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Nvidia agrees to a licensing deal with Groq; CEO Jonathan Ross and other top executives will join Nvidia; Groq says it will continue operating independently — Nvidia Corp. agreed to a licensing deal with artificial intelligence startup Groq, furthering its investments in companies connected …
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Disruptive CEO Alex Davis says Nvidia has agreed to buy assets from Groq for $20B in cash; leaked email: Jensen Huang says Nvidia is not acquiring Groq — Nvidia has agreed to buy assets from Groq, a designer of high-performance artificial intelligence accelerator chips, for $20 billion in cash …
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| Elvira Pollina / Reuters: |
Italy's antitrust authority orders Meta to suspend contractual terms that bar rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp; Meta calls the decision “fundamentally flawed” — Italy's antitrust authority (AGCM) on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms (META.O) to suspend contractual terms … | The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI staff discussed prioritizing sponsored content in ChatGPT when users ask relevant queries and created mockups with ads in sidebars or as pop-ups — OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot … | Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: |
Analysis: Oracle has moved $66B of debt for building AI data centers off its balance sheet using SPVs; Meta has moved $30B, xAI moved $20B, and CoreWeave $2.6B — Creative financing helps insulate Big Tech while binding Wall Street to a future boom or bust| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Waymo says it is updating its fleet to improve navigation during widespread outages, after pausing its service during blackouts in San Francisco on December 20 — Three days after a blackout in San Francisco caused Waymo to pause it driverless car service, the Alphabet-owned company …
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How CEO Lip-Bu Tan gave Intel a lifeline after meeting with Trump in August; sources say Nvidia tested Intel's 18A to make chips but stopped moving forward — It was a Thursday before dawn in Silicon Valley when Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan found himself under attack by the president of the United States.
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| Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China's AI regulations, which require chatbots to pass a 2,000-question ideological test, have spawned specialized agencies that help AI companies pass — Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don't misbehave, while hoping its models stay competitive with the U.S.
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| Lorne Cook / Associated Press: |
The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its “regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures” — The European Union's executive on Wednesday warned that it would take action against any “unjustified measures” …
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| Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia: |
Chinese humanoid robot startup Galbot raised over $300M led by China Mobile's industry investment fund at a $3B valuation, bringing its total funding to $800M — Chinese humanoid robot startup Galbot on Friday announced the completion of a new funding round of over $300 million at a valuation of $3 billion …
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| John Koblin / New York Times: |
YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prime-time viewership is more even — At Nancy Ann Ling's house in Central Texas, the TV generally goes on around 5 a.m., and Mrs. Ling flips over to the same app each day: YouTube.| Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg: |
AST launches its largest-ever satellite from India, hosting the BlueBird Block-2, the first in a series of deployments to challenge SpaceX in satellite internet — Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing.
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| Eunice Xu / South China Morning Post: |
Beijing-based DP Technology, which develops AI tools used by researchers for tasks like computer-aided drug design and battery design, raised a ~$114M Series C — The Beijing-based AI-for-Science firm said the Series C round would fund hiring and R&D, as interest grows in using AI to speed up scientific discovery
More: SiliconANGLE
| Kiran Rathee / The Economic Times: |
Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October — The Indian government is concerned about the widespread misuse of Indian mobile numbers on platforms like WhatsApp, with millions of accounts banned monthly for violations.
More: TechRadar
| New York Times: |
A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat — As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China's battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.
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