News•Dec 10, 2025
Nadella Touts AI Tools, Sparks Big Tech's Race for Digital Dominance in India
Satya Nadella’s India tour highlighted Microsoft’s AI suite—Copilot, agentic AI, and datasets—backed by a $17.5 billion commitment to build infrastructure and upskill 20 million workers over four years. The push coincides with Google’s $15 billion, one‑gigawatt data centre investment, bringing total Big‑Tech AI spending in India to $32.5 billion. Both firms promised that data processed on their platforms will remain within India’s borders, aiming to win over large enterprises such as ONGC, Maruti Suzuki and Infosys. Analysts project generative AI could add $438 billion to India’s GDP by 2030, making the market a strategic frontier.
By Mint AI
News•Dec 10, 2025
Forking Data for AI Agents: The Missing Primitive for Safe, Scalable Systems
Agentic AI systems frequently fail because they share mutable state without snapshot isolation, leading to nondeterministic behavior and debugging dead‑ends. Traditional object stores such as S3 lack version‑aware reads, consistent snapshots, and isolation primitives, making concurrent agent workflows error‑prone. Tigris...
By AI Accelerator Institute
News•Dec 10, 2025
The AI that Scored 95% — Until Consultants Learned It Was AI
SAP secretly tested its AI co‑pilot Joule with five consultant teams, asking four teams to believe the answers came from junior interns. Those teams rated the output about 95% accurate, while the fifth team, told the answers were AI‑generated, rejected...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 10, 2025
Harvard Study Finds AI Agents Do More Cognitive Work than Booking or Scheduling Tasks
Harvard researchers, in partnership with Perplexity, analyzed hundreds of millions of interactions in the Comet browser and found that 57% of AI agent activity centers on cognitive work rather than simple booking or scheduling. Productivity and workflow tasks made up...
By Indian Express AI
News•Dec 10, 2025
AMD's Redstone Update Could Revitalize FSR for PC Games – Here's Why Nvidia Should Be Worried
AMD has launched the FSR Redstone update via the Adrenalin 25.12.1 driver, introducing Frame Generation, Ray Regeneration, Radiance Caching and an upgraded upscaling engine for its RDNA 4 GPUs. The new features are exclusive to the Radeon RX 9060 XT, RX 9070 XT and RX 9070, aiming to close...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 10, 2025
Quilter's AI Just Designed an 843‑part Linux Computer that Booted on the First Try. Hardware Will Never Be the Same.
Quilter, a San Francisco AI startup, used a physics‑driven system to design a two‑board Linux computer with 843 components in just one week, cutting human effort from an estimated 428 hours to 38.5. The AI generated a layout with 98%...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 10, 2025
Aurora Will Have ‘Hundreds’ of Driverless Trucks on the Road by the End of 2026, CEO Says
Aurora CEO Chris Urmson announced that the company will scale from a handful of autonomous trucks to hundreds by the end of 2026, after postponing its commercial launch to April 2025. The firm currently runs five fully driverless trucks on...
By The Verge
News•Dec 10, 2025
Figma Adds More Photoshop-Like AI Tools for Image Editing
Figma has introduced three AI‑powered image editing tools—Erase object, Isolate object, and Expand Image—directly within Figma Design and Draw. The tools work with the existing lasso selection to instantly remove or separate elements and to extend backgrounds using generative AI,...
By The Verge
News•Dec 10, 2025
AI Startup Tavus Founder Says Users Talk to Its AI Santa ‘for Hours’ per Day
Tavus, the AI startup behind digital voice‑and‑face clones, has relaunched its AI Santa experience for a second year, adding real‑time visual perception, memory and task‑execution capabilities. The upgraded "Tavus PAL" can read users' expressions, recall prior chats and even browse...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 10, 2025
A Pay-to-Scrape AI Licensing Standard Is Now Official
The RSL Collective released Really Simple Licensing 1.0, an open specification that expands the robots.txt file to let publishers set licensing and payment rules for AI crawlers. Backed by Yahoo, Ziff Davis and O’Reilly Media, the standard is now supported by Cloudflare,...
By The Verge
News•Dec 10, 2025
Google Launches Sub-$5 AI Plus Plan in India to Compete with ChatGPT Go
Google has introduced a low‑cost AI Plus subscription in India, priced at ₹199 ($2.21) per month for the first six months and rising to ₹399 thereafter. The plan upgrades users to higher limits on Gemini 3 Pro, the Nano Banana Pro image‑editing model, video generation...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 10, 2025
Adobe Launches Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat Inside ChatGPT: Here’s What You Can Do
Adobe announced that Photoshop, Adobe Express, and Acrobat are now embedded inside ChatGPT via OpenAI’s Apps SDK, and the three tools are offered free to users in supported regions. The integration lets users edit images, design graphics, and manipulate PDFs...
By Indian Express AI
News•Dec 10, 2025
ChatGPT Can Now Use Adobe Apps to Edit Your Photos and PDFs for Free
Adobe has embedded free Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express apps inside ChatGPT, allowing users to edit images, PDFs, and designs via natural‑language prompts. The integration, launched on December 10, 2025, works across desktop, web, and iOS, with Android support arriving soon for Photoshop...
By The Verge
News•Dec 10, 2025
Remidio and Singapore Smart Tech Win Awards for AI Innovations in Health and Sanitation
Remidio Innovative Solutions won the Gold award at the Mint All About AI Tech4Good Awards for its offline, AI‑powered retinal screening device, MediosHI AI, which has screened over 400,000 people in Kerala at a cost of ₹200 per test. The...
By Mint AI
News•Dec 10, 2025
Australia’s Vast Savannas Are Changing, and AI Is Showing Us How
The episode explores how Australia’s extensive northern savannas are being monitored and forecasted using an AI tool called Themeda, which leverages 33 years of satellite data and deep learning to predict land‑cover changes at a fine 25 × 25 m resolution. The researchers...
By AIhub
News•Dec 10, 2025
Satya Nadella on India’s AI Ambition: ‘Adoption, Not Invention, Decides the Winners’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the global AI race will be won by the fastest adopters, not the inventors, during a New Delhi fireside chat. He announced a $17.5 billion, four‑year investment in India, the company’s biggest in Asia, and a...
By Indian Express AI
News•Dec 10, 2025
Scientists Reveal a Tiny Brain Chip that Streams Thoughts in Real Time
Researchers from Columbia, Stanford, Penn and NY‑Presbyterian unveiled BISC, a 3 mm³ silicon brain‑computer interface that streams neural data at 100 Mbps. The chip hosts 65,536 electrodes, 1,024 recording and 16,384 stimulation channels, and communicates wirelessly via a wearable relay. Early human...
By Science Daily AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
Salesforce Bets on Agentic AI Platform Following Cautiously Optimistic Earnings Report
Salesforce reported Q3 2025 revenue of $10.3 billion, a 9% year‑on‑year increase, and raised its full‑year revenue outlook to $41.5 billion. Despite the earnings beat, the company’s stock has slipped 29% so far in 2025. At its World Tour in London, Salesforce unveiled...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 9, 2025
Sam Altman Tells Jimmy Fallon that AI Is the "Equalizing Force" The World Needs
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared on The Tonight Show to highlight ChatGPT’s explosive growth, noting that more than 800 million people now use the service weekly. He framed AI as an "equalizing force" comparable to the global spread of smartphones, arguing...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 9, 2025
Why Cursor’s CEO Believes OpenAI, Anthropic Competition Won’t Crush His Startup
Anysphere, the maker of the Cursor AI coding assistant, posted $1 billion in annualized revenue and secured $2.3 billion in new capital at a $29.3 billion valuation, yet the CEO Michael Truell ruled out an IPO for now. The company is doubling down...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
UK Strengthens Subsea Cables Against Russian Interference
The UK has unveiled Atlantic Bastion, a military program aimed at protecting undersea cables and pipelines from Russian interference. The initiative will employ autonomous surface and underwater vessels, advanced sensors, and naval assets, with initial testing this year and deployments...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 9, 2025
Sale of Nvidia AI Chips to China Helps All Parties
President Donald Trump announced that Nvidia may sell its H200 AI chips to select Chinese customers, reversing a Biden-era ban on the high‑end processor. Nvidia will remit 25% of each sale to the U.S. Treasury, framing the move as a...
By AI Business
News•Dec 9, 2025
Rivian Is Building Its Own AI Assistant
Rivian has spent nearly two years building an in‑house AI assistant that operates independently of its multibillion‑dollar joint venture with Volkswagen. The system is engineered to integrate directly with vehicle controls through a model‑agnostic, agentic framework that blends edge and...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
Apriel-1.6-15b-Thinker: Cost-Efficient Frontier Multimodal Performance
ServiceNow released Apriel-1.6-15B-Thinker, a 15‑billion‑parameter multimodal reasoning model that rivals the performance of models ten times larger. Built on the Apriel‑1.5 foundation, it boosts text and vision reasoning while cutting reasoning token usage by over 30%. Trained on NVIDIA GB200...
By Hugging Face
News•Dec 9, 2025
Three in 10 US Teens Use AI Chatbots Every Day, but Safety Concerns Are Growing
The Pew Research Center reports that roughly three in ten U.S. teenagers use AI chatbots every day, with 59% favoring ChatGPT. Overall teen internet use remains high—97% go online daily and 40% are almost constantly connected, though that figure fell...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
Mistral Launches Powerful Devstral 2 Coding Model Including Open Source, Laptop-Friendly Version
Mistral AI unveiled Devstral 2, a 123‑billion‑parameter coding model with a 256K‑token context window, alongside a 24‑billion‑parameter Devstral Small 2 that runs on a single laptop. Both models are open‑weight and available free for a limited time via API and...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 9, 2025
I’m Obsessed with Redfin’s AI Search
Redfin has rolled out an AI‑powered search tool that lets users query listings in plain language, instantly generating tailored property results. The feature appears as a new prompt on the site’s search bar and leverages large language models to interpret...
By The Verge
News•Dec 9, 2025
Amazon’s Ring Rolls Out Controversial, AI-Powered Facial-Recognition Feature to Video Doorbells
Amazon’s Ring is adding an AI‑driven facial‑recognition feature called Familiar Faces to its video doorbells, allowing users to label up to fifty faces and receive personalized alerts. The feature is optional, with encrypted biometric data stored in the cloud and...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Join New Linux Foundation Effort to Standardize the AI Agent Era
The Linux Foundation has created the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to provide a neutral hub for open‑source AI‑agent projects. Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI are the founding donors, contributing the Model Context Protocol, Goose framework, and AGENTS.md instruction file respectively. Major...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
Trump Set to Allow Nvidia H200 Chips to Be Exported to China
President Donald Trump announced that the United States will resume exporting Nvidia's H200 AI accelerator chips to approved commercial customers in China, subject to a 25% export fee. The move excludes newer Nvidia products such as Blackwell and Rubin, which...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 9, 2025
Amazon Adds Delivery Tracking, Last-Minute Adds, Gift Ideas to Alexa+
Amazon is expanding Alexa+ with a suite of shopping‑enabled tools for Echo Show 15 and Show 21 users in the United States and Canada. The new "Shopping Essentials" hub lets customers track deliveries in real time, view recent orders, and manage household...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
EU Launches Antitrust Probe Into Google’s AI Search Tools
The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Google’s AI Overview and AI Mode tools, alleging the company uses website content and YouTube videos to generate answer summaries without compensating publishers. The probe will assess whether Google imposes unfair...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
Microsoft to Invest $17.5B in India by 2029 as AI Race Accelerates
Microsoft announced a $17.5 billion investment in India through 2029, its largest Asian commitment, to build new data centers, AI infrastructure and skilling programs. The plan adds to a $3 billion pledge earlier this year and includes a massive Hyderabad region with...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
India Proposes Charging OpenAI, Google for Training AI on Copyrighted Content
India has unveiled a draft framework that would require AI developers to pay royalties for training on any copyrighted work, creating a single collecting body to distribute payments to creators. The mandatory blanket licence is pitched as a low‑cost compliance...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
Databricks' OfficeQA Uncovers Disconnect: AI Agents Ace Abstract Tests but Stall at 45% on Enterprise Docs
Databricks introduced OfficeQA, a benchmark that tests AI agents on document‑heavy enterprise tasks using 89,000 pages of U.S. Treasury Bulletins. Tests show top agents such as Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT‑5.1 achieve only 37‑44% accuracy on raw PDFs, rising to 68%...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 9, 2025
A Look Under the Hood of DeepSeek’s AI Models Doesn’t Provide All the Answers
DeepSeek’s latest large‑language models have been subjected to a peer‑review analysis that sheds light on the company’s data‑centric training pipeline and architectural tweaks. The study confirms the use of a transformer backbone with sparse‑attention mechanisms and a multilingual corpus exceeding...
By Science News AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
The UK Must Build Smarter Networks to Lead in AI
AI could add £550 billion to UK GDP by 2035, but the nation controls only 3 % of global AI compute power versus the US’s 75 %. Legacy networks cause 20‑25 % inefficiencies and expose firms to AI‑driven cyber threats. Modern, AI‑ready networks—leveraging SD‑WAN,...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 9, 2025
Anthropic and Accenture Sign Multi-Year AI Strategic Partnership
Anthropic announced a three‑year strategic partnership with Accenture, creating the Accenture Anthropic Business Group. The deal includes formal Claude training for Accenture’s 30,000 employees and access to Claude Code tools for its vast developer workforce. Anthropic now commands roughly 40%...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
Pebble’s Founder Introduces a $75 AI Smart Ring for Recording Brief Notes with a Press of a Button
Pebble founder Migicovsky unveiled the $75 Index 01 AI smart ring, a stainless‑steel wearable that records brief voice notes with a press‑and‑hold button. Transcription runs locally on the user’s phone via open‑source speech‑to‑text models, keeping data off the cloud. The ring...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
Alexa Plus Can Automatically Buy Stuff when the Price Drops
Amazon has rolled out Alexa Plus price‑tracking and auto‑buy capabilities, letting users set price thresholds and have the assistant purchase items automatically when those thresholds are met. The features debut on Echo Show 15 and Echo Show 21 within a new "Shopping Essentials" command center...
By The Verge AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
Generations in Dialogue: Human-Robot Interactions and Social Robotics with Professor Marynel Vasquez
In this episode, Professor Marynel Vázquez discusses her evolving research on human‑robot interaction, emphasizing how robots can navigate social groups by modeling interactions as graphs and adapting to errors in real time. She highlights the potential of socially aware robots...
By AIhub
News•Dec 9, 2025
Google AI Glasses Set to Take on Meta Ray-Bans Next Year
Google confirmed its first AI glasses will launch in 2026, unveiling two models built on the Android XR platform. An audio‑focused version offers built‑in speakers, microphones and Gemini‑powered voice assistance, while a display variant adds an in‑lens screen for navigation...
By AI Business
News•Dec 9, 2025
The Vergecast 2025 Year in Review
2025 was defined by an AI arms race among OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and other rivals, with Nvidia soaring to become the world’s most valuable company. Data centers multiplied globally as every app, device and enterprise pursued AI strategies. The Vergecast’s...
By The Verge AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
How Nabeel Ehsan Is Re-Engineering Procurement Governance with AI Tools to Detect Manipulation and Collusion?
Nabeel Ehsan is reshaping procurement governance by deploying AI‑driven forensic analytics to spot manipulation and collusion in real time. At Mawarid Holding, his data‑enabled risk framework has recovered over AED 50 million and generated AED 45 million in savings through automated controls. He oversees...
By AI Time Journal
News•Dec 9, 2025
Microsoft Pledges $17.5 Billion to Expand AI, Cloud Capacity in India
Microsoft announced a $17.5 billion four‑year plan to expand AI infrastructure and cloud capacity in India, adding to a $3 billion commitment made earlier this year. The funding will power new data‑centre zones, sovereign‑cloud offerings, and a programme to skill 20 million Indians...
By Indian Express AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
Ads Aren’t Coming to Gemini, Google Says — but OpenAI Has Shown that the Inevitable Is Coming
OpenAI recently introduced ad-like “app suggestions” in its ChatGPT Plus service, prompting a swift rollback after user criticism. Google’s Gemini, its chief rival, publicly denied any plans to embed advertisements, emphasizing its current ad‑free experience. Industry analysts, however, argue that...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 9, 2025
The Download: A Peek at AI’s Future
The latest edition of MIT Technology Review’s "The Download" spotlights a heated debate over AI’s trajectory, contrasting forecasts that generative AI could eclipse the Industrial Revolution with a more measured view that adoption follows human‑speed cycles. It marks the final...
By MIT Technology Review
News•Dec 9, 2025
IFixit’s FixBot Helps with Repairs ‘the Way a Master Technician Would’
DIY repair platform iFixit has released a new mobile app for iOS and Android that bundles its extensive repair guide library with a battery‑health monitor and an AI chatbot called FixBot. FixBot draws on iFixit’s guides, PDF manuals and user...
By The Verge
News•Dec 9, 2025
India Proposes Sweeping AI–Copyright Overhaul with ‘One Nation, One Licence, One Payment’ Model
India's Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has drafted a sweeping policy that mandates a compulsory, blanket licence for AI developers to use any lawfully accessed copyrighted content. Under the "one nation, one licence, one payment" model,...
By Mint AI
News•Dec 9, 2025
AGI Is a Pipe Dream Until We Solve One Big Problem, AI Experts Say, Even as Google Celebrates Gemini's Success
At NeurIPS 2025 AI researchers warned that the current scaling‑centric approach to large language models has hit a "scaling wall," delivering only marginal gains despite massive data and compute. Google’s Gemini 3 showcased impressive performance through architectural tweaks, yet it remains...
By TechRadar