Robbie Whelan is a Reporter for The Wall Street Journal based out of the Los Angeles Bureau. He covers the Walt Disney Co. and major Hollywood film studios, with a broader focus on the film industry. Robbie's insights have been featured in various outlets, including Yahoo Finance, RealClearMarkets, and The Times.
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Robbie Whelan’s coverage is heavily centered on Nvidia and the broader AI hardware ecosystem, with frequent attention to earnings, capital allocation, and how investor expectations are shifting. He also shows interest in company-building stories tied to major AI bets and funding rounds, plus the strategic and geopolitical implications of chip supply.
He is likely most responsive to pitches with fresh, concrete angles on major AI infrastructure moves, earnings surprises, funding milestones, or strategic partnerships involving leading chip and AI firms. Timely data, market context, and clear implications for investors will help.
Because his focus is local to San Francisco, pitches tied to the Bay Area’s AI and tech ecosystem may be especially relevant.
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By: Robbie Whelan, Sam Schechner
A trio of nerdy Frenchmen came to New York to build a sassy chatbot for teens. A decade later, their startup has grown into an AI platform that's
U.S. negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia's artificial-intelligence chips to help secure a preliminary peace deal reached last year
Positron, an artificial-intelligence chip startup focused on designing hardware that helps AI models run more quickly, said it has raised $875
By: Jack Pitcher, Robbie Whelan, Shradha Dinesh
Wall Street's AI train is still steaming ahead, even after the technology's leaders called for a slowdown.
By: Shradha Dinesh, Robbie Whelan, Jack Pitcher
Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others
By: Robbie Whelan
Inside the extraordinary war of succession within the Walt Disney Company – a story of power, out-of-control egos and corporate blood sport.
By: Anissa Gardizy, Corrie Driebusch, Robbie Whelan
Just a few months ago, companies connected to the AI business couldn't go public fast enough, as far as investors were concerned. Suddenly, the IPO waters are looking a lot less inviting.
By: Corrie Driebusch, Anissa Gardizy, Robbie Whelan
High interest rates and political uncertainty have data-center startups and other tech companies rethinking their go-public timing: ‘Are We Screwed?’
CoreWeave stock is having another tough day, bringing its weekly decline to 25%. Part of the problem for the company is that it relies primarily on debt to finance its data centers and the Nvidia chips it installs in them. As of June, the cloud company’s unsecured notes had a “B” rating from S&P Gl
Willy Lee, a principal at Neostellar Capital, a publicly traded venture capital firm that owns a stake in CoreWeave worth approximately $10 million, said that many investors are anxiously awaiting Anthropic’s expected IPO in November before they commit significant capital to smaller AI companies. B
