Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlighted 2026 as a pivotal year for AI in his first blog post on snscratchpad, noting that the technology is entering a phase of "widespread diffusion" after the initial period of discovery.

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) closed out 2025 by splashing out on what could prove to be a significant deal. On December 24, the chip giant announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Groq, an AI inference chip company founded by former Google TPU engineers, covering its inference technology.