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) https://www.wsj.com/articles/cyber-startup-saviynt-raises-700-million-to-secure-identity-and-access-ba50cbae
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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
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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)
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Pebble Is Making a $75 Smart Ring
You can speak into the Pebble Index to have it remember things or set reminders, timers, and tasks. No cloud processing, no subscription, and best ...
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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
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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) https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spotify-expands-music-videos-access-premium-users-us-canada-take-youtube-2025-12-09/
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Spotify rolls out music videos to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada, following a beta launch in nearly 100 markets last year
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Source: ChatGPT has ~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) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chatgpt-nears-900-million-weekly-active-users-gemini-catching
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Source: ChatGPT has nearly 900M weekly active users; Sensor Tower: Gemini
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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) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-anthropic-google-agree-develop-agent-standards-together
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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
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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) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-09/sequoia-led-funding-vaults-ai-startup-fal-to-4-5-billion-valuation
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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
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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) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-09/microsoft-to-invest-17-5-billion-in-india-for-ai-cloud-services
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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
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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) https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-invest-more-than-5-billion-canada-over-next-two-years-2025-12-09/
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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
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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) https://www.wsj.com/articles/anthropic-and-accenture-strike-ai-deal-targeting-business-clients-0a82f28a?st=ykiLVF&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Anthropic and Accenture sign a three-year deal to sell AI services to businesses; the deal makes Accenture one of Anthropic
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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)
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From Llamas to Avocados: Meta's shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion
Meta’s push to develop its next frontier model, codenamed Avocado, under new AI leadership is creating internal friction as it races rivals OpenA...
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Sources: Meta is pursuing a Llama successor and new frontier AI model, codenamed Avocado, which could be a proprietary model and is set for release in Q1 2026
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