AI BUSINESS
AI GOVERNANCE
AI NEWS
- How Nvidia changed the open source AI game with Nemotron 3
- CoreWeave Has Lost a Staggering Amount of Stock Value Over the Past Six Months
- Washington Post Says It Will Continue AI-Generating Error Filled Podcasts as Its Own Editors Groan in Embarrassment
- Democratic senators investigate data centers’ effects on electricity prices
- Google launches new AI agent to help plan your day
- OpenAI's new ChatGPT image model matches Google's Nano Banana Pro on complex prompts
- Google's updated Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio handles complex voice tasks better
- George Osborne joins OpenAI: ex-chancellor adds tech post to his CV
- AI Rising in 2026. INSANE Changes
- New 3D benchmark leaves AI in knots
- Liberals Are Falling for Extremely Obvious AI Fakes
- Meta’s AI glasses can now help you hear conversations better
- Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAm’s doctors
- OpenAI's GPT Image 1.5 challenges Google at enterprise-grade visuals
- OpenAI releases new models for its Realtime API
- Nvidia strengthens open-source strategy with SchedMD acquisition
- Abu Dhabi-based G42 Unveils Open-Source Hindi-English Model NANDA 87B
- Ai2 Introduces Molmo 2 Open Video Models
- US Government Seeks Tech Talent
- Australia's national plan says existing laws are enough to regulate AI. This is false hope
- Transparency in AI companies falls to new low
- This AI Can Beat You At Rock-Paper-Scissors : Rock-paper-scissors is usually a game of psychology, reverse psychology, reverse-reverse psychology, and chance. But what if a computer could understa...
- Google Commits $8 Million to India’s AI Centres of Excellence, Backs Health, Language and Clean Energy Initiatives
- How AI helps solve problems it doesn't even understand
- AI Industry Insiders Living in Fear of What They’re Creating
- As Controversy Grows, Mattel Scraps Plans for OpenAI Reveal This Year
- Creating psychological safety in the AI era
- Gemini gets direct access to NotebookLM data
- How to test a new AI Model to get up to speed with its capabilities quickly
- 'Robot, make me a chair': AI-driven system designs, builds multicomponent objects from user prompts
- Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
- How brain-inspired algorithms could drive down AI energy costs
- The Things Young Kids Are Using AI for Are Absolutely Horrifying
- Black box AI isn’t enough: Why enterprise consulting is moving to grounded models
- How the tech industry’s embrace of Trump may be paying dividends
- Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, adds more third-party models
- Zoom says it aced AI’s hardest exam. Critics say it copied off its neighbors.
- Zencoder drops Zenflow, a free AI orchestration tool that pits Claude against OpenAI’s models to catch coding errors
- Bloomfire Wins InfoWorld’s Technology of the Year Award
- AITech Interview with Swapnil Jain CEO at Co-Founder & CEO at Observe.AI
- 5 Workflow Automation Tools for All Professionals
- From Shortages to Scale, io.net’s Approach to Rewriting AI Compute Access
- Vertical AI Systems and Open Source Flexibility
- The Download: why 2025 has been the year of AI hype correction, and fighting GPS jamming
- Why it’s time to reset our expectations for AI
- Negotiations over US-UK tech deal stall
- Nearly half of US workers now use AI on the job, but most aren't using it daily
- Researchers reveal bias in a widely used measure of algorithm performance
- Nutanix Expands Capabilities for Distributed Sovereign Clouds
- Acentra Health Named to Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Tech100
- Hitachi Vantara Tops GigaOm Radar for Primary Storage Second Year
- Squirro Advances Real-World Enterprise AI Adoption with Platform Update
- Hexnode Enhances Endpoint Management with Compliance and Security
- DoiT Achieves AWS Managed Services Provider Program Designation
- AI Infrastructure Company EverMind Released EverMemOS
- AI/R’s Compass UOL Awarded AWS 2025 Consulting Partner of the Year LATAM
- Nvidia's powerful open AI model play
- Why Global Voice AI Fails India and How Mihup Cracked It
- ADaSci Launches the Certified Forward Deployed Engineer Program
- Will OpenAI be the next tech giant or next Netscape?
- 'Easiest scam in the world': Musicians sound alarm over AI impersonators
- CareCloud Launches stratusAI Desk Agent
- John Snow Labs Wins 2025 InfoWorld Award for Medical LLMs
- Seceon Announces Strategic Partnership with InterSources Inc.
- Tenable Appoints Vlad Korsunsky as Chief Technology Officer
- Swiss Banks have strong values – and that’s why their AI systems must keep humans in the loop, says UBS’ Stephan Hug
- Advantest to Showcase Latest Test Solutions at SEMICON Japan 2025 in Tokyo
- Last Week in AI #329 - GPT 5.2, GenAI.mil, Disney in Sora
- Leidos taps leading AI tech executive Ted Tanner as CTO
- Boost for artists in AI copyright battle as only 3% back UK active opt-out plan
- Why Deloitte Built a Tax AI That Knows When to Say ‘I Don’t Know’
AI RESEARCH
- Unified Open-World Segmentation with Multi-Modal Prompts
- UniGen-1.5: Enhancing Image Generation and Editing through Reward Unification in Reinforcement Learning
- How I 10x’d My AI Products’ Performance with 10 Prompt Engineering Techniques
- The AI Reading List That Got Out of Hand
- GIE-Bench: Towards Grounded Evaluation for Text-Guided Image Editing
- Score Distillation of Flow Matching Models
- Data-Centric Lessons To Improve Speech-Language Pretraining
- Inside Alibaba’s Qwen: How China Built One of the World’s Fastest-Growing AI Models
- The RAG Bottleneck Nobody’s Fixing (And Why Your Retrieval Doesn’t Matter)
- The new ChatGPT Images is here
- AI Agent Mesh Development: 5 Tips to Avoid Disaster in Production
- DeepSeek Injects 50% More Vulnerabilities When You Mention Tibet
- Names, Emails, Locations, Device IDs: What One OpenAI Vendor Export Gave Hackers
- The State of AI Agents: João Moura on Building, Deploying, and Scaling the Next Generation of…
- Measuring AI’s capability to accelerate biological research
- Evaluating AI’s ability to perform scientific research tasks
- The 4 Best Open Source Multi-Agent AI Frameworks 2026
- The Builder’s Notes: Epic, Oracle, and Cerner Are Blocking Healthcare AI. Here’s the Proof.
- TAI #183: GPT-5.2 Arrives with a Breakthrough on GDPVal and long context
- Transformers v5 Introduces a More Modular and Interoperable Core
- I Liked the Essay. Then I Found Out It Was AI
- Agentic Computer Vision: When Vision Models Become Decision Makers
- Weight Initialization for Neural Networks
- Statistics You Actually Need for Machine Learning
- Part 3: Inside an AI Agent — Tools, Memory, Planning & Execution (DevOps Edition)
- How to Make Your Content ‘Citable’ by LLMs Without Giving It All Away
- Advanced Customer Segmentation: A Comprehensive Comparison of HDBSCAN, DBSCAN, and K-Means
- How to Safeguard Quantum Models Against the Barren Plateau Problem
- The Adoption and Usage of AI Agents: Early Evidence from Perplexity (Paper Review)
- True MLOps on GCP Is Mostly Not Vertex AI
- Last Week in AI: Gemini 3 Deep Think Arrives, AI Trains in Space, FDA Deploys Agentic AI (Dec 8–14…
- “World Model” is a mess. Here’s how to make sense of it.
- Why Tagged PDF Matters for AI
- AI learns to decode the diseases written in your DNA
- Beyond Prediction: A Data Science Guide to Contextual Bandits
- Meta's Optimization Platform Ax 1.0 Streamlines LLM and System Optimization
- The Sequence Knowledge #772: Generate Data Using Multiturn Data Synthesis
- AWS Transform Custom Tackles Technical Debt
- Lyft Rearchitects ML Platform with Hybrid AWS SageMaker-Kubernetes Approach
- AIhub blog post highlights 2025
- Getting Started with Streamlit: Learn Widgets, Layouts, and Caching
- “Robot, make me a chair”
AI TOOLS
CLOUD AI
CLOUD ANNOUNCEMENTS
- AWS IoT Device Management Commands now supports dynamic payloads
- AWS Direct Connect announces new location in Hanoi, Vietnam
- AWS Artifact enables access to previous versions of compliance reports
- Amazon SageMaker AI is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand)
- AWS Security Incident Response introduces integration with Slack
- AWS reduces publishing time for Carbon Footprint Data to 21 days or Less
- Amazon EC2 M8i instances are now available in additional Regions
- Amazon Quick Suite browser extension now supports Quick Flows
- Amazon EC2 M8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
- Amazon Quick Suite now supports memory for chat agents
- Amazon Route 53 launches detailed metrics for Resolver endpoints
- AWS Clean Rooms publishes events for member invitations and table readiness to EventBridge
CLOUD BUSINESS
- A Frontier Model Built Like a Brain with Python and Rust
- Break the AI Gridlock at the Intersection of Velocity and Trust
- Samsung unveils new Micro RGB TVs ahead of CES 2026, and they're seriously tempting
- Why AI Parallelization Will Be One of the Biggest Challenges of 2026
- The Bare Metal Myth: Why VMs Now Win for Containers
- How a Component-First Approach Fixes Figma-to-Code
- When Vibe Coding Goes Rogue: Debugging Your Own Brain
- Watch Instagram Reels on your TV now - these sets get the app first
- Get your first month of DirecTV for 44% off in this first-ever flash sale
- 5 reasons to update your iPhone to iOS 26.2 - including security patches
- Google says this is the best time to book flights, but its other findings may surprise you more
- Own a OnePlus phone? I changed 10 settings that gave mine a big performance boost
- Why a ‘Boring’ Database Is Your Secret AI Superpower
- KubeVirt Planning: Storage, Network and Security Considerations
- CES 2026: Everything we're expecting to see (and how to watch)
- From AGI Hype to Engineering Reality: The Future of LLMs
- Google just made it easier to upload files in AI Mode - try it now
- Put a Fork in It: The Future of Open Source That’s ‘Done’
- I compared the two best Android camera phones in Sweden - and there's a clear winner
- The iPhone's new call screening feature makes updating to iOS 26 totally worth it for me
- Merging To Test Is Killing Your Microservices Velocity
- Flash sale: Get a refurbished PS5, Nintendo Switch, and Apple Watch at Back Market
- CSS Layout: How To ‘Center a Div,’ the Old School Way
- This is the iPhone case I trust the most for traveling in extreme conditions
- These 10+ useful Google Docs tools streamlined my workflow (and don't require plug-ins)
- How I turn my iPad into a touchscreen MacBook on the road (and what extra accessories I use)
- I've tried nearly every Linux package manager - these remain my favorite
- 12+ laptop accessories that I swear by (and how they've improved my productivity)
- Chainguard Takes Over Maintenance of Aging OSS Projects
- The fastest portable SSD I've used is also the smallest (and it's not even close)
- Beware of 'gift card draining' and two other top holiday scams, US Treasury warns
- Open Source: Inside 2025’s 4 Biggest Trends
CLOUD SECURITY
- Seceon Announces Strategic Partnership with InterSources Inc. to Expand Delivery of AI-Driven Cybersecurity Across Regulated Industries
- Imperva Partners with TollBit to Power AI Traffic Monetization for Content Owners
- Cryptomining campaign targeting Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS
- NDSS 2025 – Selective Data Protection against Memory Leakage Attacks for Serverless Platforms
- NDSS 2025 – IsolateGPT: An Execution Isolation Architecture For LLM-Based Agentic Systems
- Veza Extends Reach to Secure and Govern AI Agents
- Unified Security for On-Prem, Cloud, and Hybrid Infrastructure: The Seceon Advantage
- Extracting the How: Scaling Adversary Procedures Intelligence with AI
- Chinese Surveillance and AI
- Communicating AI Risk to the Board With Confidence | Kovrr
- Securing the AI Frontier: How API Posture Governance Enables NIST AI RMF Compliance
- SoundCloud Confirms Security Incident
- What You Should Know Before Migrating Your App to Ruby on Rails: Key Insights for a Smooth Transition
- Enhancing the Agentic AI Security Scoping Matrix: A Multi-Dimensional Approach
CLOUD TECHNICAL
- **Revolutionizing Audio Experience: Meta's AI-Powered Glasses Enhance Conversation Clarity**
- Full-Stack Dev's AI Future: Master the New Stack
- Beyond Accuracy: The 73+ Dimensions of AI Agent Quality
- Agent Factory Recap: Deep Dive into Gemini CLI with Taylor Mullen
- Expanding container security and choice with Amazon ECR Public
- Beyond Basic MCP: Why Enterprise AI Needs Composable Architecture
- Discover Sterling Digital Consulting's New AI Analytics Tool
- Unpacking Sterling Digital Consulting's AI Analytics Tool
- **Essential Docker Patterns for Modern Web Development: Multi-Stage, Compose, and Production-Ready Containers**
- Build a Realtime Video Restyling Agent with Gemini 3 + Decart AI
- The AI Tsunami: How VS Code Extensions in 2024-2025 Are Redefining Developer Productivity
- INFOFISCUS Conversa – Agentic AI Conversational Analytics for Real-Time Enterprise Intelligence
- Communication to Completion: Modeling Collaborative Workflows with IntelligentMulti-Agent Communication
- Why Enterprise SaaS Deals Stall and How Revenue Operations Can Fix Them
- Stop Scraping HTML - There's a better way.
- AI Fixed 160 WordPress Images in 5 Minutes: Here’s How
- How I Automated News Discovery with n8n (439K Views, €0 Spent)
- Did you know that AI can help reduce the carbon footprint of
- How Mandiant can help test and strengthen your cyber resilience : Your security program is robust. Your audits are clean. But are you ready for a real-world attack? A tenacious human adversary can create a critical b...
- Ai Didn’t Kill Frontend. It Turned It Into A Perspective.
- You can now embed Cloud Run deployments directly in your DEV posts!
- Day 16: Delta Lake Explained - How Spark Finally Became Reliable for Production ETL
- Why Tools Break Agents (And How to Fix Them)
- Kubernetes Spiegato Semplice: 3 Concetti Chiave
- Chaos testing a Postgres cluster managed by CloudNativePG
- How Large Language Models Like ChatGPT Actually Work (A Practical Developer’s Guide)
- Bug Reports Should Fix Themselves: Dogfooding Our Slack Cloud Agent with GitHub and Linear
- Nightmare Before Christmas: Why Innovation Fails Without Culture
- Wayne State University and Syntasa: Transforming public health assessments with AI : When it comes to public health, having a clear picture of a community’s needs is vital. These insights help officials secure crucial funding, launch n...
- [In preview] Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files cross-zone-region replication (CZRR)
- One Million Users Logging In at Once: Chaos Testing with AI Explained
- I Stopped Calling LLMs "Stochastic Parrots" After This Debugging Session
- A2UI in Practice: Build Agent-to-User Interfaces Using A2A + AG-UI
- API Test Data Management: Creating Realistic and Maintainable Test Data
- Deploying a complex Django application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk (EB)
- Introducing Google Cloud Partner Network: What partners should know : We have exciting news for Google Cloud partners: Today we’re announcing our new partner program, Google Cloud Partner Network, which will formally rol...
- Disaster declaration to safety check: Google Workspace with Gemini transforms disaster response communication : When extreme weather or unexpected natural disaster strikes, time is the single most critical resource. For public sector agencies tasked with emergen...
- AlphaOPT: Formulating Optimization Programs with Self-Improving LLM ExperienceLibrary
- The AI Agent Automation Process: From Idea to Reliable Production
- Rust CRUD Rest API, using Axum, sqlx, Postgres, Docker and Docker Compose
- Azure Boards integration with GitHub Copilot
- From Warehouse to Code: My Self-Taught Journey into AI & Multi-Agent Systems
- The Perfect Grammar That Defeats Us: Why AI Doesn't Need to Be Smart to Win
- The Great Cloud Escape
- The OptiPFair Series #1: Forging the Future with Small Models — An Architectural Analysis with Pere Martra
- How to Improve Native Magento 2 Community Edition Features?
- Deploy a Golang App to EC2 with Docker and AWS ECR
- Setting Up Custom Domain for GitHub Pages with Route53
- Google Antigravity: I Tested the AI IDE, and Here's the Unfiltered Truth
- Gen AI Is Only as Reliable as Your Data: Lessons from AWS re:Invent 2025
- How I Automated 90% of Data Requests Using LLM-Powered SQL Generation
- Timefold Solver: Building Smarter Planning & Optimization Systems for Real‑World Constraints
- Episode 2: How Did AWS Build AWS Without AWS?
- 💾 AWS 105: Persistent Storage Power-Up - Creating an EBS Volume
- Why CSS Classes Don’t Work with dangerouslySetInnerHTML in Next.js (and How to Fix It)
- How I Built 14 Interactive Visualizations Using Google AI Studio
- How to Send Emails with React Using Nodemailer
- Autodogfooding Autodock on AWS
- Using AI to Fight Ransomware Attacks
- Azure CLI internals and how it works
- New Release 🚀 Insights Template for Angular 20 & Tailwind 4
- Lotería mexicana de FinOps en AWS Community Day Bolivia 2025
- Stop Googling AWS/GCP Console URLs – Use Go-Links Instead
- 7 Best Resources I Used to Master DevOps
- 5 Impactful AI Use Cases to Improve Your Ecommerce
- Best WiFi Adapters That Actually Work on Linux (Tested & Explained)
- Global AI Stock Trends: European and Asian Companies
DEVOPS
ENTERPRISE TECH
- Security and AI news from the week beginning 8 December 2025
- How WSO2 is securing AI agents
- Three months to recover from supply chain disruption - there's a better way : Supply chain leaders are using AI-driven scenarios and learnings from the pandemic to operate in extreme volatility. Puneet Saxena, CVP Industry Advis...
- Is consumer love of gen AI now tempered by privacy concerns? Capgemini research suggests so : Consumers love AI, yes? Well, up to a point, but...
- How other people's marketplaces are delivering online success for Land's End : Third party online marketplaces are proving a rate hit for the US retailer.
FINANCIAL
- What Harvard researchers learned about use of AI in white-collar work at top companies
- Hyperscaler AI spending could slow down if Oracle shows 'discipline'
- Trump in Turmoil as He May Have to Give Over His Psychiatric Records in Discovery as Lawsuit Backfired
- Rapid Advances in AI, Robotics and Energy Are Reshaping Battery Demands, And Safety Must Lead the Conversation
- Comet 3I/ATLAS: NASA Loses Contact With MAVEN Claims It Cannot Release Photos of Comet
- Trump Moves to Block State AI Laws, Leaving Safety Decisions to Tech Companies
- Rekor Systems announces $15M registered direct offering
- Accenture and Palantir expand partnership, launch AI-focused business group
- Tech Voices: Meta's TV app, USTR threatens EU tech providers
- Tesla stock hits record as Wall Street rallies around robotaxi hype despite slow EV sales
- U.S. blasts Europe for targeting Big Tech with fines, lawsuits
- Micron likely to benefit as DRAM Industry set to surge in 2026: Wells Fargo
- Susie Wiles Pours Cold Water on One of Trump's Favorite Claims About Epstein
- OpenAI introduces new benchmark to measure expert-level scientific reasoning
- GitLab downgraded by KeyBanc on 'incremental execution risk'
- Crypto stocks see renewed interest from short sellers in November
- ServiceTitan, AppFolio, Autodesk are KeyBanc's 'high conviction ideas' for 2026
- AI future: Big Tech faces key House vote on reforming permit process
- OpenAI releases new version of ChatGPT Images
- Jim Cramer says Amazon is a buy on 2025 underperformance for this key reason
- Gavin Newsom Leads 2028 Democratic Presidential Race With 37% Win Odds, While Ex-VP Harris Trails at 5%
- Enphase forecasts $55M in revenues from expanded safe harbor agreement
- Vibe coding startup Lovable's latest funding round values it at $6.6 billion, sources say
- Nvidia, SK hynix co-developing AI-focused solid state drive: report
- US senators query big tech over concerns of AI data centers' role in rising electricity costs: report
- Accenture agrees to acquire majority stake in AI data center firm DLB Associates
- Databricks raising funds at $134B valuation
- MongoDB started with Market Perform rating at Raymond James
- Cantor expects semiconductors to outperform in 2026 due to AI infrastructure buildout
- Qnity Electronics rated 'Outperform' as Oppenheimer initiates coverage
- Instagram TV app coming to Amazon Fire streaming device
- Coreweave Stock Update: Dramatic Share Price Drop Echoes Fear of AI Bubble
- Global 2026 smartphone shipments forecast to decline due to memory shortage: Counterpoint
- ServiceNow in focus as Guggenheim upgrades, even as challenges 'remain'
- IonQ, D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing in focus as Jefferies starts coverage
- Intel hires former Trump assistant as government affairs head; appoints new marketing, tech officers
- Micron price target raised by Needham on tightening memory market
- Salesforce, Snowflake, Oracle among Mizuho's top enterprise software stocks for 2026
- NETSOL Technologies signs $50 million, four-year contract extension
- Databricks raises capital at $134 billion valuation in latest funding round
- Robotaxis in 2025: Waymo plots global expansion as Zoox, Tesla roll to the starting line
- Cathie Wood Sells Over $59M of Tesla Stock Despite Wedbush Seeing a $1T AI Opportunity for the Firm
- Why Tribes Waited 30 Years for Trump's Tax Break—And the Billions It Just Unlocked
- Who Is Michelle Singer Reiner? Photographer, Rob Reiner's Wife, and Her Painful Admission About Son Nick
- Report Says Jeffrey Epstein Flew Nearly 90 Times to UK With Alleged British Victims on Board — Why Has Britain Never Fully Investigated?
- Is Vitaly Zdorovetskiy Out of Philippine Jail? The Truth Behind the Rumours as the Russian YouTuber Admits Mental Health Issues
- From Crypto Critic to Blockchain Fund: JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon's Awkward Flip-Flop
- From speed to defensibility: What OpenAI sees in the next generation of AI startups
- 3I/ATLAS Shows Unusual Anti-Tail: Scientists Discuss 'Reconnaissance Mission' Idea
- Gilat Satellite Networks to raise $100 mln in oversubscribed private placement
- Okta rises as Jefferies upgrades to Buy; firm lists Palo Alto, Zscaler among top picks for '26
- Nvidia, Broadcom among BofA's top chip stocks for 2026
- Trimble rises on back of KeyBanc upgrade
- Jobs data, Tesla's rally, tariff revenue hits $200 billion and more in Morning Squawk in Morning Squawk
- AI Develops Nasal Antiviral That Stops Flu and Covid Before Cell Infection
- GM Rolls Out Apple Music App Support with Spatial Audio; CarPlay Still Unavailable
- The Weeknd Strikes Landmark Catalog Partnership Valued Near $1 Billion While Retaining Full Creative Control
- Trump Launches US AI Tech Force With Big Tech — Why Jobs and Power Are at Stake
- Bondi Beach Shooting: Suspects Allegedly Travelled to the Philippines for 'Military-Style Training' Before Rampage, Investigators Say
- Google Search Ditches Magnifying Glass for AI 'Plus' Symbol
- Is 3I/Atlas Falling Apart as It Nears Earth? Shocking New Images Raise Concern
- CoreWeave data center complex delayed by rainstorms, design revisions - report
- Startup backed by Altman, JPMorgan announces capital lending partnership with Amazon
- The Seoul Statement paves the way for European AI standards
- Cathie Wood buys the dip: Ark Invest loads up on Bitmine, CoreWeave
- CNBC Daily Open: AI infrastructure stocks are taking a beating
- U.S. halts UK tech trade deal negotiations, FT reports
- Mindoo raises €5M for AI healthcare workforce platform
- The AI chip shortage could raise smartphone prices — new research spells out by how much
- Lightwave Logic prices $35M public offering; boosts cash reserves to $70M
- Jutro Medical extends Series A to €36M for AI-enabled primary care scale
- Bitcoin bullish bets over $550 million wiped out - report
GENERAL US
- DeSantis says Florida can regulate AI despite Trump’s executive order: 'We have a right to do this' - Fox Business
- Evaluating AI’s ability to perform scientific research tasks - OpenAI
- Exclusive | CEOs to Keep Spending on AI, Despite Spotty Returns - The Wall Street Journal
- What would an AI university look like and how might it change education? - Nature
- Companies getting a productivity boost from AI aren't turning around and firing workers: EY survey - Yahoo Finance
- Governor Newsom launches new initiatives to partner with tech policy experts and accelerate responsible AI in state government - California State Portal | CA.gov
- The body of AI: Power, minerals and machines - The Washington Post
- How agentic AI is helping brands elevate customer experience - The Washington Post
- Inside the AI engine powering the NBA’s next generation of insights - The Washington Post
- Psychologists are increasingly using – and worrying about – AI tools, poll finds : Shots - Health News - NPR
- AI might not be coming for lawyers’ jobs anytime soon - MIT Technology Review
- 20% of EU enterprises use AI technologies - European Commission
- Agent Lightning: Adding reinforcement learning to AI agents without code rewrites - Microsoft
- Trump picks fight with MAGA allies in issuing AI executive order - thehill.com
- Can AI read your travel vibes? This research says yes - Virginia Tech News
- RadNet: The AI Story That Doesn’t Add Up - Hunterbrook
- AI future: Big Tech faces key House vote on reforming permit process - CNBC
- Why 2026 could be the year of anti-AI marketing - CNN
- These are the key AI players on the cover of Time's 'Architects of AI' magazine - ABC News
- Church Handbook Offers Enduring Guidance on Artificial Intelligence - newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org
- Just got laid off? What you should do on this social network to get noticed
- The risks of AI toys for kids - PIRG
- Physical AI robots will automate ‘large sections’ of factory work in the next decade, Arm CEO says - Fortune
- We’re publishing an AI playbook to help others with sustainability reporting. - blog.google
- Business leaders agree AI is the future. They just wish it worked right now. - Reuters
- 2026 AI Outlook: 10 Predictions for the New Year - GovTech
- Teachers are using software to see if students used AI. What happens when it's wrong? - NPR
- Artificial Intelligence - SC Media
- BNY builds “AI for everyone, everywhere” with OpenAI - OpenAI
- The White House’s unabashed embrace of AI - Politico
- Should U.S. be worried about AI bubble? - Harvard Gazette
- Why Humanoid Robots and Embodied AI Still Struggle in the Real World - Scientific American
- Fears about AI - The Washington Post
- The Trump administration’s immigration raids are testing this sanctuary city - The Washington Post
- Review | AI makes pictures, but can it give The Rock bangs? Five bots take our image challenge. - The Washington Post
- Old meets new economy: AI boom to supercharge European banks' rally - Reuters
- Teachers are using software to see if students used AI. What happens when it's wrong?
- AI makes pictures, but can it give The Rock bangs? Five bots take our image challenge.
- E&E News: Trump goes to war with states over AI - POLITICO Pro
- AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced. - MIT Technology Review
- Pa. man sentenced to state prison after using AI to make nude photos of children - NBC10 Philadelphia
- “New Ways to Corrupt LLMs” - Marcus on AI
- Nvidia unveils new open-source AI models amid boom in Chinese offerings - Reuters
- BBVA and OpenAI Seal a Strategic Alliance to Redefine Banking with Artificial Intelligence - BBVA
- Zoom launches AI Companion 3.0 with agentic workflows, transforming conversations into action - Zoom
- Trump signs executive order curbing state regulation of AI - FedScoop
- Wall Street Sees AI Bubble Coming and Is Betting on What Pops It - Yahoo Finance
MAINSTREAM
- Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-weight MoE model with 309B total and 15B active parameters, saying it excels in reasoning, coding, and agentic scenarios (Xiaomi Mimo)
- Th3 ‘M3GAN’ Cin3matic Univ3rs3 Might B3 D3ad
- Brain-Inspired Algorithms Could Dramatically Cut AI Energy Use
- Spirit Airlines Eyes Merger With Frontier Amid Restructuring - Bloomberg.com
- Goldman Revamps Tech Banking Group as AI Infrastructure Booms - Bloomberg.com
- Gaza families struggle to recover from days of torrential rains that killed 12 people - AP News
- Hawaii is reviving a risky play to get Hawaiians into homes - AP News
- Border Patrol commander, agents reappear in force in Chicago immigrant communities - Reuters
- Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber to pay $15 million to settle US claims over flawed studies - Reuters
- Airtel Africa teams up with Starlink to launch direct-to-cell service in 14 markets - Reuters
- Sources: Waymo is in discussions to raise more than $15B at a valuation near $100B, in a round led by Alphabet; an October 2024 round valued Waymo at above $45B (Bloomberg)
- Trump’s Chief of Staff Reportedly Spouted Off About Elon Musk and Drugs to Vanity Fair
- AI Image Falsely Suggests Bondi Beach Terror Attack Was Staged
- Ken Leech Concerns Were First Raised by Junior Wamco Analyst - Bloomberg.com
- Kushner’s Affinity Withdraws From Warner Bros. Takeover Battle - Bloomberg.com
- States sue Trump administration again over billions in withheld electric vehicle charging funds - AP News
- Hyundai and Kia will repair millions of vehicles under a deal to fix anti-theft technology - AP News
- US FAA repeats warning to airlines of 'worsening security situation' when flying over Venezuela - Reuters
- Ivory Coast miners start paying higher royalties after failed resistance, sources say - Reuters
- X updates its ToS, effective January 15, 2026, to explicitly claim rights to the "Twitter" trademark after a startup filed an application to trademark the term (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based payments, raised a $107M Series B led by Goodwater Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$200M (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
- EU probes Google for "illegally" scraping the web to catch up to its AI rivals
- X updates its terms, files countersuit to lay claim to the ‘Twitter’ trademark after newcomer’s challenge
- OpenAI Defaults Free Users to Cheapest Model to Cut Back on Costs
- YouTube is letting creators make playable games with a Gemini 3 tool
- In Vanity Fair interview, top Trump aide Wiles reveals White House tensions, points to missteps - Reuters
- Dollar drops against peers after delayed U.S. data shows jobs growth - Reuters
- Exclusive: AI software startup Harness valued at $5.5 billion in latest financing round - Reuters
- The Arctic Is in Dire Straits, 20 Years of Reporting Show : The Arctic has changed dramatically in the past 20 years, a new report shows, as temperatures skyrocket and ice rapidly melts
- Scientists Devise New Plan to Study the Most Exciting Rock on Mars : New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars
- Google launches CC, an experimental AI assistant that delivers a personalized daily "Your Day Ahead" briefing email based on users' emails and calendar (Robert Hart/The Verge)
- OpenAI Just Dropped a New AI Image Model in ChatGPT to Rival Google's Nano Banana
- VW Closes German Plant for First Time Ever. Plant Will Pivot to AI Research
- DoorDash rolls out Zesty, an AI social app for discovering new restaurants
- Netflix will soon start airing video podcasts like The Breakfast Club
- Meta is rolling out Conversation Focus and AI-powered Spotify features to its smart glasses
- 2026 Grammy nominees on why power is still in the hands of real artists. Sorry, AI - Los Angeles Times
- USC starting quarterback Jayden Maiava is returning for the 2026 season - Los Angeles Times
- OpenAI’s ChatGPT Updated to Make Images Better and Faster - Bloomberg.com
- Jane Austen fans celebrate the author’s 250th birthday in Britain and beyond - AP News
- Prison health workers are among the best-paid public employees. Why are so many jobs vacant? - AP News
- EU Parliament approves deal to weaken corporate sustainability laws - Reuters
- Morgan Stanley flags slower gains for gold in 2026, sees $4,800/oz by fourth quarter - Reuters
- From trend to mainstay: AI to cement its place at the core of 2026 investment strategies - Reuters
- Adobe Wants to Make Editing AI Videos More Like Editing Real Videos
- The US threatens economic penalties against European companies like Spotify, if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants (New York Times)
- OpenAI launches FrontierScience, a benchmark to measure models' expert-level scientific reasoning with 700+ questions, finding GPT-5.2 is its strongest model (OpenAI)
- Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M (Dan Primack/Axios)
- DoorDash launches Zesty, a standalone AI-powered social app for users to find nearby restaurants, in public testing in San Francisco and New York (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
- Leona Health, maker of an AI-copilot that integrates with doctors' WhatsApp accounts in LATAM to manage patient communications, raised a $14M seed led by a16z (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
- OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
- OpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative (Financial Times)
- Source: OpenAI rolled back ChatGPT's model router, which sent some queries to reasoning models, for Free and $5/month Go tiers, as it was costly and hurt DAUs (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
- ChatGPT image generation is now faster and better at following tweaks
- Rainbow Six Mobile will finally be available in February after years of testing
- Uber Subscription Battle Escalates as 21 States and DC Join FTC Lawsuit
- OpenAI continues on its ‘code red’ warpath with new image generation model
- OpenAI hires George Osborne to spearhead global ‘Stargate’ expansion
- Google tests an email-based productivity assistant
- Family Feud at Grocery Chain Plays Out at Trial Over CEO Ouster - Bloomberg.com
- Nuclear Startup Last Raises $100 Million to Build Small Reactor - Bloomberg.com
- Customs officer at JFK airport fires his gun during a freeway fight - AP News
- AI boom seen lifting chipmaking equipment sales 9% to $126 billion in 2026 - Reuters
- EU talks to fund Ukraine with Russian assets make progress, key decisions seen Thursday - Reuters
- Wall St flat as healthcare losses offset tech gains; focus on jobs data - Reuters
- OpenAI Rolls Back ChatGPT’s Model Router System for Most Users
- Instagram unveils its first TV app, initially available on Amazon's Fire TV as a test with plans to expand to other TV platforms (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
- The First Trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Mystery UFO Movie Is Finally Here
- AirPods Might Get a Big Dose of AI
- Trump immigration raids take toll on child-care workers in California and nationwide - Los Angeles Times
- US Stocks Mixed Following Long-Awaited Jobs, Retail Data - Bloomberg.com
- Broadcom Follows Oracle in Disappointing AI-Focused Investors | Bloomberg Tech 12/12/2025 - Bloomberg.com
- US retail sales unexpectedly unchanged in October - Reuters
- Exclusive: Britain examines revamp of capital rules for likes of Citadel Securities and XTX - Reuters
- Q&A with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on founding Rivian in 2009, production challenges, the VW partnership, autonomy, AI, EVs, chips, CarPlay, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
- Sequence, which builds AI agents to automate B2B companies' revenue operations, raised a $20M Series A led by 645 Ventures, bringing its total funding to ~$40M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
- Mozilla appoints Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its CEO, after years of its for-profit arm juggling layoffs, restructuring, its Google dependence, and the AI landscape (David Pierce/The Verge)
- Anthony Joshua vs. Jake Paul Fight: When to Watch, Match Card and More Details
- Adobe Firefly's New AI Editing Tools Are a Step Toward More Precise AI Video
- India’s Digantara raises $50M for space-based missile defence tech
- Databricks raises $4B at $134B valuation as its AI business heats up
- Big rain and snow could hit California around Christmas, risking floods, landslides and snarling travel - Los Angeles Times
- Contributor: Only Los Angeles could spend $1.5 billion to make airport traffic worse - Los Angeles Times
- US Retail Sales Stagnated on Drop in Motor Vehicle Purchases - Bloomberg.com
- Chinese Portable Power Company EcoFlow Is Said to Plan US IPO - Bloomberg.com
- Intel Nears $1.6 Billion Deal for AI Chip Startup SambaNova - Bloomberg.com
- Court rules PSG must pay more than $70M to Mbappé in dispute over unpaid wages - AP News
- The US gained 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October; unemployment rate at 4.6% - AP News
- Databricks is raising a $4B Series L at a $134B valuation, up from $100B in August and $62B in December 2024, and had a $4.8B annual revenue run rate in October (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
- Interoception Is Our Sixth Sense, and It May Be Key to Mental Health : Disruptions in interoception may underlie anxiety, eating disorders, and other mental health ailments
- What Your Sleep Profile Reveals about Your Health : Psychological data and brain scans show how sleep can improve our lives, our bodies and our relationships
- Meet Your Future Robot Servants, Caregivers and Explorers : Robots are poised to play a much bigger role in daily life at home, at work and in the world
- Apple, Amazon face £900m UK legal action over alleged retail collusion
- Dubai just hosted a live, playable game of Tetris in the sky
- Has ‘Godzilla X Kong: Supernova’ Found Its Big New Villain?
- Nuclear startup Last Energy raises $100M for its steel-encased micro reactor
- The AirPods Pro 3 are $40 off right now on Amazon
- Morning Bid: Jobs news, AI blues and falling oil - Reuters
- UK launches BBC funding review, as broadcaster reels from Trump lawsuit - Reuters
- Elizabeth Warren and two Democratic senators write to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and more to investigate AI data centers' role in rising electricity costs (New York Times)
- Sources and a memo: Amazon plans to cut 370 jobs, or ~8.5% of its 4,370 employees, at its European HQ in Luxembourg, the country's biggest layoffs in 20 years (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
- VW plans to end vehicle production at its Dresden plant, which opened in 2001, and convert it into a research hub focused on AI, robotics, and chip design (Gregory Schmidt/New York Times)
- AWS CEO Matt Garman Doesn’t Think AI Should Replace Junior Devs
- Everbloom built an AI to turn chicken feathers into cashmere
- Samsung denies ending consumer SATA SSD production amid AI-driven NAND squeeze
- 5 Years Later, AirPods Max Feel as Bougie as Ever
- You Should Read This if iOS 26.2 Is Draining Your iPhone's Battery
- Solo VC and Lovable investor Neil Murray raises third Nordic-focused fund
- European defence stocks slide amid progress in Ukraine peace talks - Reuters
- Global smartphone shipments in 2026 are set to shrink 2.1% due to rising memory costs, led by Chinese OEMs; DRAM price surges are set to raise costs by 10%-15% (Counterpoint Research)
- Is OpenAI Entering Its Acquisition Era?
- CEOs Want to Keep Pouring Money Into AI, Despite Weak Returns: Survey
- This DIY PC gaming setup fires back, drenches you in rain, and knocks you off your chair
- Is the ‘Made by AI’ label pointless?
- Zelenskyy says peace proposals to end the war in Ukraine could be presented to Russia within days - AP News
- Lawmakers pull each other’s hair during Mexico City Congress session - AP News
- Trinidad and Tobago approves US military aircraft transit in airports - Reuters
- Musicians are deeply concerned about AI. So why are the major labels embracing it?
- Airbus Supplier Tells Workers Quality Fixes Are Coming - Bloomberg.com
- BAIC, Changan Auto Rise on Approval for Level 3 Driver Assist - Bloomberg.com
- Sudan once again tops International Rescue Committee crises watchlist - Reuters
- How the rise of AI has divided Hollywood, as some oppose the use of the technology while others say they are exploring ways to utilize AI tools (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
- Taiwan Reels From Political Faceoff Between President, Opponents - Bloomberg.com
- Europe to launch international commission for Ukraine war damages - Reuters
- US Capitol statue of teen civil rights leader Barbara Rose Johns to fill Robert E. Lee’s place - AP News
- UAE-backed Yemeni separatists march to another southern province, raising fears of renewed conflict - AP News
- Oil slips on Russia-Ukraine peace deal talks, weak China data - Reuters
- Philippines denounces China's 'dangerous' and 'inhumane' actions against Filipino fishermen - Reuters
- China AI chip firm Biren to launch Hong Kong IPO in coming weeks, sources say - Reuters
- Shares in Chinese companies critical to AI infrastructure surged in 2025, with CATL up 45% and Sungrow up 130%, as exports boost margins despite Trump's tariffs (William Sandlund/Financial Times)
MARKET RESEARCH
SECURITY
- Urban VPN Proxy Accused of Harvesting AI Chat Conversations
- JumpCloud Windows Agent Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation
- Hackers exploit newly patched Fortinet auth bypass flaws
- Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
- European police busts Ukraine scam call centers
- Amazon Warns Russian GRU Hackers Target Western Firms via Edge Devices
- SoundCloud breached, hit by DoS attacks
- European authorities dismantle call center fraud ring in Ukraine
- Phishing Messages and Social Scams Flood Users Ahead of Christmas
- Millions of Car Owners Hit By Credit700 Data Breach
- AI might be the answer for better phishing resilience
- The messy data trails of telehealth are becoming a security nightmare
- Cybersecurity jobs available right now: December 16, 2025
Total Sources: 525 | Generated: 12/16/2025