David Faber / CNBC:
Nvidia has agreed to buy AI chip startup Groq for $20B in cash, according to Alex Davis, CEO of Disruptive, which led Groq's latest financing round in September  —  Nvidia has agreed to buy Groq, a designer of high-performance artificial intelligence accelerator chips, for $20 billion in cash …

Tabby Kinder / Financial Times:
Analysis: Oracle has moved $66B of debt for building AI data centers off its balance sheet using SPVs; Meta has moved $30B, xAI moved $20B, and CoreWeave $2.6B  —  Creative financing helps insulate Big Tech while binding Wall Street to a future boom or bust

Adam Satariano / New York Times:
The Trump administration's travel ban on five Europeans includes researchers working to tackle online disinformation and abuse, like CCDH founder Imran Ahmed  —  The Trump administration said five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet had been barred from entering the United States.

Eunice Xu / South China Morning Post:
Beijing-based DP Technology, which develops AI tools used by researchers for tasks like computer-aided drug design and battery design, raised a ~$114M Series C  —  The Beijing-based AI-for-Science firm said the Series C round would fund hiring and R&D, as interest grows in using AI to speed up scientific discovery

The Information:
Sources: OpenAI staff discussed prioritizing sponsored content in ChatGPT when users ask relevant queries and created mockups with ads in sidebars or as pop-ups  —  OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot …