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Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Spotify rolls out music videos to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada, following a beta launch in nearly 100 markets last year  —  Spotify (SPOT.N) said on Tuesday it is making music videos available to… Read More »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)

Sri Muppidi / The Information: Source: ChatGPT nears 900M weekly active users; Sensor Tower: Gemini MAUs grew ~30% to 346M between August and November while ChatGPT’s rose ~5% to 810M  —  The competition between AI chatbots has been heating up,… Read More »Source: ChatGPT nears 900M weekly active users; Sensor Tower: Gemini MAUs grew ~30% to 346M between August and November while ChatGPT’s rose ~5% to 810M (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

Aaron Holmes / The Information: Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and more are set to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source AI agent standards as soon as this week  —  For AI agents to work properly in automating… Read More »Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and more are set to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source AI agent standards as soon as this week (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: 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  —  Artificial Intelligence startup Fal raised fresh funding… Read More »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)

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Satya Nadella says Microsoft plans to spend $17.5B on AI and cloud computing in India over four years, its largest ever Asia investment, after meeting with Modi  —  Microsoft Corp. pledged to invest $17.5 billion on… Read More »Satya Nadella says Microsoft plans to spend $17.5B on AI and cloud computing in India over four years, its largest ever Asia investment, after meeting with Modi (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Deborah Sophia / Reuters: Microsoft plans to invest CA$7.5B in Canada over two years to build AI infrastructure, coming online in 2026, taking its investment to CA$19B from 2023 to 2027  —  Microsoft (MSFT.O) said on Tuesday it was investing… Read More »Microsoft plans to invest CA$7.5B in Canada over two years to build AI infrastructure, coming online in 2026, taking its investment to CA$19B from 2023 to 2027 (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic and Accenture sign a three-year deal to sell AI services to businesses; the deal makes Accenture one of Anthropic’s top three enterprise clients  —  The artificial-intelligence model maker and consulting firm say they… Read More »Anthropic and Accenture sign a three-year deal to sell AI services to businesses; the deal makes Accenture one of Anthropic’s top three enterprise clients (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Sources: Meta is pursuing a new Llama successor and frontier AI model, codenamed Avocado, set for release in Q1 2026, and it could be a proprietary model  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was so optimistic last… Read More »Sources: Meta is pursuing a new Llama successor and frontier AI model, codenamed Avocado, set for release in Q1 2026, and it could be a proprietary model (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Toby Sterling / Reuters: Dutch media: ASML has sold parts to a subsidiary of a Chinese army supplier, per Chinese import and export data; ASML says it can’t confirm the report  —  Customers of chip equipment maker ASML (ASML.AS) include… Read More »Dutch media: ASML has sold parts to a subsidiary of a Chinese army supplier, per Chinese import and export data; ASML says it can’t confirm the report (Toby Sterling/Reuters)

Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia’s H200 chips despite President Trump allowing their export to China, in its push for chip self-sufficiency  —  Discussions among regulators come as Beijing seeks to achieve… Read More »Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia’s H200 chips despite President Trump allowing their export to China, in its push for chip self-sufficiency (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)