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NVDA falls 1.3% for 4th straight day; early talks to deepen ~$800M Reflection AI stake
Nvidia shares declined 1.3% Monday, marking a fourth consecutive daily drop, as investors looked past its latest open-standard AI announcements, according to Morningstar.
Nvidia is reportedly in early talks to acquire or further invest in Reflection AI — a startup by ex-Google DeepMind researchers — after already investing about $800 million; Reflection was seeking a ~$25B valuation earlier this year, per TheStreet.
A report suggests Nvidia may discontinue the RTX 5090 flagship consumer GPU to redirect GB202 chip allocations toward higher-margin RTX Pro workstation GPUs for AI data centers; the card's street price has already surged from $1,999 MSRP to over $7,175 amid DRAM shortages (Game Rant, Notebookcheck).
Nvidia reportedly plans a 24 GB RTX 5080 for Q1 2027 to replace the 16 GB model, though partners have only received verbal notice of development docs, making the timeline uncertain (Notebookcheck).
Microsoft unveiled its Azure Maia 300 accelerator at OCP Summit, claiming it outperforms Nvidia's Blackwell B200 on dense FP8 compute (6.9 PFLOPS) with 288 GB HBM4 and 950 W TDP — a direct competitive threat to Nvidia's data-center dominance.
Cisco and Nvidia announced a partnership on next-generation optical networking to handle growing AI data-center bandwidth demands, potentially supporting hundreds of thousands of GPUs working together (Bloomberg).
Nvidia in talks to expand Reflection AI stake or acquire open-source AI startup
Nvidia is in early talks to deepen its investment in Reflection AI or acquire the open-source startup, according to Financial Times reports. Options include an acqui-hire that would bring staff and license technology, potentially avoiding a lengthy regulatory review; Nvidia already invested $800 million in Reflection AI.
Reflection AI, founded in 2024 by former DeepMind researchers, launched its first open-weight model, Beam, in October and was raising at a $25 billion pre-money valuation in April. A deal would expand Nvidia's position in open-weight coding and agentic AI software, though terms are not set and talks could collapse.
TSMC reports Q3 on Oct. 15 with guidance of $44.6 billion to $45.8 billion in revenue, up 12% quarter over quarter and 37% year over year at the midpoint. TSMC makes Nvidia's chips and provides CoWoS packaging, so its results are viewed as an early read on Nvidia's fiscal Q3, for which Nvidia guided for about $108 billion in revenue, plus or minus 2%.
Nvidia ended a 96-trading-day drought by setting a new record high and was worth $5.8 trillion at its recent peak. It now accounts for 5.2% of the MSCI All Country World Index—more than Japan—and trades around 15 times estimated earnings; Nvidia also authorized an additional $150 billion buyback, the largest ever.
AM Intelligence ordered about 20,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs for AI infrastructure in India and Malaysia, with delivery in a 2027 quarter. The order adds roughly 70 MW of capacity and brings its committed Rubin GPU total to about 29,000, signaling demand for Nvidia's next-gen rack-scale platform.
Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops are seeing strong early demand: Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra with 128GB unified memory and 1TB SSD at $5,899.99 is out of stock. CUDA software compatibility is cited as a key driver for the platform, which uses the N1X chip with a MediaTek ARM CPU and an Nvidia GPU about RTX 5070-class.
Nvidia is in early-stage talks to acquire or further invest in Reflection AI, a developer of open-weight AI models founded in 2024 by former DeepMind researchers. A deal could be a full acquisition, more equity, or an acqui-hire—hiring staff and licensing technology to avoid a long regulatory review. Talks could conclude in weeks but may still collapse. Nvidia already committed $800M to Reflection, which was last valued at $25B. Nvidia used a similar structure in a $20B Groq deal in December, which drew a lawsuit from jilted Groq employees. Relevance: expands Nvidia’s AI software/talent push and could involve significant capital deployment.
Amazon is reportedly considering moving about $8B of Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips into a special-purpose vehicle financed by outside investors and leasing the hardware back. Jim Cramer described it as a sale-leaseback that shows a deeper market for Nvidia chips. Relevance: positive demand signal for Nvidia hardware, but also highlights heavy AI-infrastructure financing and spending-sustainability concerns.
Several Nvidia-backed “neocloud” customers are under pressure: IREN fell to $35.20, down 54% from its high, with Nvidia having invested $2B; Nebius ended at $221, down 26.5% from its YTD high, also with $2B from Nvidia; CoreWeave is down more than 50% from its all-time high. Firmus, an Nvidia-backed neocloud, pulled its $5B IPO. Concerns include AI bubble fears and reports that OpenAI’s annualized revenue was over $20B below initial expectations. Relevance: stress among Nvidia-backed customers/partners could weigh on AI demand sentiment.
Semiconductor stocks started October strong, with Nvidia hitting a record high, then retreated. The FT reported OpenAI’s annualized revenue was nearing $50B at the end of September, below the roughly $70B figure cited in media reports. The PHLX Semiconductor Index finished the week lower, while higher Treasury yields and oil prices added pressure. Relevance: Nvidia’s valuation remains highly sensitive to expectations for AI infrastructure spending.
Nvidia’s head of corporate communications, Anna Soellner, left after about four months. During her brief tenure, Nvidia announced a nearly $13B acquisition of Hugging Face and reported quarterly revenue of $96B. Relevance: minor management/communications turnover, but notable given Nvidia’s rapid growth and public scrutiny.
Jim Cramer said Nvidia shares were due for a “gut check” after Morgan Stanley’s coverage, referencing a possible double top around 236. Separately, Michael Burry warned that faster chip depreciation could overstate AI profits, while Steve Eisman argued ongoing demand for older Nvidia chips shows AI hardware remains useful longer, though he sees dependence on OpenAI and Anthropic as a bigger risk. Relevance: ongoing debate over AI capex, depreciation, and revenue durability.
Nvidia slipped about 1% on Oct. 9 after OpenAI disclosed roughly $50B in annualized revenue at the end of September, below the $68B figure reported last month; NVDA had dropped 3% in the prior session. OpenAI said the higher figure included gross partner revenue, and the revision pressured AI-linked stocks because OpenAI is a key Nvidia customer.
UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri maintained a Buy rating and $300 price target; shares closed last Friday at $229.56. Consensus is Strong Buy with a $324.20 target, implying 38.6% upside.
Nvidia-backed Firmus Technologies scrapped its roughly $5B IPO after investors balked at a ~$30B valuation on just $51M in revenue; it is now reportedly seeking $2B-$3B privately. Firmus has a 912 MW pipeline but only 46 MW built, highlighting scrutiny of AI data-center financing.
Elon Musk said SpaceX will exclusively use Nvidia GPUs, with some processors going into space next year on its first data-center test satellites; SpaceX is raising $40B to buy more Nvidia chips. Nvidia's market cap is approaching $6T, fiscal 2027 Q2 revenue more than doubled year over year, and net margin was 62%.
Bearish options flow: one trade bought 100,000 Jan. 15 $180 puts for $21M, the largest NVDA options trade of the day, requiring a 22% decline to pay off; SMH saw 180,000 puts versus 50,000 calls by midday.
Freedom Capital's Jay Woods warned of a bull trap after NVDA failed to hold above $235, citing $215-$220 downside if selling continues and saying two or three closes above $240 are needed to confirm a breakout. Nvidia's next earnings are tentatively Nov. 18, with EPS expected at $2.38 vs. $1.30 and revenue at $104.19B vs. $57.01B; Cantor Fitzgerald maintained Overweight and a $350 target.
NVDA falls 3% on OpenAI revenue shortfall; Huang receives National Medal of Science alongside $1B Genesis Mission pledge
NVDA shares closed at $230.48, down 2.9–3%, after OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was about $50B at end-September versus the $68–70B previously reported — a $20B gap that rattled AI-linked stocks including AMD (-3.9%) and Broadcom (-4.3%). Analysts said the discrepancy reflects a change in reporting methodology (gross revenue including partner figures) rather than a real drop in demand.
NVIDIA pledged $1B in compute and monetary commitments over five years to the federal Genesis Fund — the largest single contribution among tech companies, out of $2.4B total sector commitments (AMD $500M, OpenAI $200M, Anthropic and Google $150M each).
President Trump awarded NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang the National Medal of Science at the White House 'Science: A New Golden Age' Summit, alongside Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, and Lisa Su.
Trump separately disclosed buying up to $1.6M in NVDA stock and selling up to $1M in August, according to a financial disclosure reported by Reuters, ahead of presenting the medal.
Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark N1X chip (Blackwell GPU architecture, up to 20 Arm cores, up to 128GB unified memory), starting at $2,599 and launching October 16, alongside similar NVIDIA-powered AI PCs from Dell, HP, and Lenovo. A developer-focused Surface RTX Spark Dev Box ships in November at $5,999.
Motley Fool highlighted that NVIDIA's latest Vera Rubin architecture reduces inference token cost by 10x and cuts GPU requirements for training workloads by 75% versus Blackwell, underscoring NVIDIA's performance lead over custom-chip rival Broadcom.
Nvidia RTX Spark laptops open for preorder at $2,599; stock hit record close Oct 5 at ~$5.7T market value
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra and multiple OEM laptops powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X SoC opened for preorder, shipping Oct 16; the platform marks Nvidia's entry into the PC CPU market with Arm-based chips combining Grace CPUs and Blackwell GPUs, starting at $2,599.
The N1X comes in two configurations: a 18-core/5,120-CUDA-core variant and a top-end 20-core/6,144-CUDA-core chip Nvidia claims performs like a laptop RTX 5070; unified memory ranges from 24 GB to 128 GB LPDDR5X.
Nvidia closed at a record on Oct 5 (up ~2.1%) and sits near ~$5.8 trillion market value at roughly $242/share, with Jim Cramer citing Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta as propping up indexes despite rising Treasury yields.
Nvidia's fiscal Q2 2027 net income hit $59.7 billion (up 126% YoY), roughly double Apple's $29.8 billion; however, its market cap is only ~20% larger than Apple's, reflecting skepticism about earnings durability.
Jensen Huang is set to receive the National Medal of Science from President Trump at a White House summit on Thursday, alongside Elon Musk and Sergey Brin.
Bloomberg reported Nvidia board member Mark Stevens is among AI executives selling shares; the stock is up 28% year-to-date in 2026.
SpaceX seeks $40B to buy Nvidia chips; stock hits record near $6 trillion mark
SpaceX is seeking to raise $40 billion in financing led by Apollo Global Management — $10B in bank loans and $30B in investment-grade debt — to purchase Nvidia chips, the Financial Times reported; Musk has said Colossus data centers will run exclusively on Nvidia's Vera Rubin architecture, underscoring sustained large-scale demand.
Nvidia shares hit a new all-time high of $241.83 intraday Tuesday, lifting market cap to $5.839 trillion; at $248.96 the stock would become the first company ever worth $6 trillion, a threshold just 2.9% above the opening price.
Options market pricing implies roughly a 50% chance Nvidia reaches $6 trillion by end of October and ~67% by Dec. 18, with about a one-in-16 chance of $7 trillion by Nov. 20.
The rally extended the breakout that began Sept. 28 after Nvidia added $150 billion to its share repurchase authorization — the largest increase of its kind on record — lifting shares 16.8% from the $207.06 post-earnings low.
Nvidia finalized a commercial supply agreement to deliver two million GPUs and related computational models to Amazon, per a Motley Fool comparison piece, and announced a $150 billion share repurchase authorization increase.
Morgan Stanley said Nvidia and Broadcom are relatively insulated from a worsening U.S. data-center power crunch, with 2027 forecasts not at risk due to visibility into chip placement and supply-chain coordination, though secondary component makers could see delays if AI deployments slip.
NVDA hits record close at $237.58, valuation near 20x forward EPS; Microsoft RTX Spark event due Oct 7
Nvidia shares rose 2.1% to a record close of $237.58, giving the company a $5.76 trillion market capitalization — its first record close in about four months, with the Nasdaq Composite also hitting an all-time high.
Wedbush's Matt Bryson noted the stock trades under 20x forward EPS while guiding to roughly 70% growth, calling the valuation disconnect hard to ignore; the stock gained on earnings season optimism as S&P 500 profits are expected to rise over 30% year over year.
A Yahoo Finance segment discussed speculation of a 50% chance NVDA reaches a $6 trillion market cap by end of October; Bryson said Nvidia has secured the best supply position for memory and substrates, positioning it to outgrow peers amid tight supply.
Technical note: at intraday highs near $239.78, NVDA was trading just below all-time-high resistance of $239.63–$241.00 with declining volume and an RSI of 67.8, raising the risk of either a breakout or a near-term pullback toward $230.
Microsoft's Oct. 7 launch event is widely expected to feature RTX Spark–based devices, including a Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, built on an evolution of the Grace Blackwell architecture with a Blackwell GPU (6,144 CUDA cores) on TSMC's 3nm node.
Reflection AI, a startup backed by Nvidia, released its first open-weight model, Beam, claiming performance on par with China's GLM-5.2, advancing U.S. efforts in open-weight AI models — a market Nvidia is helping cultivate as a counterweight to dominant Chinese and U.S. labs. The company has raised over $4B since 2024 at a $25B valuation.','Bloomberg reported Australia's Firmus is preparing a ~$5 billion IPO in which about half the shares go to existing holders, with potential for Nvidia to increase its stake in the data-center company.'For context on scale, Nvidia's fiscal year ended Jan. 25, 2026, with revenue of ~$215.9B (up ~65.5% year over year) and net income of ~$120.1B (55.6% net margin), though two customers accounted for 22% and 14% of revenue, highlighting customer concentration risk.'],