Nvidia's stock slump, Softbank woos Trump, and call 1-800-ChatGPT: AI news roundup
Plus, Nvidia reportedly asked Supermicro and Dell how its advanced AI chips ended up in China

OpenAI made its popular artificial intelligence-powered chatbot more accessible this week, announcing that U.S. phone numbers can call it at 1-800-CHATGPT, while global users can text the chatbot via WhatsApp (META).
Read about this and more in this week’s AI news roundup.
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Nvidia has reportedly tapped its partners to look into how its advanced artificial intelligence chips are being smuggled into China.
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The year 2025 is virtually here, bringing with it a wave of curiosity from investors eager to see what the stock market holds.
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Nvidia (NVDA) stock climbed during Wednesday morning trading after slumping into correction territory earlier in the week.
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As Salesforce (CRM) rolls out the latest iteration of its Agentforce platform and plans to hire thousands more salespeople to sell it, some analysts are finally convinced that the cloud company is getting its foot in the AI door.
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Since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT two years ago, the artificial intelligence industry has been in a race to develop chatbots that have prompted both excitement for human-level intelligence and fears of stolen jobs.
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Nvidia (NVDA) stock is in correction territory, and rival chipmaker Broadcom’s (AVGO) late-year boost took a hit Tuesday morning.
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Japanese investment giant Softbank (SFTBY) plans to invest $100 billion in the U.S. over the next four years, with its CEO attributing the move to hope for President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration.
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The former head of Google (GOOGL) says computers will soon be able to make their own decisions — and humans will need to know when to pull the plug.
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The tech industry has been racing to put generative artificial intelligence into the hands of consumers, but that’s only “a taste of its potential,” an AI executive says.
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Since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT two years ago, the tech industry has been consumed by generative artificial intelligence — and the next year, one tech executive predicts more businesses will adopt the technology.