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  1. Shares of two Chinese autonomous driving companies Pony.ai and WeRide both debuted in Hong Kong on Thursday.
  2. Microsoft employees can now request Trusted Technology Reviews when they want to report on concerning uses of the company's products.
  3. The food delivery platform said it expects to spend "several hundred million dollars" on new initiatives and development in 2026.
  4. Perplexity AI will pay the social media company $400 million over 1 year to integrate the AI startup's search features into Snapchat in 2026, Snap said.
  5. CFO Jason Warnick said prediction markets and Bitstamp are generating about $100 million or more in annualized revenues.
  6. People are signing up for Figma to use its Make tool for generating app designs with artificial intelligence, CEO Dylan Figma said.
  7. Lucid also said it has agreed to increase a term loan credit facility from $750 million to roughly $2 billion from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.
  8. HubSpot appointed Meta's head of business AI Clara Shih to its board of directors
  9. Qualcomm is trying to prove that it has a role in the artificial intelligence boom, which to date has been dominated by Nvidia.
  10. The AI-Related Job Impacts Clarity Act would require companies and federal agencies to submit quarterly reports of "AI-related job effects."