Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
Sources: Google has told advertising clients that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026, separate from ads in AI Mode  —  Google has told advertising clients in recent days that it plans to bring ads to its AI chatbot Gemini, according to agency buyers familiar with the conversations.

Vallari Srivastava / Reuters:
NextEra Energy expands its partnership with Google Cloud to develop data centre campuses across the US and secures 2.5+ GW of clean energy contracts from Meta  —  NextEra Energy (NEE.N) expanded its partnership with Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud to scale up data center capacity …

CNBC:
Leaked letter: Tiger Global launches Private Investment Partners 17, a fund targeting raising ~$2B to $3B, signaling a pivot from megafunds to more discipline  —  Tiger Global Management announced Monday the launch of its latest venture capital fund, Private Investment Partners 17 …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Internal memo: Johny Srouji, who oversees Apple's chip division, tells his employees that “I don't plan on leaving anytime soon”  —  Apple Inc.'s Johny Srouji, who oversees the company's chip division, told staff that he's staying at the iPhone maker.

Reuters:
Sources: Skild AI, which develops a foundation model for robots, is in talks to raise $1B+ from SoftBank and Nvidia at a ~$14B valuation, up from $4.7B in July  —  Japan's SoftBank Group (9984.T) and Nvidia (NVDA.O) are in talks to invest in Skild AI, in a more than $1 billion funding round …

Bobby Allyn / NPR:
ICEBlock's developer sues the Trump administration in federal court for violating the First Amendment, after Apple removed its app under White House pressure  —  The developer of ICEBlock, an iPhone app that anonymously tracks the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents …

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Unconventional AI raised a $475M seed led by a16z and Lightspeed at a $4.5B valuation to build a more energy-efficient AI computer, part of an up to $1B round  —  Naveen Rao joins a rarified club of prominent tech founders to raise big funding rounds for very young companies.

James Hunt / The Block:
Michael Saylor's Strategy acquired 10,624 bitcoin for $962.7M between December 1 and 7, its largest BTC purchase since July; MSTR is down ~40% so far in 2025  —  Partner offers  —  Quick Take  — Strategy has purchased another 10,624 BTC for approximately $962.7 million at an average price …

CNBC:
Paramount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30/share in a $108.4B all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week  —  Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it lost out to Netflix in a months-long bidding war …

Nandan Mandayam / Reuters:
India's Tata Electronics signs up Intel as a prospective customer for its upcoming chip facilities; Tata is investing ~$14B to build fabs in Gujarat and Assam  —  India's Tata Electronics has secured Intel (INTC.O) as the first prospective customer for its upcoming chip facilities …

Bloomberg:
President Trump says he will sign “a ONE RULE” EO on AI “this week” and “you can't expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something”  —  President Donald Trump said he would approve an executive order this week to establish …

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: its tools save workers ~40-60 minutes daily on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M+ business clients  —  OpenAI's artificial intelligence products are saving workers an average of about 40 to 60 minutes a day on professional tasks …

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Netflix changed movie distribution, and its executives now think that licensing shows leaves money on the table; YouTube may help Netflix's WBD antitrust case  —  Warner Bros. started with distribution.  Just after the turn of the century, Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner bought …

Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The European Commission says Meta agreed to change its “pay or consent” model, including ad-light Instagram and Facebook versions, but “the case is not closed”  —  Facebook agrees changes to ‘pay or consent’ model after talks with European Commission

Financial Times:
Big Tech's AI data center plans, which are set to need an estimated 44GW of additional capacity by 2028, face a power crunch that could deflate the AI “bubble”  —  A lack of electricity for new data centres could deflate the AI ‘bubble’  —  Rafe Rosner-Uddin in San Francisco …

Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia:
Users of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps  —  HONG KONG — A battle over online security and consumer eyeballs is brewing among China's tech giants.

Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times:
Singapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ  —  Payments company opens San Francisco base and reduces Tencent's holding in US pivot  —  A Singapore fintech that was labelled a …

Alex Dooler / Bloomberg:
Binance receives three licenses from Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, allowing comprehensive operations across its exchange, clearing, and brokerage arms  —  Binance has won three separate licenses from Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, giving the crypto exchange giant one of its most comprehensive regulatory footholds yet.

Associated Press:
Police in Edmonton, Canada partner with Axon to test body cameras with AI facial recognition, and say the results will be verified by human officers  —  Police body cameras equipped with artificial intelligence have been trained to detect the faces of about 7,000 people on a “high risk” …

Rohan Doshi / The Keyword:
Google says Gemini 3 Pro sets new vision AI benchmark records, including in complex visual reasoning, beating Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 in some categories  —  Gemini 3 Pro delivers state-of-the-art performance across document, spatial, screen and video understanding.