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🚀 Nvidia becomes the first $5 trillion company
🚗 Uber and Nvidia are building 100,000 robotaxis
👋 Tesla eyes backup CEO candidates as Musk threatens to quit
🦾 The first consumer humanoid robot is here
🤖 GitHub is launching a hub for multiple AI coding agents
✨ YouTube now uses AI to upscale TV videos
🎁 + 14 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
🚀 Nvidia becomes the first $5 trillion company LINK
Nvidia became the first company to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization after announcing $500 billion in AI chip orders and plans for seven new US government supercomputers at GTC.
The huge volume of orders is for the company’s upcoming Blackwell and Rubin processors through 2026, with 20 million units of the latest chips expected to be shipped.
The stock has climbed nearly 12-fold since late 2022, driving persistent concerns from some analysts that market enthusiasm for AI has outpaced the technology and created an investment bubble.
🚗 Uber and Nvidia are building 100,000 robotaxis LINK
Uber and Nvidia are working together on a plan for 100,000 robotaxis, with the first cars for the new fleet set to begin rolling out to cities starting in 2027.
The robotaxis will be powered by Nvidia’s Drive AGX Hyperion 10 in-vehicle computer, which provides level-4 automation for fully autonomous driving within certain designated geographic areas without a driver.
Uber will not manufacture the cars but will operate the ride-hailing network, while automotive partners including Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz, and Lucid Motors will handle building the physical vehicles.
👋 Tesla eyes backup CEO candidates as Musk threatens to quit LINK
Elon Musk has threatened to walk away if shareholders reject a compensation package that would give him a 25 percent ownership stake for hitting specific growth milestones.
Board chair Robyn Denholm confirmed the company has a “Plan B” and is prepared to name a new chief executive from its internal ranks for an orderly transition.
Global production chief and China head Tom Zhu was identified as a potential successor from a "deep bench" of executives ready to take over if Musk steps down.
🦾 The first consumer humanoid robot is here LINK
Robotics company 1X demonstrated its 5-foot-6-inch humanoid robot, Neo, as it completed kitchen tasks like opening a dishwasher, sliding a fork into the silverware holder, and wiping a counter.
The humanoid robot also showed its capabilities by completing other household chores around the house, which included carefully folding a sweater and fetching a bottle of water from the refrigerator.
Neo's performance combined fine motor skills, such as grasping a single fork and towel, with multi-step actions like opening an appliance door to complete a full domestic task sequence.
🤖 GitHub is launching a hub for multiple AI coding agents LINK
GitHub is launching Agent HQ, a hub that will soon let developers access third-party coding agents like OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude, and Cognition’s Devin directly inside the programming service.
Subscribers to GitHub Copilot will receive a “mission control” dashboard that serves as a central control plane for managing and tracking the output from various different artificial intelligence assistants.
The system also allows programmers to run several AI models in parallel on a single task, letting them compare the results and select their preferred solution from the different suggestions.
✨ YouTube now uses AI to upscale TV videos LINK
YouTube is introducing an AI-powered feature that automatically converts lower resolution videos to full HD on TVs, with future plans to also add support for upscaling to 4K resolution.
Creators can now add QR codes to tagged videos that link to specific products, allowing people to scan with a phone and directly access an online store for purchases.
Creators will maintain control over upscaled content by preserving original files, and viewers still have the option to watch a video in its initially uploaded, non-converted resolution if they prefer.
Other news you might like
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- Character.AI is banning minors from AI character chatsLINK
- Grammarly rebrands to ‘Superhuman,’ launches a new AI assistantLINK
- Sam Altman says OpenAI will have a ‘legitimate AI researcher’ by 2028LINK
- Eli Lilly Partners With Nvidia to Build AI Supercomputer for Drug DiscoveryLINK
- Samsung makes ads on $3,499 smart fridges official with upcoming software updateLINK
- Google launches Pomelli, an AI-powered tool that creates social media campaigns automaticallyLINK
- New physical attacks are quickly diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and IntelLINK
- CEO of spyware maker Memento Labs confirms one of its government customers was caught using its malwareLINK
- A deepfake Jensen Huang outperformed Nvidia's real GTC keynote on YouTube – with five times the viewersLINK
- Amazon is winding down its still-popular New World MMO amid mass layoffsLINK
- Uber and Lucid's robotaxis will debut in the Bay Area in 2026LINK
- Foxconn to deploy humanoid robots at Houston AI server plantLINK
Latest research and tools
Wacl: a Tcl distribution for WebAssembly that allows developers to run the Tcl programming language in a web browser, build client-side applications, and integrate Tcl code with JavaScript.LINK
Friend or Foe: Delegating to an AI Whose Alignment Is Unknown: this paper examines the strategic problem of whether to give a task to an AI when you are unsure if its goals align with your own.LINK
Why Foundation Models in Pathology Are Failing: these large AI models struggle because the specialized, high-resolution nature of medical images is fundamentally different from the general data they were trained on.LINK
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