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Here is your morning brief for Friday, December 19th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.

We are exclusively reporting that OpenAI aims to raise as much as $100 billion to pay for its

ambitious growth plans in a market that started to cool on the artificial

intelligence boom. The fundraising round is said to be in the early stages and could value the

company at as much as $830 billion. CEO Sam Aldman has already scoured the world to build

its investor pool, and as the journal previously reported, the company is also weighing

a potential IPO. EU leaders have agreed to lend Ukraine around $105 billion to help it continue

fighting Russia, but they notably failed to agree on tapping a massive pot of frozen Russian

assets to fund Ukraine, which will shift costs to EU taxpayers.

The loan could give Ukraine more leverage in negotiations with the U.S. as Washington tries

to end the war without additional funding. European officials said that Kiev might have had

little choice but to accept U.S. demands, including withdrawing from eastern regions that

its troops still hold. And Sony is taking a majority stake in Peanuts, the company that houses the

iconic Snoopy and Charlie Brown characters. The Japanese electronics company has spent billions

on acquisitions in recent years to focus on its

games and other entertainment businesses. Through its subsidiaries, Sony will now indirectly

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