1. Nvidia is reportedly set to acquire AI chip startup Groq for approximately $20 billion.
2. ByteDance launches Seed Prover 1.5, a model for formal mathematical reasoning.
3. British media reports that tech companies are removing high AI spending debt from their balance sheets, raising market concerns.
4. OpenAI is considering placing ads on ChatGPT.
5. Tencent's Yuanbao DeepSeek mode usage has increased more than 100 times since the beginning of the year.
6. Yunnan: By 2035, artificial intelligence will be deeply integrated into all industries and fields of the economy and society.
7. Beijing adds two new generative AI services that have completed registration.
8. The first of its kind nationwide: Shanghai and SenseTime release a large-scale AI basic model for planning resources, capable of checking land parcels, viewing maps, and assisting in decision-making.
9. The Beijing Robotics Industry Association will be established on December 26.
10. Cloud Deep Technology completes a pre-IPO financing round of hundreds of millions of RMB, led by the National Artificial Intelligence Industry Fund. 11. Italy demands that Meta open up WhatsApp to allow access to competitor AI.
12. Several US authors sue Google and five other companies for using copyrighted books to train AI.