Romolo Tosiani / Reuters:
Stellantis partners with Estonian ride-hailing service Bolt, which serves 200M+ riders, to test Level 4 driverless vans across Europe in 2026  —  Carmaker Stellantis (STLAM.MI) is teaming up with Estonia-based ride-hailing platform Bolt to deploy driverless vehicles across Europe …

Bloomberg:
Boom's move to modify its supersonic engine to power AI data centers is another example of industrial capacity being repurposed to serve the AI supply chain  —  Thesis: That which can be repurposed to serve the AI supply chain will be repurposed to serve the AI supply chain.

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next frontier, Google is surging, and the party scene has gotten completely out of hand. Those were the through lines from this year's NeurIPS […]

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 …