A sign to a Nvidia office building is shown in Santa Clara, Calif., Wednesday, May 31, 2023.
Rivals have accused Wall Street darling Nvidia of abusing its market dominance in selling chips that power artificial intelligence — and the U.S. Justice Department is now investigating these complaints, technology news site The Information reported.
U.S. government is investigating Nvidia for anticompetitive practices: Report | Fortune
Rivals have accused Wall Street darling Nvidia of abusing its market dominance in selling chips that power artificial intelligence — and the U.S. Justice Department is now investigating these complaints, technology news site The Information reported.
The Justice Department is investigating Nvidia's $20 billion non-exclusive" licensing agreement with Groq to determine if it "tried to skirt antitrust scrutiny," according to the NY Times.
China significantly escalated its trade standoff with the United States Monday, saying that tech giant Nvidia, the most valuable company on the US stock market and a key provider of artificial-intelligence chips, had violated anti-monopoly laws.
As well as being a trillion-dollar, planet-dominating force in the AI chip market under a charismatic leader, semiconductor manufacturer Nvidia may also be flexing its giant business muscles in ways that abuse its competition or customers, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) opened a new investigation into NVIDIA and pressed its CEO, Jensen Huang, on whether the company’s new deal with Groq, an AI chip startup and competitor, is an attempt to skirt antitrust laws.
Nvidia violated the terms of the regulator's conditional approval for its acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, according to China's State Administration for Market Regulation.
Nvidia was found to have violated the terms of the regulator’s conditional approval of its acquisition of Israeli chip designer Mellanox Technologies, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation said in a statement, without providing further details.
Corporate conductRecall
NVIDIA recalls tablet computers due to fire hazard
NVIDIA recalled tablet computers due to a documented fire hazard.
In a similar vein, the statements in the Proxy contained material omissions because the Proxy failed to disclose the material fact that NVIDIA had trained its AI using vast amounts of data for which it had not obtained the necessary licenses or permissions, and thus that the Company was at material risk of lawsuits from copyright holders These statements and omissions were made at a time when all Defendants knew or should have known that other AI developers had been sued by copyright holders for using datasets that included unlicensed materials, and that the datasets used by NVIDIA were not subjected to “principles [that] reflect our core values and our Code of Conduct,” and that Defendants did not “endeavor to deliver trustworthy AI models that comply with privacy and data protection laws [or] perform safely and as intended.” At best, the Director Defendants acted recklessly in making representations regarding NVIDIA’s practices given the copyright claims associated with The Pile, Books3, Anna’s Archive, RedPajama, LibGen, SciHub, Z-Library, and Panda- 70M, datasets comprised of YouTube videos, and human speech recordings.
The Director Defendants knowingly approved and/or permitted a business model to train NVIDIA’s AI products on a dataset that included copyrighted materials, YouTube videos, commercial voice models, and knew of the falsity of the misleading statements in SEC filings at the time they were made.
As explained above, the Individual Defendants caused NVIDIA to issue numerous false and misleading disclosures during the Relevant Period, misrepresenting that NVIDIA had not trained its AI with any copyrighted material and biometric information and concealing the extent to which NVIDIA had improperly used the copyrights and biometric information of other persons and companies.
AI & automationConfirmed
Jensen Huang demands AI automation wherever possible
CEO Jensen Huang demanded automation wherever AI can be applied after Nvidia's record earnings.
After Nvidia $NVDA’s recent record earnings, an internal all-hands meeting — part pep-talk and part culture intervention — reportedly turned sharp when CEO Jensen Huang responded to an employee question about managers telling people to use AI less by demanding automation anywhere the technology can reach.
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NVIDIA licensed the technology of the chip interconnect startup Enfabrica
The Groq agreement is not NVIDIA’s first reverse acquihire: in September 2025, NVIDIA licensed the technology of the chip interconnect startup Enfabrica, which provides integrated systems to more efficiently connect large quantities of AI chips together.
The Groq agreement is not NVIDIA’s first reverse acquihire: in September 2025, NVIDIA licensed the technology of the chip interconnect startup Enfabrica, which provides integrated systems to more efficiently connect large quantities of AI chips together.
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Nvidia stated that the $100 billion investment figure was 'never a commitment'
Five months later, no deal has closed, Nvidia’s CEO now says the $100 billion figure was “never a commitment,” and Reuters reports that OpenAI has been quietly seeking alternatives to Nvidia chips since last year.
Five months later, no deal has closed, Nvidia’s CEO now says the $100 billion figure was “never a commitment,” and Reuters reports that OpenAI has been quietly seeking alternatives to Nvidia chips since last year.
Nvidia's stock fell in early trading Monday after reports emerged that the chipmaker's plans to invest $100 billion into OpenAI were stalled.
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NVIDIA Corporation — Arm
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION | OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY | FILED 12/21/2021 | Document No. 603500 | PAGE Page 1 of 49 * PUBLIC *; PUBLIC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BEFORE THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES In the Matter of NVIDIA Corporation, a corporation SoftBank Group Corp., a corporation, and Arm Ltd., a corporation.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION | OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY | FILED 12/21/2021 | Document No. 603500 | PAGE Page 1 of 49 * PUBLIC *; PUBLIC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BEFORE THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES In the Matter of NVIDIA Corporation, a corporation SoftBank Group Corp., a corporation, and Arm Ltd., a corporation.