This is a News for Classroom Use post. It includes several tasks based on a piece of current news we select each week. Read the news summary to decide whether the topic will work with your students. Share the video and images with students when necessary. You can read more about it here.
NEWS SUMMARY
The US company Nvidia has become the first company with a market value of $5 trillion. Their chips (Graphic Processing Units) are the backbone of AI data centres around the world. Nvidia’s value now exceeds the GDP of nearly every country, except for the US and China. The second- and third- most valued companies in the world are Apple and Microsoft, each with a market capitalization of $4tn.
AI-focused companies have been responsible for 80% of the gains in the US stock market this year, but some worry they may be overvalued.
Source: BBC
