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Nvidia's chips, Oracle's AI agents, and Tesla's Optimus robots: AI news roundup

Nvidia's chips, Oracle's AI agents, and Tesla's Optimus robots: AI news roundup

Plus, Nvidia and General Motors are partnering on self-driving cars

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Nvidia held its annual GPU tech conference this week, where it unveiled more about its roadmap for upcoming AI chips. The chipmaker also shared its plans for humanoid robots, AI agents, and autonomous vehicles.

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Read about this and more in this week’s AI news roundup.

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Oracle (ORCL) unveiled a new service on Thursday that enables businesses to build their own AI agents — no coding necessary.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during his keynote address at the Nvidia GTC 2025 on March 18, 2025 in San Jose, California.
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Nvidia (NVDA) unveiled more about its next artificial intelligence chips, humanoid robots, and AI supercomputers at its GPU Technology Conference on Tuesday, but some investors wanted more.

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Nvidia (NVDA) chief executive Jensen Huang shared updates on the chipmaker’s next artificial intelligence chips as part of his announcements at the company’s GPU Technology Conference on Tuesday.

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General Motors (GM) said it will rely on Nvidia’s (NVDA) artificial intelligence expertise to build its next generation of cars.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during his keynote address at the Nvidia GTC on March 18, 2024 in San Jose, California.
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Huang announced the Vera Rubin GPU, which has twice the performance of its Grace chips with more memory and bandwidth. Rubin is expected in the second half of next year.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during his keynote at the Nvidia GTC on March 18, 2024 in San Jose, California.
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Nvidia (NVDA) will unveil more about its next artificial intelligence chips at its annual GPU Technology Conference this week, which some analysts think will be a “catalyst” for the company.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during his keynote at the Nvidia GTC on March 18, 2024 in San Jose, California.
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Nvidia’s (NVDA) stock was down by 1.76% at the market close on Monday ahead of chief executive Jensen Huang’s keynote at the GPU Technology Conference.

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People are increasingly treating generative-AI chatbots like personal shopping assistants, Adobe (ADBE) said on Monday.

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Tesla’s (TSLA) Optimus robots have come a long way from their often-mocked introduction in 2021, when a human dressed in a costume appeared onstage for a demonstration. However, while the overall design has changed between the first and second generations of the humanoid bot, it still doesn’t look very personable.

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