The president touted the latest effort by Intel to bring manufacturing back the United States after the U.S. government acquired a stake in the company last year.
President Trump is pursuing a Bernie-like interest in having the U.S. government take stakes in AI giants — not out of populism, but with a dealmaker's eye for profit. Why it matters: Having the government take equity in private companies — anathema to free-market capitalism and Republican dogma about "picking winners and losers" — has become a defining feature of Trump's second term. - The U.S. government now owns shares of chipmakers, miners and quantum computing companies, often taking a stake in exchange for federal money that was originally meant to come with no ownership strings attached. - Trump said Friday that he "should be a stockbroker," pointing to his administration's recent deal to take a stake in Intel. By the…
The company best known for powering the AI boom is coming for the PC: Nvidia is expected next week to debut the first Windows computers that use its chips as the main processor, sources confirm to Axios. Why it matters: Microsoft's first AI PC push stumbled , but Nvidia's arrival gives it a second chance, this time with the world's hottest chipmaker attached. Driving the news: Nvidia and Microsoft will unveil their joint work and the first computers running the chips at two key industry conferences — the Computex trade show in Taiwan and Microsoft's Build developer conference in San Francisco. - Nvidia-powered PCs are expected both from Microsoft's homegrown Surface brand as well as other computer makers, including Dell, sources…
Spirit Airlines is in talks with the White House over a potential bailout — a move that could test how far the Trump administration is willing to go to prop up a struggling private-sector company. Why it matters: A bailout would mark the latest in a series of increasingly aggressive examples of economic interventionism on the president's part. Catch up quick: Spirit — a budget airline that's been teetering on the edge of liquidation — is in advanced discussions to borrow up to $500 million from the government, according to a person familiar with the matter. - The deal would likely provide equity warrants giving Uncle Sam a substantial ownership stake in the trouble business — possibly as much as 90%. - "I guess it would be the…
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