Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang speaks to the media as he arrives for a meeting with the Senate Banking Committee at the Capitol on December 3, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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A phrase many of us will have heard in 2025 is: “Will you buy it? Will you do it? In this economy?”
But this problem doesn’t seem to extend to Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, which has a problem most of us would like to see: too much cash.
At the end of October, Nvidia It held $60.6 billion in cash and short-term investments. This is up from $13.3 billion in January 2023, just after OpenAI released ChatGPT.
And this is even after plowing billions into company stocks, including $1 billion for Nokia, $5 billion for Intel, $10 billion for Anthropic, and a staggering $100 billion commitment to OpenAI still under discussion.
In addition to this, NVIDIA announced this week that it will invest $2 billion in Synopsys.
Nvidia, which has grown from a niche maker of graphics cards to the world’s most valuable company, has earned $37 billion in stock buybacks and dividends, with another $60 billion authorized.
When your biggest challenge is finding a way to spend $60 billion, you’re living the ultimate corporate life of luxury.
To quote ABBA, “Money, money, money, things should get interesting in the world of NVIDIA.”
What you need to know today
Microsoft Office price increase. Microsoft announced Thursday that it will increase subscription prices for its Office productivity software for commercial and government customers starting July 1. The company has faced increasing competition from Google in recent years.
Bitcoin will go down, but that’s normal. Bitcoin’s more than 30% decline from its all-time high highlights its high volatility, but history shows that price fluctuations are all part of Bitcoin’s normal operating pattern and can often precede a rally.
Further departures from Apple. Kate Adams, the company’s general counsel, and Lisa Jackson, vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives, are leaving the company. This follows the resignation of the company’s head of AI and the departure of its chief operating officer.
The market changed little. U.S. markets traded mixed on Thursday as investors assessed a report released in November that showed U.S. employers cutting more than 1 million jobs for the year. The pan-European Stoxx 600 ended 0.5% higher.
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And finally…
BEIJING, CHINA – DECEMBER 3: French President Emmanuel Macron (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk during a state visit at the Great Hall of the People on December 3, 2025 in Beijing, China.
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Ukraine, trade and pandas: What China’s Xi and France’s Macron discussed in Beijing
President Xi Jinping told President Emmanuel Macron in Beijing on Thursday that China is willing to increase imports of products from France in exchange for a “fair and favorable environment” for Chinese companies in European countries.
The French president began a three-day visit to China on Wednesday as tensions escalate over a range of topics, including trade imbalances and the protracted war in Ukraine. This will be his first visit to Beijing in more than two years.
In a separate readout from the French government, Macron told Xi that the two countries must cooperate on the basis of “balanced relations” and called on Beijing to help end the Russia-Ukraine war.
— Anique Bao
