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welcome to tech news briefing it's wednesday november 20th. I'm Bell Lynn for the Wall Street Journal.

Chipmaker Nvidia is reporting earnings today, and expectations are high. Last quarter, the chip giant put up sales and earnings that more than doubled from the previous year. We'll find out what investors will be watching for in today's results.

And then the latest big name in Hollywood is artificial intelligence.

And a new entertainment studio called Promise is going all in on generative AI in television and filmmaking.

Our deputy media editor, Jessica Tunco, tells us what that could mean for the industry.

But first, NVIDIA's earnings are the main event for investors this week, as the chipmaker

powering the AI revolution gives a quarterly update on its progress.

For more on what investors are expecting, including potential bumps in Invidia's trajectory,

we're joined by WSJ reporter Asa Fitch.

ASA, last quarter, NVIDIA's sales and earnings were more than double from last year,

and they beat expectations.

But that didn't exactly impress investors.

Why is that?

It's basically because expectations have become extremely high for the company. Investors have gotten used to the company just blowing people away with its numbers. And it's been blowing people

away a little bit less over the past a couple of quarters. Last quarter, also they revealed they had a

manufacturing issue with their next generation blackwall chips that they're trying to iron out.

They seemed to be confident that they had ironed out. So there was a little bit of spook that's sent

through the market. And those two things probably accounted for some of the performance of the

stock after the results last time.

So it's kind of like Nvidia's success is its own worst enemy. It makes it harder every single

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