News•Dec 28, 2025
AI Being Used to Help Cut A&E Waiting Times in England This Winter
England’s NHS is deploying an artificial‑intelligence forecasting tool to predict emergency department demand this winter. The algorithm analyses historical attendances, weather patterns, school holidays and flu/Covid rates to estimate patient volumes, allowing trusts to align staffing and bed capacity. Around 50 trusts have already adopted the system and report shorter A&E waits. The initiative is part of the government’s AI Exemplars programme aimed at modernising care delivery.
By The Guardian AI
News•Dec 28, 2025
Bernie Sanders Criticizes AI as ‘the Most Consequential Technology in Humanity’
Senator Bernie Sanders warned that artificial intelligence is the most consequential technology in humanity, linking its rapid adoption to job loss and widening wealth gaps. He called for a moratorium on new AI datacenters and criticized billionaire tech leaders for...
By The Guardian AI
News•Dec 28, 2025
NVIDIA AI Researchers Release NitroGen: An Open Vision Action Foundation Model For Generalist Gaming Agents
NVIDIA’s AI team unveiled NitroGen, an open‑source vision‑action foundation model that learns to play commercial games directly from pixel inputs and gamepad actions. The model is trained on 40,000 hours of filtered gameplay video spanning over 1,000 titles, using automatic...
By MarkTechPost
News•Dec 28, 2025
OpenAI Looks To Hire A New Head Of Preparedness To Deal With AI's Dangers
OpenAI announced a $555,000‑plus‑equity Head of Preparedness role to centralise risk assessment after a series of high‑profile lawsuits alleging AI‑induced harm. The position, vacant since July 2024, reflects CEO Sam Altman’s push for deeper mitigation of mental‑health, cybersecurity and misuse...
By Mashable AI
News•Dec 28, 2025
From that Bird Guy to ‘Bus Aunty’: The Real Social Media Personalities Rising Above AI Slop
Social media users are gravitating toward everyday creators, as TikTok highlights a wave of authentic personalities—from a garden‑loving pensioner to an autistic teen—gaining massive followings in 2025. These creators are eclipsing AI‑generated content, with TikTok’s relevance‑driven algorithm amplifying niche passions....
By The Guardian AI
News•Dec 28, 2025
AI Is Coming for Young People’s Office Jobs. That’s Good News for the Construction Industry | Gene Marks
AI is set to eliminate many entry‑level white‑collar positions, prompting a wave of young workers toward hands‑on trades. The construction sector already faces a severe labor crunch, with 92% of firms unable to fill roles and up to 723,000 new...
By The Guardian AI
News•Dec 28, 2025
Labour Must Learn Lessons From History as Automation Hits Jobs Market | Richard Partington
Automation is reshaping Britain’s retail sector, with self‑service checkouts, AI cameras and other machines replacing low‑paid staff. Retail vacancies fell 6 % in November, the lowest level in a decade, while the industry reports a 10 % rise in employment costs and...
By The Guardian AI
News•Dec 28, 2025
Microsoft CEO Nadella Tells Managers Copilot's Gmail and Outlook Integrations ‘Don't Really Work’ and Steps in to Fix Them
Satya Nadella publicly criticized Microsoft Copilot’s Gmail and Outlook integrations as “not smart,” and has taken a hands‑on role to fix them. He now leads weekly technical reviews with senior engineers, sends bug reports, and issues direct instructions to improve...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 28, 2025
Liquid AI’s LFM2-2.6B-Exp Uses Pure Reinforcement Learning RL And Dynamic Hybrid Reasoning To Tighten Small Model Behavior
Liquid AI released LFM2-2.6B-Exp, an experimental checkpoint that adds a pure reinforcement‑learning (RL) stage to its 2.6 billion‑parameter LFM2 model. The RL fine‑tuning targets instruction following, knowledge retrieval, and math without altering the hybrid convolution‑attention architecture. Benchmark results show the model...
By MarkTechPost
News•Dec 27, 2025
How to Build Production-Grade Agentic Workflows with GraphBit Using Deterministic Tools, Validated Execution Graphs, and Optional LLM Orchestration
The tutorial demonstrates how to build a production‑grade, agentic workflow for customer‑support ticket triage using GraphBit. It starts by configuring the GraphBit runtime, defining typed ticket data, and registering deterministic tools for classification, routing, and response drafting. These tools are...
By MarkTechPost
News•Dec 27, 2025
Get an Amazon Echo Dot for Christmas? Discover the 3 Features that Revolutionized My Smart Home Setup
The article showcases three Alexa-driven features—Routines, Hunches, and Alexa Guard—that turn an Amazon Echo Dot into a smart‑home command center. It explains how custom routines automate lighting, climate and entertainment based on schedules or sensor triggers. Hunches learn user habits and make...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 27, 2025
AI Is Getting Better and Better at Generating Faces — but You Can Train to Spot the Fakes
A recent Royal Society Open Science study shows that AI‑generated faces are indistinguishable from real ones, even for super recognizers, who performed no better than chance. Typical observers performed worse than chance, routinely mistaking fakes for genuine photos. A brief...
By Live Science AI
News•Dec 27, 2025
OpenAI Seeks New "Head of Preparedness" For AI Risks Like Cyberattacks and Mental Health
OpenAI announced a new senior position, Head of Preparedness, to oversee safety risks associated with its AI models. The role will address threats ranging from cyber‑attack facilitation and mental‑health impacts to the dissemination of biological knowledge and self‑improving systems. It...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 27, 2025
Resemble AI Drops Chatterbox Turbo, an Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model that Clones Voices in Five Seconds
Resemble AI has launched Chatterbox Turbo, an open‑source text‑to‑speech model that can clone a voice from just five seconds of audio. The model claims superior quality to Elevenlabs and Cartesia while producing the first audio chunk in under 150 ms, making...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 27, 2025
China Publishes Draft of Regulations for Human-Like AI Tech
China’s Cyberspace Administration released draft interim measures regulating anthropomorphic, emotionally interactive AI services. The rules impose full‑lifecycle responsibility, mandatory AI identity disclosure, and strict consent requirements for using interaction and sensitive data. Providers must undergo tiered risk assessments, security reviews,...
By The AI Insider
News•Dec 27, 2025
AI Data Centers Demand More Than Copper Can Deliver
AI‑driven data centers are hitting a "copper cliff" as GPU‑to‑GPU bandwidth pushes toward terabit‑per‑second rates, forcing copper cables to become thicker and shorter. Startups Point2 Technology and AttoTude propose radio‑frequency and terahertz‑band cables that deliver 1.6 Tb/s over 10‑20 m with far...
By IEEE Spectrum AI
News•Dec 27, 2025
Meta's Pixio Proves Simple Pixel Reconstruction Can Beat Complex Vision Models
Meta AI unveiled Pixio, a masked autoencoder that learns solely through pixel reconstruction. By enlarging masked regions, adding multiple class tokens, and deepening the decoder, Pixio achieves superior depth estimation and 3D reconstruction despite having only 631 million parameters. In head‑to‑head...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 27, 2025
London Eye Architect Proposes 14-Mile Tidal Power Station Off Somerset Coast
Julia Barfield, the architect behind the London Eye, has unveiled an £11 bn proposal for a 14‑mile West Somerset Lagoon tidal power station. The design calls for 125 underwater turbines delivering up to 2.5 GW, enough for roughly two million homes and...
By The Guardian AI
News•Dec 27, 2025
Make Your AI Bills Disappear Forever with This One AI Hub
1min.AI launched the Advanced Business Plan, offering lifetime access to multiple AI models and tools for a one‑time $74.97 fee, down from $540. The plan consolidates writing, image, video, audio, and document AI functions into a single hub. It includes...
By Mashable AI
News•Dec 27, 2025
Fujifilm's Epic 40TB Tape Cartridge Is Here - Despite What Elon Musk Says, the Future of Offline Data Storage Looks...
Fujifilm has launched the LTO‑10 40 TB magnetic tape cartridge, delivering up to 100 TB compressed capacity and a 400 MB/s native transfer rate. The cartridge fits existing LTO‑10 drives, eliminating the need for new hardware, and features a thinner base‑film and refined magnetic...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 27, 2025
I Asked ChatGPT and Gemini to Invent a New Winter Holiday — Here’s What They Came up With
TechRadar writer Eric Hal Schwartz asked ChatGPT and Gemini to invent winter holidays that avoid existing celebrations. The models created two distinct concepts: "Thawmark," a low‑key day focused on small repairs and mindful warmth, and "The Clatter," a chaotic February...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 27, 2025
AI Tool of the Week: Gemini's New Feature Creates Interactive Tools in Chat
Google Gemini unveiled a new capability called mini‑apps, powered by its Opal framework, that lets users generate interactive tools directly within a chat session. By simply describing a desired calculator, planner, tracker, or prototype, Gemini builds a functional app without...
By Mint AI
News•Dec 26, 2025
Can AI Help Solve the Power Problem It Created?
Artificial intelligence is accelerating demand for electricity, exposing the limits of the United States' aging power grid. While AI offers tools for smarter energy use—such as precise demand forecasting, predictive maintenance, and real‑time cooling—these capabilities alone cannot close the capacity...
By Fast Company AI
News•Dec 26, 2025
Rodeo Is an App for Making Plans with Friends You Already Have
Rodeo is an AI‑powered iOS app that transforms social‑media posts, screenshots, or chat snippets into ready‑to‑book events, handling venues, showtimes and calendar invites automatically. The service was launched by former Hinge executives Sam Levy and Tim MacGougan to solve the friction...
By The Verge
News•Dec 26, 2025
Meta Brings Segment Anything to Audio, Letting Editors Pull Sounds From Video with a Click or Text Prompt
Meta has extended its Segment Anything (SAM) technology to audio, launching SAM Audio—a model that isolates individual sound sources using text prompts, visual clicks, or time‑based markers. The system leverages a flow‑matching diffusion transformer and a new Perception Encoder Audiovisual...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 26, 2025
How AI Is Changing the Patient Journey
AI has moved from automating routine tasks to adapting to patient emotions and context, with platforms like Cedars‑Sinai Connect, CompanionMx, and Feel Therapeutics leading the charge. Hospitals are pairing large language models with note‑taking apps such as Nabla and Heidi,...
By Fast Company AI
News•Dec 26, 2025
The Year the Internet Broke – the 11 Biggest Tech Fails that Defined 2025, Ranked
TechRadar’s year‑end roundup ranks the 11 biggest tech failures of 2025, from Amazon’s AI‑generated Prime Video recaps that hallucinated plot details to Sky Sports’ poorly received Halo channel. The list, voted on by readers via a WhatsApp poll, also highlights...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 26, 2025
MuleRun Launches Creator Studio, the World’s First Platform Built for AI Agent Monetization
MuleRun has launched Creator Studio, the first platform dedicated to building, publishing, and monetizing AI agents at scale. The service offers a three‑step workflow—registration, code upload, and commercialization—allowing creators to move from prototype to revenue quickly. Alongside the launch, MuleRun...
By AiThority
News•Dec 26, 2025
From Vibe to Venture
The article argues that the 12‑month MVP model is obsolete as AI‑driven "vibe coding" enables rapid prototype creation. It contrasts Lovable.dev’s quick, polished landing pages with Google AI Studio’s production‑ready React/TypeScript output powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro. Google’s platform integrates natively with...
By AiThority
News•Dec 26, 2025
A Coding Implementation on Building Self-Organizing Zettelkasten Knowledge Graphs and Sleep-Consolidation Mechanisms
The tutorial by Asif Razzaq demonstrates how to build a self‑organizing Zettelkasten memory system for agentic AI using Google Gemini. It defines a MemoryNode data class, ingests text by atomizing it into discrete facts, embeds each fact, and links semantically...
By MarkTechPost
News•Dec 25, 2025
The Silent Infrastructure Powering AI: How Mohammed Arbaaz Shareef Shapes Enterprise Intelligence Through Data Engineering
Enterprises are realizing that AI success hinges more on data engineering than on model sophistication. Senior Data Engineer Mohammed Arbaaz Shareef has demonstrated this by designing cloud‑native, governed data platforms that power AI across fintech, telecom and manufacturing. His implementations—using...
By AI Time Journal
News•Dec 25, 2025
Australia's Financial Regulator Warns Banks Against Flooding It with AI-Generated Suspicious Activity Reports
Australia’s financial regulator AUSTRAC has cautioned banks against over‑reliance on AI for filing suspicious activity reports. Regulators met with several institutions, privately reprimanding at least one major bank for generating low‑quality, high‑volume reports using large language models. While machine‑learning flagging...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 25, 2025
Salesforce Executives Signal Declining Trust in Large Language Models
Salesforce executives acknowledge a decline in confidence in large language models (LLMs) over the past year, citing randomness and instruction‑following failures. The company is pivoting its Agentforce platform toward simple, rule‑based automation while restricting generative AI in certain scenarios. Salesforce...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 25, 2025
Last Week in AI #330 - Groq->Nvidia , ChatGPT Apps, US AI Genesis Mission
The episode covers a wave of AI industry moves, including Nvidia's $20 billion licensing deal with Groq to integrate low‑latency inference chips, OpenAI's launch of a ChatGPT app directory, and Amazon's leadership reshuffle to unify its AI stack. It also highlights...
By Last Week in AI
News•Dec 25, 2025
A Coding Guide to Build an Autonomous Multi-Agent Logistics System with Route Planning, Dynamic Auctions, and Real-Time Visualization Using Graph-Based...
The tutorial walks readers through building a fully autonomous, multi‑agent logistics simulation where five smart trucks navigate a 30‑node graph‑based city. Each truck acts as an agent that bids on delivery orders, plans shortest‑path routes, monitors battery levels, and seeks...
By MarkTechPost
News•Dec 24, 2025
Time to Switch to eSIM? South Korea Will Now Make Consumers Scan Their Faces to Buy a SIM Card and...
South Korea will require facial recognition scans when consumers purchase new SIM cards, adding biometric verification to traditional ID checks. The move follows massive data breaches that exposed personal information for over half the country’s 52 million residents, fueling phone‑based scams....
By TechRadar
News•Dec 24, 2025
Can Teacher Wisdom Steer the AI Transition in Education?
Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering K‑12 classrooms, sparking concerns about equitable access and the risk of widening the digital divide. DonorsChoose, which serves 90% of U.S. public schools, reports a surge in AI‑related funding requests, climbing from roughly 600 last...
By Fast Company AI
News•Dec 24, 2025
This AI Paper From Stanford and Harvard Explains Why Most ‘Agentic AI’ Systems Feel Impressive in Demos and Then Completely...
The Stanford‑Harvard paper "Adaptation of Agentic AI" introduces a unified, mathematically grounded framework for tuning agentic AI systems that combine large language models with planning, tool‑use, and memory modules. It categorizes adaptation into four paradigms based on whether the target...
By MarkTechPost
News•Dec 24, 2025
AI-Created Ransomware and NFC Attacks Lead the Surge in New Cyberattacks - Here's How You Can Stay Safe This Holidays
ESET’s new threat report reveals PromptLock, the first ransomware that uses generative AI to create and run malicious Lua scripts on the fly, dramatically simplifying attack development. The ransomware can scan, exfiltrate, encrypt, or destroy data based on AI‑driven decisions,...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 24, 2025
Key Workforce Trends to Watch in 2026
In 2026 the workplace is being reshaped by three intersecting forces: AI‑augmented workflows that could generate $2.9 trillion in U.S. economic value, a rapid shift toward skills‑first hiring and upskilling, and a stagnant labor market that leaves new graduates facing tougher...
By Fast Company AI
News•Dec 24, 2025
Report: OpenAI May Embed Sponsored Content Directly Into ChatGPT Responses
OpenAI is actively prototyping ways to embed sponsored content directly into ChatGPT answers, including woven‑into‑response ads and sidebar placements. Internal mockups show both immediate product recommendations and post‑click suggestions for travel or retail queries. The company is also exploring the...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 24, 2025
Waymo Is Testing Gemini as an In-Car AI Assistant in Its Robotaxis
Waymo is piloting Google’s Gemini chatbot as an in‑car AI assistant for its robotaxis, revealed through a 1,200‑line system prompt. The assistant is designed to answer rider queries, manage cabin functions such as climate, lighting and music, and personalize greetings...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 24, 2025
Sony’s Souped-Up PlayStation 5 Pro Is $100 Off for the Rest of Today
Sony is offering a $100 discount on its PlayStation 5 Pro, reducing the price to roughly $689.99 from $749.99 until December 25 at 3 AM ET. The Pro model, the most powerful PS5 variant, features a larger GPU, 2 TB of SSD storage,...
By The Verge
News•Dec 24, 2025
Half of UK Novelists Believe AI Is Likely to Replace Their Work Entirely
A Cambridge‑led survey of 258 UK novelists and industry insiders reveals that 51% fear AI could fully replace their work, with 59% reporting unauthorized use of their writing to train models and 39% already seeing income losses. While a third...
By AIhub
News•Dec 24, 2025
A New Framework for Keeping AI Accountable
A University of Waterloo research team unveiled the Social Responsibility Stack (SRS), a six‑layer framework that embeds societal values directly into AI system design and treats accountability as a continuous control problem. The stack translates abstract ethics such as fairness...
By AI Accelerator Institute
News•Dec 24, 2025
In 2025, AI Became a Lightning Rod for Gamers and Developers
In 2025 generative AI moved from experimental prototypes to mainstream video‑game releases, appearing in titles hailed as game of the year. Major publishers such as Ubisoft, EA, and Microsoft announced partnerships with AI firms to generate dialogue, NPC behavior, and...
By The Verge
News•Dec 24, 2025
The Future of Rail: Watching, Predicting, and Learning
Britain’s rail network could handle an extra billion journeys by the mid‑2030s, driven by AI becoming the operating system across infrastructure, rolling stock and stations. The report outlines a shift to predictive, data‑driven maintenance using sensors, LiDAR and vibration monitors,...
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Dec 24, 2025
A Zelda Puzzle Proves AI Models Can Crack Gaming Riddles that Require Thinking Six Moves Ahead
Modern language models are now capable of solving multi‑step visual puzzles, as demonstrated by a color‑changing Zelda shrine challenge. Google Gemini 3 Pro, OpenAI GPT‑5.2‑Thinking, and Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 were tested on the same screenshot, with GPT‑5.2 solving it consistently and quickly, Gemini 3 Pro...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 24, 2025
MeetKai and GSMA Collaborate to Close the Global AI Language Gap for Low-Resource Languages
MeetKai and the GSMA announced a joint initiative to close the AI language gap for low‑resource languages, targeting the roughly 7,000 world languages with fewer than 20 currently supported by high‑resource AI models. The partnership will create culturally aligned language...
By AiThority
News•Dec 24, 2025
Dangerous WebRAT Malware Now Being Spread by GitHub Repositories
Kaspersky discovered fifteen GitHub repositories masquerading as proof‑of‑concept exploits that actually deliver the WebRAT backdoor and infostealer. The fake exploits, some generated with generative AI, bundle a password‑protected ZIP containing a decoy DLL and a malicious dropper named rasmanesc.exe, which...
By TechRadar