NVIDIA BETS $40 BILLION ON AI COMPANIES — INCLUDING $30B ON OPENAI ALONE Nvidia isn’t just making the shovels for the AI gold rush — it’s buying the mines too, committing over $40 billion in equity investments in 2026 alone, with a jaw-dropping $30 billion earmarked for OpenAI. Critics are already calling it “circular capitalism”: Nvidia sells chips to AI companies, then re-invests the profits back into those same companies, creating a self-reinforcing financial loop that’s either the most brilliant strategy in tech history or a house of cards held together by hype and Jensen Huang’s leather jacket. Wall Street is trying to decide which one. Keywords: Nvidia AI investment, Nvidia OpenAI, AI funding 2026, equity deals, Jensen Huang