(CORRECT) OpenAI’s Hardware Plans Worry Apple

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🗓️ 19 September 2025

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(Sorry about the editing error earlier) Nvidia is investing in self-driving AI tech. Google has given up the ghost and is making Chrome a full AI tool. Would you tolerate advertisements on the screen of your smart refrigerator? And why Apple executives are growing worried about OpenAI’s hardware plans. ⁠⁠Nvidia in talks for $500mn investment in UK self-driving start-up Wayve⁠⁠ (FT) ⁠⁠Google Injects Gemini Into Chrome as AI Browsers Go Mainstream ⁠⁠(Wired) ⁠⁠Software update shoves ads onto Samsung’s pricey fridges ⁠⁠(ArsTechnica) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: ⁠⁠Since Leaving Washington, Elon Musk Has Been All In on His A.I. Company⁠⁠ (NYTimes) ⁠⁠OpenAI Raids Apple for Hardware Talent, Manufacturing Partners⁠⁠ (The Information) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Friday, September 19th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.2	Invidia is investing in self-driving AI tech.
0:12.5	Google has given up the ghost and is making Chrome a full AI tool.
0:16.4	Would you tolerate advertisements on the screen of your smart refrigerator door and why Apple executives
0:22.7	are growing worried about opening eyes hardware plans?
0:25.4	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:32.9	The FT says that Nvidia is in advanced discussions to invest $500 million in UK self-driving car startup wave as part of a two billion pound pledge for UK startups generally.
0:46.7	Quote, Jensen Wong, NVIDIA's chief executive, announced the prospective deal as he stood alongside British Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer at an event in London
0:55.6	on Thursday following President Donald Trump's state visit. He also promised several more investments
1:00.3	in UK-based companies, including Financial Technology Group Revolut, telling the audience of tech
1:05.7	entrepreneurs and investors that, quote, the first trillion dollar company in the UK will be an AI
1:10.4	company, that's for sure.
1:12.4	Starmor said, today we put tech out there as a special feature of the special relationship.
1:17.6	Thank you so much, Jensen, for your confidence in what we are doing and your investment.
1:21.8	During Trump's state visit, the Prime Minister signed a new tech agreement with the U.S.
1:25.3	and secured pledges of tens of billions of dollars of investment from American big tech groups, including Microsoft and Google.
1:31.3	London-based wave, which was founded in 2017, has emerged as one of the UK's most prominent artificial intelligence startups after raising a $1 billion round round round, led by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank last year.
1:42.5	The proposed Nvidia investment will form part of a new
1:44.7	funding round wave said, without providing further details of the deal. The two companies have signed
1:49.6	a letter of intent to evaluate a $500 million strategic investment, wave said in a statement.
1:54.8	At the event, Wang listed eight UK startups including Revolut, AI video company Synthesia,
2:00.7	and Autonomous Transport Group
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