AI INFRASTRUCTURE
AI NEWS
- £100 contactless card limit to be lifted
- Will tech trump tradition at bakers and biscuit makers?
- TikTok owner signs deal to sell US business
- Salesforce Buys Qualified in Agentic Marketing Push
- When Asked to Generate an Alphabet Poster for Preschoolers, the Latest Version of ChatGPT Just Flails Wildly
- China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to bury their batteries.
- The Government Added a Comments Section to the Epstein Photo Dump
- Human language inspired AI—now, we can use that AI to learn about language
- Why British politicians are flocking to American tech giants
- Pickle Robot adds Tesla veteran as first CFO
- GPT-5.2 tops OpenAI's new FrontierScience test but struggles with real research problems
- Bernie Sanders Calls for Halt on Construction of New Data Centers
- AI's 2025 carbon footprint may match New York City, report estimates
- Palona goes vertical, launching Vision, Workflow features: 4 key lessons for AI builders
- Anthropic Launches Skills Open Standard for Claude
- Google Releases Gemini 3 Flash Aimed at Enterprises
- ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents
- Why it's so hard to tell if a piece of text was written by AI, even for AI
- Peripheral Labs taps into self-driving car sensors to bring sports fans right into the game
- Anthropic launches enterprise ‘Agent Skills’ and opens the standard, challenging OpenAI in workplace AI
- Prompt Engineering for Data Quality and Validation Checks
- Mistral OCR 3 promises better, cheaper document analysis
- Vibe coding app Lovable heralds the "Age of the Builder" following major financing
- Why Are We Obsessed With Aliens?
- Hosting Language Models on a Budget
- Lovable Raises $330 Mn in Series B Funding at $6.6 Bn Valuation
- India’s C-DAC Demonstrates Mobile Quantum Communication Using Drones
- OpenAI, Anthropic Announce Multiple Job Openings in India
- IN-SPACe Launches Antariksh Prayogshala to Set Up Space Labs in Academic Institutions
- OpenAI launches app store, making ChatGPT your digital assistant
- Adobe’s AI faces a copyright reality check
- Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit
- Amazon’s new Alexa+ feature adds conversational AI to Ring doorbells
- Parents told to lead by example and turn off phones this Christmas
- George Osborne has a new job in tech, and it doesn’t bode well for Britain | Chris Stokel-Walker
- Trump Media announces $6bn merger plan with fusion power company
- Facebook tests £9.99 monthly subscription for sharing more than two links
- Scientists Discover Massive Underwater Ruins That May Be a Lost City of Legend
- Logmanager Unveils a Faster and Smarter Log Management Platform
- Android Mobile Adware Surges in Second Half of 2025
- TileDB Announces Integration with Snowflake to Launch TileDB Carrara
- RIS Rx Appoints Stuart McGuigan to Board of Directors
- OptimizeRx Continues Expansion of the Company’s Point-Of-Care Network
- StorONE Announces Technology Partnership and Hardware Validation with HPE
- Fortinet and Arista Networks Announce Joint Secure AI Data Center Solution
- AVASOFT Joins the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association
- 2025 AAAI / ACM SIGAI Doctoral Consortium interviews compilation
- 5 Top AI-Powered App Builders
- The real AI revolution will be boring.
- Google’s Flash-y new Gemini 3 release
- New OpenAI platform teaches newsrooms how to use AI tools
- OpenAI reportedly seeking up to $100 billion in new funding round
- OpenAI launches app submissions and rolls out store in the new year
- Google Launches Gemini 3 Flash, Promises Faster Performance and Lower Costs
- Why Checkmarx is Building AI-led AppSec from Pune?
- With $125 Mn haul, Mythic Wants to Take on NVIDIA GPUs with 100x Energy-Efficient AI Chips
- Accenture, Palantir Expand Partnership, Launch Dedicated Biz Group
- TCS Posts $1.5 Bn AI revenue as it aims to become largest AI tech services firm
- Xiaomi Enters AI Race With Open-Source Model MiMo-V2-Flash
- Oracle Brings Oracle Database@Google Cloud to India
- Cyient Semiconductors to Acquire Majority Stake in Kinetic Technologies
- 11 Times Coding Died in 2025
- DPDP Act Exposes Shadow Data in India IT
- OpenAI Opens App Submissions for ChatGPT Integration
- AI-Led Materials Discovery Startup Novyte Materials Bags ₹4.15 Cr led by Theia Ventures
- Accenture Clocks $21 Billion in Q1 Bookings, AI Deals Fuel Growth
- India’s Data Centre Expansion Is Decentralising
- Bespin Global US Achieves AWS AI Services Competency
- Penguin Ai and FTI Unite Expertise for Next-Gen Revenue Cycle Performance
- EMASS Pushes the Edge Further with 16nm ECS-DoT
- Patronus AI Introduces Generative Simulators
- 'Personality test' shows how AI chatbots mimic human traits—and how they can be manipulated
- AI video translation shows promise but humans still hold the edge
- Can AI really help us discover new materials?
- The Download: the worst technology of 2025, and Sam Altman’s AI hype
AI RESEARCH
- The Builder’s Notes: Healthcare AI Projects That Actually Worked (And Why No One Talks About Them)
- Machine Learning Powered Naughty List: A Festive Jumping Rivers Story
- Evaluating chain-of-thought monitorability
- All You Need To Know About Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in 2025
- New method improves the reliability of statistical estimations
- Guided learning lets “untrainable” neural networks realize their potential
- How to Automate Workflows with AI
- Two Models Got the Same Accuracy. One Was Lying.
- Bonus: Incorrect Christmas Carols
- AI literacy resources for teens and parents
- Deepening our collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy
- Updating our Model Spec with teen protections
- Stop Writing Blob-Prompts: Anthropic’s XML Tags Turn Claude Into a Contract Machine
- Google DeepMind supports U.S. Department of Energy on Genesis: a national mission to accelerate innovation and scientific discovery : Google DeepMind and the DOE partner on Genesis, a new effort to accelerate science with AI.
- Addendum to GPT-5.2 System Card: GPT-5.2-Codex
- Introducing GPT-5.2-Codex
- Unlocking Matrix Secrets! Understanding Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
- From Chaos to Clarity: How We Transformed Our Retail Analytics with Power BI & Fabric
- Open models: Hot or Not with Nathan Lambert & Florian Brand
- Notion AI Is Quietly Becoming a Decision Engine, Not a Writing Tool
- Inside the AI Startup Boom: Lessons from Venture Leader Lake Dai
- Open-Source Vibe Coding Tools, Scaling AI Agents, AI Alignment, and Hackathon Winners
- Tokenization in Transformers v5: Simpler, Clearer, and More Modular
- Synthetic Psychopathology: What Psychotherapy Experiments Reveal About AI Training
- LAI #106: Choosing the Right Shape for AI Systems
- Building a Simple AI for Handwritten Digit Recognition
- 2025 Interconnects year in review
- Handling Imbalanced Data: The Complete Guide Every Data Scientist Must Know
- LLMOps Is Not MLOps: Why Your LLM Demo Broke in Production (With Real Examples)
- Stop Wasting Time: Don’t Write Your Next PRD (Do This Instead)
- Building a Robust CI/CD Pipeline: From Code to Production -Part 1
- What We Built Before LLMs — and Why Modern AI Deployments Are Failing Without It
- Why Feature Stores Failed and Why SQL Quietly Won
- Building a useAgent Hook to Stream Agent Thought, Tools, and Output | Part 3 | Building Personal…
- Overview of Ollama Architecture, Deep Dive
- The $380 Million Prompt Engineering Lie: Why “Act Like an Expert” Doesn’t Boost Accuracy
- Anyone With API Access Can Clone an AI Model and Make It Unsafe
- Google Cloud Launches Managed MCP Support
- Article: Architecture in a Flow of AI-Augmented Change
- The Sequence Opinion #774: Everything You Need to Know About Audio AI Frontier Models
- AI detects cancer but it’s also reading who you are
CLOUD AI
- Watch a podcast discussion about Gemini 3 and the future of Search.
- You can now verify Google AI-generated videos in the Gemini app.
- Bi-directional streaming for real-time agent interactions now available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
- Build and deploy scalable AI agents with NVIDIA NeMo, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands Agents
- Inside Kaggle's AI Agents intensive course with Google
CLOUD ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Announcing 176 new AWS Security Hub controls in AWS Control Tower
- Amazon EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID across its APIs
- Amazon SES announces email validation
- Amazon WorkSpaces Applications announces Elastic fleets powered by Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS
- Amazon ECS now enables you to define weekly event windows for scheduling task retirements on AWS Fargate
- AWS Clean Rooms now supports change requests for existing collaborations
- Amazon ECS Managed Instances now supports Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
- AWS IoT Core adds message batching to HTTP rule action
- Announcing 176 new AWS Security Hub in AWS Control Tower
- Amazon EC2 C8a instances now available in the Europe (Spain) region
- AWS Lambda durable functions are now available in 14 additional AWS Regions
- Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS regions
- Amazon MSK introduces KRaft support for Express Brokers with Apache Kafka v3.9
- Amazon Neptune Database is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region
- AWS Direct Connect now supports resilience testing with AWS Fault Injection Service
- Amazon WorkSpaces now supports IPv6
- Amazon MSK Connect now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity for new connectors
- AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in Sydney with AS2805 support
CLOUD BUSINESS
- Do All Your AI Workloads Actually Require Expensive GPUs?
- How Nutanix Is Taming Operational Complexity
- I changed 10 settings on my OnePlus that made the phone run blazing fast
- I ran a battery test between the best Samsung, Google, and OnePlus phones - here's the surprise winner
- I've used Linux for decades, but I'd switch to FreeBSD for this one feature
- This simple monitor trick improved my productivity tenfold - and it's free to do
- iPhone 17 Pro Max vs. Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra: I've used both phones, and this model wins
- These 7 hidden Google Pixel Watch features that I can't live without (and how to access them)
- The Smart Path to MISRA C++:2023 Compliance
- I replaced my Whoop with a new alternative that has no monthly fees - and it's legit
- LG G5 vs. LG G4: I spent hours testing both OLED TVs, and this model was the surprise winner
- Google will turn the news into a custom podcast for you - free
- 4 Data Architecture Decisions That Make or Break Agentic Systems
- Agent Skills: Anthropic’s Next Bid to Define AI Standards
- AI could spell the final end of Firefox - unless Mozilla does this
- The best MacBooks of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed
- This Samsung QLED model is the easiest TV for me to recommend in 2025 - here's why
- Claude's Skills just got easier to manage and share - here's how
- I found a worthy Chrome alternative for Android and Mac - and it has a built-in VPN
- I didn't expect a gaming laptop to replace my work PC, but this Lenovo model did
- I changed 7 settings on my Samsung phone for significantly improved battery life
- An End-to-End Cloud Native Observability Framework
- Battery problems on your Windows laptop? I always check this hidden setting first
- 5 AirPods Pro features that made me ditch my old AirPods - and how to use them
- Why upgrading to the iPhone 17 after one year made sense for a casual user like me
- 5 ways you can copy Lenovo's AI strategy to actually get real results
- Your Oura Ring data just got the Spotify Wrapped treatment - here's how to find it
- Got an old Starlink router? SpaceX will upgrade it today for free - here's how
- I tested a tiny plug-in that promises to stop electrical fires - here's my buying advice now
- Why I recommend this Lenovo laptop the most for business travel (and it's not a ThinkPad)
- Did maintainers abandon your critical open-source tool? This rescue plan offers a lifeline
- LG's new home theater systems may be the ultimate Dolby Atmos flex at CES 2026
- Is turning off Windows Security a bad idea? A PC expert's practical rule of thumb
- The internet in 2025: Bigger, more fragile than ever - and 'fundamentally rewired' by AI
- Are these the best-sounding $50 earbuds I've tried? My answer was clear within minutes
- Laptop battery dying too soon? How to check its health in one click
- I thought 16-inch laptops were excessive for work travel, but this model is a big exception
- LG's first Micro RGB TV arrives ahead of CES 2026, and it's already turning heads
CLOUD SECURITY
- NDSS 2025 – PhantomLiDAR: Cross-Modality Signal Injection Attacks Against LiDAR
- 2025 Magic Quadrant for Email Security – What Gartner Said (and What it Means)
- TruffleNet and Cloud Abuse at Scale: An Identity Architecture Failure
- The Power of Large Language Models for Cybersecurity
- What the Latest OpenAI Security Breach Reveals About the State of AI Protection
- Agentic AI Security: New Dynamics, Trusted Foundations
- What’s Powering Enterprise AI in 2025: ThreatLabz Report Sneak Peek
- AI Security Governance: Your Maturity Multiplier
- Governance Maturity Is Strongest Predictor of AI Readiness and Responsible Innovation, According to Study from Cloud Security Alliance and Google Cloud
- 2026 Cyber Predictions: Accelerating AI, Data Sovereignty, and Architecture Rationalization
CLOUD TECHNICAL
- Built CLI Tools to Browse AI Coding Assistant Logs (Claude Code & Codex CLI)
- Why I ditched cloud scrapers and built a local-first Reddit tool
- It shows how to use Nano Banan Pro to create images that use Google Search for fact-checking, and shows AI thinks after understanding the user prompt and to deliver an image that meets the requirement.
- How to Analyze AI Agent Traces Like a Detective
- Go vs Python on AWS Lambda: a practical Terraform shootout (with Function URLs)
- Azure updates for partners: December 2025
- Microsoft named a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms
- Agentic RAG: Letting LLMs Choose What to Retrieve
- Deploying a Machine Learning Model to AWS SageMaker Complete Guide - PART 01
- Why Your Model is Failing (Hint: It’s Not the Architecture)
- Why I Wrote AI Coding Guidelines and You Should Too
- IAM Roles, Temporary Credentials & Alerting - AWS Well-Architected Framework (Security Pillar)
- How Google Public Sector and Google DeepMind can power the Genesis Mission and a new era of scientific discovery : The White House's Genesis Mission has set a bold ambition for our nation: to double our scientific productivity within the decade and harness artifici...
- Terraform with AWS- Day1: Why Terraform Matters & How It Really Works
- A Complete Architecture Guide for RAG + Agent Systems
- TrueFoundry vs Bifrost: Why We Chose Specialization Over an All-in-One MLOps Platform
- Best LiteLLM Alternative in 2025: Why Teams Are Switching to Bifrost
- Achieve near-100% accurate text-to-SQL for your agentic apps : Today’s AI capabilities provide a great opportunity to enable natural language (NL) interactions with your enterprise data through applications using ...
- [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Blob-to-Blob migration made simple with Azure Storage Mover
- [Launched] Generally Avaailable: Azure SQL updates for early December 2025
- From Reviewer to Architect: Escaping the AI Verification Trap
- How Students Will Study in 2026: An AI Study Partner Workflow from Morning to Night
- The Squeezing Effect: Why Your Aligned AI Model Gets Worse
- Agent Development in Hours, Not Weeks: Accelerating with Gemini 3 and Google ADK
- Turning AI Proofs of Concept into Production Ready Systems for Mid Sized Australian Firms
- Built an MCP server for .NET developers working with AI
- Announcing advanced governance capabilities for Vertex AI Agent Builder : At Google Cloud, we continue to make critical investments to Vertex AI Agent Builder , our comprehensive and open platform, enabling you to build fast...
- Deep dive: Streamlining GitOps with Amazon EKS capability for Argo CD
- Explain your code!
- Polly – Amazon Polly Convert Text into Natural Speech Using AWS
- 🔧 AWS IoT Jobs: Automating Secure Device Management at Scale
- Bifrost: The LLM Gateway That's 40x Faster Than LiteLLM
- Integrate Monetzly SDK for Effortless AI Monetization Strategies
- Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
- Azure DevOps Pipelines
- AWS open source newsletter, #217
- Top 5 AI Gateways for 2026: Building Reliable Multi-Provider AI Infrastructure
- Beyond AI Why Data Center Stability Is the Competitive Advantage of 2026
DEVOPS
- The mentorship flywheel: How CNCF is growing the next generation of cloud native leaders
- Making the Case for AI in Testing, Security and Delivery—Not Just Coding
- Cilium releases 2025 annual report: A decade of cloud native networking
- Checkmarx Acquisition of Tromzo Accelerates Plan to Apply AI to Application Security
ENTERPRISE TECH
- All change! The website still matters, but you'll need to re-think it for the AI era : In 2026, brands face a design and content paradox with the website. A conversation with Amanda Cole, CMO, and Meera Murthy, GM & VP of Product at ...
- diginomica’s 2025 digital careers report - cautious hiring gives way to year-end momentum as AI skills drive demand : Buffeted by macro-economics, it has not been an easy year for digital leaders looking for a new role, but there has been some really positive action
- HCM for the AI age at Fujitsu - why human intelligence still comes first : Get the people side right and the tech transformation can follow...
- The industrial AI revolution is here - are leaders ready to deliver? : The challenge isn’t AI adoption, it’s leadership execution, writes Matt Breslin of IFS. Realizing AI’s full potential requires agile, strategic leader...
- AI and copyright – why do UK industry bodies re-cycle discredited claims when even the US authorities disagree? : Anyone seeking fresh insights on AI and copyright from the tech sector during the House of Lords Inquiry would have been disappointed this month. So, ...
FINANCIAL
- GOP Rep. Reiterates Support For Strikes In Venezuela To Oust Maduro: 'Like I Support Strikes Against Al-Qaeda'
- Stephen Miller's Push Against Mexican Cartels Laid the Groundwork for Caribbean Boat Strikes: Report
- TikTok signs agreement to create new U.S. joint venture, memo says
- Instacart to pay $60 million to settle FTC claims it deceived customers
- TikTok agrees to new joint U.S. venture - Bloomberg
- Donald Trump Claims Don Jr's Fiancée Bettina Anderson Knows How To 'Be Subordinate'
- China Condemns U.S. 'Bullying' Over Venezuela Oil Blockade, Makes No Aid Commitments
- Trump Admin Warns of 'Severe Consequences' After South Africa Briefly Detains U.S. Officials in Refugee Operation
- US Arms Sale to Taiwan of $11B Sparks China Fury, Beijing Vows to Take 'Necessary Measures'
- Bridgeline Digital GAAP EPS of -$0.03, revenue of $3.9M
- Blackberry Non-GAAP EPS of $0.05 beats by $0.01, revenue of $141.8M beats by $4.26M
- Accenture to explore partnership with U.S. Energy Department on AI-focused Genesis Mission
- Trump's $11B Arms Deal With Taiwan to Include Highly Coveted American Missile
- Symbolor AI: Thoughtful Design for Navigating Modern Financial Markets
- Rewriting the Rules of Code: loveholidays Validates that AI Scale Doesn't Have to Result in Technical Debt
- Rescue Is Not Enough: Why Ending Human Trafficking Requires Sustainable Aftercare
- Prosperity Is More Than Wealth: There Is a Path Forward, and the West's Biblical Foundations Help Explain Why
- Amazon, Google, Microsoft partner with US Energy Department to drive innovations through 'Genesis Mission'
- Legislation aimed at easing AI infrastructure permitting passes House
- AltiGen Communications GAAP EPS of $0.01, revenue of $3.47M
- House passes bill to ease permits for building out AI infrastructure
- Crucial Proposal Inside Ukraine Peace Plan Now 'Dead', Top Putin Ally Declares
- Hut 8's deal with Anthropic, FluidStack and Google sets 'high water mark': Morgan Stanley
- Tech Voices: Lagarde on EU's AI boost, Lovable gets Mag 7 backing
- Jim Cramer urges discipline as Wall Street gets more bullish on GE Vernova
- Micron stock pops 12% as AI memory demand soars: 'We are more than sold out'
- Visa says new AI shopping tool has helped customers with hundreds of transactions
- Core Scientific upgraded to Market Perform at Citizens on HPC growth
- Maduro Says Venezuela Will Continue Trading Oil Despite U.S. Blockade, Claims Trump Won't Achieve Regime Change
- Nvidia announces RTX PRO 5000 72GB Blackwell GPU is 'generally available'
- Micron's stellar results provide lift across semiconductor sector
- Neural Concept raises $100M to scale AI-native engineering
- Russia Cautions U.S. About Making a 'Fatal Mistake' In Military Campaign Against Venezuela
- Cognizant partners with Microsoft to empower enterprises with AI
- Intuit to use Circle Internet, USDC infrastructure across its platform
- Google, Nvidia's VC units back Lovable's $330M funding round at $6.6B valuation
- Trump Dementia Fears: POTUS Sparks Alarm After 'Incoherent' National Address Claims
- Cybersecurity platformers dominate 2025, but Morgan Stanley says others have opportunity in 2026
- Google and Nvidia VC arms back vibe coding startup Lovable at $6.6 billion valuation
- Applied Digital among top S&P 500 gainers after securing loan for new AI data center projects
- Micron surges on AI demand, 'memory supercycle'; analysts highlight historic margin guidance
- SEALSQ in focus as Cantor Fitzgerald starts coverage with Overweight rating
- Onsemi, GlobalFoundries partner to develop 650V GaN power devices
- Immortality by 2039? — Man Goes Viral For His Claim Backed by AI
- Meta's Big AI Bet Hits Turbulence as Alexdanr Wang Critiques Mark Zuckerberg's Leadership
- AI-Invested Pension Holders Might Feel Wary as Nvidia Director Dumps $44M, Stoking AI Bubble Fears
- Rob Reiner's Millions: Expert Explains If Son Nick Can Inherit While Facing Murder Charges
- Donald Trump Condemned for Installing Derogatory Plaques Beneath Former Presidents' Portraits at the White House
- Qatar AI Push Relies on Low-Cost Electricity as Long-Term Economic Risks Mount
- Destinus raises €50M facility to expand autonomous flight production
- Exein raises an additional €100M to expand its embedded cybersecurity platform
- Enlightra exits stealth with $15M to power energy-efficient AI data centre lasers
- Lovable raises $330M at a $6.6B valuation to turn non-developers into software builders
- Trump defends economy, CPI report returns, monster Medline IPO, and more in Morning Squawk
- Anthropic, OpenAI looking for more office space in Dublin to expand in Europe: report
- Actelis Networks announces pricing of $5M capital raise via securities offering
- Qualcomm completes $2.4B deal to acquire AlphaWave Semi
- Apple plans to expand ads in App Store search results next year
- Apple announces iOS app changes in Japan to comply with Mobile Software Competition Act
- Cambium Networks CFO John Waldron resigns; company secures Nasdaq minimum bid price compliance
- Accenture dips despite Q1 beat, Q2 revenue outlook below estimates
- Apple's foldable iPhone could face shortages early on, analyst says
- Biggest stock movers Thursday: MU, LULU and more
- CNBC Daily Open: Oracle's debt seems to be affecting data center funding
- DMG Blockchain Solutions GAAP EPS of -$0.05, revenue of $47.34M
- Apple releases open source SHARP AI model that turns single photo into 3D scene in under 1 second
- LM Funding America adds 35 PH/s at Oklahoma bitcoin mining site
GENERAL US
- Maryland takes next step toward redistricting, but roadblocks remain - The Washington Post
- The race for an AI Jesus is on - The Economist
- Deepening our collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy - OpenAI
- NVIDIA, US Government to Boost AI Infrastructure and R&D Investments Through Landmark Genesis Mission - NVIDIA Blog
- AI audiobooks have come to Libby; here's how to spot them - Mashable
- Inside Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive Course with Google - blog.google
- House passes bill to ease permits for building out AI infrastructure - CNBC
- Visa says new AI shopping tool has helped customers with hundreds of transactions - CNBC
- NPS Launches New Master’s in Artificial Intelligence Focused on Warfighter Needs - navy.mil
- AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals - Rolling Stone
- What Are 3 of the Best AI Stocks to Hold for the Next 10 Years? - Yahoo Finance
- We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars. - The Wall Street Journal
- Researchers Discover Bias in AI Models That Analyze Pathology Samples - Harvard Medical School
- Billionaire AI Brain Rot - Medium
- Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company that wants to power AI - The Washington Post
- AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims - The Guardian
- Behind the Deal That Took Disney From AI Skeptic to OpenAI Investor - The Wall Street Journal
- AI is creating more work, countering the doomers for now - Axios
- Simple tricks to spot AI-generated videos in your social media feed - NPR
- Detection of undiagnosed liver cirrhosis via AI-enabled electrocardiogram: a pragmatic, cluster-randomized clinical trial - Nature
- Pentagon AI chief departing to work on Golden Dome effort - DefenseScoop
- NIST adds to AI security guidance with Cybersecurity Framework profile - Cybersecurity Dive
- UK to ban deepfake AI 'nudification' apps
- CWG Live: Rain and strong winds late tonight into Friday, then seesawing temperatures - The Washington Post
- AI Saves Workers Less Than an Hour Each Day, Recent OpenAI Report Finds - CNET
- 1 Unstoppable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock You'll Want to Own Next Year - The Motley Fool
- The surprising truth about AI’s impact on jobs - CNN
- How Agents Are Accelerating the Next Wave of AI Value Creation - Boston Consulting Group
- Asian shares follow Wall Street lower as AI worries drag tech stocks lower - The Washington Post
- Analysis | Dolphins appear done with Tua Tagovailoa. But his contract complicates things. - The Washington Post
- Thursday briefing: Trump’s White House address; Vanity Fair photos; Dan Bongino; Alzheimer’s tests; and more - The Washington Post
- 3 obstacles to agentic AI adoption and how to overcome them - The World Economic Forum
- Senators ask AI companies for safety disclosures after teen suicides - NBC News
- Personal Perspective: The inversion of intelligence in the world of AI. - Psychology Today
- 32.7% of EU people used generative AI tools in 2025 - European Commission
- Gemini 3 Flash is rolling out globally in Google Search - blog.google
- 3 No-Brainer Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks to Buy for 2026 With $200 Right Now - The Motley Fool
- Artificial intelligence solutions - GE HealthCare
- Want an AI job at Treasury? Write a 10-page analysis of ‘Great Gatsby’ - Government Executive
- Introducing Gemini 3 Flash: Intelligence and speed for enterprises - Google Cloud
- Introducing Cisco’s Integrated AI Security and Safety Framework - Cisco Blogs
- One in three using AI for emotional support and conversation, UK says
MAINSTREAM
- Mistral launches Mistral OCR 3, featuring improvements in processing forms, scanned documents, complex tables, and handwriting, priced at $2 per 1,000 pages (Mistral AI)
- YouTube bans two popular channels that created fake AI movie trailers
- Steam Winter Sale discounts Clair Obscur, Silent Hill f and more
- Apple Plans OLED iMac Upgrade, but the Wait Could Be Long
- YouTube Boots 2 Channels for Posting Fake AI Film Trailers
- OpenAI Has Declared ‘Code Red’ Multiple Times, Executive Says - Bloomberg.com
- Illinois panel’s first meeting over federal misconduct focuses on chemical agents - AP News
- Ukraine-US fund approves investment policies as it eyes first projects in 2026 - Reuters
- Sources: Meta is developing a new image and video-focused AI model codenamed Mango, expected to be released in H1 2026 along with its new LLM dubbed Avocado (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
- Memo: the TikTok US deal is set to close on Jan. 22; terms include retraining the recommendation algorithm on US user data and Oracle overseeing data protection (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
- Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20% (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- Sources: OpenAI's new fundraising round could value it at as much as $830B; it aims to raise up to $100B and complete the round by the end of Q1 at the earliest (Wall Street Journal)
- LLMs’ impact on science: Booming publications, stagnating quality
- School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn’t an error.
- OpenAI Is Going Into the New Year With Some Real Loser Energy
- World-Beating 55,000% Surge in India AI Stock Fuels Bubble Fears - Bloomberg.com
- NY-NJ Commuters Will See PATH Train Fares Jump to $4 by 2029 - Bloomberg.com
- Judge dismisses complaint against Miami land transfer for Trump’s presidential library - AP News
- A bag, a hoagie and a long wait for a ruling: What we learned at Luigi Mangione’s pretrial hearing - AP News
- Lawmakers raise concerns about Echostar deals to sell wireless spectrum to AT&T, SpaceX - Reuters
- UK actors vote to reject digital scans in AI rights push, echoing Hollywood battles - Reuters
- US Energy Department taps Big Tech for AI-powered research push - Reuters
- YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
- In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)
- Sources: Salient, which uses AI to automate loan servicing, raised $10M following a $60M Series A in June, pushing its valuation to ~$500M; its ARR hit $25M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
- AirTags are back on sale, with a four-pack retailing for $65
- If You Haven't Watched The Jonas Brothers Christmas Movie on Disney Plus, What Are You Waiting For?
- ChatGPT launches an app store, lets developers know it’s open for business
- Instacart to pay $60M to settle FTC claims it deceived consumers
- Ukraine Agrees to Swap GDP Warrants Into Bonds With Creditors - Bloomberg.com
- Trump touts 'historic' progress, rants against Democrats in politically-charged national address - AP News
- Thailand conference launches international initiative to fight online scams - AP News
- Crunch EU summit discusses using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine - Reuters
- OpenAI releases GPT‑5.2-Codex, with improvements on long-horizon work through context compaction, stronger performance on large code changes, and more (OpenAI)
- Sources: Armadin, launched by Mandiant's founder Kevin Mandia to fight AI hacking, raised a $24M seed and is in talks to raise $100M+ at a $600M+ valuation (Wall Street Journal)
- The New ‘Odyssey’ Poster Throws a Bone to All Those Armor Complaints
- Unprecedented Image Shows 2 Protoplanets Smashing Into Each Other, Forming Giant Dust Cloud
- Most CEOs are ready to spend even more on AI in 2026 despite no clear path to ROI
- ChatGPT’s mobile app hits new milestone of $3B in consumer spending
- Dallas Raines, dean of L.A. weather, predicts more forecasts - Los Angeles Times
- EDF Raises Budget for New French Nuclear Plants to €73 Billion - Bloomberg.com
- Turkey warns Russia and Ukraine over Black Sea security after shooting down drone - AP News
- Kremlin envoy set to visit Miami for talks on US peace plan for Ukraine - AP News
- ICC calls US sanctions 'flagrant attack' against court's independence - Reuters
- Russia jails man for 22 years for blowing up trains in Siberia at Ukraine's behest - Reuters
- Trail Camera Captures Elusive ‘Fisher’ in Ohio County for First Time Since 1800s
- Trump Administration Moves to Severely Curtail Access to Gender-Affirming Care for Minors : Health officials on Thursday announced a slew of measures that will restrict access to gender-affirming health care for transgender young people in th...
- Twenty-four companies, including Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and AWS, join the US Genesis Mission to boost the use of AI for scientific discovery (Courtney Subramanian/Bloomberg)
- Sources describe tensions between OpenAI's research and ChatGPT product groups, leading to the "code red"; OpenAI is set to beat its 2025 revenue goal of $13B (The Information)
- Anthropic launches Agent Skills, which let AI assistants perform specialized tasks using modular instructions, and says Microsoft, Cursor, and others use them (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
- Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised a $100M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up from $830M in March (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
- Netflix hires ESPN anchor Elle Duncan as its first on-air host for live sports and cultural events; she has appeared on SportsCenter, College GameDay, and more (Todd Spangler/Variety)
- We Had a Poke Around ChatGPT's New App Store. Here's What We Found
- Global DRAM shortage squeezes OEMs, but PC retail prices remain stable for now
- The AI adoption race in the workplace is on
- These 21-year-old dropouts raised $2M to build Givefront, a fintech for nonprofits
- What the Chevron fire tells us about failures in air quality monitoring - Los Angeles Times
- AI Startup Edison Raises $70 Million to Speed Up Scientific Research - Bloomberg.com
- Indonesian court sentences an Australian to 12 years in prison for smuggling cocaine to Bali - AP News
- Rain creates a crimson spectacle on Iran’s Hormuz Island for the first time this year - AP News
- US jobless claim applications fell by 13,000 last week as layoffs remain low - AP News
- Multiple deaths reported in fiery business jet crash at regional airport in North Carolina - AP News
- No evidence alleged Bondi gunmen received military training in the Philippines, says security adviser - Reuters
- China says arms trade with Cambodia, Thailand unrelated to border conflict - Reuters
- Return of 'Make Europe Great Again' trades hinges on German comeback - Reuters
- Japan to raise tax-free income threshold to ease inflation squeeze - Reuters
- The Ultra-Realistic AI Face Swapping Platform Driving Romance Scams
- Edison, which last month released AI tool Kosmos to speed up and automate complex scientific hypothesis generation, raised $70M at a $250M valuation (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
- Endra, whose AI tools automate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings, raised a $20M seed led by Notion (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
- ‘Evangelion’ Will Briefly Return Again for a New 30th Anniversary Short Film
- ASML's most advanced EUV machine is now central to Intel's comeback strategy
- The New ‘Anaconda’ Trailer Gives Us Our First Look at Ice Cube’s Return
- No keynotes, no BS — why this year’s best tech talks happened over cocktails at StrictlyVC
- US Unemployment Claims Settle Back After Prior Week’s Jump - Bloomberg.com
- Private Equity Is Ruining a Beloved Fly-Fishing Brand, Retailers Say - Bloomberg.com
- Burkina Faso releases Nigerian air force crew detained after emergency landing - AP News
- In rare ruling, EU’s top court sides with refugee’s appeal in a landmark case against Frontex - AP News
- Along the Texas Coast, a new sanctuary aims to protect the endangered and rare whooping crane - AP News
- EU leaders to propose Ukraine reparations loan using Russia's frozen assets under conditions - draft document - Reuters
- EU leaders think it is fair to use Russian assets for Ukraine, Polish PM says - Reuters
- Exclusive: Russia orders Russian Railways to sell $2.4 billion Moscow Towers to pay debts, three sources say - Reuters
- Sarajevo takes steps on air quality after most-polluted city ranking - Reuters
- UPS company deploys AI to spot fakes amid surge in holiday returns - Reuters
- Luma AI launches Ray3 Modify, which allows users to modify existing footage by providing character reference images; users can also define start and end frames (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
- Vibe-coding startup Lovable raises $330M at a $6.6B valuation
- Luma releases a new AI model that lets users generate a video from a start and end frame
- Lufthansa Lands $400 Million Windfall 747 Sale to US Air Force - Bloomberg.com
- Ken Griffin's Citadel Plans Dubai Office in Boost for City’s Hedge Fund Hope - Bloomberg.com
- US Approves $11 Billion Arms Sale to Taiwan, Risking China Anger - Bloomberg.com
- Ares Makes $700 Million Bet on AI With Virginia Buying Spree - Bloomberg.com
- China says it is granting new, streamlined rare earth export licences - Reuters
- Britain to overhaul benchmark rules to cut industry burden - Reuters
- UK actors vote to refuse to be digitally scanned in pushback against AI
- Character From the Catastrophic McDonald’s AI Ad Come Back to Haunt Fast Food Chain
- Indian WhatsApp tutors are teaching ordinary people how to use AI
- North Korean hackers stole a record $2.02B in crypto in 2025, a 51% YoY rise that takes its cumulative stolen total to $6.75B; individual wallet hacks hit 158K (Chainalysis)
- Stockholm-based vibe coding startup Lovable raised $330M led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures at a $6.6B valuation, up from $1.8B after raising $200M in July (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
- Documents: OpenAI has sold 700K+ ChatGPT licenses to ~35 US public universities for students and faculty, who used it 14M+ times in September, beating Copilot (Bloomberg)
- An in-depth look at a recent research paper that offered a roadmap to the viability of 3D HBM-on-GPU integration for improved AI performance and utilization (Gavin Bonshor/More Than Moore)
- Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M (Justine Calma/The Verge)
- UK AI Security Institute report: AI models are rapidly improving at potentially dangerous biological and chemical tasks, and show fast jumps in self-replication (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
- Sources: Yann LeCun is in early talks to raise €500M for his startup at a ~€3B valuation, and plans to name Alexandre LeBrun as CEO, ahead of a January launch (Financial Times)
- Rome-based Exein, which offers cybersecurity tools for protecting connected devices including cars and home routers, raised €100M led by Blue Cloud Ventures (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
- 10 Mind-Blowing Brain Discoveries from 2025 : From glowing neurons to newborn memories, here are the most fascinating brain discoveries of 2025
- FCC Chairman Brendan Carr tells a Senate committee the FCC "is not an independent agency"; the agency removed "independent agency" from its site as he testified (Axios)
- Imprint, which helps retailers like Brooks Brothers offer co-branded credit cards and manage loyalty programs, raised $150M led by Khosla at a $1.2B valuation (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
- Toast creates 120 Dublin jobs for AI innovation in restaurant management
- Imprint becomes latest Irish-founded unicorn with $150m Series D raise
- Coursera to boost workforce training capabilities with Udemy acquisition
- Bloomberg: OpenAI, Anthropic to expand Dublin office space
- AI Health Coaches: The Next Frontier in Wearables or Privacy Nightmare?
- OpenAI just launched an app store inside ChatGPT
- The AirPods Pro 3 are back on sale for a record low of $199
- Tencent's Horizon clone Light of Motiram pulled from Steam and Epic after Sony lawsuit ends
- Tramell Tillman’s ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Character May Have Been Revealed
- The best AirPods for 2026
- The FTC is reportedly investigating Instacart over its AI pricing tool
- Ultrahuman brings snoring detection and respiratory health tracking to the Ring Air
- If AI is coming for junior lawyers’ jobs, why does their pay keep going up?
- Meta’s LeCun targets €3bn valuation for AI start-up
- Two views of AI and Big Tech
- ‘Uniquely evil’: Michigan residents fight against huge data center backed by top tycoons
- After Palisades failures, is LAFD prepared for the next major wildfire? - Los Angeles Times
- Senators dig into FCC chairman’s role in Jimmy Kimmel controversy - Los Angeles Times
- Ares Backs Dubai Multifamily Office in Gulf Private Credit Push - Bloomberg.com
- Russian Court Orders Raiffeisen to Pay €339 Million in Damages - Bloomberg.com
- Takeda’s AI-Developed Psoriasis Pill Succeeds in Clinical Trials - Bloomberg.com
- Belgium Faces Pressure to Back Ukraine Loan or Be Outvoted - Bloomberg.com
- Portion Control Is Coming to the AI Bond Market - Bloomberg.com
- OpenAI Inks Deals With Colleges, Seizing Early Lead in Education Market - Bloomberg.com
- Rwanda-backed M23 rebels claim withdrawal from Uvira as peace talks struggle - AP News
- World shares are mixed after AI worries drag Wall Street tech stocks lower - AP News
- Russia wants to drain Europe's security resources with sabotage campaign, officials say - AP News
- China voices support for Venezuela amid US blockade, but makes no aid pledges - Reuters
- Ukraine says 180,000 consumers were left without power after Russian overnight attack - Reuters
- Stocks recover from AI-led bruising; central banks in focus - Reuters
- Breakingviews - Larry Ellison’s AI war tactics will backfire - Reuters
- US admits liability in fatal helicopter crash with American Airlines jet - Reuters
- Indian shares close lower after struggling for direction; IT gains cap losses - Reuters
- Nvidia settles trade-secret lawsuit over driving assistance technology - Reuters
- US software firm Freshworks eyes acquisitions with $800 million cash pile, AI in focus - Reuters
- AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims
- Third of UK citizens have used AI for emotional support, research reveals
- Fake Minns, altered images and psyop theories: Bondi attack misinformation shows AI’s power to confuse
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- Concentric AI expands Private Scan Manager with Azure support for regulated industries
- Should AI access be treated as a civil right across generations?
- HMRC Warns of Over 135,000 Scam Reports
- New BeaverTail Malware Variant Linked to Lazarus Group
- North Korea Steals Over $2bn in Crypto in 2025
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