Subj : Nvidia's $20B acquihire 💰, Starlink accelerates 🛰️, virtual cells 👾 To : All From : TLDR Date : Thu Dec 25 2025 11:22 am --n5gTL7BO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Nvidia has signed a licensing deal with Groq for its AI-inferencing techn= ology. 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Delve Shipmas Day 4: PCI, I= SO 42001, CMMC, & FedRAMP (Sponsor)

Welcome back to Delve Shipmas - five days of major launches to modernize compliance. So far, we'v= e launched AI copilot, AI VRM, AI security questionnaire Chrome extension, = and today - we're launching: 4 new frameworks.

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Today, Delve is announcing GA support for PCI DSS, = ISO 42001, CMMC, and FedRAMP in our best-in-class AI-native platform in the new year.

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Big Tech & Startups

Nvidia Licenses Groq's AI T= echnology as Demand for Cutting-Edge Chips Grows (3 minute read)

Nvidia has signed a licensing deal with= Groq for its AI-inferencing technology. Groq, founded in 2016, makes chips= and software to run AI models. Its language processing unit chips are buil= t for inference, the process that AI models use to generate content. The co= mpany's chips can be produced and deployed faster and use less power than G= PUs.
A Father, a Son, and Their = $108 Billion Push for Media Moguldom (11 minute read)

Larry and David Ellison bought Paramoun= t this summer, and now they are targeting Warner Bros. Discovery with a $10= 8 billion hostile bid. Larry Ellison personally guaranteed $40.4 billion fo= r the offer. If the deal works out, it could have enormous consequences for= the news and entertainment industries. This article takes a look at the El= lison family, their past business dealings, and their relationship with eac= h other throughout the years.
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Science & Futuristic Technology

Starlink passes 9 million a= ctive customers just weeks after hitting 8 million (3 minute read)

SpaceX's Starlink satellite service has= surpassed 9 million active customers and is adding over 20,000 new users p= er day. Serving in over 155 countries, territories, and markets, the Starli= nk satellite constellation now has more than 9,000 low-Earth-orbit satellit= es. The growth rate reflects the rising demand for broadband in underserved= regions. SpaceX may be positioning itself for an initial public offering a= s soon as next year, and Elon Musk has suggested in the past that Starlink = could have its own IPO in the future.
The Virtual Cell Will Be Mo= re Like Gwas Than Alphafold (6 minute read)

A virtual cell is a model that lets res= earchers model diseases and treatments. Tied with the push for virtual cell= s are efforts to build a foundational model, similar to AlphaFold. Research= ers will need to create their own datasets to answer specific questions to = be successful in the field. This will require models that have the ability = to explicitly identify, isolate, and subtract confounding noise.
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Programming, Design & Data Science

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Vibium is a browser automation infrastr= ucture built for AI agents. It uses a single binary to drive a browser usin= g AI, with zero setup. The tool handles browser management, proxies, MCP se= rvers, and more. It works across Linux, macOS, and Windows, with no manual = browser setup required.
Package managers keep using= git as a database, it never works out (9 minute read)

Git was designed to be a distributed co= llaboration tool for source code. It wasn't designed to be used as a databa= se for package registries. Package managers who use git as an index all had= to build workarounds as they grew, causing pain for users and maintainers.= Package registries need fast point queries for metadata.
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Random end of year shower m= usings on the state of the stablecoin economy and its participants (19 minu= te read)

Most new financial services companies w= ill be built on stablecoin rails in the next decade. Stablecoin rails unloc= k programmable money, access to internet capital markets where genuinely ne= w financial primitives are being built every day, and the ability to let ag= ents manage funds with real guarantees. This is an opportunity to rethink w= hat financial services should actually look like. Most of the industry is s= till running on the 2015 fintech playbook on new rails.
OpenAI has started mocking = up what ads in ChatGPT could look like (2 minute read)

OpenAI employees have reportedly starte= d discussions on different ways to prioritize sponsored information in Chat= GPT. The company is considering giving priority placement to sponsored resu= lts when users are clearly talking about buying a product, showing ads base= d on user information, or a sponsored sidebar that shows ads relevant to th= e conversation. OpenAI is wary about turning off users, as they might not t= rust a chatbot that injects ads into sensitive conversations. The pressure = to increase revenue is building on OpenAI, which signed a flurry of massive= deals this year that it will have to pay for.
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Quick Links

Avoid Mini-frameworks (9 mi= nute read)

Mini-frameworks are custom frameworks t= hat small teams develop on top of shared stacks.
Nobody knows how large soft= ware products work (7 minute read)

Large software systems are often very p= oorly understood, even by people most in a position to understand them, so = the ability to accurately answer questions about large software systems is = extremely valuable.
AST SpaceMobile Launches It= s Most Powerful Direct-to-Cell Satellite Yet (5 minute read)

AST's BlueBird 6 has a massive antenna = and processing that will allow it to support more than 2,000 cells per sate= llite, with 120Mbps of bandwidth per cell, to unmodified phones on the grou= nd.
My 2026 Open Social Web Pre= dictions (7 minute read)

This post shines a spotlight on trends = and well-deserved projects.
model.yaml (Website)

model.yaml is an open description stand= ard for defining cross-platform, multi-format AI models.
Saturation: Waymo edition (= 2 minute read)

A recent power outage in San Francisco = caused Waymo robotaxis to get stuck.

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