Nvidia's $20 billion Groq IP deal bolsters AI market domination — hardware stack and key engineer behind Google TPUs included in bombshell agreement
tomshardware - Nvidia has announced a $20 billion deal to acquire Groq’s intellectual property, though not the company itself, and absorb key members of its engineering team.
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China outlines rules to regulate human-like AI companion apps
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - China’s internet regulator issued new draft rules on Saturday that aim to regulate the use of artificial intelligence “companions,” which are defined as systems that interact with humans and display “human-like traits and behavior.” The new rules, called …
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More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds
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Sam Altman is hiring someone to worry about the dangers of AI
Terrence O’Brien / theverge - OpenAI is hiring a Head of Preparedness. Or, in other words, someone whose primary job is to think about all the ways AI could go horribly, horribly wrong. In a post on X, Sam Altman announced the position by acknowledging that the rapid improvement of AI…
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Deepfakes hit a whole new level in 2025. The 2026 forecast looks like a total reality-check nightmare
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Nvidia to license technology from inference chip startup Groq in reported $20B deal
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Artificial intelligence chip startup Groq Inc. today announced that Nvidia Corp. will license its technology on a nonexclusive basis. The deal will also see the graphics card maker hire several key Groq employees. They include founding Chief Executive Off…
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Italy tells Meta to suspend its policy that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp
Ram Iyer / techcrunch - Italy has ordered Meta to suspend its policy that bans companies from using WhatsApp's business tools to offer their own AI chatbots on the popular chat app.
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John Carreyou and Other Authors Bring New Lawsuit Against Six Major AI Companies
BeauHD / slashdot - A group of authors led by John Carreyrou has filed a new lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing the AI firms of training models on pirated copies of their books. TechCrunch reports: If this sounds familiar, it's bec…
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ServiceNow to Acquire Cybersecurity Startup Armis for About $7.75 Billion
Nicholas G. Miller / wsj - ServiceNow agreed to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis for about $7.75 billion in cash in a move intended to take advantage of growing demand for AI security.
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OpenAI admits prompt injection may never be fully solved, casting doubt on the agentic AI vision
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - OpenAI is using automated red teaming to fight prompt injections in ChatGPT Atlas. The company compares the problem to online fraud against humans, a framing that downplays a technical flaw that could slow the rise of the agentic web.The article OpenAI ad…
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Nvidia prepares first H200 shipments to China by February
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - According to Reuters, Nvidia has informed Chinese clients of plans to ship H200 AI chips to China before the mid-February Lunar New Year holiday, using existing stock for initial orders totaling 5,000 to 10,000 chip modules, equivalent to 40,000 to 80,000…
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OpenAI Rolls Out ‘Your Year With ChatGPT’
Laurent Giret / thurrott - “Your Year with ChatGPT” is rolling out in select markets to celebrate how ChatGPT users interacted with the chatbot throughout the year.The post OpenAI Rolls Out ‘Your Year With ChatGPT’ appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Loses Indie Game Awards Wins Over AI Use
techpowerup - The Indie Game Awards has previously taken a stance against the use of generative AI, confirming that games that used generative AI during the development process are not eligible for consideration for any awards. Now, it has upheld that stance, with a ne…
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SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year
Tobias Mann / theregister - Masayoshi Son better hope he made Santa's nice list Japanese tech investment giant SoftBank needs to secure $22.5 billion before the end of the year to make good on its commitments to AI partner OpenAI.…
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Instacart’s dynamic pricing experiment is now off the menu
Shannon Carroll / qz - Instacart says it’s done testing grocery prices after criticism that shoppers were unknowingly charged different amounts for the same items
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Alphabet to Buy Intersect for $4.75 Billion as AI-Investment Plans Grow
Katherine Hamilton / wsj - Google-parent said it would buy Intersect’s data-center projects that are in development, plus multiple gigawatts of energy and the Intersect team as part of the deal.
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Baidu teams up with Uber, Lyft for London robotaxi launch in first half of 2026
scmp - Chinese tech giant Baidu is teaming up with US ride-hailing platforms Uber and Lyft to roll out robotaxi trials in London next year, highlighting the accelerated push among Chinese autonomous driving firms to expand globally.Baidu and Uber said they would…
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Chinese AI Chip Maker Biren Technology Plans $623 Million Hong Kong IPO
Sherry Qin / wsj - Biren Technology, one of China’s “Four Little Dragons” in the graphics-processing-unit sector, aims to raise as much as 4.85 billion Hong Kong dollars.
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Governor Hochul signs New York's AI safety act
Cheyenne MacDonald / engadget - New York governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation on Friday aimed at holding large AI developers accountable for the safety of their models. The RAISE Act establishes rules for greater transparency, requiring these companies to publish information about t…
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Cursor's $29 Billion Bet on a Bottleneck It May Be Creating
Robert Brown / implicator - Cursor just paid a premium for a code review startup to fix what it calls the new bottleneck in software development. But a July 2025 study using Cursor's own tools found AI made experienced developers 19% slower. The math gets uncomfortable from there.
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