{"id":1034555,"date":"2026-09-11T08:09:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034555"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:46:25","slug":"doj-probes-nvidias-licensing-deal-with-ai-startup-groq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/11\/doj-probes-nvidias-licensing-deal-with-ai-startup-groq\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ probes Nvidia&#8217;s licensing deal with AI startup Groq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Nvidia structured its licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq to avoid antitrust scrutiny, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing two \u200cpeople familiar \u2060with \u2060the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia announced a $17 billion deal with Groq \u200blast year for a &#8220;non-exclusive license&#8221; to the startup&#8217;s chip \u200btechnology and hired several of its executives, including founder Jonathan Ross.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department opened \u200bits investigation into the \u2060arrangement shortly \u200cafter it was announced in \u200bDecember \u200band has sent Nvidia a formal \u2060request for information, according to the NYT \u200breport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Nvidia structured its licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq to avoid antitrust scrutiny, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing two \u200cpeople familiar \u2060with \u2060the matter. Nvidia announced a $17 billion deal with Groq \u200blast year for a &#8220;non-exclusive license&#8221; to the startup&#8217;s chip \u200btechnology and hired several of its executives, including founder Jonathan Ross. The Justice Department opened \u200bits investigation into the \u2060arrangement shortly \u200cafter it was announced in \u200bDecember \u200band has sent Nvidia a formal \u2060request for information, according to the NYT \u200breport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034557,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034555\/revisions\/1034557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}