An anonymous employee survey highlighted by The Kobeissi Letter on X suggests Nvidia has built one of the most lucrative compensation stories in the tech industry. The poll, which reportedly covered about one-tenth of Nvidia’s workforce, found that 78% of respondents had a net worth above $1 million and about half were above $25 million. The figures drew fresh attention to earlier comments from CEO Jensen Huang, who said on the All-In Podcast that he had created more billionaires on his management team than any other CEO. The report also points to Nvidia’s scale: 42,000 employees across 38 countries and regions by the end of fiscal 2026, paired with a 3.7% attrition rate versus an industry average near 13%. A large part of that wealth creation has been tied to the company’s employee stock purchase plan and restricted stock unit packages, amplified by a stock surge of 22,687% over the past decade. In the same week the survey circulated, Nvidia also said its Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator had entered full production at Hot Chips 2026.

Cerebras Systems reported its first quarterly results since going public, showing a sharp shift in how the AI chip startup makes money. In the quarter ended June 30, 2026, revenue reached $180 million, up 74% from $103 million a year earlier, according to the company’s 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Nearly all of that growth came from cloud and AI compute services, where revenue jumped 281% year over year to $126 million, while hardware revenue fell 23% to $54.12 million. Cloud and other services accounted for roughly 70% of quarterly revenue, reversing the company’s mix from the prior year. Profitability moved in the opposite direction on a GAAP basis. Cerebras posted a net loss of $451 million, compared with net income of $310 million a year earlier, after recognizing $377 million in stock-based compensation following its IPO. Operating expenses rose to $503 million, including $320 million in research and development. Still, on the company’s own non-GAAP measure, core operating loss narrowed to $33.61 million from $43.9 million. The filing also detailed deeper commercial ties with OpenAI and Amazon Web Services. OpenAI committed under a 2025 master agreement to buy 750MW of AI inference compute capacity and related services between 2026 and 2028, with an option for another 1.25GW by the end of 2030. Cerebras also said OpenAI exercised part of a warrant in July 2026. Separately, the company signed a global hardware leasing agreement with AWS in June and disclosed more than $2.2 billion in combined future minimum data center lease commitments from two sets of contracts.

Meta has introduced its first executive stock option plan since its IPO, setting top exercise prices that imply a valuation above $9 trillion and a deadline in 2031.

The TEM AI Infrastructure Growth Index has dropped 16% over the past month, while several executives at bitcoin mining and related infrastructure companies have disclosed stock sales or equity awards. At TeraWulf, Beowulf E&D Holdings, managed by chairman and CEO Paul Prager, sold 275,000 shares on June 29 at an average price of $26.596, generating about $7.3 million. Since late March, Prager and entities he manages have sold about 1.59 million TeraWulf shares for roughly $32.7 million in total proceeds. The company also said on July 6 that it reached a 20-year AI infrastructure lease agreement with Anthropic, which it expects to generate about $19 billion in contract revenue during the initial term and support about 401 megawatts of critical IT load. Elsewhere, Cipher Digital CEO Tyler Page filed to sell 112,500 CIFR shares on July 8, valued at about $2.38 million. Riot Platforms CEO Jason Les sold 175,000 shares in May worth about $4.2 million, then sold another 250,000 shares on June 22 valued at $7.03 million. Core Scientific chief legal and administrative officer Todd DuChene filed on July 6 to sell 140,000 shares worth $3 million. IREN’s board also approved grants of 9,099,328 restricted stock units each to co-CEOs William Roberts and Daniel Roberts on June 30.

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