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.

Nvidia asked Supermicro and Dell how its advanced AI chips ended up in China

Nvidia has reportedly tapped its partners to look into how its advanced artificial intelligence chips are being smuggled into China.

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We asked 5 AI chatbots to pick stocks for 2025. Here’s what they said

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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The key role of synthetic data in AI innovation

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You can now text and call ChatGPT on the phone

ChatGPT is now just a phone call away.

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Nvidia stock pops 3% after slumping into correction territory

Nvidia ( NVDA ) stock climbed during Wednesday morning trading after slumping into correction territory earlier in the week.

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Salesforce is finally ‘joining the AI party’

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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We asked 5 AI chatbots for their 2025 AI predictions. Here’s what they said

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 stock slumps into a correction and Broadcom sinks despite its ‘Nvidia moment’

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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Softbank is wooing Trump with a plan to invest $100 billion in AI

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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A former Google CEO on when ‘we need to seriously think about unplugging’ AI

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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What’s ahead for AI in 2025, according to a Google executive

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.