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Amazon plans to invest $35B+ in India's cloud and AI sector by 2030, adding to the ~$40B it has invested in India, and says the move will create 1M more jobs (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

Chinese state-backed chipmaker Hygon, which makes server CPUs, calls off merger with its top shareholder and server maker Sugon; the merger was announced in May (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)

Nintendo's shares slid as much as 4.7% on December 10 to their lowest level since May, amid concerns that rising memory chip prices will erode its profit (Bloomberg)

Ofcom: UK porn traffic has now settled at a "lower level" since the start of age checks; VPN users rose to a peak of 1.4M in mid-August and now stand at 900K (The Guardian)

Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun resigns after the company incurred South Korea's largest-ever data breach, in which the personal data of 30M+ people was compromised (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Sources: Nvidia has privately demonstrated its unreleased location verification tech in recent months, which could show the country its chips are operating in (Reuters)

Microsoft Research, Providence, and UW develop the GigaTIME AI model, aiming to perform tumor analysis in a fraction of the time and cost of existing methods (Lisa Stiffler/GeekWire)

Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho opened up 54% in its stock market debut, giving the company a ~$8.4B market cap after raising ~$603M in its India IPO (Bloomberg)

DEEP Robotics, a Hangzhou-based startup that builds quadruped and humanoid robots, raised a $70M Series C to expand R&D and production capacity (Danielle Popov/South China Morning Post)

Stellantis partners with Estonian ride-hailing service Bolt, which serves 200M+ riders, to test Level 4 driverless vans across Europe in 2026 (Romolo Tosiani/Reuters)

Boom's move to modify its supersonic engine to power AI data centers is another example of industrial capacity being repurposed to serve the AI supply chain (Bloomberg)

Sources: China added AI chips from Chinese groups to its government-approved list of suppliers for the first time, before Trump's move to allow Nvidia exports (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

Sources: at a November meeting in the Oval Office, Jensen Huang told President Trump that a flurry of state AI laws could cause the US to lose the AI race (Wall Street Journal)

Study: ~200 Instacart shoppers across four cities saw different prices for the same item from the same store at the same time; Instacart says it's running tests (Ben Casselman/New York Times)

PubMatic partners with Kontext to let advertisers choose the chatbots they'd like to appear in and use Kontext's tech to generate ads that fit the chatbot chats (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)

Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases the GLM-4.6V open-weight vision models, with support for native function calling, available with 106B and 9B parameters (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Crunchyroll announces it is shutting down its free ad-supported streaming option on December 31; Crunchyroll subscriptions start at $7.99/month or $79.99/year (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)

Google adds new pinch and wrist gestures to the Pixel Watch 4 and says Watch 3 and Watch 4 will now use an on-device Gemma-based AI model for Smart Replies (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Report: SpaceX is expected to make around $15B in revenue in 2025, increasing to between $22B and $24B in 2026, with the majority coming from Starlink (Juby Babu/Reuters)

The US Navy and Palantir announce ShipOS, saying the software will speed up shipbuilding and improve supply chain visibility; the deal is valued at $448M (Colin Demarest/Axios)

Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of Hinge, steps down to launch Overtone, an "AI-driven" dating service backed by Match; Hinge promotes CMO Jackie Jantos to CEO (Yasmin Gagne/Fast Company)

Sources: Nvidia's H200 chips for China, mainly manufactured in Taiwan, will travel to the US for an unusual national security review before they are exported (Wall Street Journal)

Source: Trump allowed Nvidia to sell H200s to China after concluding the move carried a lower security risk as Huawei offers systems with comparable performance (Bloomberg)

Australia's ban on social media for users aged under 16 comes into effect; platforms that do not comply risk fines of up to AU$49.5M (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)

Sources: SpaceX plans an IPO in mid-to-late 2026, seeking to raise far above $30B and targeting a ~$1.5T valuation, potentially making it the largest IPO ever (Bloomberg)

Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie says Substack is starting to test native sponsorships with some writers but won't take a cut for now (Emily Sundberg/Feed Me)

Instagram appears to be generating often misleading SEO-style headlines and long descriptions for users' Instagram posts, appearing in Google Search results (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

Duve, which offers AI-powered guest management tools for hotels, raised a $60M Series B led by Susquehanna Growth, bringing its total funding to $85M (Adriana Lee/Skift)

Boom Aerospace, which is building a supersonic plane, announces Superpower, a 42MW natural gas turbine using Boom's supersonic engine, to power AI data centers (Boom)

Denise Dresser, Slack CEO since 2023, is stepping down to join OpenAI as the company's chief revenue officer (Wired)

Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $37B in 2025, up from $11.5B in 2024; Anthropic's share of enterprise LLM spend grew from 24% to 40% YoY (Menlo Ventures)

Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers (Anthropic)

Spanish police arrest a suspected 19-year-old hacker in Barcelona over allegedly stealing and attempting to sell 64M records from breaches at nine companies (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Anthropic, OpenAI, Block, Google, AWS, Microsoft, and others launch the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source agent standards under the Linux Foundation (Will Knight/Wired)

Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users "banking-level privacy" with a "compliance record" (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

An EssilorLuxottica independent board director says Meta now holds an "at least 3%" stake in the Ray-Ban maker, and possibly up to 5%, confirming media reports (Mathieu Rosemain/Reuters)

The US DOD says it has chosen Google's Gemini for Gov to power its new GenAI.mil platform for the US military, as part of a $200M contract from July (Jen Judson/Bloomberg)

Some Biden-era officials say access to Nvidia chips could help China's AI companies buy time while China's chipmakers improve their chip supply and performance (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)

Stripe and Paradigm launch a public trial for their blockchain project Tempo, targeting real-world stablecoin payments, with Kalshi and UBS as new partners (Bloomberg)

Mistral launches Devstral 2, an AI coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and Devstral Small, a 24B-parameter model for local use (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)

Saviynt, an identity and access management service focused on "human and nonhuman" identity controls, raised a $700M Series B led by KKR at a $3B valuation (Angus Loten/Wall Street Journal)

Pebble unveils the Pebble Index 01, a $99 smart ring with an on-device LLM for processing voice notes, shipping in March 2026, initially for $75 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

Spotify rolls out music videos to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada, following a beta launch in nearly 100 markets last year (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Source: ChatGPT has nearly 900M weekly active users; Sensor Tower: Gemini's MAUs grew ~30% to 346M between August and November while ChatGPT's rose ~5% to 810M (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

Source: as soon as this week, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and others are set to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source agent standards (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Fal, which hosts generative AI models for developers, raised a $140M Series D led by Sequoia, a source says at a $4.5B valuation, up from $1.5B in July (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

Satya Nadella says Microsoft plans to spend $17.5B on AI and cloud computing in India over four years, its largest Asia investment yet, after meeting with Modi (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)