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Sources: Dell alerts its customers of a 15 to 20% price increase from mid-December in a context of rising DRAM costs; Lenovo announces current quotes will expire in January 2026— Growing demand for memory for AI servers is driving DRAM prices significantly higher, and PC and laptop makers are now feeling the pressure.
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- Kashable, which allows businesses to offer "socially responsible" credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, raised $60 million Series C (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
- Melania Trump slides down and tries to get Jimmy Kimmel fired
- OpenAI partners with Customers Bank to automate finance
- Microsoft and OpenAI amend their agreement to allow OpenAI to offer all its products on any cloud provider; Microsoft will no longer pay revenue share to OpenAI (OpenAI)
- By the end of 2025, 79 of the 500 software companies tracked, including HubSpot, Adobe and Salesforce, had adopted usage-based AI fees, more than double from 2024 (The News)
- Sources detail Microsoft’s “Windows K2,” an ongoing initiative aimed at addressing Windows 11 users’ top complaints about AI features, OS bloat, performance, and more. (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
- OpenAI releases framework of five principles for AGI development, pledging to resist the concentration of AI power and collaborate with businesses and governments (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)

