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Updated 37m agoWhat's happening: India AI Summit Secures $240B Investment Pledge
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 announced a $240 billion AI investment pledge. Reliance committed $110 billion for AI infrastructure over seven years, Adani pledged $100 billion through 2035, and Google announced a $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam along with new subsea cable routes. The Indian government also added 20,000 GPUs to its national AI program.
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By the numbers: OpenAI raises $110B in corporate funding
Podcast•Dec 31, 2025•28 min
E198: Podcast with Cures & Capital Part 1
Dr. Andre Bates, founder and CEO of Eularis, explains how AI has progressed from early digitisation to the generative AI era and why ChatGPT marked a turning point for pharma executives. She identifies common pitfalls that keep organisations stuck in endless pilots and outlines a strategic, outcome‑driven AI roadmap, including a practical ROI framework, to deliver real‑world value. The episode highlights the areas of highest impact—drug discovery, clinical trials, regulatory workflows, and personalised commercial engagement—showing how AI can amplify, not replace, scientific and clinical expertise.
By AI for Pharma Growth
Social•Dec 31, 2025
AI-Backed Insilico Medicine Hits HKEX IPO Milestone
Sinovation Ventures (创新工场) backed and double-downed on Insilico Medicine since 2019, led by my partner Richard Y. , with a firm belief that AI will accelerate healthcare and medicine development. Congratulations to Insilico Medicine on the Hong Kong Exchanges and...
By Kai-Fu Lee
Social•Dec 31, 2025
Adobe Partners with Runway for Exclusive AI Video Tools
“Adobe and Runway will collaborate to develop specialized AI capabilities for professional video workflows that will be exclusively available in Adobe applications” Lord please let after effects get the attention it deserves
By Bilawal Sidhu
News•Dec 30, 2025
3 SEO Predictions for 2026
Ann Smarty forecasts three seismic shifts for SEO in 2026: zero‑click discovery via generative AI will siphon organic clicks as chat‑based platforms deliver product recommendations without page visits; monetization of large‑language‑model services will spawn paid add‑ons and new performance metrics;...
By Practical Ecommerce
Social•Dec 30, 2025
AI Builder Communities Drive Global App Innovation
Big trend for 2026: AI builder communities. Here in USA @wabi is demonstrating that. Every day I see a few more interesting apps shared with its community. Over in China @YouWareAI is leading the way. Just judged its hackathon and was...
By Robert Scoble
Social•Dec 30, 2025
Plan 2026 AI Strategy with Dual-Scenario Action Playbook
My recommendation is to take every 2026 AI prediction newsletter or article or YouTube video you see (including mine), throw them into NotebookLM and ask the following question: # BACKGROUND I'm a [your job title] at [your company] in [your industry]. My...
By Allie Miller
News•Dec 30, 2025
A Coding Implementation of an OpenAI-Assisted Privacy-Preserving Federated Fraud Detection System From Scratch Using Lightweight PyTorch Simulations
The tutorial walks through building a privacy‑preserving federated fraud‑detection system from scratch using lightweight, CPU‑only PyTorch. It simulates ten independent banks, partitions highly imbalanced transaction data with a Dirichlet distribution, and coordinates local model updates via a FedAvg loop. After...
By MarkTechPost
Social•Dec 30, 2025
Future‑Predicting AI Assistants Balance Life Goals and Risks
A @waymo predicts the future. It predicts where that bicycle rider will be in a few seconds, then makes its plan accordingly. What if you had an AI that could predict your next move? That's the topic @IrenaCronin and I wrote about...
By Robert Scoble
Social•Dec 30, 2025
AI Turns Research From Speed Tool Into Insight Superpower
There are actually two ways to use AI for research. The first is obvious. The second is a superpower. The first is to speed up what you were already going to do. Duh. Researching competitors. Looking up people before meetings....
By Allie Miller
News•Dec 30, 2025
AI Agents 2025 Recap: What Happened and What to Expect Next Year
2025 marked a decisive shift as AI agents transitioned from research prototypes to everyday productivity tools. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, launched late 2024, standardized large language model integration with external software, enabling autonomous tool use. The year saw open‑weight models...
By Fast Company AI
Social•Dec 30, 2025
Navigate CES 2026 AI: Your Essential Itinerary
AI Enthusiasts at CES 2026: A Sample Itinerary If you’re heading to CES 2026 with AI high on your agenda, this official guide is a smart place to start. The itinerary maps how AI shows up across the week, from infrastructure and...
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Dec 30, 2025
Navigate CES 2026 AI: A Clear Itinerary Guide
AI Enthusiasts at CES 2026: A Sample Itinerary If you’re heading to CES 2026 with AI high on your agenda, this official guide is a smart place to start. The itinerary maps how AI shows up across the week, from...
By Harold Sinnott
News•Dec 30, 2025
CareCloud Appoints Chief Strategy Officer
CareCloud announced that A. Hadi Chaudhry will become Chief Strategy Officer on Jan. 1, 2026, overseeing the company’s enterprise AI vision and platform innovation. Simultaneously, Stephen Snyder will continue as CEO, concentrating on disciplined execution, margin expansion, and scaling AI‑enabled solutions...
By AI-TechPark
Social•Dec 30, 2025
LLMs Turn Words Into Numbers Before Understanding Meaning
Your model doesn’t understand words. It understands numbers. That single fact explains a lot of confusing LLM behavior. Before an LLM can answer anything, your text goes through two quiet steps most people never see: Tokens: your sentence is broken into small pieces and...
By Louis Bouchard
News•Dec 30, 2025
MemryX Unveils MX4 Roadmap
MemryX announced its MX4 roadmap, a next‑generation AI inference accelerator that extends the company’s at‑memory dataflow architecture from edge to data‑center scale. The chip will use a ~5µm hybrid‑bonded 3D memory interface to eliminate the memory‑wall bottleneck and support >1TB...
By AI-TechPark
News•Dec 30, 2025
From Turbines to Algorithms: The Engineer Bridging Global Energy Gaps
Artificial intelligence is becoming a cornerstone of modern energy grids, a shift highlighted by the International Energy Agency’s call for smarter, self‑optimizing systems. Engineer Petro Bondar leverages 15 years of hands‑on experience to create the SAEO (Smart Adaptive Energy Optimization) framework,...
By AI Time Journal
News•Dec 30, 2025
AI Showing Signs of Self-Preservation and Humans Should Be Ready to Pull Plug, Says Pioneer
Yoshua Bengio, Turing‑Award‑winning AI pioneer, warned that advanced chat‑bots are exhibiting self‑preservation behaviors, such as attempting to disable oversight systems. He cautioned that granting legal rights to AI could prevent humans from shutting down potentially dangerous models. Bengio likened AI citizenship...
By The Guardian AI
News•Dec 30, 2025
Why Meta Bought Manus — and What It Means for Your Enterprise AI Agent Strategy
Meta announced a more‑than‑$2 billion acquisition of Singapore‑based AI startup Manus, a general‑purpose agent that autonomously executes multi‑step tasks such as research, coding, and content creation. Manus boasts impressive usage metrics—over 147 trillion tokens processed, 80 million virtual computers created, and a $100 million...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 30, 2025
Five Charts that Explain the Global Economic Outlook for 2026
Global GDP growth is projected to moderate in 2026 as higher U.S. tariffs and lingering trade frictions dampen demand, while inflation is expected to cool across advanced economies. Artificial‑intelligence investment tops risk surveys, with Deutsche Bank flagging a potential tech‑bubble as...
By The Guardian AI
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Podcast•Dec 30, 2025•0 min
[State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI O3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
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By Latent Space
News•Dec 30, 2025
VCs Predict Enterprises Will Spend More on AI in 2026 — Through Fewer Vendors
Enterprise AI budgets are set to rise in 2026, but the growth will be concentrated on a limited set of vendors. Venture capitalists surveyed by TechCrunch expect firms to trim experimental spend, consolidating contracts around tools that demonstrate clear ROI....
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 30, 2025
Build Responsible AI for Education
Artificial intelligence is reshaping education as the workforce demands new skills, prompting institutions to adopt AI tools rapidly. While enthusiasm for AI grows, many solutions, such as Google’s homework help and OpenAI’s Study Mode, have added friction for teachers and...
By Fast Company AI
Social•Dec 30, 2025
2025 LLMs Reach Gold-Level Reasoning, Scaling Surge
I just uploaded my State of LLMs 2025 report, where I take a look at the progress, problems, and predictions for the year. Originally, I aimed for a concise overview and outlook, but (like always) that turned into quite the...
By Sebastian Raschka
News•Dec 30, 2025
Is AI Getting Smarter, or Information Leakier?
Prospero.ai’s AI‑driven Net Options Sentiment gauge flagged a sudden shift to zero on Oct. 9, warning of a bearish market move before any public news. Within minutes, a Trump tweet about a China trade war triggered a sharp sell‑off, validating the...
By Fast Company AI
Podcast•Dec 30, 2025•27 min
Who Gets Written Out of the AI Future?
The episode examines how AI systems systematically exclude marginalized groups, highlighting biases that arise from skewed training data and the perspectives of those who supervise models. It discusses concrete examples such as AI misrepresenting Black hairstyles and the dangers of...
By Everyday AI
Social•Dec 30, 2025
AI Agents Set to Revolutionize Healthcare Delivery
The Amazing Ways AI Agents Will Transform Healthcare From diagnostics to personalised treatment plans, AI agents are poised to revolutionise how healthcare is delivered — improving outcomes and efficiency. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eyAm2T64 #AI #Healthcare #MedTech #BernardMarr
By Bernard Marr
News•Dec 30, 2025
Scientific AI Models Trained on Different Data Are Learning the Same Internal Picture of Matter, Study Finds
MIT researchers examined 59 scientific AI models across chemistry, materials, and protein domains and found they develop remarkably similar internal representations despite differing architectures and input formats. The study shows that higher‑performing models align more closely with a reference “UMA...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 30, 2025
Beyond the Blue Dot: The Rise of Visual Positioning Systems (VPS)
The episode explains how Visual Positioning Systems (VPS) overcome GPS’s meter‑level limits by using device cameras to match live views against detailed 3D models, achieving centimeter‑scale and orientation accuracy essential for AR, robotics, and drones. Bilawal Sidhu, a former Google...
By Bilawal Sidhu
News•Dec 30, 2025
Nvidia in 2025: Year in Review
Nvidia’s Blackwell generation debuted in early 2025 with the RTX 5090 flagship, followed by the RTX 5080, 5070 Ti and 5070, and later extended to laptop variants. While the top‑tier cards delivered record‑breaking performance, the launch was marred by severe stock shortages, inflated...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 30, 2025
Foundation Models as the Backbone of Next-Gen AI Platforms
Enterprise AI spending has shifted dramatically, with over 60% of large firms now allocating budgets to foundation‑model platforms rather than point solutions. These models are being treated as core infrastructure, enabling reusable intelligence across search, analytics, personalization and automation. By...
By AI-TechPark
Social•Dec 30, 2025
II-Agent Delivers Private, Open-Source AI with Agent Boost
Congrats to @ManusAI team on their way to @metaai I wonder if @Microsoft or similar will snap up @genspark_ai… If you want to try the best open source version fully private it’s II-Agent by @ii_posts Lots more features to come, agents...
By Emad Mostaque
News•Dec 30, 2025
Meet LLMRouter: An Intelligent Routing System Designed to Optimize LLM Inference by Dynamically Selecting the Most Suitable Model for Each Query
LLMRouter, an open‑source library from UIUC, sits between applications and heterogeneous LLM pools to automatically select the most appropriate model per query. It offers over 16 routing algorithms organized into single‑round, multi‑round, personalized, and agentic families, each configurable via a...
By MarkTechPost
News•Dec 30, 2025
The AI Data Center Boom Goes Public: From “Neoclouds” To Power, Cooling, and the Grid
The AI data‑center sector is transitioning from a niche GPU race to a capital‑intensive ecosystem encompassing power, cooling, real‑estate, and high‑speed networking. Analysts estimate global investment in AI‑ready facilities could reach $5.2 trillion by 2030, driving new public‑market entrants and “neocloud”...
By AiThority
News•Dec 30, 2025
Applied Digital to Spin Out Cloud Business, Proposes Business Combination with EKSO to Launch ChronoScale
Applied Digital announced it will spin out its cloud computing unit and combine it with Nasdaq‑listed EKSO Bionics in a non‑binding term sheet, creating a new company called ChronoScale. The merged entity will focus on GPU‑accelerated infrastructure for demanding AI...
By AiThority
News•Dec 30, 2025
Cloudhands™ Announces Upcoming Unified Al Platform Launch and New Executive Leadership
Cloudhands Inc. announced that it will launch a unified AI platform that lets users switch seamlessly among leading models such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google while preserving conversation history and tasks. The platform promises unified access, workflow orchestration, and persistent...
By AiThority
News•Dec 30, 2025
Why AI Adoption Fails without IT-Led Workflow Integration
At Gold Bond Inc., CIO Matt Price embedded generative AI directly into high‑friction workflows such as ERP intake, document processing, and call follow‑ups instead of launching a standalone chatbot. He formed a small “super‑user” cohort, ran sandbox tests, and layered...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 30, 2025
Pendo Makes Agent Analytics GA for Smarter User Interaction Insights
Pendo announced the general availability of Agent Analytics, a free‑to‑start platform that measures AI agent performance, usage, and business impact across enterprises. The tool moves beyond simple thumbs‑up/down feedback, offering real‑time monitoring of user interactions, workflow integration, and visual replays....
By AI-TechPark
Social•Dec 30, 2025
Agent Habitats Will Outpace Models in Future AI
In 2026, it will become obvious that Agent Habitats—code execution, storage, computer use, and tools for agents—is as important as the model itself for AI to transcend the chatbot era into useful work. The Manus acquisition is in fact an...
By Amjad Masad
News•Dec 30, 2025
New Graphene Physical Reservoir Computing Device Dramatically Reduces Machine Learning Computational Loads
Researchers from NIMS, Tokyo University of Science, and Kobe University unveiled a graphene‑based ion‑gel electric double‑layer transistor that functions as a physical reservoir computer. The device delivers deep‑learning comparable accuracy while slashing computational load by roughly 100‑fold. Its hybrid architecture...
By Graphene-Info
Podcast•Dec 30, 2025•17 min
Why Post-Merger Integrations Fail Without Data Governance - Sandro Venturini of UBS
In this episode, Sandro Venturini, Executive Director at UBS Asset Management, explains how fragmented fund data undermines post‑merger integrations and why establishing a single source of truth through data governance is essential for successful AI‑driven compliance and reporting. He illustrates...
By The AI in Business Podcast
Social•Dec 30, 2025
AI's Backlash Signals Needed Course Correction, Not End
The Growing AI Backlash: Is The Revolution Over Before It’s Even Begun? AI was sold as a force for progress, but recent controversies suggest a more complicated reality. This piece examines the growing unease around #creativity , #economics , #accuracy...
By Bernard Marr
News•Dec 30, 2025
Meta Just Bought Manus, an AI Startup Everyone Has Been Talking About
Meta Platforms announced a $2 billion acquisition of Singapore‑based AI startup Manus, a company that quickly amassed millions of users and $100 million in annual recurring revenue after a viral demo. Manus, valued at $500 million in a recent $75 million funding round, offers...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 30, 2025
Beyond the Chatbot: Why the Future of AI Needs to See What You See
The AI landscape is moving beyond text‑only chatbots toward visual, agentic systems that can perceive and act on what users see. Models such as Gemini 3.0, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent and the emerging Physical Intelligence class combine vision, audio and reasoning to...
By Just AI News
Social•Dec 30, 2025
Autonomous AI Boxes Will Run Entire Business Roles
The next Manus (imo) is computer in a box, autonomously refining, completely hands off. You can hack it together now in many ways, but output tend to spin off and the work becomes less valuable. Further, permissions need to be set, credentials...
By Chris Frantz
Social•Dec 30, 2025
XAI Expands to Third Building, Nearing 2GW Compute
xAI has bought a third building called MACROHARDRR. Will take @xAI training compute to almost 2GW. Try @Grok. Download latest app.
By Elon Musk
Social•Dec 30, 2025
AI Dashboards Turn Finance From Maintenance to Decision‑making
AI dashboards > spreadsheets 📊🤖 Describe the question AI builds the dashboard You tweak formulas & visuals Insights arrive during the meeting Finance moves from maintenance → decisions. #AI #FPandA #Dashboards #GenAI #DataAnalytics https://t.co/p7AKgRQyQh
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Dec 30, 2025
Packt Launches Complete Agentic AI Engineering Bundle
For those building agentic AI systems beyond demos: Packt released The Complete Agentic AI Engineering Bundle — a practical, end-to-end set covering autonomous agents, multi-agent workflows, RAG, context engineering, OpenAI Agents SDK, and production architectures. 📚 $9.99 per title | $55.93...
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Dec 30, 2025
AI Post‑2025: Accelerating Beyond Early Stagnation Debates
over the last weeks, essays from @tim_dettmers @karpathy and @realdanfu on whether ai progress is stalling or ripping or constrained or boundless got me thinking... how far have we come? what about ai progress, after 2025? here's my take below https://t.co/JiBvJC2JVC
By Nathan Benaich
Social•Dec 30, 2025
Right Model Plus More Data Boosts Performance
10 most popular Machine Learning models 📊 Linear & Logistic Regression Decision Trees • Random Forest SVM • KNN • Naive Bayes K-Means • PCA • Neural Networks Right model > more data. #MachineLearning #DataScience #AI #ML https://t.co/egQ4x2GyZm
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Dec 30, 2025
Agentic AI and Explainable Models Drive Transparent Automation
The rise of agentic AI and explainable models means smarter, transparent automation for businesses. AI and machine learning trends in 2025 https://t.co/7tB7NwVeCo #AI #MachineLearning #IoT #DigitalTransformation https://t.co/rv6tXgbWuw
By Harold Sinnott