AI Stock Frenzy: Nvidia’s ‘Robot Brain’, Cloud Mega-Deals & Tesla’s Autopilot Shock (Aug 25–26, 2025 Roundup)
Nvidia launched the Jetson AGX Thor on August 25, 2025, a $3,499 developer kit marketed as a ‘humanoid robot brain’ with 128GB memory and 7.5x higher AI compute than the Orin, used by Amazon Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Caterpillar, Medtronic and Meta. Nvidia shares rose about 1.96% on August 25, 2025 to $181.48, are up over 35% year-to-date, and Nvidia is the world’s most valuable chipmaker at roughly 8% of the S&P 500 by weight. Nvidia will sell Thor T5000 production modules for $2,999 each when customers move from prototyping to deployment. In China, Cambricon Technologies jumped 11.4% to ¥1,384.93, Hygon