At a Paris event flanked by robot ducks, Jensen Huang made the case for Europe's AI ambitions while Nvidia unveiled its Hyperion platform as the backbone for a wave of European robotaxi and safe-vehicle development. The announcement landed alongside news that Lucid will put 25,000 Bolt vehicles on the road as robotaxis running Nvidia's self-driving software, underscoring how central the chipmaker has become to the autonomous vehicle supply chain on both sides of the Atlantic.
Waymo keeps pushing its robotaxi footprint outward, launching driverless pickups and dropoffs at Las Vegas's Harry Reid International Airport for existing riders ahead of a wider rollout. Meanwhile, six weeks into its Denver debut, the company's cars have become targets of a scrappy backlash, with residents reportedly egging the vehicles in protest.