# AI News Digest - 2025-12-28

1. Nvidia paid a reported $20 billion for Groq's chip technology and top engineers in a deal described as a quasi-acquisition addressing memory costs, inference competition, and the rise of AI agents.

2. China proposed rules to combat AI companion addiction that would have required providers to detect addictive behavior in emotionally manipulative chatbots and intervene when users showed psychological warning signs.

3. OpenAI sought a new "Head of Preparedness" to track and prepare for frontier AI capabilities and risks, including impacts on mental health, cybersecurity threats, biological knowledge leaks, and self-improving systems.

4. Meta brought its Segment Anything approach to audio with SAM Audio, enabling editors to isolate and edit sounds from video using clicks, time markers, or text prompts, and released code and model weights as open source.

5. Resemble AI released Chatterbox Turbo, an open-source text-to-speech model that cloned voices from five seconds of audio and generated speech in under 150 milliseconds, a model the startup said outperformed ElevenLabs.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/speed-supply-chains-and-strategy-converge-in-nvidias-20-billion-quasi-acquisition-of-groq/](https://the-decoder.com/speed-supply-chains-and-strategy-converge-in-nvidias-20-billion-quasi-acquisition-of-groq/)

[Speed, supply chains, and strategy converge in Nvidia's $20 billion quasi-acquisition of Groq](https://the-decoder.com/speed-supply-chains-and-strategy-converge-in-nvidias-20-billion-quasi-acquisition-of-groq/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/china-proposes-rules-to-combat-ai-companion-addiction/](https://the-decoder.com/china-proposes-rules-to-combat-ai-companion-addiction/)

[China proposes rules to combat AI companion addiction](https://the-decoder.com/china-proposes-rules-to-combat-ai-companion-addiction/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/openai-seeks-new-head-of-preparedness-for-ai-risks-like-cyberattacks-and-mental-health/](https://the-decoder.com/openai-seeks-new-head-of-preparedness-for-ai-risks-like-cyberattacks-and-mental-health/)

[OpenAI seeks new "Head of Preparedness" for AI risks like cyberattacks and mental health](https://the-decoder.com/openai-seeks-new-head-of-preparedness-for-ai-risks-like-cyberattacks-and-mental-health/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/meta-brings-segment-anything-to-audio-letting-editors-pull-sounds-from-video-with-a-click-or-text-prompt/](https://the-decoder.com/meta-brings-segment-anything-to-audio-letting-editors-pull-sounds-from-video-with-a-click-or-text-prompt/)

[Meta brings Segment Anything to audio, letting editors pull sounds from video with a click or text prompt](https://the-decoder.com/meta-brings-segment-anything-to-audio-letting-editors-pull-sounds-from-video-with-a-click-or-text-prompt/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/resemble-ai-drops-chatterbox-turbo-an-open-source-text-to-speech-model-that-clones-voices-in-five-seconds/](https://the-decoder.com/resemble-ai-drops-chatterbox-turbo-an-open-source-text-to-speech-model-that-clones-voices-in-five-seconds/)

[Resemble AI drops Chatterbox Turbo, an open-source text-to-speech model that clones voices in five seconds](https://the-decoder.com/resemble-ai-drops-chatterbox-turbo-an-open-source-text-to-speech-model-that-clones-voices-in-five-seconds/)

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