AI Daily News Rundown: 💰Nvidia’s $20B Groq Play, The "AI Slop" Invasion, & China's 2,000-Question Ideological Test

Welcome to AI Unraveled (December 30th, 2025): Your strategic briefing on the business, technology, and policy reshaping artificial intelligence.

Hardware & Industry Consolidation

• Nvidia’s $20B Dominance Play: In a massive move to secure its inference future, Nvidia has agreed to acquire key assets and employees from AI chip startup Groq for $20 billion. The deal is structured as an asset purchase and non-exclusive licensing agreement—likely to navigate antitrust scrutiny—allowing Nvidia to integrate Groq’s ultra-fast LPU (Language Processing Unit) technology into its "AI Factory" roadmap.
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Model Breakthroughs & Benchmarks

• China’s Z.ai Takes the Crown: Z.ai’s new GLM-4.7 model has topped open-source benchmarks, reportedly outperforming GPT-5.1 High in coding tasks and introducing "Preserved Thinking" to prevent context decay in long agentic workflows.
• Claude Opus 4.5’s Stamina: A new analysis by evaluation firm METR reveals that Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 can successfully execute tasks that require nearly 5 hours of human work,
• Poetiq Crushes Reasoning Benchmarks:

Policy, Risk & Geopolitics

• China’s "Ideological Test": New regulations in China require AI chatbots to pass a rigorous 2,000-question ideological exam,
• Pentagon Partners with xAI: The Department of Defense will embed Grok-based AI systems directly into its GenAI.mil platform by early 2026,
• Italy vs. Meta:

Society & The Workforce

• The "Slop" Epidemic: A new study finds that over 20% of videos recommended to new YouTube users are now "AI slop"—low-quality, generative content designed solely to farm views.
• OpenAI’s "Head of Preparedness": Sam Altman is hiring a lead to secure "systems that can self-improve,"
• Sal Khan’s 1% Solution: Khan Academy founder Sal Khan is proposing that companies donate 1% of profits to retrain workers displaced by the looming AI job apocalypse.

Keywords: Nvidia, Groq, GLM-4.7, Z.ai, Claude Opus 4.5, AI Slop, GenAI.mil, Pentagon, xAI, Grok, ARC-AGI-2, Graphite, Sal Khan, AI Regulation, Antitrust.

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