repeated face-off between American presidential candidates used to be a more common thing. |
| 1:46.3 | This year's is the first since 1956. |
| 1:49.6 | Our correspondent minds the great rematches of fiction to set us up for a coming one of Trumpian proportions. |
| 2:00.2 | But first... |
| 2:01.6 | He who controls the spice controls the universe. |
| 2:11.6 | That is one of the more famous lines from Doom, a science fiction epic. |
| 2:18.3 | Know then that it is the year 10,191. |
| 2:22.3 | In this time, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice melange. |
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