Nvidia secures a massive $20 billion licensing deal with AI chipmaker Groq in an unusual structure that sees 90% of Groq's workforce joining the tech giant while shareholders receive substantial payouts, cleverly sidestepping antitrust concerns through the non-exclusive arrangement.
Disney partners with Meta to bring AI smart glasses to Disneyland, offering visitors ride information and wait times, as tech giants including Google, Samsung, Amazon and Apple race to launch competing AI glasses despite sluggish market adoption with only 2-3 million units sold globally.
Nvidia licenses Groq's AI inference technology in major partnership deal, with Groq founder Jonathan Ross and key team members joining Nvidia to scale the technology globally while Groq continues independent operations under new CEO Simon Edwards.
AI companies face mounting pressure to slash energy consumption as data centers devour gigawatts of power compared to the human brain's mere 20 watts, while DeepSeek's $6 million breakthrough model challenges trillion-dollar industry spending amid growing concerns over electric grid strain from $61 billion in infrastructure deals.
Scientists successfully simulate an entire mouse brain with 10 million digital neurons on Japan's Fugaku supercomputer, creating a breakthrough that could unlock consciousness mysteries and revolutionize brain disease research including Alzheimer's and epilepsy studies.
Apple's revolutionary M-series chips deliver exceptional performance and battery life through unified architecture, forcing Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm to completely rethink their strategies while the upcoming M5 promises a massive 6x AI power boost and potential cellular connectivity for always-connected Macs.
Eight legacy programming languages including COBOL, Perl, Ada, Fortran, C/C++, Visual Basic, Pascal, and Python continue dominating modern software development as major corporations avoid rewriting critical systems that could introduce costly bugs, with these languages powering everything from banking operations to defense systems.
Nvidia creates a $5 billion chip-buying cycle by investing $1 billion in debt-fueled AI companies that use borrowed money to purchase Nvidia chips, then use those same chips as loan collateral, creating a circular financing system that amplifies purchases but risks destabilizing the entire AI sector.
Data center deals surge to record $61 billion in 2025 as tech giants like Meta, Google, and Amazon fuel an AI infrastructure building frenzy, with debt financing nearly doubling to $182 billion amid soaring demand for computing power.
Chinese AI chipmaker MetaX Integrated Circuits explodes 700% on Shanghai debut, closing at 829 yuan after raising $600 million as Beijing accelerates semiconductor independence amid escalating US tech export restrictions.