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Nvidia Licenses Groq Chip Technology in $6.9B Deal
Nvidia, the largest publicly traded company and a leader in AI chips, has entered a licensing agreement with the AI startup Groq, valued at $6.9 billion. The deal allows Nvidia to integrate Groq’s chip design technology into future products to advance AI adoption. Although some Groq executives will join Nvidia to assist with the integration, Groq will remain an independent company with a new CEO, continuing its outsourced computing data center business despite the competitive nature of the two companies in AI chip development.
Read More: Bloomberg
Apple Pauses Texas App Store Age Verification After Court Block
Apple has halted its plan to enforce new age-verification rules in Texas after a federal judge temporarily blocked the state’s App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420). The law, set for January, would have required app stores like Apple’s and Google’s to verify users’ ages, get parental consent for minors under 18 to download apps, and share age data with developers, sparking First Amendment concerns. Previously, Apple had required all Texas users under 18 to join a Family Sharing group for App Store consent. Tech companies see this as a temporary win, but the Texas Attorney General’s office intends to appeal.
Read More: TechCrunch
Meta Documents Reveal Push to Make Instagram the Top Teen Platform
Internal Meta documents reveal an aggressive 2023–2025 campaign to boost Instagram’s declining teen usage and make it the largest platform for adolescents by 2027, a goal prioritized over Threads’ growth. Despite public assurances about safety, the strategy, led by Instagram head Adam Mosseri, involved intensely focusing on attracting teens in developed markets through algorithm changes, promoting teen-friendly influencers, and marketing efforts to secure future lifelong platform users.
Read More: The Washington Post
Google Begins Rolling Out Gmail Address Changes
Google is gradually rolling out a new feature that will allow users to change their existing “@gmail.com” email address to a new “@gmail.com” address, a functionality previously unavailable to users with a native Gmail address. The change, detailed on a support page currently only fully visible in Hindi, allows users to select a new username while retaining the old address as an alias that still receives emails and can be used for sign-in, with all account data remaining unaffected. Users will be limited to three changes for a total of four addresses and will be unable to change or delete the new address for 12 months after the modification.
Read More: 9to5Google
Zoox Issues Software Recall After Lane-Crossing Issues
Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company Zoox issued a voluntary software recall for 332 vehicles after its driving system was found to sometimes cross the center lane or block crosswalks near intersections, raising the risk of a crash. Zoox identified 62 instances of lane crossings between August 26 and December 5, though no collisions have been reported. The issue was addressed with two software updates deployed in November and mid-December. Zoox emphasized its transparency as it works to refine and improve its technology, which has had other software recalls this year, including one for unexpected hard braking.
Read More: TechCrunch
Foreign Phone Shipments in China More Than Double on iPhone Demand
In November, China experienced a substantial surge in mobile phone shipments from foreign brands, primarily driven by a 128.4% jump in demand for devices like Apple’s iPhones compared to the previous year, according to Reuters’ analysis of data released by a government-affiliated research firm. While China’s overall phone shipments for the month rose by 1.9% year-on-year to 30.16 million units, foreign-branded phones alone accounted for 6.93 million units of that total, as reported by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.
Read More: Reuters
Intel Pitches Wi-Fi 8 as a Reliability Upgrade for the AI Era
Intel promotes Wi-Fi 8 less for speed and more for its focus on reliability, low latency, and intelligence for the “AI era.” This is achieved through near-perfect packet delivery, seamless switching, advanced traffic prioritization, smarter interference management, and new environmental sensing (distance/gesture detection). These improvements rely on smarter signal processing, longer error-correcting codes, collaborative access points, and stronger security that encrypts control signals.
Read More: The Register
Samsung Bets on In-House GPU With Exynos 2800
Samsung is heavily investing in its Exynos division to develop a custom, in-house GPU, with the Exynos 2800 slated for 2027 as the first chip to feature this technology. This initiative aims to give Samsung a competitive edge against Apple and Qualcomm and expand its application beyond the Galaxy S28 smartphones into new areas like smart glasses, autonomous vehicles, and robotics. To achieve this, the company is actively recruiting top GPU experts for its U.S. semiconductor division with highly competitive salaries.
Read More: Wccftech