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

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.
Read about this and more in this week’s AI news roundup.
Oracle is now letting businesses create AI agents — no coding required

Oracle (ORCL) unveiled a new service on Thursday that enables businesses to build their own AI agents — no coding necessary.
Nvidia delivered at GTC again. It wasn’t enough for Wall Street

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.
5 takeaways from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote: AI chips, robots, and more

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.
Nvidia and GM are collaborating on self-driving cars

General Motors (GM) said it will rely on Nvidia’s (NVDA) artificial intelligence expertise to build its next generation of cars.
Nvidia CEO delivers the keynote address at GTC

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.
Nvidia’s next big moment is here. Analysts weigh in

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.
Nvidia stock slipped before Jensen Huang’s keynote

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.
Turns out people are using AI like a personal shopper

People are increasingly treating generative-AI chatbots like personal shopping assistants, Adobe (ADBE) said on Monday.
Elon Musk on why Tesla’s Optimus robots look like the ‘creepy robots’ from a Will Smith movie

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.