Hard Numbers: Game devs have qualms, Pulitzer-winning AI, Klarna it, Super Micro growth, NVIDIA chip disappoints

79: In a survey of more than 3,000 video game developers, 79% had ethical concerns about the use of generative AI in their work. Among the ethical concerns were that the technology could lead to layoffs in the video game sector as well as that it could “supercharge copyright infringement.”

5: Out of the 45 works named as finalists for this year’s Pulitzer Prizes, five were made in part with AI. This is the first year that the awards committee asked nominators to clarify whether or not AI was used in the production of their submissions, and it comes as the journalism world is grappling with what its relationship with AI should be. It’s not yet clear how the finalists used AI and if they’ll actually be named winners later this spring.

700: The buy-now, pay-later company Klarna recently boasted that its AI system can do the jobs of 700 employees. That’s raising eyebrows because it’s around the same number of people the company laid off in October 2022, though Klarna denied the insinuation that AI directly replaced those recently given the boot.

1,000: We’ve written a lot about how the AI chipmaker NVIDIA is having a massive year of stock growth, but another firm in the supply chain is doing even better. The company, Super Micro Computer, or SMC, makes servers popular with artificial intelligence companies, and officially joined the S&P 500 yesterday after a year in which its stock jumped about 1,000%.

2.18: While Nvidia is bullish on its ability to keep growing, investors may be curbing their once-unbridled expectations. Yesterday, the chipmaker unveiled its powerful Blackwell series of processors at its "AI Woodstock" event. In response, the company's stock fell 2.18% in premarket trading today – whether this reflects tempered attitudes about NVIDIA's unilateral success in the AI-grade chip market or the AI industry as a whole is uncertain.