Nvidia Announces Record $150 Billion Stock Buyback as AI Agent Security Concerns Mount
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Laura is a professional nitpicker and good-humored troubleshooter with over 14 years of experience in print and digital publishing.... Read full bio Nvidia, the dominant supplier of AI-computing infrastructure, authorized a record $150 billion stock buyback on Monday, bringing its total repurchase
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Nvidia Adds $150 Billion to Massive Stock Buyback, the Largest Ever
The increase comes four months after the chip giant added $80 billion to its buyback program, bringing the total remaining authorized amount to $235 billion. Nvidia said on Monday it has authorized an additional $150 billion to its share buyback program, making it what the company called the
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Chipmaker says new system was designed to prevent AI agents from going rogue amid incidents at top companies Nvidia on Monday unveiled a new security platform that the chipmaker said can stop artificial intelligence agents from going rogue. The company announced a $150bn stock buyback the same
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NVIDIA Announces a $150 Billion Share Repurchase Authorization Increase
"NVIDIA's growth is being driven by a once-in-a-generation platform shift to AI and accelerated computing," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "Our cash generation gives us the capacity to invest in the technologies that advance this transformation and return capital to shareholders.
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Technology giant Nvidia announced Monday it is boosting its stock buyback program by $150 billion, setting a record for the largest repurchasing allotment in history. The company's board of directors authorized the increase, which boosts the total amount in Nvidia's buyback program from $85
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Why Is NVIDIA Stock Gaining Monday? - NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)
NVIDIA Flexes Its Cash Muscle With Record $150 Billion Buyback Increase NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock gained nearly 2% in Monday premarket trading after the board significantly expanded its share repurchase program, giving investors another signal of management's confidence in the company's
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Nvidia approves record $150 billion share buyback plan as AI boom powers cash generation
Nvidia approved an additional $150 billion in share buybacks, taking its remaining authorisation to $235 billion through fiscal 2028. The record repurchase expansion reflects surging AI-driven cash flows, alongside continued investment in data centres, hardware, networking and infrastructure
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Nvidia boosts share buyback by record US$150B as AI boom fuels growth
Nvidia bolstered its share buyback authorization by US$150 billion, surpassing Apple's $110 billion boost in 2024 to mark the biggest-ever increase in a stock repurchase program. The additional authorization lifts Nvidia's remaining buyback capacity to $235 billion, which it expects to use through
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Nvidia boosts share buyback by record $150B as AI boom fuels growth
Nvidia boosted its share buyback authorization by a record $150 billion, surpassing Apple's $110 billion approval in 2024, as the chip giant's stock trades near its lowest valuation in more than a decade. Shares of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Nvidia, which has a market cap of more than $5.5
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Nvidia hits record high as AI optimism, buyback lift shares By Investing.com
Investing.com -- Nvidia (NASDAQ) shares climbed more than 2.5% Friday to an intraday record, breaking above the previous all-time high as renewed optimism around artificial intelligence spending combined with the chipmaker's record share buyback authorization. The stock was last up 2.9% at
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Investing.com -- NVIDIA stock rose 1.2% in pre-open trading today, approaching its 52-week high of $236.54, as a wave of bullish analyst activity and the sustained momentum from the company's record-breaking capital return program continued to attract buyers. The primary spark remains the
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Nvidia Adds Record $150 Billion to Stock Buyback -- Update
Chip maker Nvidia, flush with cash from the AI boom, is launching the largest-ever U.S. stock buyback. Nvidia on Monday said its board has approved a $150 billion increase to the Santa Clara, Calif., company's share-repurchase program, bringing the total buyback authorization to $235 billion. The
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Nvidia's AI dominance funds historic $150 billion buyback By Investing.com
Investing.com -- Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) shares climbed 1.9% Monday morning, successfully defying a broader tech sector slump, after the company announced a mammoth $150 billion increase to its share repurchase program. The move brings the chipmaker's total available buyback pipeline to a staggering
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Nvidia authorized a historic $150 billion stock buyback, bringing total repurchase capacity to $235 billion through fiscal 2028. The chipmaker simultaneously launched the Open Agent Safety Platform to prevent AI agents from going rogue, addressing mounting safety concerns after recent breaches at OpenAI and other frontier labs.
Nvidia Authorizes Historic $150 Billion Stock Buyback
Nvidia announced on Monday a record $150 billion stock buyback authorization, bringing its total share repurchase authorization to $235 billion through fiscal year 2028—the largest in corporate history
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. This follows an $80 billion addition to the buyback program just four months earlier2
. The move signals confidence in sustained cash flows as the dominant AI-computing infrastructure supplier continues capitalizing on the AI boom.Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO and one of the world's top 10 billionaires, stated that the company's growth stems from "a once-in-a-generation platform shift to AI and accelerated computing"
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. The authorization reflects Nvidia's capacity to invest in advancing technologies while returning capital to shareholders5
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Nvidia's Market Valuation Surges Toward $6 Trillion
Nvidia shares rose 2.9% on Friday, hitting a record for the first time since May and bringing market valuation to approximately $5.7 trillion
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. The company now sits less than $300 billion away from becoming the first company worth $6 trillion3
. This represents a rally of almost 25% from its late July low, after a two-month selloff had wiped more than $1 trillion off the company3
.The stock is up about 27% this year, marking a fourth consecutive year of double-digit returns
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. Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore restored Nvidia as his top semiconductor pick, citing "a very undemanding valuation"3
. During the second quarter of fiscal 2027, Nvidia reported $96.2 billion in revenue, up 106% year over year, and returned roughly $26 billion to shareholders through repurchases and dividends1
.Open Agent Safety Platform Addresses AI Agent Security
Simultaneously, Nvidia unveiled the Open Agent Safety Platform, designed to prevent AI agents from going rogue
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. The platform includes open-source software called OpenShell that "sets boundaries for agents" and a security layer called Sentry that runs onboard a chip to continuously monitor AI agent activity4
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Justin Boitano, Nvidia's vice-president of enterprise AI, stated the system could have prevented the recent incident involving OpenAI agents that autonomously hacked into Hugging Face
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. OpenShell lets developers "formally verify an agent has enough authority to do its job and no more," while Sentry can "quarantine a suspicious agent in milliseconds"4
. More than 100 organizations are using the platform at launch, including Microsoft, Perplexity, Accenture, and JPMorgan Chase4
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AI Bubble Concerns and Profitability Questions
The buyback comes as questions mount about AI profitability across the ecosystem. Nvidia remains the only company making substantial monetary gains from the AI boom, while AI startups and labs buying its compute struggle to prove they can generate standalone revenue
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. Even AI hyperscalers face hundreds of billions in new debt, with around $300 billion of direct bond issuance expected in 2026 alone1
.Robin Wigglesworth, Financial Times reporter and author of the upcoming book "A Fabulous Debt," noted that "AI startups are burning through investor cash and handing it straight to Nvidia to buy chips, even though the startups themselves aren't making a profit"
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. This dynamic echoes the vendor-financing schemes of the late-1990s dot-com boom, when equipment providers funded service providers to buy their gear1
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Nvidia holds $99 billion in customer shares, including Intel, SpaceX, and OpenAI, up from $7 billion a year earlier
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. Critics like Michael Burry suggest the company is overreaching by financing its own buyers3
. Tech critic Ed Zitron characterized the buyback as "an attempt to calm very nervous investors around AI," noting that Nvidia greenlighting a buyback doesn't legally commit the company to purchasing those shares1
.What to Watch: AI Safety Debate and Revenue Growth
The AI safety debate has divided the industry. While heads of Anthropic and OpenAI champion a coordinated slowdown of AI development to let safety efforts catch up, Jensen Huang maintains it should be up to individual companies to ensure their models are safe for release
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. Huang characterized AI safety, including the danger of rogue agents, as an engineering problem that software developers can address4
.Investors expect AI agents such as Meta's Muse to lift demand for chips, driving Nvidia's recovery
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. Last month, Nvidia forecast about 70% revenue growth for fiscal 2028, reassuring investors questioning how long the AI spending surge can last4
. In August, the company projected current quarter revenue would increase 90% from a year ago to $108 billion2
. Watch whether accelerated computing demand from AI data centers continues justifying Nvidia's market valuation, and whether the Open Agent Safety Platform becomes a significant revenue driver or primarily serves as a strategic positioning move to sustain the AI boom.References
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