Nvidia Pauses AI Cloud Revenue-Sharing Amid Antitrust Concerns

Nvidia has paused a revenue-sharing financing program designed to support smaller AI cloud companies, a move that comes less than two months after the chipmaker announced the initiative. The decision, reported by the Wall Street Journal on August 28, 2026, was driven by internal concerns that the program's structure could attract antitrust scrutiny and that Nvidia was exerting too much control over its customers' business operations. The program, announced in early July 2026, was intended to help smaller cloud providers access the capital needed to purchase Nvidia's high-demand AI chips.