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Updated 1h agoWhat's happening: India AI Impact Summit pledges $240B AI investment
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 announced a historic $240 billion AI investment pledge. Reliance committed $110 billion for AI infrastructure over seven years, Adani pledged $100 billion through 2035, and Google disclosed a $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam.
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By the numbers: OpenAI raises $110B in corporate funding
News•Dec 12, 2025
This Zotac Mini PC Has the Most Powerful GPU Ever Bundled in a PC of This Size — 16GB GeForce...
Zotac unveiled the ZBOX MAGNUS EN275060TC, a 2.65‑liter mini PC that houses a full‑desktop GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 16 GB of VRAM. The system uses a hybrid PCIe x8 5.0 + x8 5.0 architecture that powers the GPU without an external connector. Benchmarks show the RTX 5060 Ti delivering performance within a few percent of the RTX 5070 Ti laptop variant, while costing about $500, yielding a strong cost‑to‑performance ratio. The compact design pairs the GPU with an Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX processor, highlighting Zotac’s push into high‑performance small‑form‑factor PCs.
By TechRadar
News•Dec 12, 2025
How to Design a Fully Local Agentic Storytelling Pipeline Using Griptape Workflows, Hugging Face Models, and Modular Creative Task Orchestration
The article walks through building a fully local, API‑free storytelling system using Griptape and a TinyLlama model from Hugging Face. It demonstrates an agent equipped with a calculator tool, hierarchical world‑generation and character tasks, and a final story‑writing task governed by...
By MarkTechPost
Social•Dec 12, 2025
Gemini Audio Adds Live Translation and Smarter TTS
Listen up 🔊 We’ve made some updates to our Gemini Audio models and capabilities: — Gemini’s live speech-to-speech translation capability is rolling out in a beta experience to the Google Translate app, bringing you real-time audio translation that captures the nuance...
By Google AI
News•Dec 12, 2025
Scientists Built an AI Co-Pilot for Prosthetic Bionic Hands
Researchers at the University of Utah have created an AI‑powered co‑pilot for bionic hands that autonomously adjusts grip force and finger positioning. By outfitting a commercial prosthetic with silicone‑wrapped pressure and proximity sensors, the system learned to recognize objects and...
By Ars Technica AI
Social•Dec 12, 2025
Boost Learning Speed with 10 AI-Powered Strategies
10 ways to learn faster with AI: 1. Explain like I’m 5 2. Examples/analogies 3. Motivation boosts 4. Role-play 5. Study plan 6. Quizzes 7. Mind maps 8. Expert roundtables 9. Mnemonics 10. Improve your draft Learning loop = understand → practice → test → refine. Which one’s your go-to? #AI #Learning #GenAI...
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Dec 12, 2025
Cut Image Copies, Boost Computer Vision FPS
⚡ Speed up your Computer Vision code ⚡ Is your pipeline running slower than it should? You might be cloning/copying images too often — and paying the cost in memory allocations and data movement. 💡 Quick fixes: ✅ Prefer assignment (Mat B =...
By Satya Mallick
News•Dec 12, 2025
Salesforce Says Per-User Pricing Will Be New AI Norm
Salesforce announced it will return to per‑user, seat‑based pricing for its AI suite after experimenting with usage‑based models. CEO Marc Benioff says the company can justify three‑to‑four‑fold price hikes because AI tools can deliver up to ten times more value....
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 12, 2025
AI Assistants Personalize Social Media Experience Like Never Before
A look back and forward at social media You might not know, but I've been doing social media before this site started nearly 20 years ago. In fact, the founders of Twitter, came to my social dinner years before they even...
By Robert Scoble
Social•Dec 12, 2025
200+ Groups Demand National Data Center Moratorium
In case you haven't seen it, here's a letter from more than two hundred organizations calling for a National Data Center Moratorium. It is supported by citizens in multiple states, in a bi-partisan recognition that local voices not only deserve...
By John C. Havens
News•Dec 12, 2025
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By AI Accelerator Institute
News•Dec 12, 2025
Why AI Errors Are Inevitable and What that Means for Healthcare
AI systems inevitably produce errors because of inherent data and model limitations, a fact highlighted by everyday mishaps from misheard voice assistants to hallucinating chatbots. The article warns that extending AI into high‑stakes domains like healthcare—exemplified by a 2025 U.S....
By Fast Company AI
Social•Dec 12, 2025
New Three.js Enables Full‑Browser 3D Demo Reel
New Three.js dropped. This 3D demo reel is all in browser. I repeat: these graphics are made to run via JavaScript in your browser. Fun fact: you can tell your favorite vibe coding AI to use this library. Just give it the...
By Claire Silver
News•Dec 12, 2025
The Future of Creativity with AI, Art and Media
Artists once viewed artificial intelligence as a disruptive threat, but many are now integrating AI tools into their workflows. Generative models enable rapid prototyping, style transfer, and entirely new visual languages. Major platforms have embedded AI capabilities, allowing creators to...
By AI Business
Social•Dec 12, 2025
Start Building Practical AI Agents Without Data Science
A Beginner’s Guide To Building AI Agents AI agents are no longer sci-fi — they’re practical tools that can automate complex workflows, even if you’re not a data scientist, and this guide covers how to get started safely and effectively....
By Bernard Marr
Podcast•Dec 12, 2025•1h
AI Could Let a Few People Control Everything — Permanently (Article by Rose Hadshar)
The episode examines how advanced AI could dramatically amplify existing power imbalances, enabling a tiny elite to control vast economic, political, and military systems. It outlines why this risk is urgent, counters common objections that the threat is overstated or...
By 80,000 Hours Podcast
News•Dec 12, 2025
Workbooks Integrates AI, Promises Empowered Sales Teams
Workbooks has integrated artificial intelligence into its CRM platform, introducing tools such as automatic meeting transcription, sales coaching, data hygiene, and prospect research. The company cites that only 16% of UK firms currently embed AI in their CRM, positioning early...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 12, 2025
How Trump Is Blocking U.S. States From Regulating Artificial Intelligence
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that directs the Attorney General to form a task force aimed at blocking state‑level artificial intelligence regulations. The order also orders the Commerce Department to identify “problematic” rules and threatens to withhold federal...
By Fast Company AI
Social•Dec 12, 2025
Intelligence Requires Exploration, Goal‑Setting, and Planning
Fluid intelligence as measured by ARC 1 & 2 is your ability to turn information into a model that will generalize. That's not the only thing you need to make an intelligent agent. To start with, when you're an agent in...
By François Chollet
Social•Dec 12, 2025
AI Trims Tasks, Cuts Jobs Before Fully Replacing Them
Economic benchmarks like GDPval are taking over. They’re changing how we measure progress. But important: we will likely have AI-driven job loss before we have AI that can complete full jobs. Why? 1. Job loss can come from task reduction, not just...
By Allie Miller
Podcast•Dec 12, 2025•37 min
Passwords Are Broken: AI Agents Need Identity | Rishi Bhargava, CEO of Descope
Rishi Bhargava, CEO of Descope, explains why traditional passwords are failing and how passkeys and AI agent identities can create a seamless, secure login experience. He breaks down the mechanics of account takeovers, the persistent pain points of password-based logins,...
By Infinite Curiosity
News•Dec 12, 2025
The Hidden Risk of One-Size-Fits-All AI Advice
Researchers at Saarland and Durham Universities expose a blind spot in AI safety: generic advice that passes standard tests can be unsafe for vulnerable users. Their study shows safety scores for high‑vulnerability profiles drop two points on a seven‑point scale...
By AI Accelerator Institute
News•Dec 12, 2025
GenAI Is Pushing Digital Transformation Into A No-Blueprint Phase
The episode explains how generative AI has shifted digital transformation from a predictable, blueprint‑driven era to a "no‑blueprint" phase where enterprises must co‑create new models with service providers. It highlights three key findings: providers are racing to develop AI‑centric blueprints...
By Forrester Generative AI
News•Dec 12, 2025
OpenAI Just Released Its New GPT-5.2 Model. Here’s What You Need to Know
OpenAI launched GPT-5.2, an incremental upgrade to its GPT-5.1 model. The new version delivers faster inference, higher efficiency, and stronger performance on coding, math, and long-duration agentic tasks. Benchmark results show modest gains across industry standards, though the architecture remains...
By Fast Company AI
News•Dec 12, 2025
Investors Still Doubling Down on AI in Taiwan Despite 'Bubble' Fears
Investors in Taiwan continue to pour money into AI despite bubble warnings. The Taiwan Weighted Index is projected to reach 30,000 points by 2026 after a 22% gain this year, while TSMC stock has risen 39% year‑to‑date and 187% over...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 12, 2025
AI Streamlines Thinking, but You Own the Decision
People keep asking whether ChatGPT can make decisions for them. Here’s the short answer: no - and that’s exactly why it’s useful. A decision isn’t a paragraph of text. It’s a commitment that allocates resources, creates consequences, and leaves someone...
By Cassie Kozyrkov
Social•Dec 12, 2025
Agentic AI: The Core Stack Turning GenAI Into Action
Agentic AI = AI that plans + uses tools + remembers + collaborates + executes. 🧠🤖 This cheat sheet nails the core stack: 🧭 Planning | 🧠 Memory | 🛠️ Tool use | 🤝 Multi-agent collab | ⚙️ Execution frameworks like LangChain, CrewAI,...
By Giuliano Liguori
News•Dec 12, 2025
The Download: Expanded Carrier Screening, and How Southeast Asia Plans to Get to Space
The article highlights three divergent trends shaping technology and geopolitics. Expanded carrier screening is rapidly scaling, with panels now covering up to 2,000 genes, sparking a competitive “arms race” among labs. In Southeast Asia, governments and private firms are accelerating...
By MIT Technology Review
News•Dec 12, 2025
Chatbot-Powered Toys Rebuked for Discussing Sexual, Dangerous Topics with Kids
A Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) test revealed that AI‑powered toys, including Alilo’s Smart AI Bunny and FoloToy’s Kumma, can discuss sexual topics and give unsafe instructions to children. Both devices use OpenAI’s GPT‑4o mini model, despite OpenAI’s policy prohibiting...
By Ars Technica AI
Social•Dec 12, 2025
GPT 5.2 Pro's New Thinking Bar Limited to Web
The "thinking" bar for GPT 5.2 Pro has got a lot better, you can see it looking at the pages etc of what goes in, interrupt it etc However it remains on the web version only (along with the ability to...
By Emad Mostaque
News•Dec 12, 2025
AI Chatbots Are Now Integrated 'Into the Full Texture of Human Life,' Microsoft Study Claims
Microsoft’s December 2025 report, analyzing 37.5 million de‑identified Copilot conversations, shows AI chatbots have become woven into daily routines. Desktop usage clusters around the 8 a.m.–5 p.m. workday, while mobile interactions occur at all hours and focus on personal topics. Health and fitness dominate...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 12, 2025
Prediction Alone Isn’t Enough; Reflection Reveals Behavior
A model can be trained to predict behaviour, but only reflection can help us understand it
By Iain Brown
Social•Dec 12, 2025
Four Breakthrough Technologies Shaping 2026
Thank you for reading my latest article 4 Tech Trends That Will Shape 2026 And The Breakthroughs Powering Them. Here at LinkedIn and at Forbes I regularly write about management and technology trends. To read my future articles simply join...
By Bernard Marr
News•Dec 12, 2025
Ai2's New Olmo 3.1 Extends Reinforcement Learning Training for Stronger Reasoning Benchmarks
The Allen Institute for AI unveiled Olmo 3.1, an upgraded 32‑billion‑parameter family that extends the original Olmo 3 models through an additional 21‑day reinforcement‑learning run on 224 GPUs. The Think 32B variant shows 5‑plus point gains on the AIME math benchmark and strong...
By VentureBeat
Social•Dec 12, 2025
AI and Automation Redefine Legal Tech by 2026
7 Legal Tech Trends That Will Reshape Every Business In 2026 #Legal and #compliance teams are entering one of the most #technology -driven years the profession has ever seen. #AI , #automation and new regulatory pressures are converging, creating a...
By Bernard Marr
Social•Dec 12, 2025
Gemini’s CLI Outshines GPT‑5.2, Leaving Codex Lagging
gpt-5.2 is a fine a model, but tbh, I'm going back to gemini because it's also a fine model and the CLI ui/ux is like 10x better. Really feels like codex cli is falling way behind competition.
By Harrison Kinsley
Podcast•Dec 12, 2025•1h 3m
GPT-5.2 Can't Identify a Serial Killer & Was The Year of Agents A Lie? EP99.28-5.2
The hosts put OpenAI's new GPT‑5.2 through a series of tests, exposing its verbosity, over‑hype, and critical failures—most notably its inability to recognize a serial killer in a straightforward prompt, while Claude Opus and Gemini 3 Pro outperform it. They examine why...
By This Day in AI Podcast
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Social•Dec 12, 2025
Mistral 3 Large Halves Experts, Doubles Their Size
Hold on a sec, Mistral 3 Large uses the DeepSeek V3 architecture, including MLA? Just went through the config files; the only difference I could see is that Mistral 3 Large used 2x fewer experts but made each expert 2x...
By Sebastian Raschka
Social•Dec 12, 2025
AI Shifts From Automation to Invention via Symbolic Search
AI will evolve from being an automation machine to becoming an invention machine. This will require a fundamentally new paradigm, with symbolic search as its core, not curve-fitting
By François Chollet
Podcast•Dec 12, 2025•8 min
Episode 1,001: My AI Journey So Far
In this milestone episode, the host reflects on the evolution of the show and their personal AI journey, contrasting early experiences with current developments. They highlight what has fundamentally changed in AI tools and practices, as well as enduring principles...
By In Machines We Trust
Social•Dec 12, 2025
Exploring GPT‑5.2’s Potential for Coding Agents
just when I think i'm out, openai pulls me back in with gpt-5.2. Let's see what it's all about. Any opinions on 5.2 in the context of coding agents?
By Harrison Kinsley
Social•Dec 12, 2025
Open‑source AI Poised to Eclipse Proprietary APIs
Personally feels like we've reached the peak of "Proprietary APIs" and that we're entering a much more balanced world for AI where open-source, training, @huggingface (and other players) will start getting a much bigger share of the attention, usage and...
By Clément Delangue
Social•Dec 12, 2025
Deloitte Showcases AI‑IoT Fusion for Business Impact
From vision to execution. @Deloitte arrives at CES 2026 focused on igniting the next wave of innovation, connecting AI, IoT, and industry transformation to real business impact. @CES #CES2026 #AI #IoT #5G https://t.co/dGaXmphI1X https://t.co/2GpcfJ3y24
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Dec 12, 2025
First AI‑Native TV Redefines Television Experience at CES 2026
TV goes AI-native. Displace reimagines the future of television at CES 2026 with the first AI-native TV, where intelligence is built into the core experience, not added as a feature. @CES #CES2026 #AI #IoT #5G https://t.co/xNzSQdsTYV https://t.co/9UK6BP8TPQ
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Dec 12, 2025
AI-Driven Vehicles to Adapt and Personalize at CES 2026
Generative AI meets next-gen mobility. @LGUS is set to unveil AI-powered mobility technology at CES 2026, pointing toward vehicles and platforms that adapt, learn, and personalize experiences in real time. @CES https://t.co/I7IeTRv28f #CES2026 #AI #IoT #5G https://t.co/uoH2A6Lypr
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Dec 12, 2025
Edge AI Arrives On‑Site, Transforming Construction Intelligence
AI is moving from the cloud to the jobsite. At CES 2026, Doosan Bobcat brings edge AI into construction—enabling real-time intelligence where work actually happens. A big shift for industrial IoT and connected equipment. @CES #CES2026 #AI #IoT https://t.co/55b8YUWgdg https://t.co/ICcJZ7rriB
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Dec 12, 2025
UBILITE Unveils Ultra‑low‑power SoC for Wearables
Always-on intelligence without the power drain. UBILITE expands its advisory board and introduces a breakthrough low-power SoC at CES 2026, unlocking new possibilities for wearables and ultra-efficient IoT devices. @CES #CES2026 #AI #IoT #5G https://t.co/7aEGna5w1g
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Dec 12, 2025
Big Models Still Struggle to Prompt Themselves
Why aren’t LLMs better at prompting? Big models should be able one-shot themselves.
By Alex Graveley
Social•Dec 12, 2025
OpenAI Warns Future ChatGPT May Heighten Cybersecurity Threats
#OpenAI warns future #ChatGPT could pose high #cybersecurity risks - India Today https://t.co/I6QDiviVsC #GoogleGemini #Gemini3 #Gemini #AI #LLMs #GenerativeAI #GenAI
By Amitav Bhattacharjee
Social•Dec 12, 2025
World Model Transforms Your Home Into a Holodeck
This is how a World Model turns your house into a Holodeck.
By Robert Scoble
Social•Dec 12, 2025
Post‑generation Editing Makes AI Tools Far More Enjoyable
Editing things after AI generates them was very needed. Makes @lovart_ai much more fun to use.
By Robert Scoble