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Marvell announces a deal to buy Celestial AI for at least $3.25B, expected to close in Q1 2026; the price can rise to $5.5B if Celestial hits revenue targets (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Sources say President Trump's efforts to block state-level AI regulations through a preemption proposal are facing significant opposition on Capitol Hill (Axios)

Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of work and achieving a 50% productivity boost, often using it for debugging and code understanding, more (Anthropic)

CNN partners with Kalshi to use its real-time prediction data in TV, digital, and social channel reporting, on-air data tickers, analysis, and fact-checking (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Instacart sues New York City to block enforcement of five laws, including rules governing minimum pay for app-based workers and tipping disclosures (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Google debuts Android 16 QPR2, a minor update expanding features for notifications, icons, calling screens, and more, marking the end of annual Android releases (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all-cash deal, following its $1.38B acquisition of Vimeo in September and its pending acquisition of AOL (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

Apptopia: ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps increased 28% YoY during the Black Friday weekend in 2025; Amazon's share of ChatGPT referrals grew to 54% (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Ireland investigates TikTok and LinkedIn over concerns that their illegal content reporting tools are hard to access and don't allow anonymous CSAM reporting (Padraic Halpin/Reuters)

Filings: after EA's buyout, Saudi Arabia's PIF would own 93.4% of EA, implying it needs to put up ~$29B, while Silver Lake and Affinity would own 5.5% and 1.1% (Wall Street Journal)

Israeli startup Zafran, an AI-native threat exposure management service, raised a $60M Series C led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to $130M (Globes)

Cloud data management startup Eon raised $300M led by Gil Capital at a $4B valuation, almost 3X from $1.4B in November 2024, taking its total funding to $500M (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

Anthropic acquires dev tool maker Bun, a source says for low hundreds of millions, its first acquisition; Claude Code hit $1B in annualized revenue in November (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

Ricursive, founded by ex-Google researchers to automate advanced chip design, raised $35M led by Sequoia at a $750M valuation and plans a product launch in 2026 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Amazon launches AWS AI Factories, which lets customers deploy AWS infrastructure, including AWS Trainium chips and Nvidia GPUs, in their existing data centers (Georgia Butler/DatacenterDynamics)

A profile of Dario Amodei and Anthropic, which is on track to hit a nearly $10B annualized run rate by the end of 2025, more than 10x what it generated in 2024 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on his AI vision, how he plans to extend Amazon's cloud market lead, adding AI to AWS services, AI efficiencies, and more (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Amazon debuts three frontier agents: Kiro autonomous agent, AWS Security Agent, and AWS DevOps Agent, each focused on a different aspect of software development (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

AWS announces new features for its AI agent platform Bedrock AgentCore, including new tools for managing AI agent boundaries and memory capabilities (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)

AWS launches Nova Forge, a $100,000/year service allowing clients to customize Amazon's AI models at various stages of training and refine open-weight models (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Sources: OpenAI is developing a new LLM, codenamed Garlic, that outperforms Gemini 3 and Claude Opus 4.5 in coding and reasoning tasks, per internal evaluations (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Amazon launches second generation of its Nova AI models, including Nova Lite, Nova Pro, Nova Sonic, and Nova Omni, a fully multimodal reasoning model (Will Knight/Wired)

Amazon launches the Trainium3 UltraServer, powered by the 3nm Trainium3 AI training chip, and teases Trainium4, which will be able to work with Nvidia's chips (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Amazon launches Trainium3, saying the AI chip is 4x faster than Trainium2 and can cut AI training and operating costs by up to 50% compared to equivalent GPUs (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

A look at Anthropic's societal impacts team, which broadly studies AI's impacts and finds and publishes "inconvenient truths", building on most AI safety teams (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Barcelona-based Titan OS, which provides a smart TV operating system to TV makers like Philips and JVC, raised a €50M Series A led by Highland Europe (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Axiado, which is making a chip designed to save space and power in AI servers, raised $100M led by Maverick Silicon (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of 10 models under the Apache 2.0 license, including its new flagship Mistral Large 3 and nine smaller Ministral 3 models (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Adobe: US shoppers spent $14.25B online during Cyber Monday, up 7.1% YoY, compared with a 9.1% rise on Black Friday; five-day spending rose 7.7% YoY to $44.2B (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

A Claude user gets Claude 4.5 Opus to generate a 14K-token document that Claude calls its "Soul overview"; an Anthropic employee confirms the doc's validity (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Vista Equity-backed infrastructure software company LogicMonitor acquires Catchpoint, which monitors user experiences across the internet, for $250M+ in cash (Liana Baker/Bloomberg)

YouTube launches Recap, which lets users review their most notable video habits over the past year, in the US, ahead of a global rollout next week (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Michael and Susan Dell say they will deposit $6.25B for 25M children, or $250 per investment "Trump account", comparing the gift to Dell's direct PC sales model (Nicholas Kulish/New York Times)

South Korean police arrest four over hacking 120K home security cameras, whose footage was used to make sexually exploitative material; one person made ~$12K (John Yoon/New York Times)

Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

Prediction market Kalshi raised $1B led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation, up from $5B after its $300M Series D in October, making its co-founders billionaires (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

Discord now lets users buy, wishlist, and gift in-game cosmetic items directly within its platform, starting with a store within Marvel Rivals' Discord server (Ash Parrish/The Verge)

Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium, spun out of the nonprofit AI lab Kyutai, raised $70M led by FirstMark and Eurazeo, after launching in September (Bloomberg)

Taiwanese prosecutors charge Tokyo Electron for failing to prevent staff from allegedly stealing TSMC trade secrets, indicting the company on several counts (Bloomberg)

At a Tokyo forum, Masayoshi Son says he "was crying" over SoftBank selling its $5.83B Nvidia stake but "I just had more need for money to invest in OpenAI" (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

Just Eat founder Jitse Groen plans to step down as CEO effective January 1, replaced by Prosus Europe head Roberto Gandolfo; Groen founded Takeaway.com in 2000 (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)

Study: using the SCONE-bench benchmark of 405 blockchain smart contracts, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 developed exploits together worth $4.6M (Anthropic)

A profile of Cursor CEO Michael Truell, a 25-year-old who started building the AI coding tool in 2023, as some question Cursor's reliance on third-party models (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

Polymarket's Ukraine war betting, based on ISW's map, generated $1M+ in volume for "Will Russia capture Myrnohrad?"; an "unauthorized" map edit resolved the bet (Matthew Gault/404 Media)

Americans express fear and negativity toward AI, often relying on bad arguments like water usage, a stark contrast with Asia and Europe's relative positivity (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)

UK pension funds are cutting exposure to US equities over worries about growing concentration in a few tech stocks and a potential bubble in the AI sector (Financial Times)

An interview with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on why there's no AI bubble, his view that Watson's healthcare push was "inappropriate", IBM's quantum bet, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

CANI files a CA ballot measure to let an oversight board review and undo science and tech nonprofit conversions since January 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Apple doesn't plan to comply with India's mandate to preload a state-owned cyber safety app on iPhones and will raise its concerns with New Delhi (Reuters)