Welcome to the TechBrew Ride Home for Monday, December 29th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Well, the biggest news we missed over the last few days was the fact that it happened again.

Another big acquisition in all but name.

NVIDIA has agreed to a licensing deal, in quotes, with GROC.

GROC CEO Jonathan Ross and other top executives will join NVIDIA.

In fact, sources say around 90% of

GROC's employees will be joining NVIDIA. GROC nonetheless says it will continue operating independently,

quoting Bloomberg. The world's largest publicly traded company has paid for the right to use

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