Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: China's AI regulations, which require chatbots to pass a 2,000-question ideological test, have spawned specialized agencies that help AI companies pass  —  Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don't misbehave, while hoping its models stay competitive with the U.S.

Urvi Malvania / Financial Express:
HCLSoftware, a subsidiary of Indian IT company HCLTech, agrees to acquire business intelligence company Jaspersoft from Cloud Software Group for $240M in cash  —  The company also announced the acquisition of Belgium-based Wobby to boost agentic AI capabilities.

Ari Levy / CNBC:
Waymo says it is updating its fleet to improve navigation during widespread outages, after pausing its service during blackouts in San Francisco on December 20  —  Three days after a blackout in San Francisco caused Waymo to pause it driverless car service, the Alphabet-owned company …

Polygon caught up with Gilligan and his writers to discuss the fan response so far and whether it will have any influence on where Pluribus is headed.

Heo Kyungjun / The Asia Business Daily:
South Korean prosecutors allege China's CXMT mass-produced 10nm-class DRAM using leaked Samsung tech, indicting 10 employees who previously worked for Samsung  —  Prosecutors: “Hundreds of DRAM Process Steps Copied and Leaked”  —  Samsung Electronics' Sales Declined by 5 Trillion Won Last Year