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Stephen Witt

Journalist; author of The Thinking Machine (Nvidia history)

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  • Inside the Downfall of the Most Powerful Man in A.I. | Hard Fork

    November 12, 2026 · 📺 Hard Fork

    Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia’s chief executive after revelations that he had extramarital affairs with two women sent shock waves through the A.I. industry. To make sense of it all, we’re joined by two of the reporters who’ve been leading the coverage for The New York Times, Ana Swanson and Ryan Mac, alongside Stephen Witt, the author of the Jensen Huang biography “The Thinking Machine.” We’ll discuss how we got here, the significance of a Jensen-less Nvidia and what happens next for the A.I. race. Additional reading: Jensen Huang Resigns From Nvidia https://nyti.ms/4eyKAin Jensen Hu…

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  • Everything You Need to Know About the Jensen Huang Spy Story | Hard Fork

    November 10, 2026 · 📺 Hard Fork

    Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, has admitted to an affair with a top executive at the data center company Megaspeed — a woman going by the name of Alice Huang who the U.S. government alleges is a Chinese spy. On this special episode of Hard Fork, we sit down with Stephen Witt, who wrote Jensen Huang biography “The Thinking Machine.” We’ll dig into what you need to know about this spiraling scandal and what it means for A.I. and the global economy. Additional reading: A Mystery C.E.O. and Billions in Sales: Is China Buying Banned Nvidia Chips? https://nyti.ms/4z9dhcY Nvidia C…

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  • Experts Say AI Could Kill Us. Why Should We Trust Them? A Conversation w Jennifer Reich, Stephen ...

    September 24, 2026 · 📺 Why Should I Trust You?

    AI’s story feels like it's gotten a lot scarier. Some people in the tech world building AI now say it poses a meaningful risk of catastrophic harm, or even human extinction. Others insist this kind of “doomerism” is wildly exaggerated—that the warnings amount to crying wolf, and that the real danger is slowing down and ceding our advantage to China. What we do know is that the claims are enormous, sometimes even hard to fully believe or trust, the stakes range from disruptive to potentially existential, and nobody knows what comes next. So rather than hearing from the people building the t…

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  • Why AI's Smartest People Still Can't Agree on This...

    September 24, 2026 · 📺 The Next Big Idea Podcast

    Over the summer, 700 AI agents created by OpenAI went rogue, broke out of their testing environment, and hacked into Hugging Face. As more details have emerged about this alarming event, AI risk has gone from fringe fear to a national emergency. Stephen Witt explains why this incident has Silicon Valley and Washington asking whether we still have time to reign in AI. In this episode, Stephen, Rufus, and Caleb discuss the concerns raised by the latest AI safety panic and why AI risk has suddenly become impossible to ignore. Stephen breaks down the Hugging Face incident, the fear of rogue AI a…

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  • The Thinking Machine | FT Business Book of the Year Winner

    August 17, 2026 · 📺 NZ Funds

    Stephen Witt won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year for The Thinking Machine, his biography of NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang. He writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and GQ, examining the forces reshaping technology and the global economy. With rare access to Silicon Valley's leaders, innovators and investors, Stephen reveals how breakthrough technologies can ignite waves of capital investment, create and destroy fortunes, dismantle old industries and transform society. Join the Monday Call team for a conversation on the forces - seen and unseen - d…

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  • Stephen Witt: Are We Building Robots the Wrong Way?

    August 03, 2026 · 📺 The Next Big Idea Podcast

    Are humanoid robots coming for your job? Stephen Witt explains how AI, robotics, and automation could reshape the future of work. #artificialintelligence #robotics #futureofwork In this episode, Stephen, Rufus, and Caleb discuss: (00:00) Introduction (06:59) Steven Witt: Covering the NVIDIA Story (09:30) Parallel Computing: The Tech That Built AI (13:17) The Unexpected Symbiosis of Gaming and AI (17:08) CUDA: Betting the Company on "Mad Scientists" (22:26) AlexNet and the 2012 Inflection Point (28:02) Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity: Pivoting to AI (36:06) Luck vs. Foresight in Business (4…

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  • Anthropic claims its AI models went rogue, hacked 3 companies

    July 31, 2026 · 📺 CBS News

    Anthropic claims its artificial intelligence models went rogue during testing and hacked into three other companies. Less than two weeks ago, OpenAI reported a similar incident for one of its models. Stephen Witt, author of "The Thinking Machine," joins to unpack the situation. CBS News 24/7 is the premier anchored streaming news service from CBS News and Stations that is available free to everyone with access to the internet and is the destination for breaking news, live events, original reporting and storytelling, and programs from CBS News and Stations' top anchors and correspondents worki…

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  • Betting on AI: Jensen Huang and NVIDIA’s Rise to the Top with Stephen Witt

    April 13, 2026 · 📺 Hoover Institution

    Before AI was inevitable, it was a gamble—and Jensen Huang went all in. Listen as journalist Stephen Witt speaks with EconTalk’s Russ Roberts about how Jensen pivoted from manufacturing processing units for video games to leveraging their capacity into astonishing computing power and speed. Listen to the episode: https://www.econtalk.org/the-man-who-... __________ The opinions expressed in this video are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Hoover Institution or Stanford University. © 2026 by the Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University. 🔔…

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  • The Thinking Machine: How Jensen Huang Won the GPU War for NVIDIA | Technovation 1060

    March 05, 2026 · 📺 Metis Strategy

    In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Stephen Witt, award-winning journalist and author of The Thinking Machine, which has been named Business Book of the Year by Financial Times. Witt writes about Jensen Huang’s improbable journey from near-bankruptcy in the 1990s GPU wars to leading NVIDIA at the center of the AI revolution. Witt unpacks how NVIDIA defeated nearly 70 competitors, why Huang began targeting “zero-billion-dollar markets,” and how CUDA became the backbone of modern AI. 🎧 An audio-only version of this interview is available as episode 1060 of Metis Strategy’s p…

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  • How NVIDIA Dominated AI: Jensen Huang's Bold Bets | Stephen Witt

    February 26, 2026 · 📺 Karen Walker

    NVIDIA doesn’t just make chips; they are the oil of the modern world. And for thirty years, one man has been betting the company on a future that Wall Street couldn’t see. In this episode, I sit down with Stephen Witt, author of the FT Business Book of the Year, The Thinking Machine, to understand how Jensen Huang turned a gaming graphics company into the most powerful force in AI. We talk about the “cult-like” culture at NVIDIA, why Huang ignored investors to build CUDA for nearly a decade before it paid off, and how he’s running the same playbook today with robotics and quantum computing.…

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  • Stephen Witt - Ai & The First Out in the First Inning

    February 20, 2026 · 📺 APB Speakers

    New Yorker contributor Stephen Witt is one of the leading historians of artificial intelligence. His book The Thinking Machine, a history of Nvidia, hit the bestseller lists in multiple countries, and features half-a-dozen exclusive interviews with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Stephen has unparalleled insight into what made Jensen the most successful businessman of his era, and what made Nvidia the most valuable corporation on Earth. And he can explain how Jensen’s counterintuitive strategies—like the “speed of light,” or the “zero-billion dollar market”—can be applied to any organization, with tr…

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  • How Jensen Huang Built NVIDIA, with Stephen Witt

    February 16, 2026 · 📺 Modern CTO

    The man behind NVIDIA is unlike any other leader today. Today, we're talking to Stephen Witt, author of The Thinking Machine. We discuss how he lied his way into six interviews with Jensen Huang, why NVIDIA operates like a company that's thirty days from bankruptcy despite being worth trillions, and how Jensen's decade-long bet on the $0 market created the backbone of the AI revolution. To learn more about Stephen Witt and buy his book, check out his website here: https://stephenwitt.info/ *Timestamps:* 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:00:17 - What is The Thinking Machine? 00:01:11 - How Stephen…

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