AI NEWS
- Meta brings Segment Anything to audio, letting editors pull sounds from video with a click or text prompt
- Storytelling is an ancient human art, not a corporate invention | Letters
- Coforge to Acquire Encora in $2.35 Bn All-Stock Mega Deal to Strengthen AI Engineering
- This tiny chip could change the future of quantum computing
- AI Code Is a Bug-Filled Mess
- DarLink Image Generator Review: Pricing Structure and Key Features
- DarLink Chatbot Access, Pricing, and Feature Overview
- AI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025
- The best of: First Dog on the Moon cartoons 2025 | First Dog on the Moon
- Behind the Blog: We Have Recommendations For You
- 5 Fun Docker Projects for Absolute Beginners
- Anthropic's AI kiosk agent bought a PlayStation 5, ordered a live fish, and drove itself to bankruptcy
- Infosys To Offer ₹21 lakh CTC For Freshers With Specialised Skills
- Report: SoftBank scrambles to find $22.5B for OpenAI before the end of the year
- Faster agents, bigger blast radius: Why agent governance is the new control plane for resilience
- MiniMax releases M2.1 AI model for multi-language programming versatility
- Instacart shuts down dynamic AI pricing experiments following scrutiny of its tests
- Lemon Slice launches with $10.5M seed round to scale real-time interactive AI avatars
- Kargo closes on $42M funding round to automate loading dock and warehouse operations
- Dazzle, a new AI startup led by Marissa Mayer, raises $8M
- DP Technology raises $114M to accelerate China’s AI for science industry
- Anthropic makes agent Skills an open standard
- Report: OpenAI explores ways to make money from ChatGPT with conversational ads
- Beyond SEO: How AI engine optimization is changing the equation in online visibility
- OpenAI’s GPT-5.2-Codex advances software engineering with better reasoning and context understanding
- AI-aided design software startup Neural Concept raises $100M to accelerate product engineering
- Investors can’t get enough of OpenAI and Databricks — Oracle, not so much
- Endra secures $20M to automate mechanical, electrical and plumbing design for construction
- How Google Cloud is shaping the enterprise AI inference moment
- Cursor acquires AI code review startup Graphite
- Why Nvidia maintains its moat and Gemini won’t kill OpenAI
- Anthropic announces Bloom, an open-source tool for researchers evaluating AI behavior
- Sigma launches privacy-focused AI-native browser with local LLM
- Incident remediation startup Resolve AI reportedly valued at $1B in new funding round
- From pilots to production: How agentic AI is reshaping enterprise supply chains
- Ankar raises $20M to expand AI-powered patent operating system
- Compute-in-memory chip startup Mythic raises $125M round
- Oracle spooks the stock market after key partner refuses to fund $10B Michigan data center project
- Patronus AI’s debuts Generative Simulators to support continuous evolution and improvement of AI agents
- AI-native trucking insurance startup Nirvana Tech bags $100M late-stage round
- University of Michigan partners with Google Cloud to prepare students for an AI-driven workforce
- AI coding startup Lovable raises $330M round backed by Nvidia, other tech heavyweights
- Edison Scientific raises $70M to build autonomous AI scientists for research
- New benchmark shows LLMs still can't do real scientific research
- Linux Foundation’s Safe Harbour for the Agentic AI Era
- Children Falling Apart as They Become Addicted to AI
- The paints, coatings, and chemicals making the world a cooler place
- Why India Still Doesn’t Have Its Own Database Company
- Mangaluru’s Cost Advantages Make it an Ideal Data Centre Hub: KDEM–SBP–Deloitte Study
- How to end AI hallucinations
- ChatGPT's market share falls to 68 percent as Gemini closes in
- The Most Dangerous Person on Your Team is "Dave" (And He Just Quit)
- The Workplace as an Ethical Laboratory. Social and Emotional Experience as the Ground of Ethics
- Adapting to AI: Insights from a Project Manager in Game Development
- What I Learned Building a Food Delivery Analytics Tool with AI
- Groq’s Deterministic Architecture is Rewriting the Physics of AI Inference
- From Karnataka to Gujarat, How States’ Startup Policies in 2025 Revved Up Innovation
- These 8 Tier-2,3 Cities Powered India’s Startup Growth in 2025
- Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck
AI TOOLS
CLOUD ANNOUNCEMENTS
CLOUD BUSINESS
- How To Accelerate Growth With AI-Powered Smart APIs
- Four Data Infrastructure Shifts Defining AI Success in 2026
- Java Developers Get Multiple Paths To Building AI Agents
- Securing Legacy Android Apps: Modern Encryption Practices
- My 11 favorite Linux distributions of all time, ranked
- Monitor Your Servers With Free Uptime Kuma Container
- Pinecone scales its vector database to support more demanding workloads
- Investing analytics software maker Clearwater agrees to be taken private in $8.4B deal
- Palo Alto Networks inks multibillion-dollar AI deal with Google Cloud
- Nutanix broadens sovereign cloud support
- Docker makes its entire catalog of security-hardened container images free for everyone
- Port nets $100M to turn its developer portal into an agentic AI hub
- Shares of Oracle slide 10% on revenue miss and rising capital expenditures
- Name.com expands API integrations across Netlify, Replit, Vercel and Bolt
- Spare Tire raises $3M to save healthcare organizations from document downtime
- Salesforce’s AI bets gain momentum, but overall growth remains sluggish
- Sovereign cloud emerges as a defining force in modern AI adoption, says Greylock’s Jerry Chen
- Cloud backup startup Eon raises $300M at $4B valuation
- AWS and Google Cloud partner on faster multicloud connectivity
- AWS unveils EKS capabilities to reinvent Kubernetes operations as AI workloads surge
- Akamai acquires WebAssembly function-as-a-service startup Fermyon
- HCLSoftware to acquire Jaspersoft for reported $240M
- Snowflake reportedly seeking to acquire observability startup Observe for $1B
- AtScale raises funding round led by Snowflake Ventures
- Couchbase puts AI data and services into a single platform to simplify agent development
- TransUnion improves device detection to counter rising fraud threats
- Channel3 raises $6M to make every product sold on the web discoverable by AI agents
- Snowflake Ventures invests in data trust startup Ataccama to boost agentic reliability
- Salesforce defines Informatica’s role in unified data strategy
- IBM will acquire Confluent to address growing needs for real-time data in AI models
- Prophecy accelerates data pipeline construction with quick-start AI agents
- Snowflake’s stock slips on slowing sales as it expands Anthropic deal
- MongoDB rallies on better-than-expected earnings and raised full-year outlook
- 8 ways to get more iPhone storage today - and most are free
- Unplugging these 7 common household devices easily reduced my electricity bill
- Oura Ring 3 vs Oura Ring 4: I've tested both smart rings, and the winner is not so obvious
- The best 98-inch TVs of 2025: Cinema-sized and expert tested
- These OnePlus earbuds transported me from my noisy commute, but the price is more wild
- One of the best TVs we lab-tested this year is still one of the most affordable
- This smart calendar brought order to my family's busy schedule, and I can't go back
- How AI could close the education inequality gap - or widen it
CLOUD TECHNICAL
- End-to-End Microservices Deployment on AWS EKS: CI/CD with Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes & Argo CD
- Managing high volumes in cloud environments
- Sketch‑Programming (LLM Transpiler) — what is it?
- 🧠 Building a Conversational Chatbot with AWS Bedrock (Amazon Titan)
- STEP 2: Automating Docker Build & Push with GitHub Actions
- Configurando um Ambiente de Desenvolvimento WordPress com DDEV (Docker) — rápido, padronizado e sem dor de cabeça
- Scale by Subtraction: An Engineering Leader’s View on Practical AI
- Understanding Gradients: The Engine Behind Neural Network Learning
- The Multiplier Is the Job Now: Why Agentic AI Changes Everything
- 🔥 1. Agentic AI Goes Mainstream
- JSON vs YAML vs TOML: Which Configuration Format Should You Use in 2026?
- Invoicing Tool To Get Paid In Bitcoin (No Fees, No KYC)
- Independent Vendor Shops Explained: Dark Web Commerce Without Marketplaces
- Automating Hazard Detection: An AI-Powered Robotics Case Study
- I built a BYOK AI chatbot platform - here's why transparency beats convenience
- The Importance of Fairness in AI Product Design
- How I Became 2x AWS Certified in Less Than a Month
- I built a free AI summarizer that turns any article into 5 key insights
- Deploy Django on a VPS with Docker: Step-by-Step Guide
- AI vs Gen Z: How AI has changed the career pathway for junior developers
- VPC Part 2 : AWS Site-to-Site VPN (On-Prem Simulation)
- You're Telling Me I Get Paid?
- AWS VPC
- VPC Part 1 : AWS VPC Peering
- Federated Machine Learning and the Future of Data Privacy
- Why Your AI Needs the Right to Say "I Don't Know"
- MemoryGraph vs Graphiti: Choosing the Right Memory for Your AI Agent
- Clone Your CTO: The Architecture of an 'AI Twin' (DSPy + Unsloth)
- The Three Pillars of FinOps: Inform, Optimize, Operate Explained
- AI-Driven Diagnostics: Smarter Tools for Spotting Health Issues
- Auto-Approve WebFetch and WebSearch in Claude Code with Hooks
- HOW TO CREATE AN ELASTIC BEANSTALK ON AWS
- "Netflix Effect": How Banks are Rewiring Money with AWS & NVIDIA
- I Built (Yet Another) AI-Powered Chrome Extension to Organize My Tabs - This One Actually Works
- From Interview Failure to "Aha!" Moment: How a Screaming Terminal Taught Me Debouncing
- Building Agent Skills from Scratch
- Best AI Software Tools for Content Creation
- Scale Ethically: Implement Multilingual AI Voice Models with Data Privacy
- Dec 26, 2025 | The Tongyi Weekly: Your weekly dose of cutting-edge AI from Tongyi Lab
- I built a better search engine for n8n workflows (with tutorials & verified templates)
- Guide to Integrate AWS Strands Agent with AgentCore Runtime using SDK Integration
- Mastering Claude Code: 34 Efficiency Hacks for AI-Era API Development
- Containers are easy—moving your legacy system off your VM is not
- How I built a Game & Blog in 24 Hours with Zero Experience (using AI)
- Traceability Software Food Industry for Safer Supply Chains
- Rethinking Expense Splitting: A Graph-Based Approach with LLM Integration
- 🦉 From Broken Models to Living Systems: My Journey Building AI Without a GPU
- Advent of Agents - Day 8
- Futuristic Login Form HTML CSS: Building the ‘Infinity Portal’ (Free Source Code) https://ahmodmusa.com/futuristic-login-form-html-css/
- eSparkBiz Named Among the Top 10 AI Development Companies for 2026
DEVOPS
ENTERPRISE TECH
- The Year in Review – the year in AI policy : As leglisation and regulation remain decisive topics on a global scale, 2025 saw some major developments, not all of them positive.
FINANCIAL
- ACM Research is the top performing semiconductor materials stock YTD
- New NASA boss Isaacman says U.S. will return to the moon within Trump's term
- Immersion Corporation receives delinquency compliance alert notice from Nasdaq
- Immersion receives Nasdaq notice over late quarterly filing
- Seagate Technology is the top performing technology hardware, storage, and peripherals stock YTD
- Lumentum Holdings is the best performing communications equipment stock YTD
- Nebius Group is the best performing systems software stock YTD
- IREN is the top performing application software stock
- CyberArk/Palo Alto Networks, Dayforce/Thoma Bravo among good bets for deal close
- Oracle shares on pace for worst quarter since 2001 as new CEOs face concerns about AI build-out
- Nvidia-Groq deal is structured to keep 'fiction of competition alive,' analyst says
- X3 Holdings announces share consolidation
- Samsung, SK Hynix increase HBM3E prices by 20% for 2026 orders: report
- Nvidia's Groq deal sees positive reactions from Wall Street analysts
- Apple Watch US imports continue after judge rejects ban related to blood-oxygen sensor patent case: report
- Trump Claims 'High Aptitude' Son Barron Has Outgrown 'Child-Dom' At NYU
- The AI Power Play: Nvidia's Groq Acquisition Could Reshape The Industry
- Zelensky To Meet Trump As US-Backed Peace Push Gains Momentum
- CrowdStrike sees bullish views at Wedbush heading into 2026
- Nvidia's Groq deal, S&P's winning week, leather tariffs and more in Morning Squawk
- Melania Trump Fires Back At Claim She Married Donald 'Because He's Rich'
- 'It's Disgusting': Epstein Victim Slams Ignored Giuffre Claims as New Files Show Andrew-Maxwell 'Inappropriate' Exchanges
- Largest Tax Fraud Case in US History' Worth $750 Million of Late Software Billionaire Finally Ends
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk Claims AI and Robotics Are 'Only Way' To Make Everyone Wealthy
- These 5 'Boring' AI Stocks Tripled While Everyone Chased Nvidia
- Foreign phone shipments in China surge 128% in November: report
- China unveils venture capital funds to back tech startups focused on 'hard technology' - report
- Google is rolling out a new feature allowing users to change their Gmail address
GENERAL US
- Oracle shares on pace for worst quarter since 2001 as new CEOs face concerns about AI build-out - CNBC
- What’s next for AI? - IBM
- US mortgage lenders insure against artificial intelligence screening errors - Financial Times
- The AI talent wars have come for the interns - Business Insider
- Is AI really killing finance and banking jobs? Experts say Wall Street’s layoffs may be more hype than takeover—for now - Fortune
- With airstrike in Nigeria, Trump inserts U.S. into long-running turmoil - The Washington Post
- Looking back on a year of AI blunders - Financial Times
- Salesforce Is Ready to Emerge an AI Winner. Buy the Stock. - Barron's
- 2 Overlooked AI Stocks to Buy Before They Soar Up to 100% in 2026, According to Wall Street Analysts - The Motley Fool
- BigBear.ai (BBAI): Valuation Check After New C Speed Defense AI Partnership and Abu Dhabi Expansion - Yahoo Finance
- Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence - The Atlantic
- AI-powered wearable boosts preventative care for elderly - University of Arizona News
- The AI Boom Is Opening Up Commercial Real-Estate Investing to New Risks - The Wall Street Journal
- What is AI Data Security? Key Principles and Best Practices - wiz.io
- The future of sports, powered by AI - The Washington Post
- NRF | Beyond the AI hype: Building real‑world intelligence loops - National Retail Federation | NRF
- Love from your smartphone: AI marriages in Japan - DW
- 3 Artificial Intelligence Stocks You Can Buy and Hold for the Next Decade - The Motley Fool
- Why Elara Is the Most Popular AI-Generated Baby Name: Expert Reveals - TODAY.com
- Bitcoin Miners Thrive Off a New Side Hustle: Retooling Their Data Centers for AI - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal
- Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq's assets for about $20 billion in its largest deal on record - CNBC
- Why do airline computer systems fail? What the industry can learn from meltdowns
- 2 Extraordinary Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks Down 30% and 73% to Buy Before They Turn Around in 2026 - The Motley Fool
- The AI bubble is all over now, baby blue - Marcus on AI
- 2 Artificial Intelligence ETFs to Confidently Buy Heading Into 2026 - The Motley Fool
- Prediction: This Will Be 2026's Top-Performing Artificial Intelligence Stock - Yahoo Finance
- The Class Where ‘Screenagers’ Train to Navigate Social Media and A.I. - The New York Times
- Global investors turn to Chinese AI as Wall Street fears bubble - Yahoo Finance
- Hochul signs watered down AI regs, but lawmakers still got some wins - City & State New York
- Hail or Fail: Not the finest showing by the Commanders — or Netflix - The Washington Post
- Nvidia Licenses Groq’s AI Technology as Demand for Cutting-Edge Chips Grows - The Wall Street Journal
- Billionaires Are Buying an AI Stock That Could Be the Apple of the 2030s - The Motley Fool
- Italy Watchdog Orders Meta to Allow Rival AI Chatbots in WhatsApp - The Wall Street Journal
- Authors File New Lawsuit Against AI Companies Seeking More Money - Publishers Weekly
- Colin Kaepernick, Md. school district team to push more students to use AI - The Washington Post
- Trump’s farmer bailout caps tough year for loyal constituency - The Washington Post
- CWG Live: Rain and wintry mix this afternoon through evening - The Washington Post
- Monetizers vs manufacturers: How the AI market could splinter in 2026 - CNBC
- A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains how to use AI without letting it do your thinking for you - Business Insider
- Opinion | I Asked ChatGPT to Solve an 800-Year-Old Italian Mystery. What Happened Surprised Me. - The New York Times
- This Quiet AI Company Could Be the Next Big Winner - The Motley Fool
- As priests face burnout, Catholic U. grant aims to boost training and support - The Washington Post
- This Is Your AI On Drugs: AI Hallucination And Optimization Fatigue - Forbes
MAINSTREAM
- Indian IT services provider Coforge agrees to acquire Encora, which offers AI tools for product, cloud, and data engineering, at an enterprise value of $2.35B (Reuters)
- A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
- Five FaZe Clan influencers exit after failed contract talks with new management; Matt Kalish, who invested $10M, calls FaZe's current structure "unsustainable" (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
- AMD's 5-year-old Ryzen CPUs are popular again because RAM is too expensive
- How reality crushed Ÿnsect, the French startup that had raised over $600M for insect farming
- Two ski patrollers caught in avalanche at Mammoth Mountain after big storm - Los Angeles Times
- Fed Data Show December Surge in 10-Year Treasury Delivery Fails - Bloomberg.com
- Oracle’s AI Push Is Leading to Its Worst Quarter Since 2001
- AI created 50 new billionaires in 2025, startup investment pulled in more than $200 billion
- Public release of Epstein records puts Maxwell under fresh scrutiny amid her claims of innocence - Los Angeles Times
- Coinbase Says Former Agent Arrested In India Over Exchange Hack - Bloomberg.com
- Exclusive: Russia likely placing new hypersonic missiles at former airbase in Belarus, researchers find - Reuters
- Coinbase says a former customer service agent was arrested in India, following a May breach where hackers bribed contractors to access sensitive customer data (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
- Federal records show ICE has increased its surveillance tech spending to $300M+ under Trump, as the White House lowered privacy guardrails around citizens' data (Alfred Ng/Politico)
- How the ‘Demon Slayer’ Studio Broke Laws of Anime Physics to Bring ‘Infinity Castle’ Fights to Life
- South Park Writer Snagged ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’ Web Domains Months Ago
- Elon Musk Says He’s Removing ‘Sustainable’ From Tesla’s Mission
- Key issues unresolved in US-Ukraine talks on ending Russia’s war, according to Zelenskyy - AP News
- China to require repatriation of funds raised overseas under new rules - Reuters
- US airlines cancel over 1,000 flights due to Northeast winter storm warnings - Reuters
- Vibe Coding as a Non-Coder: 6 Ways I Found to Have More Fun and Better Luck Creating With AI
- You may soon be able to change your Gmail address
- These Smart Glasses Make Posting Straight to TikTok Less Annoying
- Equity’s 2026 Predictions: AI Agents, Blockbuster IPOs, and the Future of VC
- Nigerian villagers are rattled by US airstrikes that made their homes shake and the sky glow red - AP News
- Venezuela frees 99 prisoners detained after post-election protests - Reuters
- ICE’s interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: ‘What is it for?’
- Refinitiv: AI infrastructure companies borrowed $100B+ in 2025; small companies face higher interest rates given investor wariness over unproven AI businesses (Joe Rennison/New York Times)
- Google May Finally Let Users Change Embarrassing Old Gmail Addresses
- ‘We don’t have it right now.’ Takeaways from the Lakers’ third straight loss - Los Angeles Times
- Stocks Touch Record as Nvidia Gains on AI Licensing Deal - Bloomberg.com
- Renowned and controversial Palestinian actor and filmmaker Bakri laid to rest in Israeli village - AP News
- Scrapyard worker injured in UPS plane crash dies on Christmas, raising deaths to 15 - AP News
- Lions are out of the playoff race, Packers are among 11 teams in and 3 spots remain open - AP News
- China sanctions 20 US defense companies and 10 executives over massive arms sales to Taiwan - AP News
- What is the best way to train for a marathon?
- Oracle stock fell 30% this quarter, its steepest drop since Q3 2001, when it slid ~34%, amid skepticism about its ability to open more data centers for OpenAI (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
- Google is finally letting you change that embarrassing old Gmail address
- UK campaigner targeted by Trump accuses tech giants of ‘sociopathic greed’
- Gold and Silver Smash Records Again as Rally Gathers Momentum - Bloomberg.com
- Zelenskyy says he will meet with Trump in Florida on Sunday for talks on Ukraine security guarantees - AP News
- US launches strikes against Islamic State group in Nigeria after attacks target Christians - AP News
- Russia made a proposal to France on jailed French researcher Vinatier, the Kremlin says - Reuters
- Thai defence minister to attend truce talks with Cambodia, PM says - Reuters
- Putin sends a signal to Trump on Ukraine proposals - Reuters
- Amazon, Microsoft, and Google pledged a combined $67.5B in Indian investments since October, 80% of those in December, as part of an AI spending frenzy in India (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)
- AI data centers may run on nuclear reactors from retired Navy aircraft carriers and submarines
- Putin indicated Russia could be open to territory swap as part of Ukraine deal, Kommersant says - Reuters
- Internal documents show Instagram's aggressive campaign to win back teens, including by boosting teen-friendly influencers, adjusting its algorithm, and more (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
- Forget the Chatbots. AI's True Potential Is Cheap, Fast and on Your Devices
- How to find lost AirPods
- China Slaps Symbolic Sanctions on US Firms Over Taiwan Arms Sale - Bloomberg.com
- Iran seizes an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz - AP News
- A Google support page in Hindi says the company plans to roll out an option to let users change their Gmail addresses while retaining all data and services (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
- More Than 50 People Became AI Billionaires in 2025
- Yemen separatists accuse Saudi Arabia of launching airstrikes against their forces - AP News
- China hits US defence firms with sanctions over arms sales to Taiwan - Reuters
- World of Warcraft Players Can Claim Free Winter Veil Gifts Until January 2
- ChatGPT’s New Formatting Blocks Change How Writing Tasks Look
- Google Now Lets Users Change Their Gmail Address Without a New Account
- Lions-Vikings matchup has lost some luster, but the playoffs are still possible for ailing Detroit - AP News
- A year on, Jeju Air crash report delayed as families question probe's credibility - Reuters
- The top 10 US tech billionaires collectively added $550B+ to their combined net worth in 2025, reaching $2.5T by December 24, up from $1.9T at the year's start (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
- From red donkeys to vibrant art: Fernando Dávila’s colorful journey as a colorblind painter - AP News
- AI boom adds $500bn to net worth of US tech billionaires in 2025
- Japan to Quadruple Spending Support for Chips, AI in Budget - Bloomberg.com
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