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here's your TNB Tech Minute for monday December 9th. I'm Balin for the Wall Street Journal.

Beijing has announced an antitrust probe into U.S. chip juggernaut, NVIDIA, a move that comes a week

after Washington ratcheted up controls on China's access to high-end semiconductors. For Beijing, the probe sends a

message that China won't stand by quietly when targeted by trade and technology sanctions.

That's according to industry watchers who also say the message has particular relevance

as Donald Trump prepares to assume the presidency next month.

An NVIDIA spokesman said customers are free to choose which chips they use and that the company

wins on the merit of its products. OpenAI has released its long-awated video generation tool,

SORA. People can ask it to generate a video as long as 20

seconds by using text, images, or other video. The maker of ChatGPt first previewed SORA in February.

At the time, its abilities immediately impressed tech enthusiasts, who have been waiting ever

since for it to become available to the public.

But SORA will only be available to people who pay for OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus service.

The $20 monthly subscription allows users to generate 50 videos per month.

People who pay $200 per month for the recently announced

chat GPT Pro service can generate an unlimited number of videos. News Corp, owner of the Wall Street

Journal, has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI. And Ryan Mattal and Autarian have said they will jointly develop standardized software for a range of military drones.

The effort is expected to benefit Ukraine in its war against Russia and step up the West's deterrence efforts.

Ryan Mital, a German arms producer and Otterian, a U.S.-based drone software company, said that they will create an industry standard for controlling and operating unmanned aerial land and naval drones.

Otterion CEO said the partnership aims to allow NATO countries to operate drones together by using a common operating system,

similar to what Microsoft Windows meant for computer users when it launched in the 80s.

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