Primary being back in the calendar from june to march, we are probably running to elections simultaneously. That will impact planning. September is the beginning of the filing period for the march election and the Charter Amendments going into the next fiscal year, the numbers dont drop for staffing is much as you would expect, and the reason is that it is a president ial general election, and we have had a string of very high turnout elections in San Francisco, and in 2016, that was the highest number of voters in the citys history, and i think 2020 will be the biggest election in the citys history. Again, we look at our different factors, look at our processes and just consider how many people we need to bring in. These are permanent, fulltime positions. No. Okay. They are all all the ones that are in my presentation are temp as needed. They are not people. Im looking at the budget, you went from 49 to 76. Okay. That is different. If you look back in time going forward, one we do the
Bonawyn eye sonson, karen finerman, dan nathan, and guy adami. Ceo jensen huang of nvidia speaking right now. Hes announced new partnerships and unveiled a new gpu. Shares up 5 earlier in the day, but closed up less than a percent, currently trading down by a quarter of a percent. Kristina partsinevelos joins us now with the very latest. Kristie anyway . Nvidias ceo reiterating we are just at the Tipping Point for a. I. , and all that means is that youre going to need bigger gpus. Nvidia revealing its new generation Artificial Intelligence platform. Key word platform there, to run a. I. Models. They are calling it blackwell, and it comes with the blackwell bh200 gpu, the graphics processing unit, the latest one weve been waiting to hear about. Its going to be four times the training performance of the h100. 25 times lower in energy use and 30 times the inferencing power, compared to the previous hopper architecture, or the h100 chip that weve all talked about constantly. Inferencing is
Maria good wednesday morning. Thanks for joining us i hope you are having a good wednesday morning. I am maria bartiromo, wednesday, march 20, 8 00 a. M. On the east coast, hiding from American Public hunter biden is not expected to show up today for a public hearing before the House Oversight committee his lawyer dismissed the hearing as quote a carnival sideshow in december before he testified under oath behind closed doors hunter pushed for a public hearing, remember . I am here to testify in a public hearing today. To answer any of the committees legitimate questions republicans do not want open process where americans can see expose their faceless inquiry or hear what i have to say what are they afraid of . I am here. I am ready. Yeah hunter biden former business parn Tony Bobulinski testifying today told lawmakers joe biden is quote the big guy, there is oped with exerpts from testimony says i want to be Crystal Clear from a direct personal experience what i have assessed come to
Day. Its been up closer to two thirds on 1 ago led by ai chip leaders brought, and nvidia, the ai winners and consumer and financial names celebrating the j Paul Press Conference yesterday. Potential soft laughing landing. Index will be higher still if not for the drag from apple. That takes us to our top take. Antitrust threat to apple, the real thing. How might you change the equation more broadly . It protects market leadership at our tech correspondent stephen apple shareholder are here to stop that. Lets turn to steve for the details of the case and, steve, its a broad one. Thats why we are seeing the reaction to shares that we are seeing today because, look, this covers just about everything apple makes. Talk about imessage, sera, apple tv plus, the advertising business on and on and on, they make a case, the deal date does that just about everything apple does is designed to keep people locked into the ecosystem and upgrading their iphones and hindering competition whether that
Us. I am maria bartiromo, thursday march 21. Your top stories, 6 00 a. M. On the east coast markets extending the gains after the Federal Reserve left ray unchanged. Markets higher across the board after jay powell said to expect three rate cuts this year and three more over the next two years all three major nbc closed in record territory since the First Time Since november 2021, what a performance with the dow industrial 401 and the nasdaq 202 at the close yesterday. Everything investors are watching. Initial jobless claims in the Philadelphia Fed and ducks at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. European markets are mixed, the eurozone factually higher. The bank of england making this decision we will have that news. In asia overnight markets finished higher with the exception of the shanghai composite, the cosby in korea to win 3 . The biden family influence peddling catching up as a former business associate of hunter biden testifies on capitol hill giving a list of crimes that he said they are gu