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The Department of Justice is taking a closer look at Nvidia's deal with Groq, a twenty billion dollar arrangement that saw Nvidia license key AI accelerator technology and absorb much of Groq's engineering talent. The structure was clearly designed to avoid traditional acquisition scrutiny, but regulators noticed anyway, and the question now is whether that matters given the deal is already done.
Shifting from antitrust to augmented reality, leaked images from inside Meta's Horizon OS software have given us our first real glimpse of Project Phoenix, the company's next mixed reality headset. The device appears notably thin and light, which reportedly comes down to deliberate architectural trade-offs in how processing is distributed. An official launch isn't expected until sometime in two thousand twenty seven.
And on a lighter note, IKEA has released a free mod for Skyrim that adds a Kallax shelving unit as your in-game companion. Yes, the flat-pack furniture giant is now in the business of fantasy role-playing, and the internet appears genuinely delighted. It turns out adventurers have strong opinions about storage solutions, even in fictional Nordic wastelands.
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