Good afternoon. Today is Tuesday, January 7th, and I'm your host for today,

Rena Sherbal filling in for Kim Khan. Our top stories so far. You heard about autonomous

driving and AI in this morning's Wall Street

breakfast as Nvidia and Uber teamed up. Now, how about the big rigs? Self-driving company

Aurora is jumping after announcing a long-term strategic partnership with Auto Supplier Continental

and Nvidia to deploy driverless trucks at scale. The collaboration will

leverage NVIDIA's next generation drive Thor system on its chip and drive OS, which will be

integrated into the Aurora Driver, a society of automotive engineers level four autonomous driving

system. The mass production of the driverless trucks is scheduled for

27 with the initial service launch planned for April 2025 in Texas. The partnership was called

the first in the industry aimed at scaling driverless trucks. Aurora CEO Chris Irmson said

delivering one driverless truck will be monumental. Deploying thousands

will change the way we live. Wedbush analyst, Dan, I've said that the overriding message from

NVIDIA's CEO at the Consumer Electronics Show was that, quote, a slew of new AI technology is

coming out of NVIDIA around robotics, autonomous technology, PCs that will

further stretch their enormous technology lead versus the rest of

the semi and big tech landscape. This was a major flex the muscles

moment for Nvidia and Jensen in this AI arms race playing out across the tech ecosystem globally.

On the economic front, ahead of Friday's jobs report, the November job openings and labor

turnover survey, or jolts, showed an interesting mixed picture. Job openings jumped to 8.096 million

from 7.839 million in October.

That was much higher than the 7.65 million expected, showing continued strength in the labor market.

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