AI INFRASTRUCTURE
AI NEWS
- States Expected to Fight Back Against AI Executive Order
- New software could reduce dependency on big data centers for AI
- Fox News Instructs Viewers to Buy Plastic Christmas Trees So the Real Ones Can Be Sacrificed to Feed the Insatiable Hunger of AI Data Centers
- Grok Is Making Wildly Contradictory Claims About Rob Reiner’s Death
- Children need mental health care provided by humans, not chatbots | Letter
- The Washington Post Deployed Its Disastrous AI-Generated Podcasts Even After Internal Tests Showed It Was Failing Miserably
- The 'AI homeless man prank' reveals a crisis in AI education
- What's at stake in Trump's executive order aiming to curb state-level AI regulation
- Woman Who Helped Coerce Victims into GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Ring Sentenced to Prison
- AI Startup Raises $13M to Combat Deepfakes
- The Data Detox: Training Yourself for the Messy, Noisy, Real World
- Why AI benchmarks are broken
- iRobot files for bankruptcy and goes to Chinese supplier
- The case against predicting tokens to build AGI
- Trump's AI plan could affect his own voters
- This AI toy tucks kids in and lectures them on geopolitics
- Grok spreads misinformation (again) about Bondi beach shooting
- Nvidia Releases Nemotron 3 Open Models
- When AI learns the why, it becomes smarter—and more responsible
- The fast and the future-focused are revolutionizing motorsport
- Nvidia reportedly weighs ramping up H200 production to meet surging demand in China
- Hugging Face Says AI Models With Reasoning Use 100x More Energy Than Those Without
- How Transformers Think: The Information Flow That Makes Language Models Work
- NVIDIA Unveils Nemotron 3 Open Models to Power Multi-Agent AI Systems
- Neocloud Providers Look to Network AI Data Centers
- AI-generated podcasts flood the market, challenging traditional hosts and listeners
- AI chatbot to help cybersecurity teams protect infrastructure
- The Download: introducing the AI Hype Correction package
- Why agentic AI needs a new category of customer data
- Tokenization takes the lead in the fight for data security
- Amazon apologises after showing 15-rated film to child who rented PG movie
- Secure Halo Relaunches CMMC 2.0 Readiness and Remediation Services
- Cyphlens Raises Seed Funding to Bring Visual Encryption to Enterprise
- Assured Data Protection Launches New U.S. Public Sector Division
- Xoriant Named Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner for its AI analytics focus
- BigID Debuts Activity Explorer
- Appdome Launches a New Agentic AI Support Agent
- Emerging Trends in AI Ethics and Governance for 2026
- Why Emmi AI spends €1,000 per person every month to bring its remote team together
- Why Physical AI Will Never Have its ChatGPT Moment
- How OpenAI Became the Most Valued AI Company in 10 Years
- Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video’s silent problem
- Mumbai Tops Office Leasing for BFSI GCCs Despite Bengaluru’s Talent Edge
- How Sparkle Program Is Winning Multi-Year Deals for Mphasis
- Using machine learning to track greenhouse gas emissions
- 🎧 Gemini turns headphones into translators
- This Mumbai-based Startup is Illuminating the Future of Consumer Understanding
- Cognizant Opens Cyber Defence Centre in Bengaluru
- A brief history of Sam Altman’s hype
- What even is the AI bubble?
- AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced.
- AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world
- AI might not be coming for lawyers’ jobs anytime soon
- Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs
- The great AI hype correction of 2025
- The AI doomers feel undeterred
- 'We were sacked from Rockstar North for trying to unionise'
- Arteris to Expand Portfolio with Acquisition of Cycuity
- UiPath and Talkdesk join forces to transform customer experience journeys
- CluePoints Scoops Prestigious 2025 Scrip Award
- Hazelcast Named a Strong Performer in Streaming Data Platforms
- CData Named to 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration
- Zoovu Launches MCP Server
- Chindata, HEC Expand AI Compute Projects in Shaoguan, Ulanqab
- AI models score off the charts on psychiatric tests when researchers treat them as therapy patients
- Roomba vacuum cleaner firm files for bankruptcy
- BrainChip Announces $25 Mn (USD) Funding Ahead of CES for Next-Gen Edge AI
- Luxonis Launches OAK 4 With Hub
- Azul Acquires Payara, Strengthening Leadership in Enterprise Java Solutions
- Simbian Launches AI “Fact vs. Fiction” Roadmap for SecOps Clarity
- Can India’s AI Copyright Plan Survive Legal and Technical Scrutiny?
- CTO’s Playbook to Enterprise Productivity
AI RESEARCH
- The Long Context Illusion: Why Memory Is Still the Engine of Intelligence
- What Do the Top Ten Episodes of ODSC’s Ai X Podcast Say About AI Today?
- 2025 AI Governance Survey
- How AI Is Transforming the Adoption of Secure-by-Default Mobile Frameworks
- The AI productivity divide
- Why Industry Leaders Are Betting on Mutually Exclusive Futures
- CUGA on Hugging Face: Democratizing Configurable AI Agents
- Nemotron 3 Nano \- A new Standard for Efficient, Open, and Intelligent Agentic Models
- A Developer’s Guide to Agentic Frameworks in 2026
- AI Agents Transform Science and Workflows Starting Now
- Why Your AI Agents Need State Replay (And How MCP Solves It)
- I Trained 47 AI Models Before Realizing I Was Measuring Success Completely Wrong
- A Linear-Time Alternative To t-SNE for Dimensionality Reduction and Fast Visualisation
- How tool calling actually works in LangChain ?
- Monte Carlo Simulation: How Randomness Helps Predict the Future
- Code is Cheap. Schema Mistakes Are Expensive.
- The Transformer Architecture
- Vibe Coding: The Fastest Way to Build and the Quickest Way to Break
- Presentation: Powering Enterprise AI Applications with Data and Open Source Software
- AlphaEvolve Enters Google Cloud as an Agentic System for Algorithm Optimization
- Context Engineer Your Agents For Efficient MCP Use
- Deep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell
CLOUD AI
- Adaptive infrastructure for foundation model training with elastic training on SageMaker HyperPod
- We’re publishing an AI playbook to help others with sustainability reporting.
- Operationalize generative AI workloads and scale to hundreds of use cases with Amazon Bedrock – Part 1: GenAIOps
- Customize agent workflows with advanced orchestration techniques using Strands Agents
- Applying data loading best practices for ML training with Amazon S3 clients
CLOUD ANNOUNCEMENTS
CLOUD BUSINESS
- You have days left to claim your AT&T data breach settlement of up to $7,500 - here's how
- The latest Pop!_OS 24.04 update has this longtime Linux user more excited than ever
- Should you upgrade your Wi-Fi router to mesh? I tested it for a month, and here's my verdict
- AI might finally deliver real ROI for businesses in 2026 - and experts say this is why
- Gemini just got a stunning Google Maps upgrade that changes how you'll search locally - here's how
- I tried AR smart glasses with Gemini built in, but I'm not fully sold (yet)
- Firefox just fixed my biggest annoyance with web browsers - and others should copy ASAP
- Your programming career isn't over - AI just upgraded your toolbox
- I set up a NAS system at home to keep my data safe - here's my buying advice now
- Own an Apple TV? I changed 12 settings to instantly make the system run like new again
- iRobot's bankruptcy could change your Roomba forever - here's how and why
- Can you trust an AI health coach? A month with my Pixel Watch made the answer obvious
- What Is Google’s Agent Development Kit? An Architectural Tour
- How much RAM do you really need in 2025? A Windows and Mac expert explains
- 10 things I wish I knew before trusting Claude Code to build my iPhone app
- Nvidia’s Launches the Next Generation of Its Nemotron Models
- In 2026, AI Infrastructure Will Face a Reckoning
- As Meta fades in open-source AI, Nvidia senses its chance to lead
- The 9 tech gadgets I couldn't live without in 2025 (and most are travel friendly)
- Verizon will give you a free Nintendo Switch for a limited time - how to qualify for the deal
- Want to boost your career? This power move will future-proof you - here's how
- The world's smallest 1TB SSD drive is the travel device I didn't know I needed
- Finally a 16-inch Windows laptop that gives my MacBook Pro a run for its money
- Why is my USB port orange? I learned what every color really means, and it's wild
- My favorite Windows laptop for work travel in 2025 costs less than you think
- This 4-step routine instantly improves my Android phone performance - and it works everytime
- How I run MacOS on my iPad when traveling (and 2 mistakes to avoid)
- I put GPT-5.2 through a 13-round test, and the AI model raised some serious questions
- Web Development in 2025: AI’s React Bias vs. Native Web
- 5 ways to climb the IT career ladder in 2026, according to those who made it
- Stop using ChatGPT for everything: I use these AI models for research, coding, and more (and which I avoid)
- I compared Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T 5G coverage on a road trip - here's who came out on top
- Still running Windows 10? Here's why that's a bad idea
- Own a Fire TV? I changed 10 settings to make the system run like new again
CLOUD SECURITY
- Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructure
- Security for AI: How Shadow AI, Platform Risks, and Data Leakage Leave Your Organization Exposed
- Cloud Monitor Wins Cybersecurity Product of the Year 2025
- Can Your AI Initiative Count on Your Data Strategy and Governance?
- The Hidden Threat in Your Holiday Emails: Tracking Pixels and Privacy Concerns
- Why Modern SaaS Platforms Are Switching to Passwordless Authentication
- Fine-Grained Access Control for Sensitive MCP Data
- Bugcrowd Puts Defenders on the Offensive With AI Triage Assistant
CLOUD TECHNICAL
- How Sparse-K Cuts Millions of Attention Computations in llama.cpp
- I was tired of copy-pasting to ChatGPT, so I built a Chrome extension
- Build declarative agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot with MCP
- Automate java performance troubleshooting with AI-Powered thread dump analysis on Amazon ECS and EKS
- Functional MCP AI System Diagram
- The Death of Brittle Scripts: Architecting a Self-Healing AI Automation Ecosystem
- Cloud 2025: Revolutionizing Industries with Quantum Leap
- When Time Becomes a Security Boundary in AI Systems
- Building a Terminal UI Broke My Brain
- Guardrail your LLMs
- Why Rate Limiting Still Matters in AI-to-AI Systems
- Connect your enterprise data to Google’s new Antigravity IDE : The AI state of the art is shifting rapidly from simple chat interfaces to autonomous agents capable of planning, executing, and refining complex work...
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon ECS, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Cognito and more (December 15, 2025)
- I snapped — and built an extension that finds emails for me
- **Measuring AI in Media Success: A Novel Metric - Return on
- Build Your Own AI QA Assistant — Automate Test Understanding with LangChain & OpenAI
- Using AI Alongside Your UI Tests, Not Instead of Them
- Top AI Tools for Documentation | Guide for 2026
- Master Generative AI Evaluation: From Single Prompts to Complex Agents : Building Generative AI applications has become accessible to everyone, but moving those applications from a prototype to a production-ready system req...
- Building Connected Agents with MCP and A2A : To build a production-ready agentic system, where intelligent agents can freely collaborate and act, we need standards and shared protocols for how ag...
- An AI Almost Deleted My Code
- Monetzly: A New Era in AI Monetization for LLM Apps
- Investigating & Resolving High-CPU Alerts in Kubernetes Pods
- 📈Visualizing LLM Parameters: Temperature, Top-p, and Top-k in Action
- ChatGPT's rivals, Kwai's quiet rise: the top Internet services of 2025
- The 2025 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review: The rise of AI, post-quantum, and record-breaking DDoS attacks
- The One Thing You Can't Refactor: How to Architect Bulletproof Database Schemas with AI
- AWS IAM at Scale: Governance, Multi-Account Security, and Organizational Control (Part 3)
- How to Build a Pseudocode Runner with AI
- Bypass AWS WAF CAPTCHA 100% for Free
- CNN vs Transformer – A Visual Comparison
- How Deep Agents Actually Work: A Browsr Architecture Walkthrough
- Transform AI Conversations into Profit with Monetzly’s SDK Integration
- How to create AI assistant for your business
- Day 20.Create IAM Role for EC2 with Policy Attachment
- EDI Cloud Solutions and the Shift Toward Smarter Supply Chains
- DevOps Rex 2025 : Retour sur deux jours de conférences
- Hosting a Godot Server on Oracle Cloud
- From “I should check the reviews” to a SaaS
- Build a YouTube Video Summarizer in 15 Minutes (Next.js + OpenAI)
- Cognitive Agents Explained Through Code
- How SafeLine WAF Helped a Small Business Regain Control Over Bot Traffic
- What Failure Taught Me About Building Digital Capabilities and Services
- Tech to the Rescue: How AI Powers Human Trafficking Prevention
- The Building Blocks of AI Governance: Policies, Principles & People
- Learning Reflections: Kaggle’s 5-Day AI Agents Intensive with Google
- Nigerian Government Fees API: AI-Powered Public Service Data
- Stop Using One AI for Everything: 5 Emerging AIs and What Each One Is Actually Good At
- What this course taught me About Agentic AI
- How to Send Emails in Express.js: SMTP and API Guide
- Why Regex Fails at Google Taxonomy: Building a 98% Accurate RAG Agent
- AWS Terraform IAM User Management
- Build a Personal AI Assistant with n8n on Bult.ai
- Drive API Monetization: How Monetzly Enhances Your AI Conversations
- The Rise of AI-Powered Marketing: What’s Next in 2026
- Unveiling Generative AI: The Future of Creativity
- Part 01: Building a Sovereign Software Factory: Docker Networking & Persistence
- React Container & Presenter Pattern in React (Beginner Guide with Real Example)
- Building AI-Powered Image Generation with OpenAI-Compatible Responses API
- Doppar vs Laravel: Why Modern Attribute-Based DI is Winning Over Traditional Service Containers
- Why PrestaShop Wins Precisely Because It Is NOT a SaaS
- Trajectory Is The Truth: My Five-Day Transformation Into an Agent Architect
- AI Agents Intensive Course Writing Challenge
- Dry Carbon vs Wet Carbon: Manufacturing Differences Explained
DEVOPS
ENTERPRISE TECH
- The real AI revolution isn’t happening in offices - it’s in the hangars, factories, and plants that keep the world running : Kriti Sharma, CEO of IFS Nexus Black, explains how industrial AI can help predict weather disasters, decrease product losses and potentially save mill...
- Enterprise hits and misses - AI project lessons hit home, IBM acquires Confluent, and the future of robotics is up for debate : This week - as the year winds down, let's take stock: what did we actually learn about AI project success? Meanwhile, IBM keeps things interesting wit...
- Why poor infrastructure kills agentic AI – lessons from two enterprise IT leaders at OutSystems ONE : How do you create the right technological and organizational foundations for successful AI implementation? At OutSystems ONE in Miami, two enterprise ...
- What's the ROI of AI-powered helpdesk transformation? How SmartestEnergy is measuring success : UK renewable energy company shifts from per-user to ticket-based IT support pricing with Cognizant, targeting first-time fix rates and cost certainty
- Why LLMs can't bring AI to the enterprise like Salesforce can! Tough talking from Chief Revenue Officer Miguel Milano : Agentforce is most definitely working from where Milano is sitting, with beefed up sales capacity to meet an incoming "tsunami of demand".
- Can LLMs spark team collaboration? Surprising lessons from an SAP business case workshop at ASUG Tech Connect : This was not my first business case workshop, but this one was different. Here's how we utilized a customized LLM - and a team of subject matter exper...
- How Experian pivoted to responsible AI and grew its business in the process : Alex Lintner, CEO of Software and Technology at Experian, walks through its transition to the cloud as part of an AI transformation.
- As Disney takes sides in the AI copyright wars, is it worth gambling the House of Mouse on OpenAI? : Google is on the receiving end of legal threats from Disney, but OpenAI finds itself in favor, $1 billion better off, and with a big new AI toy box to...
- Why the AI industry should pay for high-quality content - licensing experts offer their view : A UK government Inquiry into copyright and AI training heard some on-the-ground perspectives on how vendors’ actions are affecting self-employed creat...
FINANCIAL
- Inside Erupt: The Collaborative Vision of Melissa Maddux and Michael R. Dicks on Sustainable Ownership Transitions
- Tech Voices: Tesla robotaxi update, Trump admin. unveils Tech Force
- Trump admin to hire 1,000 specialists for 'Tech Force' to build AI, finance projects
- OpenAI poaches Google executive to lead corporate development
- Nvidia acquires SchedMD, which provides open-source software workload manager for HPC and AI
- Quantum Computing buys Luminar Semiconductor for $110M in all-cash deal
- Zillow shares are getting crushed. Here's why
- xAI having difficulties selling Grok to enterprises: report
- Venezuelan Regime Accuses U.S. Of Conducting Cyber Attack Against Its State-Run Oil Company: 'Trying To Affect National Stability'
- AI sound generator startup Mirelo grabs $41M seed round, led by Index and A16z
- Palantir CIO Jim Siders to Step Down After 12 Years - report
- Market rotation, the Fed's Kevins, Netflix's 'Star Wars' moment and more in Morning Squawk
- Nvidia rolls out Nemotron 3 open models for building agentic AI applications
- From puppies to superheroes, Chinese AI toys are bringing hugs — and hesitation
- Benchmark bullish on Gloo, initiates coverage at Buy with $14 target
- Cognizant gets price target boost at Guggenheim
- Iconic raises $13M seed to build AI-native, voice-driven games on device
- Arm, Texas Instruments and Entegris receive downgrades by Goldman Sachs
- ScanTech AI systems updates on Nasdaq compliance plan, announces reverse stock split
- ServiceNow, Adobe downgraded at KeyBanc; Akamai, Fastly, Asana, ZoomInfo upped
- Cognizant, Infosys hit hardest by $100K H-1B worker visa fee: report
- What Is Chatgpt's Adult Mode? Who Can Use It and When It's Coming, Revealed
- Bondi Beach Explained: Why Sydney's Jewish Community Lights Menorahs There – And How It Became a Terror Target
- Inside the Billionaire 'Baby Empire': How China's Ultra-Rich Are Buying US Birthright Citizenship
- Grok Gets Bondi Beach Shooting Wrong — Why AI Fact-Checking Failed When It Mattered
- Microsoft Cuts AI Targets: Is Copilot at Risk?
- MI6 Warns of Russian 'Chaos Export': Cyber Hits, Sabotage, and Proxies Target Britain
- McKinsey is said to weigh job cuts as consulting growth stalls
- Strategy buys $980M more in bitcoin in past week
- KLA Corp. rises on back of Jefferies upgrade
- Micron in focus as Wedbush ups target ahead of earnings
- Rekor Systems prices $15M stock issue
- Palantir CIO Jim Siders leaves to become head of Thrive Capital's new IT services business
- IVFmicro raises £3.5M to make IVF treatment accessible for all
- The Real Reason Why Elon Musk Was Called 'Bulldozer' By Microsoft AI Boss
- Quantum Systems and Frontline Robotics set up Europe’s first foreign drone production line for Ukraine
- PolyAI raises $86M
- STMicro's chip supply for Starlink could double in next two years - report
- Maxeon Solar Technologies expands patent infringement actions against Aiko
- Fobi AI partially revokes previous private placement
- Palantir announces renewal of multi-year contract with French intelligence agency DGSI
- CNBC Daily Open: U.S. stocks retreat from highs as Broadcom leads tech sell-off
- Soverli raises $2.6M to develop sovereign smartphone architecture
- Father-Son Bondi Attack Shooters Were Licensed Owners of 6 Firearms Despite Strict Gun Laws
GENERAL US
- New Advanced Phishing Kits Use AI and MFA Bypass Tactics to Steal Credentials at Scale - The Hacker News
- FDA qualifies 1st AI drug development tool for reading MASH images - Fierce Biotech
- Programmatic Ads Are Coming To AI Chatbots - AdExchanger
- US government launches ‘Tech Force’ to hire AI talent - CNN
- SciSciGPT: advancing human–AI collaboration in the science of science - Nature
- US government launches campaign to hire engineers for AI, tech roles - Reuters
- From puppies to superheroes, Chinese AI toys are bringing hugs — and hesitation - CNBC
- What even is the AI bubble? - MIT Technology Review
- Trump admin to hire 1,000 specialists for 'Tech Force' to build AI, finance projects - CNBC
- Trump’s AI moratorium threatens state-level crackdowns on housing costs - Politico
- The jobs where people are using AI the most - Axios
- Stanford AI Experts Predict What Will Happen in 2026 - Stanford HAI
- The 3 Limits To Artificial Intelligence - Forbes
- Instacart director says she was fired for Democratic congressional campaign - The Washington Post
- The AI Bubble May Not Be So Scary. Even Cisco Eventually Won. - Barron's
- GigaTIME AI tool advances cancer research and could unlock access to better treatment - Microsoft Source
- President Trump’s AI National Policy Executive Order Is an Unambiguous Threat to States Beyond Just AI - Center for American Progress
- AI Use at Work Rises - Gallup.com
- Column | Carolyn Hax: Dad thinks cancer survivor dyed hair purple for attention - The Washington Post
- Job apocalypse? Humbug! AI is creating brand new occupations - The Economist
- Ofcom investigates BT and Three for failing to connect 999 calls
- AI Can Make Decisions Better Than People Do. So Why Don’t We Trust It? - The Wall Street Journal
- 1 No-Brainer Artificial Intelligence (AI) ETF to Confidently Buy With $70 for 2026 - The Motley Fool
- OpenAI isn't too big to fail. It's bigger. - Axios
- Report Finds Broad Adoption of AI in New Jersey – and Strong Support for Regulation - Rutgers University
- Why Trump’s AI EO Will be DOA in Court - Tech Policy Press
- Turning the AI Revolution into Dollar Dominance - CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies
- These are the key AI players on the cover of Time's 'Architects of AI' magazine - The Washington Post
- Militant groups are experimenting with AI, and the risks are expected to grow - The Washington Post
- AI Is Powering Trump’s Economy, But American Voters Are Getting Worried - Yahoo Finance
- Spatial Intelligence Is AI’s Next Frontier - Time Magazine
MAINSTREAM
- Japanese Railway Pleads With Photographers to Stop Being Dangerously Dumb
- Cloudflare 2025 report: global internet traffic grew 19% in 2025, ChatGPT was the most popular AI service, global traffic from Starlink grew 2.3x, and more (Cloudflare)
- Sources: xAI has created an enterprise AI sales group, but xAI's lack of experience in selling to big businesses is holding potential customers back (Theo Wayt/The Information)
- The US FTC, along with 21 states and DC, files an amended complaint against Uber, alleging deceptive billing and cancellation practices related to Uber One (Reuters)
- AI-driven chip shortage could mean your next smartphone or laptop will have less RAM
- ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Star Taylour Paige Wasn’t Happy With Her Character’s Big Choice
- Google’s ‘dark web report’ feature will no longer be available starting in February
- US Offers Security Deal in Ukraine Talks But Territory Still Key - Bloomberg.com
- Where Is Traveling by Train a Good Option in the US? - Bloomberg.com
- Canada Pushes to Retain Quantum Computing Firms as US Competition Grows - Bloomberg.com
- Warriors star Stephen Curry to rejoin lineup and start against Timberwolves - AP News
- Matthew Stafford rallies Rams to 41-34 victory over Lions, clinching another playoff berth - AP News
- Peace deal gives Ukraine security guarantees similar to Article 5, official says - Reuters
- Wisconsin judge aided migrant, offered to 'get the heat,' prosecutor alleges - Reuters
- NY-based Octane, which offers "instant" financing for large recreational and lifestyle purchases, raised a $100M Series F at a post-money valuation of $1.3B (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
- Mexico-based fintech Plata raised up to $500M in a financing deal arranged by Nomura Securities International, as it moves toward becoming a full-fledged bank (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
- With New ‘Ask this Book’ Kindle Feature, Amazon Wants Lost Readers to Ask AI for Help
- Zoom brings its AI assistant to the web with access to free users
- Emerging ‘Super Flu’ Strain Is Spreading Fast. Here’s What You Need to Know
- Review: Tabla great Zakir Hussain's last work, 'Murmurs of Time,' sets the stage for a new generation - Los Angeles Times
- Spain’s Sánchez Plays Down Impact of Party Sexual Scandals - Bloomberg.com
- SK Capital Is Said to Near Deal for Drug Distributor Swixx - Bloomberg.com
- Watch White House AI Czar Sacks on Trump's AI Executive Order - Bloomberg.com
- EU Pushes Back Against US Efforts to Change Bloc’s Tech Rules - Bloomberg.com
- How Will Hollywood Contend With AI Without Destroying Itself? - Bloomberg.com
- Disney Picks a Side in the OpenAI-Google Rivalry - Bloomberg.com
- The Trump administration launches US Tech Force to recruit ~1,000 staffers from Apple, Meta, xAI, and others for two-year stints to modernize the government (Natalie Alms/Nextgov/FCW)
- Nvidia announces it has acquired SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for HPC and AI (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
- Source: Dragoneer raised $4.3B for its seventh VC fund and now has over $30B in AUM; it raised $3.8B for its sixth private fund in 2022 (Dan Primack/Axios)
- Valve's long-awaited Half-Life 3 could be a Steam Machine launch title in 2026
- New Clue Emerges From Botched Scandinavian Raid: A 2,300-Year-Old Fingerprint
- New Stranger Things trailer hints at what's next for our heroes
- Amazon Shareholder Resolution Targets AI Work With Israel, DHS - Bloomberg.com
- Spain fines Airbnb $75 million for unlicensed tourist rentals - AP News
- Expired Film Club Photographer’s Tips on Traveling Through Airport Security
- Videographer Breaks Silence on How Netflix Obtained His Footage for Sean Combs Documentary
- AI firms began to feel the legal wrath of copyright holders in 2025
- Lightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
- LG smart TV owners say a webOS update pinned Microsoft Copilot to TV home screens, with no apparent way to remove the app; LG unveiled an AI TV strategy at CES (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
- I Tried Google Maps' New Gemini Feature and It Was a Surprisingly Helpful AI Assistant
- How the New ‘Tomb Raider’ Games Want to Unite Lara’s Past and Future
- James Gunn Denies Even More Brainiac Rumors for ‘Man of Tomorrow’
- The First Trailer for ‘Stranger Things 5’ Part 2 Wants to Flip the Upside Down… Upside Down
- First Voyage raises $2.5M for its AI companion helps you build habits
- New details emerge in slaying of Rob Reiner, wife as police interview family member - Los Angeles Times
- Data centers for AI could nearly triple San José’s energy use. Who foots the bill? - Los Angeles Times
- OpenAI-Backed Chai Discovery Raises $130 Million for AI-Designed Molecules - Bloomberg.com
- Germany Plans to Work With Ukraine on Weapons and Battlefield Data - Bloomberg.com
- Live updates: Former Trump aides set to appear in Wisconsin over 2020 election fraud charges - AP News
- Brazilians protest a bill that would reduce former president Bolsonaro’s time in jail - AP News
- Breakingviews - Scott Bessent will be the real next Fed chair - Reuters
- Germany deepens commitment to Ukraine's defence in 10-point plan - Reuters
- Explainer: Europe's carmakers look to overturn 2035 combustion engine ban - Reuters
- Citi sets 2026 S&P 500 target at 7,700, expects AI to remain key theme - Reuters
- Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’
- TIME Magazine Recreates ‘Lunch atop a Skyscraper’ Photo with AI Leaders
- Nvidia launches Nemotron 3, a family of AI models using a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and the Mamba-Transformer design, in 30B, 100B, and ~500B sizes (Emilia David/VentureBeat)
- Berlin-based Mirelo, whose AI models can interpret video content to add matching sound effects, raised a $41M seed led by Index and a16z, after a $3M pre-seed (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
- Mark Cuban backs Galway sports-tech Orreco in $4m raise
- What are the risks for an organisation that depends too much on AI agents?
- Greece arrests five over cocaine trafficking on ship from Venezuela to Europe - Reuters
- China launches countermeasures against former Japan defence official - Reuters
- Morning Bid: Stocks catch a break after bruising AI selloff - Reuters
- Teneo survey of 350 public-company CEOs: 68% plan to spend more on AI in 2026 than in 2025, <50% of AI projects generated more returns than their cost, and more (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
- 2025 Nears Climate Heat Record, Mpox Variant Discovered, and Hobbit Extinction Explained : This week’s science roundup covers 2025’s near-record heat, a new mpox strain and fresh clues about why hobbits vanished 50,000 years ago.
- Tech whistleblowers like Yaël Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
- AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $130M Series B led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $225M (Caroline Hyde/Bloomberg)
- AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon's rivalry is moving beyond ads with explicit customer poaching efforts and lawsuits; AT&T twice blocked T-Mobile's Easy Switch tool (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
- 10 Irish start-ups that made a raise and a splash in 2025
- Watch ASML CEO: China Won’t Accept Being Cut Off From AI Chips - Bloomberg.com
- Wage Growth for Lowest-Paid UK Workers Is Cooling, Job Site Says - Bloomberg.com
- Gold gains 1% on safe-haven demand, softer dollar ahead of US jobs data - Reuters
- Thousands of Romanians protest against judicial abuses - Reuters
- Yen gains ahead of BOJ decision in packed week for investors - Reuters
- Why universal basic income still can’t meet the challenges of an AI economy
- Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it is "a collection of public fora" and social interaction isn't its "sole purpose" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
- DTCC: credit default swaps tied to a handful of US tech groups have climbed 90% since early September, as investors seek ways to protect against an AI debt bust (Financial Times)
- London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
- How the Biggest Monopoly in AI Is Keeping Its Throne in 2026 and Beyond
- Pens at the ready! A gen-Z trainee takes on the Guardian’s ‘scribbler-in-chief’
- Hedge Fund Boom Pushes Dubai Finance Hub Past the 100-Firm Mark - Bloomberg.com
- Russian anti-Kremlin punk band 'Pussy Riot' designated an extremist organisation by court - Reuters
- AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
- How David Sacks and AI adviser Sriram Krishnan overcame the opposition to Trump's AI EO, reaching out to lawmakers and finally modifying the text of the order (Washington Post)
- Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: job losses to AI, work used for training, falling wages and rates, freelancers losing clients, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
- Ukrainian start-up to make drones in Germany in new export drive
- BOJ Is Said to Start Selling ETF Holdings as Soon as January - Bloomberg.com
- Toxic smog blankets New Delhi, disrupting travel and plunging air quality to hazardous levels - AP News
- Fermi Falls 51% After AI Campus Tenant Ends $150 Million Deal - Bloomberg.com
- European leaders expected to cement support for Ukraine amid Washington pressure to accept deal - AP News
- Morning Bid: China's property pain sours year-end mood - Reuters
- Israeli military raids in Syria raise tensions as they carve out a buffer zone - AP News
- Australia plans tougher gun laws after father and son kill 15 at Bondi Beach - Reuters
- Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (Martin Peers/The Information)
- MYR/USD: Malaysia Ringgit’s Outperformance Set to Extend Next Year on AI Boost - Bloomberg.com
- Billionaire Coupang Founder Rejects Summons to Data Leak Hearing - Bloomberg.com
- Militant groups are experimenting with AI, and the risks are expected to grow - AP News
- AI Leaders Eye New Breakthrough to Build More Powerful Models - Bloomberg.com
- 2 stabbed at entertainment complex in southern Japan, police arrest a 30-year-old suspect - AP News
- Australian Prime Minister Albanese proposes tougher national gun laws after mass shooting in Sydney - AP News
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- Ongoing SoundCloud issue blocks VPN users with 403 server error
- Third Defendant Pleads Guilty in Fantasy Sports Betting Hack Case
- What Cloudflare’s 2025 internet review says about attacks, outages, and traffic shifts
- Russian Phishing Campaign Delivers Phantom Stealer Via ISO Files
- Astra introduces offensive-grade cloud vulnerability scanner to cut noise and prove risk
- Asahi to Launch Cybersecurity Overhaul After Crippling Cyber-Attack
- French Interior Ministry confirms cyberattack on email servers
- Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses of 2025 Revealed
- NCSC Playbook Embeds Cyber Essentials in Supply Chains
- Microsoft: December security updates cause Message Queuing failures
- How researchers are teaching AI agents to ask for permission the right way
- Europe’s DMA raises new security worries for mobile ecosystems
Total Sources: 417 | Generated: 12/15/2025