December 04, 2025

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Spotify says Wrapped 2025 is its biggest yet, with 200M+ users in its first day: After last year's flop, Spotify Wrapped engagement is up 19% and shares were up 41%, the company says. Read More

AI finds its way into Apple's top apps of the year: Although Apple has continued to avoid naming a dedicated AI app or AI chatbot as its app of the year, AI was showcased among this year's winners. Read More

Gemini was Google's top trending search term in 2025: Gemini wasn't the only AI chatbot to make the list, as DeepSeek ranked seventh among the year's trending searches. Read More

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New unicorn Brevo raises $583M to challenge CRM giants: Brevo, a customer relationship management company headquartered in Paris, is now a unicorn. Read More

Anthropic signs $200M deal to bring its LLMs to Snowflake's customers: AI research lab Anthropic inked a $200 million deal with Snowflake to bring its AI models to Snowflake's 12,600 customers. Read More

All the biggest news from AWS' big tech show re:Invent 2025: Amazon Web Services' giant tech conference re:Invent 2025 is happening this week with news ranging from chips to AI services. Read More

Andy Jassy says Amazon's Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business: Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia's AI chip dominance? Maybe not entirely, but Amazon is already making big bucks trying. Read More

EU investigating Meta over policy change that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp: The European Commission is is launching an antitrust investigation into Meta's move to ban other AI companies from using WhatsApp's business tools to offer their own AI chatbots to users. Read More

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Last but Not Least

Amazon hopes to jump-start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups: Can Kiro win the hearts of startup founders above the many AI coding tools they already have? Amazon hopes a free year will tempt them. Read More