Nvidia's new customer, OpenAI's agents, and Microsoft's warning: AI news roundup

Graphic: Images: Google, Joe Raedle, Bryan R. Smith, Justin Sullivan
Graphic: Images: Google, Joe Raedle, Bryan R. Smith, Justin Sullivan

Semiconductor leader Nvidia announced this week that Japan’s SoftBank Group (SFTBY) will be the first to receive its highly anticipated Blackwell AI chips. SoftBank plans to use Blackwell to build Japan’s largest AI supercomputer.

Meanwhile, the U.S. has reportedly ordered Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM) to stop sending advanced AI chips to customers in China.

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

Google’s Gemini AI chatbot now has an iPhone app

The Google Gemini iPhone app can generate AI images. - Image: Google
The Google Gemini iPhone app can generate AI images. - Image: Google

Google (GOOGL) launched its artificial intelligence-powered Gemini chatbot as an iPhone app this week, offering the service for free in 35 languages worldwide.

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Microsoft and NASA have a new AI tool to put satellite data at your fingertips

Workers on the NASA logo at the Kennedy Space Center on May 20, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. - Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)
Workers on the NASA logo at the Kennedy Space Center on May 20, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. - Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)

Not everyone can make it to outer space, but Microsoft (MSFT) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration want to “democratize access” to the Earth’s scientific data.

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OpenAI is launching an AI agent that can do work for people

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Advancing Sustainable Development through Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI Event on September 23, 2024, in New York. - Photo: Bryan R. Smith (AP)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Advancing Sustainable Development through Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI Event on September 23, 2024, in New York. - Photo: Bryan R. Smith (AP)

OpenAI is on to the next wave of artificial intelligence with an autonomous agent it reportedly plans to launch in January.

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AMD is laying off workers as it focuses on AI

Advanced Micro Devices headquarters on May 10, 2022 in Santa Clara, California. - Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)
Advanced Micro Devices headquarters on May 10, 2022 in Santa Clara, California. - Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is cutting 4% of its global workforce as it focuses on competition in the artificial intelligence chips space.

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Microsoft’s president has a warning about China

Microsoft president Brad Smith testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 23, 2021 in Washington, D.C. - Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)
Microsoft president Brad Smith testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 23, 2021 in Washington, D.C. - Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)

Despite a yearslong effort to curb China’s technological advances, a top Microsoft (MSFT) executive is warning that the country is not as far behind as the West might think.

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Nvidia’s hot new AI chip has its first customer

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (L) and SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at Nvidia’s AI Summit Japan on November 13, 2024. - Photo: STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP (Getty Images)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (L) and SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at Nvidia’s AI Summit Japan on November 13, 2024. - Photo: STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP (Getty Images)

Nvidia’s (NVDA) new artificial intelligence chip has its first customer, which plans to build the most powerful AI supercomputer in Japan.

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Amazon is taking on Nvidia with an AI freebie

Expo hall at Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent 2023 conference on November 29, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. - Photo: Noah Berger/Amazon Web Services (AP)
Expo hall at Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent 2023 conference on November 29, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. - Photo: Noah Berger/Amazon Web Services (AP)

Amazon (AMZN) Web Services is looking to take on Nvidia’s (NVDA) dominance in artificial intelligence chips with a new offer to AI researchers.

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Nvidia, Intel, and other chip stocks are dragging down the Nasdaq even as the Dow gains

Intel headquarters on August 1, 2024, in Santa Clara, California. - Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)
Intel headquarters on August 1, 2024, in Santa Clara, California. - Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)

Chip stocks dragged down the Nasdaq on Monday despite gains in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500.

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TSMC can’t send advanced AI chips to China anymore, U.S. says

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company factory in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Sept. 12, 2023. - Photo: The Yomiuri Shimbun (AP)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company factory in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Sept. 12, 2023. - Photo: The Yomiuri Shimbun (AP)

The U.S. has reportedly ordered the world’s largest chipmaker not to send its advanced artificial intelligence chips to China anymore.

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