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Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Monday, December 30th.

I'm Cordelia James for the Wall Street Journal.

The UK's Competition in Markets Authority says it's considering whether IBM's planned $6.4 billion takeover of

Hashicorp would affect competition. The antitrust watchdog set a provisional February

deadline to decide whether to clear the deal or refer it for further investigation.

If cleared, the takeover would push IBM further into cloud and artificial intelligence.

San Francisco-based Hashikorp makes tools and products that help its customers set up cloud

infrastructure.

Nvidia has closed its acquisition of Israeli software startup Run AI after months of regulatory scrutiny.

Nvidia agreed to buy Run AI in April with a goal to expand its reach in software for AI data centers.

Run AI software helps coordinate and maximize the use of Nvidia's AI chips.

The European Commission signed off on the deal

in December. The U.S. Justice Department also examined the deal. Run AI's founders said that the

software would be open source, making it available for others to use and modify. And a year-end tech

sell-off rattled markets for a second straight session.

Major U.S. stock indexes slumped.

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