Kate Duguid / Financial Times:
US companies sold $1.7T of investment-grade bonds in 2025, nearing the $1.8T 2020 record, driven by AI infrastructure borrowing; Goldman says AI makes up ~30%  —  Investment-grade borrowers have issued $1.7tn of bonds this year, closing in on 2020s Covid debt rush

Financial Times:
Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads in 2024, after spending £9M in 2021  —  Despite concerns, politicians continue to use Elon Musk's platform in search of a ‘civilised debate’ with constituents

Reuters:
Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's Hong Kong stock fell as much as 6% to ~$8, the lowest since November 21, after it was hit by a cyberattack on December 22  —  Shares of Kuaishou (1024.HK) dropped by as much as 6% on Tuesday to HK$62.70 ($8.06), their lowest since November 21 …

Bloomberg:
Sources reveal inconsistencies in Megaspeed's chip inventory, as the US probes the Singapore AI startup over alleged Chinese ownership and Nvidia chip smuggling  —  Singapore-based Megaspeed has imported tens of thousands more chips than Nvidia saw when checking its data centers.

Bonny Chu / Fox News:
The Pentagon partners with xAI to embed the company's frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil as soon as early 2026  —  Grok will be deployed across systems serving 3 million military and civilian personnel by early 2026