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Ian King / Bloomberg:
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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David Faber / CNBC:
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 …
The Information:
Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global  —  Nvidia stunned Silicon Valley on Wednesday by agreeing to pay about $20 billion to license technology from Groq …
Lisa Bonos / Washington Post:
A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars  —  A recent power outage in San Francisco shows how vulnerable self-driving vehicles can be when problems arise.
Jack Ewing / New York Times:
Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin significantly trails Waymo, deploying an estimated 30 cars with safety drivers, vs. Waymo's 200 cars without human monitors  —  Shares of Tesla have hit new highs on optimism about the company's self-driving taxis.  But experts say Tesla is far behind Waymo, which has a big head start.
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD  —  When David Ellison became a teenager, his father, Larry, bought him a gift not usually bestowed on a 13th birthday: his own Katana stunt plane.
Alicia Park / Forbes:
AI sector minted 50+ new billionaires in 2025; Crunchbase: investors poured $200B+ into AI startups in 2025, or about 50% of global funding, up from 34% in 2024  —  Record activity in the AI sector this year has boosted dozens of founders and business executives into the billionaire ranks.
Takehiro Hasegawa / Nikkei Asia:
A teardown of Huawei's Mate 70 Pro and Pura 80 Pro shows 57% of components were made in China; similarly priced Huawei phones in 2023 had 32% Chinese components  —  TOKYO — China's Huawei Technologies has raised the ratio of domestic components in its new smartphones to nearly 60% by value …
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 …

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Oliver Darcy's Status media newsletter is moving into live events with the Status Summit, planned for September 9 to discuss the forces shaping media

Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter:
Marvel Comics is moving from NYC to Burbank, CA, the headquarters of Marvel Studios, and asks 100+ NY-based employees to move to California by July 2027

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Versant plans to overhaul its free streaming service, dropping the “Fandango At Home” branding in favor of a streamlined “Fandango” name and adding new features

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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”
Reuters:
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
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
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”

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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
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
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