STORY: From a pop hit reimagined, to why one author isn't scared of bots, this is AI Weekly.

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It's a very familiar song...

But now Brenda Lee's Christmas classic has had an AI makeover.

Universal Music has released a version in Spanish, with AI transforming the new singer's voice to match Lee's.

The music giant says it shows the tech can be used with full respect for artists.

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Google-parent Alphabet reckons its big bet on AI is starting to pay off.

The search giant says the tech helped drive a 35% jump in sales at its cloud unit.

Capital expenditure at the firm soared to $13 billion as Alphabet poured money into products like its Gemini chatbot.

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AI is no threat to creators yet, or at least it doesn't worry Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.

"So far, AI is a crap poet, really bad, like worse than people, and it's not a very good fiction writer either, and people say, well, it will improve, but I think, okay, what do you mean by improve? You will never get an original creator out of AI because it's a data scraper. It can only use stuff that's been put into it."

Now 84, Atwood says she's too old to worry about AI - but she says young creatives should be more concerned.

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Reuters sources say OpenAI is working on its first in-house chip.

But they say the ChatGPT maker has dropped plans to actually make the product itself.

OpenAI will reportedly do the design, then partner with chipmakers Broadcom and TSMC on production.

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And Facebook-owner Meta Platforms is working on its own AI search engine.

That's according to tech industry publication The Information.

It says the product will provide conversational answers, and help Meta end its reliance on Google and Bing.