Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance

Nvidia on Thursday scraped together some spare change to commit $1 billion — about 1/60th of its quarterly profits — to funding US scientific discovery over the next five years. The commitment, announced during an event in Washington, DC, aims to support the research and development of AI — or is it "super intelligence" now? — in fields including quantum computing, healthcare, and energy security. Nvidia's choice of technologies is not surprising as it has long aspired to