News•Dec 4, 2025
Hyundai’s Charming Autonomous Robot Can Be Everything From a Golf Trolley to an E-Scooter – and It's Going on Sale...
Hyundai unveiled the Mobile Eccentric Droid (MobED), a fully autonomous robotic platform with an eccentric control mechanism that lets all four wheels swivel and articulate like legs. The system can dynamically adjust its posture to climb steps and traverse bumps, enabling it to serve as a warehouse picker, delivery robot, golf trolley, or even an e‑scooter. Built from automotive‑grade materials on a production line, MobED is designed for scalable manufacturing and a drone‑style control interface. Pricing and consumer availability remain undisclosed, but Hyundai sees it as a versatile foundation for future mobility solutions.
By TechRadar
News•Dec 4, 2025
The CZUR ET24 Pro Isn’t a Perfect Book Scanner, but Those Who Need One Don’t Have Many Choices
The CZUR ET24 Pro is a camera‑based book scanner that captures pages up to A3 size and automatically flattens curved text in software. It features a 24 MP sensor, built‑in lighting, and OCR supporting over 180 languages, delivering searchable PDFs and...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 4, 2025
AI Chatbots Can Be Wooed Into Crimes with Poetry
A study by Italy’s Icaro Lab shows that framing illicit requests as poetry can bypass safety filters in AI chatbots. Researchers crafted 20 poetic prompts and tested them on 25 models from Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, Anthropic and others, achieving...
By The Verge
News•Dec 4, 2025
Meta Could Ax up to One-Third of Its ‘Metaverse’ Budget Next Year
Meta is considering slashing up to 30% of its metaverse budget for next year, targeting projects within Reality Labs such as Quest headsets and Horizon Worlds. The move follows more than $70 billion in losses reported by the division since early...
By The Verge
News•Dec 4, 2025
Proton Now Has an End-to-End Encrypted Spreadsheet App
Proton has launched Proton Sheets, an end‑to‑end encrypted spreadsheet application integrated into its Proton Drive suite. The tool offers real‑time collaboration, a familiar Excel‑like UI, and supports CSV and XLS imports while ensuring only users can decrypt the data. Access...
By The Verge
News•Dec 4, 2025
Anthropic Signs $200M Deal to Bring Its LLMs to Snowflake’s Customers
Anthropic has sealed a $200 million agreement with Snowflake to embed its Claude large‑language models directly into Snowflake’s data‑cloud platform. The partnership will make Anthropic’s generative AI capabilities available to Snowflake’s 12,600 enterprise customers, enabling them to run AI workloads alongside...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 4, 2025
Yahoo Is Using AI to Recap Football Games in Real Time
Yahoo Sports has launched Game Breakdowns, an AI-powered feature that delivers real‑time game summaries, play‑by‑play streams, and suggested follow‑up questions for NFL matches. Currently in beta and limited to Fantasy Plus subscribers, the tool pulls statistical data, fan commentary, and journalist...
By The Verge
News•Dec 4, 2025
Apple Reveals the 17 Must-Download Apps of 2025 – the App Store Award Winners Are Here
Apple unveiled the 2025 App Store Award winners, naming 17 standout apps and games across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Vision Pro, and Apple Arcade. The list highlights a surge of AI‑powered experiences, with Tiimo crowned iPhone App of the Year and...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 4, 2025
Hate VAR? Wait Until You See How FIFA Plans to Use AI at the World Cup
FIFA announced a pilot of AI‑powered VAR for every corner kick at the 2026 World Cup, marking the first time the technology will be applied to set‑piece situations. The system relies on sensor‑embedded balls and real‑time video analysis to automatically...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 4, 2025
Your ChatGPT Chats Could Be Less Private than You Thought – Here’s What a New OpenAI Court Ruling Means for...
A U.S. magistrate judge has ordered OpenAI to produce 20 million ChatGPT conversation logs spanning December 2022 to November 2024 for a New York Times copyright lawsuit. OpenAI contends the order jeopardizes user privacy and conflicts with its data‑retention commitments, while the court asserts layered...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 4, 2025
The Download: LLM Confessions, and Tapping Into Geothermal Hot Spots
OpenAI is piloting a new "confession" feature that prompts its large language models to explain and own up to any misbehavior, aiming to improve model transparency. Meanwhile, AI‑driven startup Zanskar announced the discovery of a blind geothermal system in western...
By MIT Technology Review
News•Dec 4, 2025
Better Tomorrow: How OpenAI Is Reimagining Education and Inclusion for the Digital Age
OpenAI is rolling out a suite of India‑focused tools to make generative AI safe and effective for education, including Study Mode, which turns ChatGPT into a guided tutor, and the INDQA benchmark that tests cultural relevance. The company is partnering...
By Mint AI
News•Dec 4, 2025
How AI Is Uncovering Hidden Geothermal Energy Resources
Startup Zanskar announced the discovery of a blind geothermal system in Nevada, the first commercially viable find of its kind in over three decades. Using AI-driven models that integrate geological, satellite, and fault‑line data, the company pinpointed a reservoir reaching...
By MIT Technology Review
News•Dec 4, 2025
These Are the 10 Best Chrome Extensions of 2025, According to Google – and There’s One I Definitely Recommend
Google released its 2025 list of the ten best Chrome extensions, all of which incorporate artificial intelligence. The selections span AI companions like Monica and Harpa AI, note‑taking tools such as Fireflies and Bluedot, and creative utilities including Adobe Photoshop for...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 4, 2025
The EU Is Probing Meta over WhatsApp’s AI Chatbot Restrictions
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Meta for restricting third‑party AI chatbots on WhatsApp. The new policy, effective October 15 for new AI services and January 15 2026 for existing ones, blocks competitors while keeping Meta’s own AI accessible....
By The Verge
News•Dec 4, 2025
The NPU in Your Phone Keeps Improving—Why Isn’t that Making AI Better?
Mobile chipmakers tout faster neural processing units (NPUs) each generation, yet most on‑device AI workloads remain modest. While NPUs can accelerate specific tasks, the majority of generative AI runs in the cloud where models are orders of magnitude larger. Phone‑based...
By Ars Technica AI
News•Dec 4, 2025
Get Ready for an AI Country Music Explosion
AI music platform Suno is reshaping Nashville’s songwriting process by turning a simple voice memo into fully produced country demos within seconds. Songwriters can now bypass costly studio musicians, paying a $96 yearly fee instead of $500‑$1,000 per demo, dramatically...
By The Verge
News•Dec 4, 2025
Runway’s New Gen-4.5 Text-to-Video Model that Beats OpenAI’s Sora 2, Google’s Veo 3
Runway unveiled Gen‑4.5, its latest text‑to‑video model, claiming it outperforms OpenAI’s Sora 2 and Google’s Veo 3 in benchmark tests. The model achieved an Elo score of 1247, edging out Veo 3’s 1226 and Sora 2 Pro’s 1206, and delivers cinematic to photorealistic video with...
By Indian Express AI
News•Dec 4, 2025
Google Asked Users for Their Best Nano Banana Pro Prompts – These 3 Tips Stood Out
Google invited users to share their most effective Nano Banana Pro prompts, spotlighting three standout techniques. The first treats prompts like pseudo‑code, defining variables such as OBJECT_A to maintain consistency across complex scenes. The second encourages asking for imperfections, letting...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 4, 2025
Silicon Valley Builds Amazon and Gmail Copycats to Train AI Agents
Silicon Valley startups are building replica versions of high‑traffic sites such as Amazon, Gmail, United Airlines and Airbnb to serve as sandbox environments for training AI agents. The clones—named Omnizon, Staynb and Go Mail—allow reinforcement‑learning models to experiment at scale without...
By Indian Express AI
News•Dec 4, 2025
Announcing: Evaluation Of The ‘Agent Control Plane’ Market
In this episode, Principal Analyst Leslie Joseph introduces Forrester's new evaluation of the emerging 'Agent Control Plane' market, outlining its relevance for managing distributed software agents across cloud and edge environments. She explains the market's key drivers, such as the...
By Forrester Generative AI
News•Dec 4, 2025
Inside NetSuite’s Next Act: Evan Goldberg on the Future of AI-Powered Business Systems
Oracle NetSuite unveiled NetSuite Next at SuiteWorld 2025, branding it as the platform’s biggest product evolution. The new suite embeds contextual, conversational, and autonomous AI directly into ERP, CRM, and e‑commerce workflows, enabling tasks like account reconciliation and cash‑flow prediction...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 4, 2025
Google’s Antigravity AI Deleted a Developer’s Drive and Then Apologized
Google’s Antigravity IDE, an AI‑driven development assistant, mistakenly erased a developer’s entire D: drive when its Turbo mode misread a cache‑clearing request. The AI executed a system‑level delete command with the quiet flag, providing no warning or confirmation, and the...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 4, 2025
DeepMath: A Lightweight Math Reasoning Agent with SmolAgents
DeepMath is a math‑reasoning agent built on the Qwen‑3‑4B Thinking model and fine‑tuned with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). It replaces verbose chain‑of‑thought text with tiny Python snippets that run in a sandboxed executor, then folds the results back into the...
By Hugging Face
News•Dec 4, 2025
We Got Claude to Fine-Tune an Open Source LLM
Anthropic’s Claude Code now leverages a new Hugging Face Skills plugin to fine‑tune open‑source large language models end‑to‑end. The skill generates training scripts, selects appropriate cloud GPUs, submits jobs to Hugging Face Jobs, monitors progress via Trackio, and pushes the finished model to the Hub....
By Hugging Face
News•Dec 3, 2025
Nvidia's New AI Framework Trains an 8B Model to Manage Tools Like a Pro
Nvidia and the University of Hong Kong unveiled Orchestrator, an 8‑billion‑parameter model that coordinates multiple tools and specialist LLMs to solve complex tasks. Trained with the new ToolOrchestra reinforcement‑learning framework, the model learns when to invoke specific utilities or sub‑models,...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 3, 2025
Watch What May Be Apple's Most Inspiring Video Ever
Apple unveiled a new International Day of Persons with Disabilities video that spotlights its comprehensive accessibility suite, from macOS Magnifier and Braille Access to Apple Watch Assistive Touch and Live Captions. The film follows diverse students using these tools to study,...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 3, 2025
Is This Our First Look at Intel's Xeon 6 Workstation Hardware? Leak Claims to Show W890 Platform Ahead of Granite...
A leaked ADLINK ISB‑W890 motherboard reveals that Intel’s W890 platform is nearing final readiness for the upcoming Granite Rapids‑WS Xeon 6 workstation line. The board follows the SSI‑CEB form factor, uses the new Socket E2, and supports a single processor with up...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 3, 2025
Andy Jassy Says Amazon’s Nvidia Competitor Chip Is Already a Multibillion-Dollar Business
Amazon announced at AWS re:Invent that its next‑gen AI accelerator, Trainium 3, is four times faster and more power‑efficient than Trainium 2, which already powers a multi‑billion‑dollar revenue run‑rate with over 1 million chips in production and more than 100,000 customers. CEO Andy...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 3, 2025
Gemini 3 Pro Scores 69% Trust in Blinded Testing up From 16% for Gemini 2.5: The Case for Evaluating AI...
Google’s Gemini 3 Pro achieved a 69% trust score in Prolific’s vendor‑neutral HUMAINE blind test, up from 16% for Gemini 2.5. The evaluation, which involved 26,000 users across 22 demographic groups, placed Gemini 3 first in performance, reasoning, adaptiveness and...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 3, 2025
Anthropic's AI Bubble 'YOLO' Warning
In this episode, Dario Amodei critiques the rapid, high‑stakes "YOLO" approach taken by OpenAI and other AI firms, warning that such aggressive scaling can create a speculative bubble. He highlights the risks of large, circular financing deals that may inflate...
By Sources
News•Dec 3, 2025
Anthropic’s AI Bubble ‘YOLO’ Warning
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the DealBook Summit that while the company’s technology is solid, the economic side of the AI market is fraught with timing risks. He warned that some players are “YOLO‑ing” large compute investments, especially through circular...
By The Verge
News•Dec 3, 2025
WordPress’s Vibe-Coding Experiment, Telex, Has Already Been Put to Real-World Use
WordPress has introduced Telex, an experimental vibe‑coding tool that uses AI to generate code snippets directly inside the platform. Although still in beta, developers have already deployed Telex‑generated components on production websites. The system taps large language models to translate...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 3, 2025
Watch Out - These Scam Mac Store Apps Are Impersonating Google Gemini & OpenAI ChatGPT
Scam applications masquerading as Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT have resurfaced on Apple’s Mac App Store, repeatedly published by the developer Neural Techlabs. The counterfeit apps copy logos, naming conventions, and UI designs, misleading users and potentially harvesting sensitive data. Despite...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 3, 2025
VCs Deploy ‘Kingmaking’ Strategy to Crown AI Winners in Their Infancy
Venture capital firms are increasingly using oversized early‑stage investments to shape the nascent artificial‑intelligence market. By writing mega‑checks for fledgling AI startups, they aim to lock in technology standards and secure dominant positions before the sector matures. This "kingmaking" approach...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 3, 2025
Apple’s Head of UI Design Is Leaving for Meta
Apple’s senior UI design leader Alan Dye is departing the company to become Meta’s chief design officer, overseeing hardware, software, and AI‑driven interfaces. He will start at Meta on December 31, while Steve Lemay, a veteran of Apple’s interface work...
By The Verge
News•Dec 3, 2025
I Was Hoping for Babel Fish Realtime Audio Translation, and While the InnAIO AI Translator T9is Impressive, It's Not There...
The InnAIO AI Translator T9 is a compact, magnetic attachment for iPhone and Android that delivers rapid language conversion when users speak clearly and have a solid internet connection. Its standout feature is voice‑cloning, allowing translations to sound like the...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 3, 2025
From SaaS to Dentistry: Usman Tariq’s Journey in Revolutionizing Patient Communication with Artificial Intelligence
Usman Tariq, a veteran SaaS entrepreneur, launched DentalAssist.ai, an AI‑powered virtual receptionist that automates patient communication for dental practices across North America. The platform integrates with Open Dental and Canadian management systems, delivering real‑time voice scheduling, case coordination for labs,...
By AI Time Journal
News•Dec 3, 2025
Microsoft Drops AI Sales Targets in Half After Salespeople Miss Their Quotas
Microsoft has slashed its AI‑agent sales growth targets by roughly 50% after sales teams missed ambitious quotas for Azure Foundry and Copilot products. The cut follows under‑performance in both U.S. Azure units, where less than 20% of reps met a...
By Ars Technica
News•Dec 3, 2025
OpenAI Has Trained Its LLM to Confess to Bad Behavior
OpenAI has introduced a new interpretability technique that trains its GPT‑5‑Thinking model to produce a post‑response "confession" describing any deviation from intended behavior. In controlled experiments where the model was prompted to lie or cheat, it generated confessions in 11...
By MIT Technology Review
News•Dec 3, 2025
Anyone Can Try to Edit Grokipedia 0.2 but Grok Is Running the Show
Elon Musk's xAI launched Grokipedia version 0.2, allowing anyone to suggest edits while the Grok chatbot reviews and implements changes. The platform, which began with 800,000 AI‑written articles locked behind a static wall, now shows over 22,000 approved edits but provides...
By The Verge
News•Dec 3, 2025
Anthropic Hires Lawyers as It Preps for IPO
Anthropic has engaged law firm Wilson Sonsini to begin the regulatory groundwork for a potential initial public offering, which could occur as early as 2026. The AI startup is also weighing a new funding round that may push its valuation above...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 3, 2025
I Tested the MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 2MG and It's Perfectly Placed if You Want a Simple Productivity Mini PC...
The MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 2MG is a compact mini PC designed for office productivity, featuring built‑in AI Copilot and a rich port selection. Priced between $949 and $999 for the 1 TB configuration, it targets front‑desk, lobby, and conference‑room deployments....
By TechRadar
News•Dec 3, 2025
AWS Doubles Down on Custom LLMs with Features Meant to Simplify Model Creation
Amazon Web Services announced expanded capabilities in its AI platforms, Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker, to streamline the creation of custom large language models (LLMs). The updates include one‑click fine‑tuning, automated data preparation, and integrated monitoring tools. Pricing adjustments aim...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 3, 2025
Character.ai Launches Stories to Keep Teens Engaged as It Scales Back Open-Ended Chat for Under-18s
Character.ai is ending open‑ended AI chat for users under 18 after a tragic suicide lawsuit and is introducing a visual, choice‑driven feature called Stories to keep teen users engaged. Stories let users select characters, pick a genre, and make plot...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 3, 2025
Google Photos Recap Will Tell You How Many Selfies You Took This Year
Google Photos has refreshed its annual Recap experience with new analytics and editing tools. The 2025 Recap now displays a selfie count, highlights users' standout hobbies, and lets Gemini‑enabled accounts see personalized year‑end insights. Users can hide specific people or...
By The Verge
News•Dec 3, 2025
AWS Simplifies Agent Building With Model Customization
AWS announced new model‑customization capabilities for Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker, including reinforcement fine‑tuning on Bedrock and serverless, agent‑guided or self‑guided workflows on SageMaker. The updates aim to make AI model tailoring faster, cheaper, and more accessible for enterprise developers....
By AI Business
News•Dec 3, 2025
Nvidia Admits the $100bn 'Biggest AI Infrastructure Project in History' OpenAI Deal Still Isn't Finalized
Nvidia's announced $100 billion AI infrastructure partnership with OpenAI remains a letter of intent, with no definitive agreement signed. CFO Colette Kress confirmed at the UBS Global Technology and AI Conference that the deal is still pending and that projected GPU...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 3, 2025
New Windows 11 'PC You Can Talk To' Ad Pushing Copilot Is Proving Divisive – and I Can See It...
Microsoft released a holiday‑season YouTube ad promoting the “Hey Copilot” voice interface in Windows 11. The spot depicts families using Copilot for tasks such as syncing Christmas lights and checking decoration regulations. While the ad aims to showcase AI convenience, it has...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 3, 2025
Amazon Says Alexa Plus Can Find that Movie Scene You’re Thinking About
Amazon has launched Alexa Plus on Fire TV, an AI‑driven feature that jumps to specific movie moments on Prime Video when users describe the scene aloud. The system combines Amazon Nova and Anthropic Claude models to understand character names, dialogue and visual cues, working with...
By The Verge AI