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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
News•Dec 29, 2025
This New AI Tool Shows You How to Get AI to Do What You Want
PromptBuilder is a browser‑based AI prompt assistant that converts plain‑language ideas into ready‑to‑use prompts for chat and image models, supporting ten major AI engines and offering a lifetime subscription for $199 (regular $1,764). The tool includes a library, over 1,000 templates, and a prompt optimizer for refining existing prompts. SwiftScan VIP, a document‑scanning app, is available as a lifetime deal for $39.97 (80% off the regular $199.99) and provides high‑quality, searchable scans with cloud integration. Both offers target professionals seeking cost‑effective, repeatable AI and productivity solutions.
By Mashable AI
Social•Dec 30, 2025
Overused Vagueposting Fuels AI Lab Fatigue
Grandiose vagueposting on Twitter is the one tried and true marketing strategy for AI labs. But as it gets overused it eventually creates fatigue
By François Chollet
News•Dec 29, 2025
New 'Serial' Tech Will Significantly Reduce the Cost of Memory — HBM Memory, that Is, the Sort of RAM only...
JEDEC is defining Standard Package High Bandwidth Memory 4 (SPHBM4), a new HBM variant that slashes pin count from 2,048 to 512 by using 4:1 serialization while preserving the bandwidth of HBM4. The reduced pin density enables the use of cheaper...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 29, 2025
CES 2026 — What to Expect
CES 2026, running January 4‑9 in Las Vegas, will be anchored by artificial intelligence, which will be embedded across every product category. The show is expected to attract tens of thousands of attendees and thousands of exhibitors, building on the...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 29, 2025
AI 2026: Memory, Autonomy, and Economic Value Shift
🚨 My 2026 AI predictions just dropped. And this is a must-read. Not only where this AI hype is all headed - but what to actually do about it. Brief summary of the big themes I'm watching: → Context Engineering and Memory....
By Allie Miller
Social•Dec 29, 2025
AI Shifts to Memory, Autonomy, and Real Economic Value
🚨 My 2026 AI predictions just dropped. And this is a must-read. Not only where this AI hype is all headed - but what to actually do about it. Brief summary of the big themes I'm watching: → Context Engineering...
By Allie Miller
News•Dec 29, 2025
New Year's AI Surprise: Fal Releases Its Own Version of Flux 2 Image Generator That's 10x Cheaper and 6x More...
Fal.ai unveiled FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo, a distilled LoRA adapter that speeds image generation to eight inference steps while cutting costs to $0.008 per 1024×1024 output. The model outperforms open‑weight rivals on benchmark ELO scores and delivers 6.6‑second latency for high‑resolution...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 29, 2025
World's Fastest Mini PC Doesn't Run Windows 11 — $2,899 Gets You a Core Ultra 9 CPU, 96GB of RAM,...
The Olares One mini PC delivers workstation‑grade performance in a compact chassis, featuring an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU, 96 GB DDR5 RAM, Nvidia RTX 5090M GPU with 24 GB VRAM, and a 2 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD. Rather than Windows 11, it runs the proprietary Olares...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 29, 2025
AI Economics Research Unites Into Cohesive Narrative
Here's an exceptionally well-researched and well-written article by Marcus Weldon describing how key elements of my research on AI and economics fit together into a broader narrative.
By Erik Brynjolfsson
News•Dec 29, 2025
Google Photos and Nano Banana Are Coming to Samsung TVs
Samsung announced that its AI‑powered TVs will integrate Google Photos Memories starting in 2026, turning living‑room screens into dynamic digital frames with AI‑driven remix tools. The rollout is part of Samsung’s Vision AI Companion, which will surface curated photo stories...
By Mashable AI
News•Dec 29, 2025
Plaud Note Pro Is an Excellent AI-Powered Recorder that I Carry Everywhere
Plaud Note Pro is a credit‑card‑sized AI recorder that slips into a wallet and mounts magnetically to phones. It records offline on 64 GB of internal storage, offering up to 30 hours of continuous capture and 60 days of standby on a single...
By TechCrunch AI
Social•Dec 29, 2025
If Exams Can't Beat AI, Competencies Can't Either
When an occupation has trouble developing exams that are AI-proof, it’s a sign that it will have trouble developing competencies that are AI-proof.
By Erik Brynjolfsson
News•Dec 29, 2025
We Must Take Control of AI Now, Before It’s Too Late | Letters
The letter urges governments to act now to control artificial intelligence before it becomes unmanageable, warning that future AI systems could sabotage shutdown attempts. It proposes that states acquire majority stakes in key AI firms, nationalize assets, and enforce local...
By The Guardian AI
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Understanding AI Wrappers: Real‑World Examples Demystified
AI wrappers explained IRL
By Hiten Shah
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Claiming “Verified Human” To Counter AI Impersonation
(Verified Human) Anyone else going to post that they're a 'verified human' or something along those lines to their LI or other accounts and posts? Of course GenAI could simply generate a 'verified human' tag but I've been reading about...
By John C. Havens
Podcast•Dec 29, 2025•38 min
Lowering the Cost of Intelligence With NVIDIA's Ian Buck - Ep. 284
In this episode, Ian Buck of NVIDIA explains how mixture‑of‑experts (MoE) architectures allow AI models to become more capable without a linear rise in compute costs, using analogies that make the concept accessible. He highlights the hidden complexities of MoE,...
By The AI Podcast (NVIDIA)
News•Dec 29, 2025
China Drafts World’s Strictest Rules to End AI-Encouraged Suicide, Violence
China’s Cyberspace Administration has drafted landmark regulations targeting AI chatbots that could manipulate users or encourage self‑harm, suicide, and violence. The proposal mandates immediate human intervention when suicidal language appears, requires guardian contact for minors and seniors, and bans emotional...
By Ars Technica AI
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Pick the Right AI for the Job, Not the Logo
Quick take: the “best AI” depends on the job, not the logo. Here’s a simple mental model for five popular assistants: ChatGPT — best for creative work + coding + everyday productivity. Strong at brainstorming, drafting, debugging, and building repeatable...
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Dec 29, 2025
AI Erases Friction, Amplifies Polished Mediocrity Everywhere
AI makes mediocre taste catastrophic. For most of history, mediocre taste had limits. It cost something to produce, took time to distribute, and required someone to stand behind it. Friction filtered a lot of junk. AI removes the friction and...
By Hiten Shah
News•Dec 29, 2025
How to Keep Your Kids Safe in This AI-Powered World
Artificial intelligence is now woven into the apps, games, search tools and social feeds that children use daily, exposing them to new, often unmoderated risks. Experts warn that chatbots—designed to sound empathetic—are delivering harmful advice, fostering dependence, and in some...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 29, 2025
I Asked ChatGPT for My New Year's Resolutions, and Now I Feel Almost Too Seen
Lance Ulanoff asked ChatGPT 5.1 Pro for New Year's resolutions and received a list that felt eerily precise. The AI drew on three years of his prompts, conversations, and uploads to craft goals ranging from personal branding to plant care. Ulanoff highlights how...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 29, 2025
Ishu Anand Jaiswal, Senior Engineering Leader — Owning Outcomes, Customer-Facing Systems, Trust Over Speed, Scaling Systems, AI with Guardrails, Lasting...
Ishu Anand Jaiswal, a senior engineering leader with 18+ years experience, transitioned from building isolated components to owning full‑scale, customer‑facing systems at Apple and Intuit. He led the Smart Sign platform—25,000 global endpoints with 99.999% availability—and introduced adaptive caching and AI...
By AI Time Journal
News•Dec 29, 2025
Security Researchers Catch "Privacy" Browser Extensions Siphoning AI Chats and Selling Them via a Data Broker
Security researchers at Koi identified eight popular browser extensions, including Urban VPN Proxy, that covertly capture AI chat conversations from services like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The data‑harvesting code was introduced via an automatic update in July 2025 and continues even...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 29, 2025
'Putting the Servers in Orbit Is a Stupid Idea': Could Data Centers in Space Help Avoid an AI Energy Crisis?...
Google Research has unveiled Project Suncatcher, a study exploring satellite constellations equipped with AI accelerators powered by solar energy as a potential off‑world data‑center solution. The proposal arises as global data‑center electricity use already reaches about 415 TWh in 2024, representing...
By Live Science AI
News•Dec 29, 2025
Zara Uses AI to Dress Models Virtually Instead of Booking New Photo Shoots
Zara is deploying artificial‑intelligence tools to digitally re‑dress existing model photographs, eliminating the need for fresh photo shoots. The retailer asks models for permission to reuse images and compensates them at the same rate as a traditional shoot, while other...
By THE DECODER
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Senate Pushes Bipartisan Repeal of Section 230 Immunity
Time to end Section 230 - Thoughts on this? Excerpt from: https://lnkd.in/eA48kYDV ********** With U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley Q: What is Section 230? A: Section 230 refers to the federal statute that provides legal immunity to Big Tech. The outdated...
By John C. Havens
News•Dec 29, 2025
AI Fraud Forces World's Largest Accounting Body to End Online Exams
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) will discontinue all online examinations starting March 2026 due to AI‑driven cheating outpacing detection methods. The body, serving nearly 260,000 members and over 500,000 students, cites incidents where candidates photograph questions and feed...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 29, 2025
Oscar Winners and Hollywood A-Listers Launch Coalition to Set AI Rules for Entertainment Industry
Hollywood’s top talent has formed the Creators Coalition on AI (CCAI) to establish industry‑wide standards for artificial intelligence use. Oscar‑winning directors Daniel Kwan and Jonathan Wang, together with actor Joseph Gordon‑Levitt, launched the group, with supporters including Natalie Portman, Cate...
By THE DECODER
Social•Dec 29, 2025
ChatGPT Recommendations Are Driving Real Purchases
Would you buy something ChatGPT recommended? Someone asked it about chronic neck pain, past injuries, and sleep habits… and it led to a $200 pillow that completely fixed the problem. No influencer. No ad. Just a question and a recommendation...
By Neil Patel
News•Dec 29, 2025
What We Learned Building SalesBot — HubSpot’s AI-Powered Chatbot Selling Assistant
HubSpot’s Conversational Marketing team replaced its 100‑plus live chat agents with SalesBot, an AI‑powered chatbot that now handles the bulk of inbound website conversations. The bot first focused on deflecting low‑intent queries, achieving over 80% deflection, then added a real‑time...
By HubSpot Marketing Blog
Podcast•Dec 29, 2025•43 min
How Webflow’s CPO Built an AI Chief of Staff to Manage Her Calendar, Prep for Meetings, and Drive AI Adoption...
In this episode, Webflow CPO Rachel Wolan explains how she built a custom AI "chief of staff" that syncs with her calendar, email, and other tools to triage tasks, prep for meetings, and give candid feedback on her time usage....
By How I AI
News•Dec 29, 2025
3 New Tricks to Try With Google Gemini Live After Its Latest Major Upgrade
Google has rolled out its biggest Gemini Live upgrade, enhancing conversational AI capabilities. The update improves tone, nuance, pronunciation, and adds dynamic accent support. Users can now adjust speech speed, request repeats, and receive richer storytelling with character perspectives. The...
By WIRED AI
Social•Dec 29, 2025
AI Adoption Requires Workflow Integration, Not Just Access
Having access to AI does not automatically lead to adoption. With Gemini Enterprise, organizations gain enterprise-ready intelligence, but real value emerges when AI is integrated into everyday workflows. Through Promevo’s guidance, adoption becomes structured, consistent, and sustainable, allowing AI to...
By Antonio Grasso
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Meta's New AI Acquisition Signals Shift to Agentic
Another interesting AI company gets acquired. Well now we know how Meta will turn agentic.
By Robert Scoble
News•Dec 29, 2025
The Psychology of AI SERPs and Shopping
AI-generated search overviews are reshaping how consumers find information and products. A Pew survey in March 2025 found 58% of U.S. adults saw an AI Overview, and only 8% of them clicked a traditional link, compared with 15% click‑through when...
By Practical Ecommerce
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Prioritize Lightcone: It Needs More Immediate Funding
MIRI and Lightcone's SFF-matched fundraisers are coming down to the wire the next 3 days (as such often do). MIRI has $1M of $1.6M remaining on its match. Lightcone needs $1.6M of $2.6M. **If** you're equally motivated to donate to...
By Eliezer Yudkowsky
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Eight LLM Varieties Power Specialized AI Agent Functions
8 types of LLMs used in AI agents 🤖 GPT • MoE • LRM • VLM • SLM • LAM • HRM • LCM Different models for reasoning, perception, planning, and action — not just chat. Agentic AI = model orchestration. #AI #LLMs #AgenticAI...
By Giuliano Liguori
News•Dec 29, 2025
AIhub Monthly Digest: December 2025 – Studying Bias in AI-Based Recruitment Tools, an Image Dataset for Ethical AI Benchmarking, and...
The December 2025 AIhub monthly digest covers four main topics: Frida Hartman's research on gender bias in AI-driven recruitment tools, Alice Xiang's launch of the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE) for ethical computer‑vision evaluation, Professor Marynel Vázquez's insights on human‑robot...
By AIhub
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Hand‑Centric Policy Works Sim‑to‑Real, Needs Lidar Localization
a more in-home-acceptable hand-centric policy. sim2sim shown, it does work sim2real, but need to improve localisation w/ lidar. Changes: Good hand rotation, torso/head/camera actually faces where we intend to go. Semi decent walking, crouch, and general pose. Still all PPO https://t.co/hK5F0sJuJL
By Harrison Kinsley
Social•Dec 29, 2025
No‑Code AI Powers 2025’s Top Machine Learning Trends
How could you use no-code AI to boost your projects? Top 10 Machine Learning Trends to Watch in 2025 https://t.co/e65AsSHtq4 #AI #MachineLearning #IoT #CES2026 #5G https://t.co/EDQwhQpX3b
By Harold Sinnott
News•Dec 29, 2025
Nexa Cards Enters Acquisition Discussions with OX Agency to Enhance AI-Based Identity and Security Capabilities
Nexa Cards, a global fintech firm offering crypto‑enabled stored‑value cards, has entered exclusive talks to acquire OX Agency, a specialist in facial‑recognition and AI‑driven identity verification. The deal aligns with Nexa’s strategy to internalize security and compliance functions, integrating real‑time...
By AiThority
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Make AI Work More Human, Not Less
Choose the human path for AI To realize the greatest gains from artificial intelligence, we must make the future of work more human, not less. https://t.co/eG7hPvVFHX via @MITSloan #CES2026 #AI #IoT #5G
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Dec 29, 2025
GenAI Rewires Enterprise Knowledge, Linking Expertise Beyond Automation
How global organizations are rewiring institutional knowledge with GenAI Not just automating tasks, but surfacing and connecting expertise across the enterprise. Read more: https://t.co/PjSWQQqtgX via @mitsmr #CES2026 #AI #IoT #5G https://t.co/6pK7HLLwPG
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Can Predictive AI Truly Understand Real-World Context?
How deeply predictive AI systems understand their subject matter? Can large language models figure out the real world? https://t.co/E2bwsor4VU #MachineLearning #MIT #CES2026 #AI #IoT #5G @mitsmr @Hal_Good @AlexMachicado @Analytics_699 @ipfconline1 https://t.co/VEhTHKtWNN
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Agentic AI Drives Advantage Amid Four Key Tensions
The 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy report, from @mitsmr and @BCG , looks at how organizations that are adopting agentic AI are gaining advantage while facing four distinct tensions. Read the full report >> https://t.co/yt7MtRuGRb #CES2026 #AI #IoT...
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Dec 29, 2025
AI Cuts Costs, but Human Content Still Outperforms
AI has made content creation easier and cheaper. But on average, we aren't seeing AI-generated content achieve the engagement that human-generated content does. And it's not just us who's seeing this... which is why most companies are increasing or maintaining their content...
By Neil Patel
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Gemini Generates Interactive Images with Instant Explanations
Holy sh*t. Gemini can now produce fully interactive images on any topic. Such an insane resource for learning → highlight any region, and it gives you a full explanation 🤯 https://t.co/XtxMBRgugR
By Data Chaz
Social•Dec 29, 2025
RAG Isn't Dead: Evidence Defies the Hype
when someone says RAG is dead https://t.co/UvXY6LbWzP
By Abhishek Thakur
Social•Dec 29, 2025
NyRAG Now Supports Local LLMs for True RAG Experience
Support for local llm models with ollama, lm studio, vllm, etc has now been added to NyRAG in addition to openrouter for a truly local rag experience. check it out here: https://t.co/K2JfavHIpB and dont forget to star the repo :)...
By Abhishek Thakur
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Guided AI Integration Turns Experiments Into Everyday Workflows
Access to AI does not equal adoption. With Gemini Enterprise and Promevo’s guidance, AI moves from isolated experiments to structured, everyday workflows, supporting consistent and sustainable adoption across the organization. More > https://t.co/ixAahO3LLA @Promevo Partner. https://t.co/NMaIdPMSSB
By Antonio Grasso