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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like autoplay and addictive feeds to show mental health warning labels for young users — New York (WRGB) — Governor Hochul has signed new legislation that will require social media platforms with certain addictive features … More:
Governor Kathy Hochul: Governor Hochul Signs Legislation to Require Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms
David Jones / New York Sun: New York Implements ‘Black Box’ Warnings for Social Media PlatformsSetting Stage for Legal Battle With Trump
Melissa Hernandez De La Cruz / WHAS-TV: New York will require social media platforms to display warning labels
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Ian Preston / @ianopolous: More of the world should do thisand for all users. Social media is the new smoking. [embedded post]
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Mandatory internet labeling laws have been rejected over and over again as unconstitutional. I don't see how this passes any level of scrutiny. Which @agounardes.bsky.social was told multiple times by constituents (some of whom shared this with me). His response was to call them big tech shills. …
@periapocalipticdad: i want a new phrase for surfing slop life this. doom scrolling but for just mindlessly feeding at the trough of the billionaires algorithms [embedded post]
Paul Bernal / @paulbernal: Can we stop pretending it's just young people who are harmed by this. In many ways the impact is *worse* on the middle aged. And the middle-aged vote. [embedded post]
Stephen Wild / @stephenjwild: What are we even doing at this point? If they're that bad for young users' mental healthhow do *warning labels* solve the problem? [embedded post]
Charles GetCovered-ba / @charlesgaba.com: I mean it won't accomplish anythingbut good I suppose? [embedded post]
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
A Google support page in Hindi says the company is rolling out an option to let users change their Gmail addresses while retaining all data and services — For quite some time nowGoogle has allowed users to change their account email address if they are using a third-party email address … More:
Dylan Butts / CNBC: Google is rolling out a new feature allowing users to change their Gmail address
Jim Mishler / Newsmax: Stuck With a Cringey Gmail Address? Google Has a Fix
Nilesh Christopher / Los Angeles Times: Google is at last letting users swap out embarrassing Gmail addresses without losing their data
Calum Patterson / Dexerto: Google is rolling out ability to change your old embarrassing Gmail email address
Hassam Nasir / Tom's Hardware: Google is allowing users to change their Gmail addressper official Google support doc — experimental @gmail feature rolling out in India firstno official announcement yet
David Nield / TechRadar: Gmail may finally be giving users the chance to change their primary email address
Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer: Google to Finally Allow Gmail Address ChangesEnding a 20-Year Restriction
Vincent Nguyen / The Gadgeteer: Google Finally Lets You Change Your Gmail Address - But There's a Catch
Sanuj Bhatia / Android Central: Gmail might finally let you switch to a new address without starting over
Stephen Schenck / Android Authority: You may finally be able to change your oldembarrassing Gmail address
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Google is letting some people change their @gmail address
Laurent Giret / Thurrott: Gmail May Soon Let Users Change Their Email Address
Jordan Hart / Business Insider: Hate your old Gmail address? Google is quietly letting some people change it without losing data
Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News: Google is Making It Possible to Change That Embarrassing Email Address You Made As a Teen But Still Keep Your YouTube & YouTube TV Account
NDTV Profit: Google's New Feature Allows Users To Change Primary Gmail Address Linked To Their Accounts — Check Details
Melissa Hernandez De La Cruz / WXIA-TV: Google rolls out new feature allowing users to change their Gmail addresses. Here's what to know.
Will Shanklin / Engadget: You may soon be able to change your Gmail address
Jorge A. Aguilar / How-To Geek: Google is finally letting users change their Gmail address
Ankita Chakravarti / Moneycontrol: Google might finally let you change your Gmail address: Here's what that means for you
Ukrainian National News: Google launches new Gmail feature: users will be able to change their email address
Chris Smith / BGR: Google May Soon Let You Change That OldSilly Gmail Address
Sweta Kumari / Business Standard: SoonGoogle will let you change your account email address: Check details
Karandeep Singh Oberoi / Android Police: The long wait to change your Gmail address might soon be over
Paulo Montenegro / Ubergizmo: Gmail Users May Soon Be Able to Change Their Email Address
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Internal documents show Instagram's aggressive campaign to win back teensincluding by boosting teen-friendly influencersadjusting its algorithmand more — The company pursued a yearslong strategy to win teens back even after critics said it wasn't saferecords show.More:
Theodore Bunker / Newsmax: Instagram Memo Urged Focus on Teens Despite Harm Lawsuits
Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada: Instagram Intensifies Efforts to Win Back Teens
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Naomi Nix / @naominixwrites: One takeaway: By focusing on teensMeta was fighting for cultural relevancy for its buzziest social network. Not getting a foothold in that generation would hurt the company's longterm growth. IG hoped to achieve 0% growth y/y for teens in developed markets by the end of 2024.
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@amateurexpertop: kinda mixed feelings seeing a meta ad reassuring me that teens get shunted into their own protected space on instagram featuring what is not explicitly but definitely strongly implied to be a teen girl performing with School of Rock [embedded post]
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: Per “internal documents written between 2023 and 2025 and viewed by The Washington Post... Instagram staffers considered the mandate to boost teen metrics their top goal last year,” including “boosting their messaging activity... to set up an early pipeline for lifelong use of Meta's platforms.”
Riley / @raaleh: Internal Documents: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company execs have waged an aggressive campaign to win back teensdebuting hip new mascot “Joe Camel” [embedded post]
Danny Groner / @dannygroner: On occasions I find myself seated next to teens. I always ask about their ongoing relationship with social mediaperpetually curious to know how they're going about it better than those who preceded. Social media to themI gatherconjures up TikTok for themnot Instagram. The tide has turned.
@anadromy: Big Tech is indistinguishable from Big Tobacco. — Undeniably evil companies. — Facebook makes RJ Reynolds look like Habitat for Humanity. — Stop. GIving. Children. Phones.
Jörg Tittel / @newjorg: This is also the main reason why overall revenuediscoverability and quality of games on Meta QuestsorryHorizon has gone down the (Skibidi) toilet. It's more important to waste young people's lives with addictive F2P FOMO loops than slowly building what was a once sustainable medium & culture. …
Danny Groner / @dannygroner: This makes sense to me as consumer trends tend to last at most 18 years because the one thing we know consistently across generations about teenagers is that they don't want to use the same products and services and brands as their parents. The olds are on Instagram - which poisoned their brains.
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Naomi Nix / @naominixwrites: By focusing on teensMeta was fighting for cultural relevancy for its buzziest social network. Not getting a foothold in that generation would hurt the company's longterm growth. IG hoped to achieve 0% growth y/y for teens in developed markets by the end of 2024.
Andy Stone / @andymstone: How come you didn't include our full statement@naominixwrites? The first line of the statement stands as a repudiation of the false dichotomy your story attempts to establish. And the second line offers a reminder that despite the breathlessness of the piecethis concept has been covered before. …
Naomi Nix / @naominixwrites: New: Instagram pursued a yearslong strategy to win teens back even after critics said it wasn't safeaccording to records recently reviewed by the Washington Post. Instagram's strategies included installing a “living museum” in its offices to help employees internalize the lifes of teenagers. …
| Reuters: |
Indian IT services provider Coforge agrees to acquire Encorawhich offers AI tools for productcloudand data engineeringat an enterprise value of $2.35B — Indian IT services provider Coforge said on Friday it would acquire artificial intelligence firm Encora at an enterprise value … More:
Coforge Limited: Coforge to acquire Encora. Reaffirms intent to be the leading AI‑driven engineering firm for the new era.
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Coforge to acquire Encora in $2.35B technology services deal
Moneycontrol: Coforge to acquire US-based Encora in $2.35-bn all-stock dealboard approves $550-mn fundraise
Harshita Swaminathan / Bloomberg Law: Coforge to Buy Encora at $2.35 Billion EV in All Stock Deal
Business Today: Coforge to acquire AI firm Encora in $2.35 billion deal to boost USAI-led services play
Rukmini Rao / Fortune India: Coforge to acquire Encora for $2.35 billion in a deal involving share swaplikely QIP
Tushar Deep Singh / Hindustan Times: Coforge signs $2.35-billion deal for Encora in push for AI-led technology services
C P Balasubramanyam / Analytics India Magazine: Coforge to Acquire Encora in $2.35 Bn All-Stock Mega Deal to Strengthen AI Engineering
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle stock fell 30% this quarterits steepest drop since Q3 2001when it slid ~34%amid skepticism about its ability to open more data centers for OpenAI — Three months ago Oracle named Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as its new CEOs. They're off to a rough start.More:
Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga: Why Oracle's AI Spending Spree Is Spooking Wall Street
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| Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune: |
Cursor CEO Michael Truell warns that “vibe coding” advanced projects may create “shaky foundations” and eventually “things start to kind of crumble” — Michael Truellcofounder and CEO of Cursor.STUART ISETT—FORTUNE — Cursor may utilize AI …
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Victor Tangermann / Futurism: AI Code Is a Bug-Filled Mess
Joe Castaldo / Globe and Mail: Vibe-coding with AI brings coding to everyonewith potential and pitfalls
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@pileofgarbage.net: Very amusing watching the CEO of garbage AI coding company Cursor attempting to distance themselves from vibe-coding. Clearly they're having some PR issueson account of AI being shit and all. fortune.com/2025/12/25/c...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: “If you close your eyes and you don't look at the code and you have AIs build things with shaky foundations...things start to kind of crumble” - Michael Truell CEO of Cursor — Nothing controversial here. If you have AI write a bunch of code that you don't understand then you'll have a bad time.
Greg Linden / @glinden: Foolish that anyone could have thought anything else: “If you close your eyes and you don't look at the code and you have AIs build things with shaky foundations as you add another floorand another floorand another floorand another floorthings start to kind of crumble.” [embedded post]
| Joe Rennison / New York Times: |
Refinitiv: AI infrastructure companies borrowed $100B+ in 2025; small companies face higher interest rates given investor wariness over unproven AI businesses — Artificial intelligence companies looking to raise funds are being made to pay lofty interest ratesas debt investors become cautious.Bluesky:
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| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase says a former customer service agent was arrested in Indiafollowing a May breach where hackers bribed contractors to access sensitive customer data — Coinbase Global Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong said that a former customer service agent for the largest US crypto exchange … More:
Caroline Álvarez / crypto.news: Coinbase breach fallout spreads globally as arrest made in India
| Reuters: |
Government data: shipments of foreign-branded mobile phones in Chinaprimarily iPhonesrose 128.4% YoY in November 2025 to 6.93M units — Shipments of foreign-branded mobile phonesincluding Apple's (AAPL.O) iPhonesrose 128.4% in China in November from the same month last year … More:
Khadija Saeed / TechStock²: Apple Stock (AAPL) Outlook: China iPhone Demand SurpriseApp Store Regulatory Pressureand Wall Street Forecasts Ahead of Monday's Open
Jaja Agpalo / International Business Times: Apple Stock: Why iPhone 17 Shipments In China Just Skyrocketed By 128 Percent
Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada: iPhone Shipments See Major Surge in China
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Brian Tycangco / @briantycangco: November was a big month for foreign branded smartphones in Chinaincluding $AAPL iPhones. Overall sales jumped 128%. In OctoberApple saw iPhone sales jump 22% year-on-year after the launch in September. But rememberNovember 2024 was a terrible month for foreign smartphone makers in China. Sales fell nearly by half (47%). So this yearthey are just recovering lost ground thanks largely to a strong new product line for Apple's flagship iPhone 17.
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| Alfred Ng / Politico: |
Federal records show ICE has increased its surveillance tech spending to $300M+ under Trumpas the White House lowered privacy guardrails around citizens' data — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is buying millions of dollars' worth of new surveillance tools at the same … More:
Jim Mishler / NewsMax.com: ICE Surveillance Tools Spark Privacy Debate
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
As startups flood the market with AI shopping agentsAmazon is playing defense by blocking agents' access to its site and investing heavily in its own tools — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy could see how dramatically artificial intelligence was altering e-commerce.More:
Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada: Amazon Responds to AI Shopping Agents
Jofie Yordan / The Business Times: ShopeeLazada are laying the ground for AI shopping agents. Is a brutal price war looming?
Bernard Marr / Forbes: How To Rethink Your Job As AI Agents Reshape Work
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Dare Obasanjo / @[email protected]: This isn't a dilemma. Amazon is on track to make $60B from advertising this year which mostly comes from people seeing ads when they search for things on Amazon. — Amazon encouraging people instead to do those searches on Perplexity or ChatGPT would be penny wise (a few more low margin sales) and pound foolish (decline in higher margins search ads revenue). …
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Chinese state media: China launches three VC funds of $7.1B+ each to back early-stage “hard technology” startups valued below ¥500Mor about $71M — China on Friday launched three venture capital funds to invest in “hard technology” areasstate broadcaster CCTV reported.| Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: |
AmazonMicrosoftand Google pledged a combined $67.5B in Indian investments since October80% of those in Decemberas part of an AI spending frenzy in India — AmazonMicrosoft and Google have pledged a combined $67.5 billion in Indian investments since October. Eighty percent of those commitments came this month.More:
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple settles with a Brazilian regulator to allow alternative app stores; report: Apple will charge a 5% fee for alt app stores and 15% on App Store link-outs — Brazilian regulators have approved a settlement that will require Apple to change how the App Store operates on iPhone in the country … More:
Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer: Apple Opens Brazil App Store to Rivals but Adds New Fees in Antitrust Settlement
Sparsh / Times Now: Apple To Open iOS And Change App Store Fees In Brazil After Antitrust Settlement
Ashish Singh / Digit: Apple to allow alternative app stores and payments on iPhones in Brazil after antitrust ruling
Chris Hauk / MacTrast: Apple to Make Alternative App Stores and Payment Options Available on iOS in Brazil by April
Ashok Pandey / PCQ: Apple cracks open iOS in Brazil after antitrust pressure
Satyendu Mohapatra / Appleosophy: Apple to Allow Third-Party App Stores and External Payments in Brazil
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Tim Sweeney / @timsweeneyepic: Brazil's ruling on Apple's violations of Brazilian law has greenlit exactly the kind of junk fees that the US District Court found unlawful in its Contempt of Court rulingand the 9th Circuit Court upheld: a 15% junk fee...for tapping a link that takes you to a web page.
Mitchel Volkering / @volkring: In my opinionBrazil following the EU's regulatory framework is a bad idea. ‘Digital Markets Act’ in a mobile-first country like Brazil will have even more detrimental effects on privacy & security. Alsobad for consumer choiceas the market becomes increasingly homogeneous.
Michael / @singletary: Apple should allow third-party app stores globally if they are going to start disadvantaging their major markets by giving their smaller markets better features.
@mysk_co: Wow15% for using <a>. That's in JUNK_FEES_3: “If an app directs users to pay outside the app using only static textwith no clickable link or buttonApple will not charge a fee. If the app includes a clickable button or link ..Apple will charge a 15% fee.”
| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
The top 10 US tech billionaires collectively added $550B+ to their combined net worth in 2025reaching $2.5T by December 24up from $1.9T at the year's start — Elon Musk stays on top as Nvidia's Jensen Huang powers up the rankings on an AI-fuelled surge in fortunesMore:
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Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: “The top 10 US tech founders and chief executives possessed nearly $2.5tn in cashequity and other investments at the close of trading in New York on Christmas Eveaccording to Bloomberg data.”
Michael Derby / @michaelsderby: New Gilded Age [embedded post]
@onedimental: These guys are a result of massive policy failure they and their forebears straight-up paid for. — I don't mind wealthy people existing but I think a system that allows the net wealth output of an entire planet to effectively be captured by seven or whatever families is broken af.
Thor Benson / @thorbenson: $1 billion is enough to make you and the next several generations of your family rich. These guys gain that much and barely notice
Michael McDonald / @electproject: At some point we must come to a reckoning of how meme-driven investors prop up failsons who leverage the unsound investments into their failing ventures to extend their warped views through media ownership [embedded post]
@satansjacuzzi: AI is an enemy of the working class until it can be turned against its masters [embedded post]
Mike Friedman / @mfriedmannola: Let me fix that: “Americas wealthiest tech billionaires inflated their net worth by sucking at the teat of the AI bubble which could pop any day now. When it pops things are going to get ugly very quickly.”
@nothingsmonstrd: This is why we hear “we must add AI to everything” all the time: So misers can add more billions to their hoards. — When the bubble popssome of their nominal wealth will go awaybut they will have cashed out to end up richer than they were at the start. — It's small fry who will be destroyed. …
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Noah Cat / @cartidise: Xiaomi engineers are insane Despite using a much larger and more complex continuous periscope lensthe phone is both thinner and lighter than the previous Xiaomi 15 Ultra (This is the Leica Editionthe normal edition is even thinner) [image]
@techhome100: Find X9 Ultra and X300 Ultra are also coming next year and they might even outperform Xiaomi 17 Ultra in some areas. HoweverIf you want a true camera-like experience on a smartphoneXiaomi 17 Ultra is the one to go for. If budget isn't an issuego for the Leica Edition. [image]
Abhishek Yadav / @yabhishekhd: Xiaomi 17 Ultra launched in China. Price 💰 ¥6999 (₹89,454$995€845) Specifications 📲 6.9" 1.5K LTPO flat AMOLED TCL CSOT M10 display120Hz refresh rate1060nits HBMXiaomi Shield glass 3 (Dragon crystal glass 3) 🔳 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5LPDDR5X Ultra RAM[image]
@isaques81: Check out the new Xiaomi 17 Ultra and Xiaomi 15 Ultra side by sidewhere we can clearly see how different the processing is in this new generation... which one do you like best? [image]
Sudhanshu Ambhore / @sudhanshu1414: Xiaomi 17 Ultra camera sensors: - 50MP Main: Light Hunter 1050L (OmniVision OVX10500U) - 50MP Ultra-Wide: Samsung S5KJN5 - 200MP Periscope: Samsung S5KHPE - 50MP Selfie: OmniVision OV50M [image]
@feni_book: Xiaomi 17 Ultra hands onwith photography kit. The front is the same as the Xiaomi 17 Pro Maxand screen protectors are compatible. This 75~100mm periscope telephoto lens is currently the strongeststronger than any smartphone I have ever used. Anything you want to know? [image]
Alvin / @sondesix: Don't even know which Xiaomi 17 Ultra variant to get at this point. I am so intrigued by that mechanical camera ring on the Leica versionbut I feel that the regular 17 Ultra should be enoughnot to mention that I like that green colour on the regular variant. [image]
@feni_book: The 200MP optical zoom telephoto on the Xiaomi 17 Ultra is absolutely insane — easily the strongest I've ever used so far. The image quality completely blows away all the other flagship phones I've owned. These are just some casual shots I took — what do you think? 🚀 [image]
Alvin / @sondesix: This is the Special Edition “Xiaomi 17 Ultra by Leica”! It has a unique mechanical rotating ring that lets you zoom in and out precisely. Theninstead of the Xiaomi “Ultra” logoit comes with the iconic Leica Red Dot logo on the top left side of the rear side. There are several exclusive features that you can only find in this version of 17 Ultraincluding the Leica M9 and M3 Monopan 50 B&W filters that have been trained using their AI modelbased on the real camera...
Alvin / @sondesix: Compared to the 15 UltraXiaomi 17 Ultra has a thinner body and a flat screen design. Available in GreenBlackWhiteand Purple. [image]
Noah Cat / @cartidise: the focusing distance of the Xiaomi 17 Ultra's 3.2X is 30cm with 1/1.4" f/2.4 (f/8.8 effective) Xiaomi 15 Ultra was 10cm with 1/2.51" f/1.8 (f/10.8 effective) [image]
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Groq: Groq and Nvidia Enter Non-Exclusive Inference Technology Licensing Agreement to Accelerate AI Inference at Global Scale
Howard Smith / The Motley Fool: Stock Market TodayDec. 26: Nvidia Rises on $20 Billion Groq Licensing Deal
Leslie Josephs / CNBC: Nvidia's Groq dealS&P's winning weekleather tariffs and more in Morning Squawk
Erica Kollmann / Benzinga: Nvidia Stock Climbs As The King Of AI Defends Its Throne
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: The Groq deal secures key talent for Nvidiaincluding CEO Jonathan Rosscreator of the TPUand keeps them from companies that may try to make their own chips
Yurii Shtokaliuk / AIN: NVIDIA is acquiring the assets of startup Groq for approximately $20B. The deal could be the largest in the company's history
Patrick Seitz / Investor's Business Daily: Nvidia Deal With Groq Called ‘Strategic’ Amid Rise Of Custom AI Chips
Laura Bratton / Yahoo Finance: Nvidia's Groq deal underscores how the AI chip giant uses its massive balance sheet to ‘maintain dominance’
The Economic Times: Chip startup Groq's Jonathan Ross will do ‘incredible things’ at Nvidia: Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya
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Nileena Sunil / The American Bazaar: Nvidia signs deal with Groq to license technologyhire executives
Christianna Silva / Mashable: Nvidia strikes $20 billion deal to acquire Groq assets
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Eddie Chau / Toronto Sun: Nvidia strikes $20B deal with AI startup Groq
Hassam Nasir / Tom's Hardware: Nvidia buys AI chip startup Groq's assets for $20 billion in the company's biggest deal ever — Transaction includes acquihires of key Groq employeesincluding CEO
Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada: Nvidia Lands Massive $20B AI Chip Deal With Groq
Karan Mahadik / The Indian Express: Nvidia strikes $20B licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq: What it means going forward
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Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Nvidia's $20 billion Groq deal is really about blocking Google's TPU momentum
Khadijah Khogeer / Forbes Middle East: Nvidia Enters Licensing Deal With AI Startup Groq To Boost Inference Technology
Jennifer Lopez / IWCP Online: Nvidia to License Groq TechRecruit Key Executives
Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News: Largest Acquisition In Nvidia History: Jensen Pays $20BN For AI Chip Startup In Bid For Google's TPU Tech
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia Licenses Groq's AI Technology as Demand for Cutting-Edge Chips Grows
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Business Insider: In a new dealNvidia hires Groq's top engineering talentincluding its founderwho built AI chips at Google
The Information: Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groqwhich has raised ~$1.8Bincludes payouts to Groq's key execs and investorsincluding BlackRock and Tiger Global
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
Jeremy C. Owens / Silicon Valley Business Journal: Nvidia strikes deal with chip startup Groqhires CEO as part of $20B transaction
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Nvidia to license AI chip challenger Groq's tech and hire its CEO
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Nvidia to poach top staff from AI chip start-up Groq in licensing deal
Tushar Deep Singh / Hindustan Times: Nvidia reaches licensing deal with Groq amid AI chip rivalry with Google Tensor
Adam Levine / Barron's Online: NvidiaGroq Strike AI Tech Licensing Deal
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Chamath Palihapitiya / @chamath: Today we close this almost decade chapter and Jonathan starts a new one with nVidia. I can't thank him enough. Sometimes it's simply better to be lucky than good and be fortunate enough to work with great people and follow them into battle. That is me here. Jonathan was not only the father of TPU when he was at Google but he is a technical genius of biblical proportions. He also assembled a great team with folks like @sundeep and @GavinSherry to back him up. They will also do incredible things at nvidia.
James Wang / @draecomino: So many bad takes on Groq as if its LPU is some magical new architecture or a TPU for hire. Groq's micro architecture does not matter. The *only* reason Groq has any traction is because it bet on SRAM. Without SRAMthere's no speed advantageno PMFno demandand no
Naveen Rao / @naveengrao: Yup. This was a defensive move. It's better to buy out and neutralize the threat than to allow it to take root. Nvidia could build the same thingbut they didn't do it at the time that Groq did.
Gergely Orosz / @gergelyorosz: Big Tech has a new playbook on how to acquire startups w/o triggering anti-trust acquisition: call it a licensing deal... while all key staff from the company (founderskey folks also join. Leave a zombie company behind. Google did it with Windsurf & CharacterMeta with Scale
Ian Kar / @iankar_: So the other big thing: not sure how Nvidia can both say TPU's aren't a big deal and also acquire the father of TPU's' company. Which then leads me to wonder whether Michael Burry was right after all
@luke_metro: why does every explanation of this deal also sound like an antitrust argument against the acquisition
Scott Stevenson / @scottastevenson: Is this just another shitty Windsurf pseudo-acquisition that leaves employees high and dry? I guess it's an antitrust workaroundbut important for us to know how the economics impact the exiting management vs. employees who stay. [image]
Nathan Benaich / @nathanbenaich: there's another “only in America” episode to be written around the outcomes of Groq and Graphcore similar thesis that new silicon needed to power ai breakthroughs neither hit rev scale to continue on their own vs nvidia/tpu but one had pro-tech gov insiders end of story
Steven Bartlett / @stevenbartlett: After a call with Jonathan Rossthe founder of @GroqInc a little while ago - I was absolutely convinced I was speaking to a very very rare genius. Accordingly I wrote the biggest cheque I could and invested into Groq. No surprise to read this headline today. Congrats Jon + [image]
@linusekenstam: I'm very bullish on NVIDIA Groq is by far my favorite company in the inference game. Been writing and talking about them since inception. congrats to @JonathanRoss321 and the entire @GroqInc team on this mega deal. [image]
Rohan Anil / @_arohan_: the competitive pressures having Groq inside Nvidia to other chip vendors will lead to intense competition on inference chips. And we all win from that to some extent.
Bubble Boi / @bubbleboi: Groq is just the start I expect Etched and Cerebras to IPO or get acquired at 50B+
Darren Shepherd / @ibuildthecloud: This is weird. Somebody explain why this makes sense.
Gaurav / @gauravisnotme: If this is truethis would automatically validate two things - 1. TPUs have really made Nvidia acknowledge custom AI accelerators to be a valid threat. Inference costs are real and GPUs need supplemental support to make the end-to-end serving feasible. 2. More importantly,
Austin Lieberman / @liebermanaustin: Kind of insane that $NVDA is buying Groq for the knowledge its founders have about Google TPUs. Jensen going on Offense. [image]
@villi: For the first time in 15+ years I actually think in 2026 we may see a robust M&A environment. Buyers will want to take advantage of inflated equity values to do deals and think it may spill over outside of AI.
Zach / @blip_tm: great call by @SemiAnalysis_ — anybody who knows anything about AI chips knows groq's first gen chips aren't competitive but maybe their upcoming chips might have been able to threaten nvidia?
Bubble Boi / @bubbleboi: Lmao Jensen wins again !!!
@kakashiii111: I doubt it will pass regulatory approval. Nothing to be excited about. Ohand remember when Nvidia and everyone told you that TPUs were not a threat to Nvidia? Well... [image]
Matt Turck / @mattturck: Breaking: NVIDIA announces giant $20B acquisitionforcing everyone in tech to try to remember which one is Groq and which one is Grok
Philip Johnston / @philipjohnston: Incredible outcome for Groq investorscongrats all!
Derya Unutmaz / @deryatr_: I agree this is a big dealalthough for $20 billion NVIDIA got a non-exclusive licensing agreement for inference technologyand @GroqInc remains a separate company!
@villi: Nvidia seems to be utilizing the same structure as other notable acquisitions in AI this year to avoid antitrust scrutiny. I wrote about how this works here. https://medium.com/...
@josephjacks_: Huge. Jensen buys @GroqInc for $20B cash.. @chamath clears > $1B net on the initial seed / A money they invested at $30M Val in 2016. 150X after dilution. Congrats to @JonathanRoss321 and team. Very bullish for NVIDIA to own this...
Rohit / @krishnanrohit: The remnants of ScaleWindsurfGroqCharacter AI and Inflection should merge together to form a super zombie full stack powerhouse
Dev Shah / @0xdevshah: Google will never sell TPUs. The moment Google sells TPUs at scalethey transform their architectural advantage into a commodity. Google's internal teams have first-order claims on TPU capacity because those workloads directly generate revenue and strategic moats. Any TPU sold
Austin Lyons / @theaustinlyons: Acquihire? Kind of like $MSFT and Inflection AI$META and Scale AIetc? [image]
Daniel Romero / @hypertechinvest: $NVDA buying Groq is more a sign of weakness than a sign of strength [image]
@bearlyai: Nvidia will acquire assets and key talent from chipmaking startup Groq for $20B (officially called a “non-exclusive licensing agreement). Groq co-founder and CEO Jonathan Ross was lead designer and artchitect for the first generation of Google's TPU chips. He'll join Nvidia [image]
Matthew Berman / @matthewberman: .@Nvidia sells chipsnot inference. @GroqInc sells inferencenot chips. Will be interesting to see how this strategy plays out.
Turner Novak / @turnernovak: “You're bearish? CEO of the company propping up the global economy is closing $20B all-cash deals on Christmas Eve and you're bearish?” [image]
Ed Zitron / @edzitron: Even if it does...Groq? This Groq? https://www.theinformation.com/ ... [image]
Patrick Moorhead / @patrickmoorhead: If truethis is huge: -reaffirms XPU thesis -helps $NVDA hedge against XPU -solid hardware and software teams -not just because I was an early investor 😉
Jukan / @jukan05: Dylan Patel speculates that Jensen may have pursued the acquisition because he saw something in Groq's 2nd- or 3rd-generation chips. Do you think Jensen viewed Groq's next-generation chips as a real threat to NVIDIA—strong enough to compete—and moved to eliminate a potential [image]
Bill Gurley / @bgurley: Odd way to say “I was wrong”.
Vinny Lingham / @vinnylingham: What a fantastic memory to read and outcome for the @GroqInc team and @chamath@sundeep and @GavinSherry. Congrats guys - you all are living proof that cream rises to the top!
Andrawes / @andrawesbahou: I think Nvidia acquired Groq *now*to hedge against DRAM prices and capacity. If you didn't knowDRAM prices exploded recently. While nvidia GPUs are HBM (i.e DRAM heavy)Groq chips rely on in-chip SRAM. There are architectural and compiler-dependent ways to do thisso likely [image]
Arjun Malhotra / @badcapitalvc: Christmas came early for us this year! As early investors in @GroqIncwhat a privilege to see this incredible journey to @nvidia - the biggest company in the world making their largest acquisition! Massive congrats to @sundeep@GavinSherry@n1th1nraoand the entire Groq [image]
@josephjacks_: If NVIDIA implements Groq properlyand they have a stunningly great M&A integration historyit will result in trillions of additional market cap given the worlds insatiable demand for faster AI inference. This reminds me of NVIDIA's purchase of Mellanox in 2019 ($6.9Balso
Valida Pau / @pauvalida: Nothing more enjoyable to do on Xmas eve :) Some of Nvidia's deal term with Groq and how Groq's tech helps Nvidia with its chip offering👇🏻 w/ @waynema @MilesKruppa @Katie_Roof [image]
Camilo / @curiouscamilo: People criticize @chamath so much. This is a stellar memo. He's an extremely sharp and talented investor. Like HummingbirdFFand othershe proves right again that venture is an asset class of people: “Special person: Yes” “It's a team bet” [image]
Anand Agarawala / @anandx: Incredibly proud seed investor. When a random intro you make 9 years ago turns into $20B 🤯🤯. Lesson: always try to be helpful! So proud of @sundeep and the whole squad. Wow!! What's the valuable company in the world makes their biggest acquisition ever 😱
Conor Sen / @conorsen: Dems should recognize that Silicon Valley has hacked M&Aso Lina Khan can block struggling airlines from merging but Mark Zuckerberg can get the key people and IP from the next Instagram with or without a formal merger.
Jeff Weinstein / @jeffreyw5000: HUGE CONGRATS to Mike for one of the most successful investments in venture history. Seeded Groqnow a **$20B** cash exit!!
Anmol Maini / @anmolm_: being the sole lead of a company's first round of capital infusion that ends up getting acquired* for $20b must feel incredible brown boys stay winning in 2025 [image]
Max Weinbach / @mweinbach: Nvidia/Groq makes a ton of sense This gets Nvidia the IP they need to bypass CoWoS and HBM for a fast inference focused chipand use NVLink for better chip to chip interconnect of the LPU This actually makes a ton of sense
Dev Shah / @0xdevshah: Nvidia paid 3X Groq's September valuation to acquire it. This is strategically nuclear. Every AI lab was GPU dependentcreating massive concentration risk. Google broke free with TPUs for internal useproving the “Nvidia or nothing” narrative was false. This didn't just [image]
Steve Jang / @stevejang: $20B key team acquihire + license. Smart to get TPU know-how in house. Playing gonot chess now. [image]
Jeffrey Emanuel / @doodlestein: Crazy that the FTC forced iRobot/Roomba into bankruptcy rather than let Amazon rescue thembut now it's ok for Nvidia to completely neutralize Groq as a potential competitor for $20b. [image]
Ian Kar / @iankar_: Back of the envelope math but owning 30% at seed and roughly 50% dilution (aggressive since they reinvested$ gives Chamath 15% of a $20B exit aka $3b
Mark Heaps / @lifebypixels: I spent years giving bloodsweattearsand had at least 2 emergency surgeries while at @GroqInc. The outpouring of messages today have been crazy and all I can say is I have no idea what any of this looks like going forward. I've always said the tech is great. More to come.
@theo: Not quite. Looks like NVIDIA poached the Groq founder. Another weird licensing company guttingsimilar to Meta x Scale and Google x Windsurf [image]
@zephyr_z9: Groq's offerings are well-suited for prefill and will shine in the era of disaggregated prefill and decode Will regulators allow the acquisition??
@levelsio: Why @nvidia acquihiring @Groq for $20B is so interesting: It looks like a direct (and fast!) reaction by Nvidia to Google successfully using its own TPU chips for training AI models and inference (generating AI content) Because until recentlythey used mostly Nvidia's GPUs...they just hired the guy who co-created the TPU at Googlewhich is the chip that has just recently made Google independent of Nvidia's GPUs (which made Google's stock go up and Nvidia's stock go down) I'm impressed by the speed of how things develop in AIeveryone's acting really strategic and smart and so fast!
Karma / @0xkrma: I think the Groq acquisition by Nvidia is mostly a play by Jensen to get Chamath and David Sacks in his pocket so that they lobby for lenient export controls.
@kakashiii111: I would not be surprised if Jensen already knows this will not pass regulatory approval. This acquisition attempt may serve another purpose: delaying Groq's progress and weakening competition while they are kept in a “preparing to be acquired” limbo. Like a whale swallowing a fish only to release it laterbut in the meantimethe fish has lost its school.
Ben Bajarin / @benbajarin: On the NVIDIA Groq deal not entirely sure what is going on now but this is a very odd arrangement. https://groq.com/...
Sheel Mohnot / @pitdesi: I would love to know what the bidding war for this was like. There had to be a bunch of suitors Company closed a series C extension early 2024 at around $1Bamazing mark for those guys [image]
Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin: So does a a $20 billion non-exclusive licensing agreement + hiring key staff count as a merger for the purpose of investment banking league label
@boringbiz_: Chamath after making $4B from a seed investment in Groq (just announced $20B sale to NVIDIA) One of the best venture outcomes of all time [image]
Ben Bajarin / @benbajarin: Alsoannounce on Christmas Eve and nothing from NVIDIA means they didn't want to make a big deal of this.
M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: A Christmas Eve Hackquisition! 🎁
@peer_rich: these licensing acquihire deals always feel so fishy to me i guess regulators made real acquisitions too scary congrats to Groq team either way!
@trace_cohen: WOH WAIT Nvidia just windsurfed Groq!? Hire and license strikes again! Hahaha No way they could legally buy them any other way. Damn.... [image]
@suhail: Congrats @JonathanRoss321 Some random night I sat next to Jonathan at dinner and listened to him answer every question about Groq. So I tried asking much harder technical questions just to see how far we could go down the rabbit hole. At the endI was just blown away by his depth of understanding. Did whatever I could to put my measly sum of money in investing. It's no surprise this is happening. Smarter that Jensen is doing it.
Tyler Hogge / @thogge: It appears groq will return over $4b to social capital and @chamath I don't know how big the fund wasbut it's safe to say this is one of the best venture outcomes of all time. Unbelievable. Power laws rule everything around me.
@iancutress: Looks like @NVIDIA just extracted @Groq's employees and a non-exclusive hardware license to bring it into NVLink for $20B. @Groq remains running GroqCloudbut everyone of note joins NVIDIAincluding CTO and architects. What is going on? (a) If they were acquiring for the middle-east businessI'd kinda get it. Or just an acquihire - expensive though. Groq's lead architect joined NV a couple years ago. (b) If they wanted to remove a competitorexpensive for a minor player comparitively (c) There's that much cash burning a hole at NV?
Max Weinbach / @mweinbach: Groq LPU moves all of the weights from HBM to the SRAM memory on the accelerator die. On Global Foundry 14nmthat's a 725mm die with 256MB of cache If you move that same die to TSMCthat shrinks to roughly 225mm with the same specs but also lowers power The SRAM speed is 10x
Giuseppe Cicatelli / @cicatelligiusep: Echoing @chamath's heartfelt reflection—what an incredible nearly-decade journey As an investor in @GroqInc I'm deeply grateful to @JonathanRoss321 for his visionary genius (father of the TPU and builder of Groq's breakthrough inference tech) and for assembling such a
Yuchen Jin / @yuchenj_uw: Wowso it's basically an acqui-hire. Nvidia just picked up Groq's co-foundersincluding Jonathanthe co-creator of Google TPUs. Similar to the Meta <-> Scale AI (Alexander Wang) and Google <-> Windsurf deals. [image]
Shaun Maguire / @shaunmmaguire: @chamath @JonathanRoss321 Huge congrats to you and the Groq team! A legendary milestone for all
Logan Kilpatrick / @officiallogank: @JonathanRoss321 Congrats to you and the Groq teamthe world needs more computeonwards!!!
@highyieldharry: Bad Christmas news. UnfortunatelyChamath led the initial funding & then the convertible notes in 2017 & 2018so he just hit the lottery on this sale.
Ben Pouladian / @benitoz: This wasn't an acquisition It was smarter Nvidia licensed Groq's inference tech non-exclusively while pulling the brains in-house Avoids antitrust locks up know-how kills a future rival without buying the company Offense disguised as partnership Congrats @sundeep @GroqInc [image]
@groqinc: Groq has entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Nvidia for Groq's inference technology. GroqCloud will continue to operate without interruption. Learn more here: https://groq.com/...
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Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Nvidia just acquihired Groq's senior leadership team for $20B in a licensing deal that's become the norm in the AI space. — Just like Windsurf -> Google & Inflection AI -> Microsoftthey get the benefits of an acquisition without antitrust woes. — I wonder how much Google TPU pressure played a part?