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(Bloomberg) — Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said he’s unsure whether China would accept the company’s H200 artificial intelligence chips should the US relax restrictions on sales of the processors, following a meeting Wednesday with President Donald Trump.

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Addressing reporters at the US Capitol, Huang said he and Trump talked about export controls but declined to offer specifics. The Nvidia chief’s meeting with the president comes after Trump administration officials discussed whether to allow the H200 to be sold in China. Asked whether authorities in Beijing would allow Chinese companies to buy the H200, Huang expressed uncertainty.

“We don’t know. We have no clue,” Huang said, as he headed into a closed-door meeting with members of the Senate Banking Committee, which has jurisdiction over export controls. “We can’t degrade chips that we sell to China, they won’t accept that.”

During an Oval Office event later Wednesday, Trump sidestepped questions about the status of export controls but praised Huang as doing “an amazing job.”

Allowing H200 sales to China would mark a significant win for the world’s most valuable company, which has pressed the Trump administration and Congress for a relaxation of export controls that keep Nvidia from selling its AI chips in the world’s second-largest economy. Huang has forged a close relationship with Trump since the November election and has used those ties to make his case that restrictions only boost China’s domestic champions like Huawei Technologies Co.

Asked how often he’s in Washington, Huang said “Whenever President Trump would like me to be here.”

Huang’s visit to the nation’s capital came as Nvidia neared a major lobbying win in Congress, where lawmakers kept a provision out of must-pass defense legislation that would have limited the company’s ability to sell its advanced AI chips to China and other adversary nations. The so-called GAIN AI Act would require chipmakers, including Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., to give American customers first dibs on their powerful AI chips before selling in China and other arms-embargoed countries.

As the Banking Committee meeting concluded, Republican Senator Mike Rounds acknowledged Nvidia’s desire to compete globally. “They want the customers around the world,” Rounds, a member of the panel, told reporters. “We understand that. And at the same time, we’re all concerned, including Jensen, with regard to having restrictions on what goes to China.”

Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis said that the GAIN AI measure didn’t come up during Huang’s meeting with the committee and described the conversation as “educational.”

Following an evening appearance hosted by a Washington think tank, Huang said that Trump and other administration officials were considering whether to allow the H200 sales to China. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has previously said that the final decision on the chips would rest with Trump.

Any easing of export restrictions would mark a significant shift from policies imposed starting in 2022 to keep Beijing and its military from accessing the most powerful US technologies. Such a move would provoke sharp opposition from national-security hawks in Washington who have favored export controls as a way to keep adversaries like China from gaining ground in the AI race.

This summer, Nvidia won approval to sell its less-powerful H20 chip, designed to fall just below existing export limits, but China promptly told potential domestic customers to shun the product and rely instead on processors made by Chinese companies. More recent efforts by Nvidia to win US permission to export a hobbled version of its most advanced Blackwell-generation chip failed to materialize during an October meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The H200, which began shipping to customers last year, is designed to both train and run AI models. The prospect of selling a higher-caliber processor to China bolstered arguments by lawmakers from both parties who have pressed unsuccessfully for the GAIN AI Act’s adoption. Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the banking panel, has warned that allowing sales of the H200 to China would “turbocharge China’s military and undercut American technological leadership.”

In a letter Wednesday to Lutnick, Warren urged the administration to maintain limits on sales of Nvidia’s advanced AI chips to China and expressed concern over what she called a lack of transparency in the decision-making on export controls. “We should not allow Big Tech firms like Nvidia to sell sensitive technology to governments that do not share our values,” Warren wrote, in a letter co-signed by fellow Democrat Andy Kim.

Last month, Huang said that China represented a $50 billion market for his company, though for now Nvidia has excluded data center revenue from the Asian nation from its financial forecasts. “We would love the opportunity to be able to reengage the Chinese market,” he said in a Bloomberg Television interview, adding that China sales would benefit Americans as well as people across the globe as Chinese open-source models “leave China and are used all over the world.”

—With assistance from Roxana Tiron, Skylar Woodhouse and Steven T. Dennis.

(Updates with Trump remarks in fourth paragraph and Huang comment in 10th paragraph.)

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The long-anticipated store and its 500 co-workers welcomed crowds of excited Kiwis. Once through the doors, customers experienced styled room-sets and more than 7,500 products, convenient services, and plenty of inspiration.

For the first time when opening a new market, IKEA has set up 29 pick-up points across the country, where customers can collect their purchases even more affordably. The new IKEA store in Auckland, pick-up points, online and remote sales complement each other in an omnichannel way, allowing the Swedish retailer to get closer to the shopping preferences of New Zealanders. In addition, a Buy Back service is available at the store from day one – even for non-IKEA products – supporting circular living and reducing waste.

“I’m proud we are now open both in-store and online. We appreciate the excitement shown by the people who showed up and queued to visit our store for the first time,” said Mirja Viinanen, CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer, IKEA Australia and New Zealand. “It’s been some time since we first announced our intentions to enter New Zealand in 2019. Right from the start, we wanted to enter in the best way possible and be a good neighbour. We wouldn’t be where we are today without the support and collaboration from our neighbours and wider ‘IKEA Family’ community.”

Ahead of the store opening, IKEA has visited more than 500 homes in New Zealand to understand the life at home expectations of the many Kiwis and translate those learnings into its store and online presentation. It also collected those insights into its first Life at Home Report about New Zealand, and organized housewarming celebrations in secret locations across Auckland, reflecting the Kiwi lifestyle – from backyard gatherings to late-night garage jams and sunny mornings by the sea.

New Zealand is the first new market for the largest IKEA retailer since 2021, when a store was opened in Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia.

The expansion into New Zealand is part of a broader investment strategy aimed at making IKEA even more accessible worldwide. In total, more than EUR 5 billion will be invested by FY27 in opening new locations and optimizing the existing ones across many markets.

Facts about the first IKEA store in New Zealand:

• The store is a large-format, approximately 34,000 m² in size, making it larger than the average IKEA store globally.
• IKEA Sylvia Park in Auckland is bigger than 8 of the 10 Australian IKEA “big blue box” stores, which range from 23,000 m² to 39,000 m².
• IKEA New Zealand is a three-floor building, with a ground-level car park and the store spread across two upper levels.
• The new IKEA store features a Swedish Restaurant and Bistro serving iconic meatballs and hot dogs, also available in plant-based versions, along with exclusive New Zealand-only dishes.
• The store runs fully on renewable energy. A rooftop solar PV system supplies approximately 50% of the building’s energy needs, with the remainder purchased from New Zealand’s renewable energy sources.
• The store’s 100% LED lighting system is re-programmable, allowing each of the 3,000+ lights to be individually controlled and scheduled on timers to reduce energy usage.
• Twenty-five electric vehicle charging stations are available for customers in the car park, plus “last mile” EV chargers on-site for delivery trucks and vans.

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December ushers in a period of reflection in the investment world, as investors take stock of the previous year and begin to position themselves for the year to come. This is more true than ever right now, as we seem to be in a liminal period; animal spirits have lulled, but AI companies continue to put up strong results. 

My prediction for 2026 is that it will be a tale of two AIs. On the one hand, it will be a year of delays, first in data center buildouts, many of which will fall behind schedule, and second, in the AGI timeline. At the same time, AI adoption will continue its relentless rise. In 2025, startups coined the idea of a “$0 to $100M” club of rapidly scaling AI companies; in 2026, we’ll begin to talk about the “$0 to $1B” club.

Entering 2026, here are the facts as I see them: 

• Demand for AI CapEx from the Big Tech companies is stronger than ever
• Google and Meta are fully betting the farm on AI
• While Microsoft and Amazon pulled back slightly in 2025 relative to peers, both continue to aggressively position themselves for the AI future
• Supply chain players seem weary: The customer’s customer is not as healthy as they’d wish. They are worried about being left holding the bag
• The end revenue from AI remains limited (on the order of tens of billions per year) relative to the scale of data center and energy investments (on the order of trillions over the coming five years)
• There are two killer apps in AI, coding and ChatGPT. Both are expected to approach or cross double digit billions of revenue this year. Nearly a dozen more startups are on the path to cross $100M+ in the near future, across a wide variety of applications
• Big enterprises are struggling to implement AI in-house, which is leading to fatigue and disappointment

Tale 1: The Year of Delays 

These countervailing forces will collide in 2026: soaring Big Tech demand will run headfirst into a supply chain that hasn’t scaled fast enough to match it.

First, companies like TSMC and ASML have monopolistic positions and cannot be forced to ramp capacity. Ben Thompson has called this the “TSMC Brake,” pointing out in October that while TSMC had ramped revenues by 50% since 2022, they had only ramped CapEx by 10%. He explained further: “There weren’t too many answers from TSMC about this, which is understandable, given that they won’t announce next year’s CapEx numbers until next quarter. What Wei did say is that TSMC was making a point to not just talk to its customers but its customers’ customers.” My prediction, especially coming off of the successful Gemini 3 launch and hype around TPUs, is that the TSMC constraint could become material in 2026.

Second, industrial players, which tend to be overlooked due to their fragmentation and lack of market power, may end up creating bottlenecks as data centers move into the final stages of construction. Generators and cooling units are among the most important industrial inputs to data centers, but there are dozens of such inputs; if any of these inputs are delayed, timelines would need to be pushed out. There are also labor constraints that must be factored in, as shortages in skilled labor could become a key bottleneck for completing these immense construction projects. Many AI companies share a supply base, and these industrial suppliers are faced with their own CapEx decisions (how many new factories to build). We’ll find out in 2026 to what extent they’ve sufficiently added to their own output capacity. 

The average AI data center takes roughly two years to build. So if 2024 was the year of new project announcements, and 2025 was the year when construction investments started to hit GDP, then 2026 will either be the year where a lot of this new capacity comes online (leading to further declines in the cost of compute) or it will be the year when many of these construction projects begin to face delays. We already have seen a few of these delays publicly reported in Q4 2025. If hyperscalers begin to warehouse their new AI chips rather than installing them directly into data centers, this will be a telltale sign that the era of delays has begun.

The other way in which 2026 will be the “Year of Delays” has to do with the AGI timeline. For a long time, Silicon Valley luminaries were forecasting the imminent emergence of AGI, with “AGI in 2027” thrown around frequently in conversation. Since June of this year, there has been a progressive walk-back of this timeline. Dwarkesh Patel’s recent podcast interviews with Richard Sutton, Andrej Karpathy, and Ilya Sutskever are a demarcating line; the new consensus is that the AGI window will be in the 2030s, at earliest. In the coming year, I expect this “update” to filter outside of Silicon Valley. There are implications across many areas. The most notable risk is that hyperscaler CapEx today ends up being outdated.

Tale 2: The Relentless Drive Toward AI Adoption

The area where I do not expect to see any delays is in AI adoption itself. The fading of hype will have little impact on fundamentals. If anything, the best startups are growing faster than ever from $0 to $100M in revenue. In 2026, we’re going to see the emergence of a $0 to $1B club. The trend of the last three years—and likely for many more—is that startups are laying the foundation for the future economy, one building block at a time. There are many excellent entrepreneurs exploring new niches, and a lot of latent value has yet to be unlocked.

The best AI startups are moving with extreme efficiency—many are earning north of $1M in revenue per employee. This implies market pull vs. a push sale. Today’s entrepreneurs are building “self-improving” companies—they are themselves using AI agents for functions like legal, recruiting, and sales—creating an ecosystem flywheel effect. AI app companies are also riding a compute cost curve that should drive incremental margin improvement, especially as new data centers come online between now and 2030. Finally, with enterprises facing adoption fatigue on DIY implementations, startups are gaining even more momentum.

For some, AI adoption is happening too slowly. Those expecting a rapid AI takeoff would prefer to see a deus ex machina moment carry us straight to the finish line. I think that dream is likely to disappoint. Instead, the next leg of the AI story will require hard work, creative brilliance, and endurance to reach a new threshold where AI radically transforms the economy. We need only to look at the green shoots—founder motivation, aggressiveness, hunger to win, customer obsession—to see that this future is coming. 

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Nvidia on Wednesday said that its latest AI server, which packs 72 of its leading chips into a single computer with speedy links between them, improved the performance of Moonshot’s Kimi K2 Thinking model by 10 times compared to the previous generation of Nvidia servers, a similar performance gain to what Nvidia has seen with DeepSeek’s models.

Nvidia said the gains primarily came from the sheer number of chips it can pack into servers and the fast links between them, an area where Nvidia still has advantages over its rivals.

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– Tilden, former chairman, president and CEO of Alaska Air Group, will join Safety and Finance committees

ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Bradley D. Tilden as its newest member, effective Dec. 3, 2025. Tilden will join the Aerospace Safety and Finance committees.

Tilden, 64, previously served as chairman, president and CEO of Alaska Air Group, Inc., the parent company of Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines, as well as regional airline Horizon Air.

“Brad brings a distinct customer perspective, proven leadership in the airline industry, and more than three decades of aviation experience,” said Boeing Board Chair Steve Mollenkopf. “His experience in safety management systems and financial expertise will be invaluable to our Board as we continue to make progress in the company’s recovery.”

In his 31-year tenure at Alaska Air Group, Tilden held several senior leadership roles, including CFO and then president of Alaska Airlines. Beginning in 2012, he began serving as President and CEO of Alaska Air Group, and was named executive chairman in 2021.

The 12th member of the board, Tilden will be the 10th new director added since 2019, as part of the board’s refreshment efforts. These directors collectively bring significant experience in aerospace, safety, engineering, manufacturing, cyber, artificial intelligence, software, risk oversight, audit, supply chain management, sustainability and finance, as well as the perspective of customers, suppliers and pilots.

A leading global aerospace company and top U.S. exporter, Boeing develops, manufactures and services commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries. Our U.S. and global workforce and supplier base drive innovation, economic opportunity, sustainability and community impact. Boeing is committed to fostering a culture based on our core values of safety, quality and integrity. 

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Electric vehicles are not travelling as far as their manufacturers promise, with independent road tests showing all models analysed have failed to meet their advertised range.

One popular small car produced the worst EV result to date in the latest tests, pulling up more than 120km short of the distance printed on its sticker. At the other end of the scale, Tesla’s latest Model Y SUV was only a few kilometres short of its claim.

The Australian Automobile Association released the findings on Thursday with another four electric car road trials held as part of its $14m Real-World Testing Program.

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The results add to a previous round of electric vehicle examinations, in which all five models failed to meet their promised range, and after tests of 131 internal combustion and hybrid vehicles found that 76% consumed more fuel than advertised.

The association tests vehicles on a 93km track in and around Geelong, Victoria, on urban and rural roads, as well as motorways.

US car maker Tesla emerged with the best result from all electric car tests to date. Its Model Y SUV fell 16km short of its claimed range of 466km on a single charge.

By contrast, the MG4 electric hatchback produced the worst result so far, missing its 405km goal by 124km – a shortfall of 31%.

The Kia EV3 missed its mark by 11% or 67km, and the Smart #1 electric car stopped short by 13% or 53km.

Comparing the real-world range of electric cars to their laboratory results would be vital for motorists, association managing director Michael Bradley said, as it would help them reach decisions and set expectations.

“These results give consumers an independent indication of real-world battery range, which means they now know which cars perform as advertised and which do not,” he said.

“Giving consumers improved information about real-world driving range means buyers can worry less about running out of charge and make the switch to EVs with confidence.”

The association’s vehicle-testing program, funded by the federal government and launched in 2023, has tested 140 vehicles out of a target of 200, and has found most consume more energy or fuel than promised.

The Australian testing program was introduced following a 2015 Volkswagen scandal in which the European automaker was discovered using software to alter vehicle emissions during laboratory tests.