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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dropped a casual bombshell on the company's earnings call this week, announcing that Nvidia had achieved artificial general intelligence — then almost immediately called the milestone, quote, senseless. He's not wrong. AGI has no agreed definition, which means claiming it is equal parts marketing and philosophy. Huang's real message may simply be that Nvidia's chips are doing things nobody expected this soon.
From vague milestones to very concrete ones — the Trump administration is reportedly weighing a second wave of semiconductor tariffs that would extend beyond chips themselves to the products built with them, including laptops, gaming consoles, and data center servers. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is said to favor the expanded structure. If it moves forward, consumers and manufacturers alike could be looking at significant cost increases across nearly every major hardware category.
And in a story that captures the crypto moment perfectly, the creator of a memecoin built around leaked Grand Theft Auto Six footage quietly sold his entire stake hours before Rockstar dropped its first official gameplay reveal. The token had hit a twenty-five million dollar market cap riding nine days of stolen footage. Once the real thing arrived, the value of the rumor evaporated — and the creator had already left the room.
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