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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 18, 2025
Kolo AI Surpasses 10 Million Messages in First 85 Days; Launches ‘Personas’ to Bring Specialized AI Expertise to Modern Families
Kolo AI announced it has processed over 10 million messages in just 85 days since its September launch, highlighting rapid consumer adoption. The company introduced Kolo Personas, a suite of 20 hyper‑specialized AI experts ranging from a Superparent to a Celebrity Chef, designed to deepen household productivity. Users interact primarily via SMS, averaging about 20 queries per day, positioning Kolo as a household operating system. The platform’s proprietary orchestrator dynamically selects the best large language model for each request, enabling seamless, zero‑learning‑curve experiences.
By AiThority
News•Dec 18, 2025
Tech Mahindra Accelerates Enterprise AI Transformation with Gemini Enterprise
Tech Mahindra announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate enterprise adoption of Gemini Enterprise, leveraging Google’s Gemini 2.5 multimodal models. The collaboration blends Tech Mahindra’s Orion framework, AI‑first engineering talent, and Centers of Excellence with Google Cloud services such...
By AiThority
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Delfa Builds AI‑first Software for Life‑saving Trials
every industry has its high‑stakes systems: software that cannot fail because the cost of failure is borne by real people. in clinical research, that system is the infrastructure that manages participant journeys through clinical trials. these trials are the gateway...
By Nathan Benaich
News•Dec 18, 2025
2025 AAAI / ACM SIGAI Doctoral Consortium Interviews Compilation
The episode compiles interviews with 23 doctoral consortium participants, showcasing a wide spectrum of AI research—from kernel learning for time‑series forecasting and explainable AI for robotics and cyber‑physical systems, to privacy‑preserving generative models, bias mitigation in large language models, and...
By AIhub
News•Dec 18, 2025
Fastly Threat Insights Report Reveals Organizations Are Fighting Back Against the Rise of the Bots
Fastly’s Threat Insights Report shows bots now account for 29% of web traffic, with unwanted bots comprising about 25%. Bot requests rose 2% quarter‑over‑quarter, driven by AI crawlers, fetchers and headless bots. Headless bots focused 89% of traffic on financial...
By AiThority
News•Dec 18, 2025
Cobalt Closes 2025 With Unprecedented Scale, Breakthrough AI Innovation, and 88 G2 Badges
Cobalt announced its strongest year to date, delivering over 31,000 testing days and nearly 255,000 hands‑on testing hours in 2025 while uncovering an average of 12 critical vulnerabilities per day. The company grew its customer base more than 7%, maintained...
By AiThority
News•Dec 18, 2025
George Osborne Has a New Job in Tech, and It Doesn’t Bode Well for Britain | Chris Stokel-Walker
Former UK chancellor George Osborne has been appointed head of OpenAI for Countries, a new unit that will embed OpenAI’s models and data‑centre infrastructure within government systems worldwide. The move follows a growing pattern of big‑tech firms hiring ex‑politicians to...
By The Guardian AI
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Segmentation Is Essential; One Bad Segment Kills Deliverability
Your Emails Are Getting Penalized for This One Mistake (And 90% of Brands Are Guilty) The more you segment by behavioral engagement (opens, clicks, replies), the more inbox AIs will reward you with prime placement, even if your overall list...
By Neil Patel
News•Dec 18, 2025
The Star Trek Holodeck Just Got Closer – Apple’s New AI Tool Generates 3D Scenes From Your Photos in Under...
Apple unveiled SHARP, an AI model that turns a single 2D photo into a photorealistic 3D scene in under one second. Trained on eight million synthetic and 2.65 million real images, the system generates depth maps and 3‑D Gaussian representations with...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
EMASS Pushes the Edge Further with 16nm ECS-DoT
EMASS announced its next‑generation 16 nm ECS‑DoT edge AI SoC is entering final development stages, moving toward tape‑out at TSMC. The new chip builds on the 22 nm version while adding an integrated BLE subsystem, expanded on‑chip SRAM, fine‑grained power management, a...
By AI-TechPark
News•Dec 18, 2025
A Filmmaker Made a Sam Altman Deepfake—And Got Unexpectedly Attached
Director Adam Bhala Lough’s new documentary *Deepfaking Sam Altman* chronicles his quest to interview OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, which stalled after months of silence. To break the deadlock, Lough commissioned a full‑body deepfake—Sam Bot—produced in India, turning the synthetic avatar into the film’s...
By WIRED AI
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Deepnote Open‑Sources Next‑Gen Notebook, Challenging Jupyter
ICYMI, Deepnote, a company I’ve followed and used since its creation, just recently OPEN-SOURCED their modern notebook framework 🔥 And honestly, this could be the final chapter for Jupyter. After 7 years of development, @DeepnoteHQ has built something that redefines the notebook...
By Data Chaz
News•Dec 18, 2025
Smart Data Solutions Appoints Mark Fidow as CTO to Accelerate AI-Native Healthcare Workflow Automation
Smart Data Solutions (SDS) announced the appointment of Mark Fidow as chief technology officer to accelerate its AI‑native healthcare workflow automation platform. Fidow brings more than 30 years of technology leadership across healthcare, payments, fintech and aviation. He will steer...
By AiThority
News•Dec 18, 2025
Syncrux Introduces Optix, an Agentic AI Platform Capable of Running Full Business Workflows
Syncrux unveiled Optix, an agentic AI platform designed to operate as a browser‑based digital employee that can plan, execute, and verify multi‑step workflows without rigid scripts. The system adapts in real time to UI changes and offers a Watch Mode...
By AiThority
News•Dec 18, 2025
Wall Street’s AI Gains Are Here — Banks Plan for Fewer People
By December 2025, Wall Street banks have moved AI from pilot projects to daily operations, with generative tools lifting productivity across engineering, operations, and customer service. JPMorgan reports a 6% productivity rise and aims for 40‑50% gains, while Wells Fargo anticipates...
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Dec 18, 2025
AI-Generated Code Contains More Bugs and Errors than Human Output
A new CodeRabbit study finds AI‑generated pull requests contain 1.7 times more issues than human‑written code, averaging 10.83 problems versus 6.45. The defects span critical and major categories, with security, logic and performance errors notably higher. While AI reduces spelling...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
Ensuring Effective AI in Insurance Operations
Insurance leaders Allianz, Aviva and Zurich have moved AI from pilot projects to production tools that sit directly in daily workflows. Allianz’s Insurance Copilot automates claim data gathering, document analysis and email drafting, speeding settlements. Aviva’s generative‑AI summariser condenses lengthy...
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Dec 18, 2025
AVASOFT Joins the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association
AVASOFT announced its membership in the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), joining an ecosystem of security vendors integrated with Microsoft’s security stack. The company’s solutions now tightly connect with Microsoft Entra, Intune, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Purview, Sentinel, and...
By AI-TechPark
News•Dec 18, 2025
New OpenAI Platform Teaches Newsrooms How to Use AI Tools
OpenAI has unveiled the "Academy for News Organizations," a new learning platform designed to help journalists and publishers adopt artificial‑intelligence tools. Developed with the American Journalism Project and the Lenfest Institute, the on‑demand program offers practical training, translation examples, and...
By THE DECODER
Social•Dec 18, 2025
AI's Future Lies in Embracing Forgetting, Not Accumulation
Why the future of AI depends on what it can let go of and what humans have always known how to forget We talk about intelligence as though it were a process of accumulation. More data. More training. More experience....
By Iain Brown
Podcast•Dec 18, 2025•0 min
America and China Are Racing to Different AI Futures
In this episode Tristan Harris talks with China‑focused AI experts Selena Xu and Matt Sheehan about the misconceptions driving the U.S.–China AI narrative. They explain that China’s AI strategy is driven by a diverse ecosystem of companies, academia and local...
By Tristan Harris
News•Dec 18, 2025
AstraZeneca Leads Big Pharma’s AI Clinical Trials Revolution with Real-World Patient Impact
AstraZeneca is scaling AI‑driven clinical‑trial tools beyond the lab, embedding them in Thailand’s national health system and screening over 660,000 patients. Its CREATE study showed a 54.1% positive predictive value for an AI chest‑X‑ray algorithm, prompting a three‑year, 415 million‑baht rollout...
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Dec 18, 2025
OpenAI Launches App Submissions and Rolls Out Store in the New Year
OpenAI announced that developers can now submit ChatGPT applications for inclusion in a new directory accessed via the Tools menu. Submissions will undergo a review process, and approved apps can be launched directly in conversations using the “@” command. A...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 18, 2025
TileDB Announces Integration with Snowflake to Launch TileDB Carrara
TileDB launched Carrara, an omnimodal data intelligence platform, as a Snowflake Connected App for Healthcare and Life Sciences. The integration unifies complex scientific data—genomics, proteomics, imaging, and documents—across TileDB arrays and Snowflake tables within a single catalog. Automatic RSA key...
By AI-TechPark
News•Dec 18, 2025
Deepfakes Are No Longer Just a Disinformation Problem. They Are Your Next Supply Chain Risk
In February 2025, engineering firm Arup lost $25 million after attackers used AI‑generated video and audio to impersonate senior leaders and convince an employee to transfer funds. The breach highlighted a critical weakness: a lack of identity resilience, the ability to...
By Fast Company AI
News•Dec 18, 2025
Indie Agency Glow Dips Its Toe In Software Sales With Creator Vetting Tool
Glow, an independent social and digital marketing agency, has introduced CreatorView, an AI‑driven platform that vets influencers for brand safety and alignment. The move reflects a broader trend of agencies expanding into software sales as AI shortens product development cycles...
By Adweek AI
News•Dec 18, 2025
Third of UK Citizens Have Used AI for Emotional Support, Research Reveals
A recent AI Security Institute report shows that one‑third of UK citizens have turned to artificial intelligence for emotional support, companionship or social interaction. Nearly one in ten users engage with chatbots weekly and 4 % do so daily, with general‑purpose...
By The Guardian AI
News•Dec 18, 2025
OpenAI Reportedly Seeking up to $100 Billion in New Funding Round
OpenAI is in early discussions to raise as much as $100 billion, which could lift its valuation to roughly $750 billion—a 50% jump from its October share sale. The company reports an annualized revenue run rate of $19 billion and aims for $30 billion...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 18, 2025
Fortinet and Arista Networks Announce Joint Secure AI Data Center Solution
Fortinet and Arista Networks unveiled a Secure AI Data Center solution, first deployed at Monolithic Power Systems, that merges Fortinet’s ASIC‑accelerated security with Arista’s ultra‑low‑latency networking. The reference architecture offers a modular, zero‑trust design, zero‑touch provisioning and hardware‑offloaded TLS that...
By AI-TechPark
News•Dec 18, 2025
Penguin Ai and FTI Unite Expertise for Next-Gen Revenue Cycle Performance
Penguin AI, a healthcare AI specialist, announced a partnership with global advisory firm FTI Consulting to embed its AI platform into FTI’s revenue cycle management (RCM) transformation services. The integration aims to automate claims denial and appeals workflows, delivering faster...
By AI-TechPark
News•Dec 18, 2025
Fake Minns, Altered Images and Psyop Theories: Bondi Attack Misinformation Shows AI’s Power to Confuse
Following the deadly Bondi beach attack, AI‑generated deepfakes and manipulated images flooded social platforms, especially X, with false narratives ranging from psy‑ops to misidentified perpetrators. Prominent examples included a deep‑faked video of NSW Premier Chris Minns, fabricated crisis‑actor photos, and...
By The Guardian AI
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Studying Silicon Valley's Failures: Lessons From K-Scale
Silicon Valley is paved with failures. We don't often think about the failures, but it's a hobby of mine to study them and since I was the first to tell you about K-Scale, it's only right that I spend a...
By Robert Scoble
News•Dec 18, 2025
Enterprise AI Coding Grows Teeth: GPT‑5.2‑Codex Weaves Security Into Large-Scale Software Refactors
OpenAI released GPT‑5.2‑Codex, an agentic coding model built on GPT‑5.2 with enhanced cybersecurity capabilities. The model achieved top scores on Capture‑the‑Flag, CVE‑Bench (87%) and a 72.7% pass rate on Cyber Range tests, demonstrating improved long‑horizon code understanding. Enterprise users can...
By VentureBeat
Podcast•Dec 18, 2025•8 min
Lovable Raises $330M at $6.6B Valuation
The episode dissects Lovable's $330 million Series round that lifted its valuation to $6.6 billion, highlighting the surge of investor interest in developer‑first AI tools. It explains the concept of “vibe‑coding”—AI‑driven code generation that adapts to a programmer’s style—and why this approach...
By AI Chat
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Streamlined Multitasking with Claude via Contextual Chat Streams
Managing a dozen chats with Claude at once ⬇️ Majority of AI superusers I meet with are doing multiple AI tasks at once. Like, 8 different coding windows. Or 16 different client projects. A fun AI hack for me has...
By Allie Miller
Social•Dec 18, 2025
First‑mover Edge Fades in AI and Robotics
idk when first mover advantage was actually a thing, but it sure seems to not be a thing for AI and robotics.
By Harrison Kinsley
News•Dec 18, 2025
A New World Model Startup Is Quietly Raising Big Money
The episode spotlights General Intuition, a stealth AI startup developing a universal agent and world model, now in late‑stage fundraising for several hundred million dollars at a valuation exceeding $2 billion. It recaps the company’s technology vision—building a general‑purpose AI that...
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Social•Dec 18, 2025
A16z Argues for Balanced, Innovation-Friendly AI Regulation
The a16z perspective on AI regulation.
By Paul Roetzer
Social•Dec 18, 2025
AI Outperforms Humans Technically, Humans Still Lead Multimodal Reasoning
AI now exceeds human performance in most technical tasks — but humans still lead in multimodal reasoning 🧠 The next frontier isn’t about replacing humans, but amplifying how we think across data, images & language. Source: Stanford AI Index 2025 #AI #Innovation #FutureOfWork...
By Giuliano Liguori
News•Dec 18, 2025
I Tried Talking to Google Maps with Gemini, and It Actually Understood What I Wanted
Google introduced Gemini 3, an upgraded AI model now embedded in Google Maps, enabling conversational, context‑aware navigation. The integration lets users ask natural‑language queries for coffee shops, scenic lunch spots, or traffic‑aware detours, and receive real‑time, multi‑criteria recommendations without leaving the...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Google Launches AI Agents to Automate Dev Workflows
Google is quietly changing how devs work. These 5 AI agents automate GitHub (via Gemini CLI), BigQuery, Looker, Database migrations and more, from data ingestion to PR reviews 🔥 Here’s what each agent actually does 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/0o1Z2jcBia
By Data Chaz
Social•Dec 18, 2025
AI-Generated Code Requires More Scrutiny, Has More Bugs
AI-authored code needs more attention, contains worse bugs • The Register https://t.co/5g05bZCTFc #artificialintelligence #aicode #AI #Tech #Coding #100DaysOfCode #codingerror
By Amitav Bhattacharjee
News•Dec 18, 2025
Adobe Hit with Proposed Class-Action, Accused of Misusing Authors’ Work in AI Training
Adobe faces a proposed class‑action lawsuit alleging it used pirated books to train its SlimLM language model. The suit, filed by author Elizabeth Lyon, claims the model’s training data derives from the SlimPajama‑627B dataset, which copies the RedPajama and Books3...
By TechCrunch AI
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Innovation Thrives on Strong Links, Not Weakest Links
Innovation is a "strong-link problem". In a chain (weak-link problem), the weakest element breaks the system. In discovery (strong-link problem), the strongest element makes the breakthrough. The rest of the system provides the infrastructure that allows the outlier to function
By François Chollet
News•Dec 18, 2025
Tokenization in Transformers V5: Simpler, Clearer, and More Modular
Transformers v5 introduces a major redesign of tokenizers, consolidating each model’s tokenizer into a single, transparent file and exposing the full architecture—normalizer, pre‑tokenizer, model, post‑processor, and decoder—as inspectable properties. The library now defaults to a Rust‑based backend for speed, while...
By Hugging Face
News•Dec 17, 2025
OpenAI Might Change App Design Forever
OpenAI has opened ChatGPT to third‑party developers, allowing apps to be invoked directly within conversational flows via @‑mentions or contextual suggestions. Early partners such as Adobe, Target, Canva and Figma are already offering image editing, shopping and design tools that...
By Fast Company AI
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Our Brains Are Tuned to the Universe’s Stable Laws
Because our universe follows stable laws, a sufficiently general intelligent system adapted to it, like human-driven science, can eventually model any phenomenon within it. Human intelligence may not be "universal" in the mathematical sense (see No Free Lunch theorem), but we...
By François Chollet
Social•Dec 17, 2025
World Models: The Path to True AGI
Why World Models are the way to AGI.
By Robert Scoble
Social•Dec 17, 2025
AI Will Tackle Complex Group Dynamics in Business, Politics, Economy
After math, code, assistant competence AI will take on complex group dynamic problems like firms, politics, economy.
By Alex Graveley
Social•Dec 17, 2025
ChatGPT Launches App Directory for Developer Submissions
🚨 JUST IN → Devs can now submit their apps to ChatGPT. "Approved apps will be listed in the app directory, which is a new surface for users to search for apps directly in ChatGPT" https://t.co/KLyf91GOhk
By Data Chaz