After years of leading the stock market, Nvidia Corp.’s wild rally took a break over the summer. Now Wall Street is looking for some DC magic to get the shares running again.

At its GTC DC event, the company announced major initiatives spanning quantum computing, 6G networks and “AI factories” built with the United States Department of Energy and Oracle Corp. — all framed as part of what executives described as America’s next industrial and scientific renaissance.

At the company’s annual developers confab, Huang mentioned several times that half of the world’s AI researchers come from China.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s 90-minute keynote was a quiet statement of American power – kinda. But he had some surprises up his leather sleeve.

Despite a wave of key S&P 500 earnings and a Fed rate cut on deck this week, Nvidia is once again drawing the biggest headlines and driving the biggest market swings. The chip giant made a series of announcements Tuesday including: A $1 billion investment in Nokia, the legacy telecom company

As rivals surge and Washington takes center stage, investors bet on Nvidia's next big catalyst from its DC showcase.

CEO Jensen Huang was not being hyperbolic when he said, "Our GPUs are everywhere," during his keynote address at the GTC event in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

Nvidia unveiled an expanded Mega Omniverse Blueprint for factory-scale digital twins, with Siemens and FANUC first to align. Industry giants such as Foxconn, Toyota, TSMC and Lucid are simulating entire production lines, plants and logistics in virtual environments, enabling rapid optimization, predictive maintenance and resilient supply chains.

Unsuspecting YouTube viewers looking for Nvidia's GTC keynote on Tuesday might well have found themselves accidentally watching a Jensen Huang deepfake promoting a cryptocurrency scam, after YouTube promoted the video over the official stream.

Unprecedented demand for the company’s AI chips have propelled the company’s market valuation into the stratosphere.

At NVIDIA's GTC conference in Washington, DC, today, the company released a raft of news. Here's a round-up with links to the full releases: NVIDIA and - Read more from Inside HPC & AI News.