ChatGPT Calls This Mini PC "a Steal" While Gemini Says It's "Insane" Value for Money — Meet the $379 AMD...
The Machenike Mini PC now sells for $379 on Amazon, featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS, 16 GB DDR5, and a 512 GB SSD. A DIY attempt to match these specs costs about $570, roughly 50% more, largely due to DDR5 scarcity. AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini praised the price as a "steal" and "insane" value. The pre‑built also includes warranty, OS, and saves assembly time, making it a compelling alternative to building a PC.
OpenAI Now Accepting ChatGPT App Submissions From Third-Party Devs, Launches App Directory
OpenAI announced that third‑party developers can now submit apps for inclusion in a new ChatGPT App Directory, accessible from the sidebar and chat interface. The submission process went live on December 17, with approved apps slated to roll out to users...
Microsoft Made Another Copilot Ad Where Nothing Actually Works
Microsoft released a holiday‑themed Copilot ad that depicts the AI flawlessly handling smart‑home lighting, recipe scaling, and HOA compliance, but the showcased scenarios rely on fictional companies and staged interactions. Independent testing revealed Copilot frequently hallucinating UI elements, misreading instructions,...
5 Things Businesses and Users Should Remember when Using AI Chatbots
The article warns that AI chatbot conversations are often stored long‑term, exposing sensitive personal data. It argues that superficial redaction is insufficient; true privacy requires permanent data removal and explicit retention policies. Transparency about data handling and minimizing collected information...
Aptiv and Vecna Robotics to Develop Next Generation Autonomous Mobile Robots
Aptiv and Vecna Robotics announced a joint venture to create next‑generation autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for industrial and logistics environments. The collaboration combines Aptiv's vehicle‑grade sensor and software platform with Vecna's modular robot chassis and AI navigation stack. The partners...
Luma Releases a New AI Model that Lets Users Generate a Video From a Start and End Frame
Luma AI unveiled Ray3 Modify, a generative video model that lets users edit existing footage while preserving the original actor’s performance. Creators can supply character reference images and define start and end frames to generate smooth transitions and transform scenes....
Kfir Aberman, Founding Member at Decart — Real-Time Generative Video, GPU Optimization, Personalization, and the Future of Interactive AI
Decart, founded by former Google and Snap researchers, is building real‑time generative video that reacts instantly to user context. By leveraging deep CUDA‑kernel optimizations, the company claims lossless quality while cutting latency dramatically. The firm redefined personalization beyond static subject...
UK Actors Vote to Refuse to Be Digitally Scanned in Pushback Against AI
The UK actors' union Equity has recorded a 99% affirmative vote among its members to refuse on‑set digital scanning, a practice used to capture likenesses for future AI applications. The indicative ballot polled over 7,000 members with a 75% turnout,...
Orbiit Introduces ‘Ambient Addiction Recovery’ — A New Category in Addiction Recovery Powered by AI and Machine Learning
Orbiit Services Inc. has launched Ambient Care, an AI‑driven addiction recovery layer that operates continuously through a patient’s mobile device. The system analyzes micro‑interactions—timing, engagement, avoidance—to generate real‑time Sober and Risk scores, which clinicians can use to deliver SMS‑based micro‑interventions....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Terence Tao Proposes "Artificial General Cleverness" As a More Honest Label for What AI Actually Does
Renowned mathematician Terence Tao has argued that the term “artificial general intelligence” overstates what current systems can achieve. He proposes calling the capability “artificial general cleverness” (AGC), describing it as the ability to solve complex problems using improvised, sometimes random,...
Now There's a Robot App Store because We All Want Our Bots to Kick Like Bruce Lee
Unitree has introduced the world’s first Robot App Store, initially offered in beta for its $13,500 G1 humanoid robot. The marketplace hosts a handful of pre‑built routines such as Funny Actions, Twist Dance, and a Bruce Lee martial‑arts sequence, and allows...
JP Morgan’s AI Adoption Hit 50% of Employees. The Secret? A Connectivity-First Architecture
JPMorgan Chase rolled out an internal LLM‑powered assistant suite two‑and‑a‑half years ago, and adoption surged to over 60% of its 250,000‑plus workforce without mandates. The rapid, organic uptake stemmed from a connectivity‑first architecture that embeds AI into existing data, CRM,...
Media Executives Share Their Predictions for 2026
Media executives anticipate 2026 will shift from frantic AI experimentation to disciplined sorting of what scales and what doesn’t. They warn that AI‑driven traffic volatility will push firms to prioritize stable revenue models and audience trust. Human‑first storytelling and differentiated,...
Amazon Appoints Longtime AWS Exec Peter DeSantis to Lead New AI Org
Amazon announced that longtime AWS executive Peter DeSantis will head a new AI-focused organization. The unit will oversee Amazon’s AI models such as Nova, custom silicon development, and quantum computing initiatives. DeSantis brings 27 years at Amazon, including eight as...
Billionaires Want Data Centers Everywhere, Including Space
Tech billionaires are turning space into the next frontier for AI data centers, citing limitless solar power and reduced terrestrial footprint. Google’s Project Suncatcher aims to launch a cluster of up to 81 low‑Earth‑orbit satellites by 2027, each packed with...
Urban VPN Proxy Is the Latest Free VPN Spying on Users – Here's How to Stay Safe
Urban VPN Proxy, a free Chrome and Edge extension, was found to covertly capture every AI prompt users type and transmit the data to analytics servers for resale. Security firm Koi Security identified a hidden script added in the July 9 2025...
Semantic Shelf: The Dynamics Of Commerce Across Answer Engines
The episode explains how AI‑driven answer engines like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Perplexity are reshaping the top and middle of the commerce funnel by turning lengthy product research into rapid, guided Q&A and offering intuitive comparison tables, while their impact...
The $10 Billion Loop: Amazon Could Pay OpenAI so OpenAI Can Pay Amazon
Amazon is in advanced talks to invest at least $10 billion in OpenAI, a move that could lift the startup’s valuation past $500 billion. The cash infusion is aimed at covering OpenAI’s soaring server expenses, including a $38 billion cloud agreement with Amazon...
Google's Next Experimental AI Project Is Called CC, And There's Already A Waitlist To Try It
Google announced its next experimental AI project, CC, which delivers a personalized "Your Day Ahead" email by accessing Gmail, Calendar, and Drive data. The service is currently in a U.S. and Canada waitlist, with priority given to AI Ultra and...