Zijing Wu / Financial Times:
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  —  Beijing encouraged purchase of Huawei and Cambricon processors before Trump's move to allow Nvidia exports

Wall Street Journal:
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  —  Debate over pre-emption of state laws marks a major flashpoint in GOP politics  —  WASHINGTON—At a November meeting in the Oval Office …

Ben Casselman / New York Times:
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  —  The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.

Kendra Barnett / Adweek:
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  —  The integration enables advertisers to buy ads across a range of AI interfaces through PubMatic or their DSP of choice.

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
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  —  The release includes two models in “large” and “small” sizes:  — GLM-4.6V (106B), a larger 106-billion parameter model aimed at cloud-scale inference