TWiT Newsletter for January 5, 2026

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Backroom Deals and AI Power Plays

Happy New Year, and welcome to the world of AI chaos. NVIDIA invests $20 billion to acquire an AI company for its talent, while Meta and Google race to recruit engineers before things become "too weird to manage." Leo Laporte, Dan Patterson, and Joey de Villa unpack the power plays, the hiring wars, and what DeepSeek's mHC training breakthrough signals for the next phase of artificial intelligence. Who's pulling ahead, who's falling behind, and how long before the rules change again?

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