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Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20B in Growth‑stage Funding

Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI announced a $20 billion fundraising round, surpassing its $15 billion target and pushing its valuation above $230 billion. The round was backed by Fidelity, Qatar Investment Authority, Valor Equity Partners and Nvidia. The capital will fund new data...

How Tech’s Biggest Companies Are Offloading the Risks of the AI Boom

Tech giants are sidestepping the massive capital outlay of AI infrastructure by leasing compute power and using special‑purpose vehicles funded with private credit. Microsoft signed multiple multi‑billion‑dollar neocloud contracts, while Meta created a SPV and partnered with Blue Owl Capital...

Amazon Kindle’s New In-App AI Feature Lets Users Ask Questions on Books: Report

Amazon is testing a new AI feature called “Ask This Book” on its Kindle iOS app. The tool lets readers highlight any passage and ask questions, receiving AI‑generated answers without leaving the page. It is currently enabled for thousands of...

Cursor Launches Visual Editor, an AI Agent Tool that Extends Vibe-Coding to Web App Design

Cursor introduced Visual Editor, an AI‑agent‑driven visual UI builder that lets developers and designers edit web apps through drag‑and‑drop and natural‑language prompts. The tool lives inside the Cursor Browser, merging code, design panels, and a chat interface in a single...

India Accelerates Ahead in GenAI Learning with 3.6 Mn Enrolments in 2025: Coursera Report

India is leading the global surge in generative AI education, logging 3.6 million Coursera enrollments in 2025 – the highest worldwide. Google Cloud’s "Introduction to Generative AI" emerged as the top Indian GenAI course, while DeepLearning.AI’s "AI for Everyone" topped overall...

OpenAI Warns Next-Gen AI Models Could Pose High Cybersecurity Risks; Readies Defences

OpenAI warned that its next‑generation models, such as GPT‑5.1‑Codex‑Max, could be leveraged for high‑impact cyber attacks, including zero‑day exploits and enterprise sabotage. The company reported a jump to 76% success on capture‑the‑flag challenges, underscoring the models' offensive potential. To counter...

Microsoft Copilot Is Now a Workday Assistant and Nighttime Confidant, Report Finds

Microsoft released the Copilot Usage Report 2025, analyzing 37.5 million anonymized conversations from January to September. The data shows distinct usage patterns by device, time of day, and day of week, with work‑related queries dominating desktop sessions during business hours and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

US to Allow Nvidia H200 Chip Shipments to China, President Trump Says

The U.S. government announced that Nvidia’s H200 AI processors will be allowed for export to China, subject to a 25% fee collected through Taiwan. The fee is higher than the 15% rate previously discussed and applies to other AI‑chip firms...

Gemini’s Monthly Active User Base Grew 5x Faster than ChatGPT, New Data Shows

Google’s Gemini chatbot is closing the gap with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, posting a 30% rise in monthly active users (MAU) from August to November 2025 versus ChatGPT’s 6% growth. The surge is attributed to Gemini’s new Nano Banana image‑generation model and Google’s...

Softbank’s Son Says He ‘Cried’ While Selling Nvidia Stake to Fund OpenAI Bet

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son disclosed that the group sold its entire $5.8 billion Nvidia stake to free cash for a $30 billion commitment to OpenAI and other AI projects. The shares were sold at $181.58, about 14 % below Nvidia’s all‑time high, prompting...

YouTube Creators Are Now Making AI Slop for Babies: Report

A wave of YouTube creators is mass‑producing low‑effort AI‑generated videos, dubbed “AI slop,” that are appearing on YouTube Kids and reaching toddlers under two. Bloomberg reports that creators with millions of followers are posting tutorials on how to make such...

World’s First Fully Agentic AI Smartphone: Is This China’s Second DeepSeek Moment?

ZTE has unveiled the Nubia M153, a prototype smartphone that embeds ByteDance’s Doubao AI agent directly into the operating system, giving it full‑stack control of the device. The agent can visually interpret the UI, launch and configure apps, and complete multi‑step...

India Leads Global AI Adoption as Younger Users Drive Rapid Growth

An OECD‑Cisco study finds India leading global generative AI adoption, with 66.4% of respondents actively using AI tools. Younger adults under 35 drive the surge, and 77.9% have completed AI training, while over 89% consider AI useful. The research also...

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...

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...

AWS Unveils New AI Models, Trainium3 Servers, Frontier Agents, and More at Re:Invent 2025

At re:Invent 2025, AWS announced a suite of AI advancements, including the multimodal Nova 2 Omni model and the Nova Forge platform for custom model creation. The company unveiled Trainium3‑powered EC2 Trn3 UltraServers, delivering up to 4.4× higher compute performance and fourfold energy...

Google Search Adds ‘Dive Deeper in AI Mode’ to AI Overviews

Google is testing a new feature that merges AI Overviews with AI Mode, letting users dive deeper into a query directly from the search results page with a single tap. The integration, announced by VP Robby Stein, adds a “Dive...

DeepSeek Unveils New AI Models Rivalling GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro

OpenAI and Google Impose New Daily Limits for Sora, Nano Banana AI Tools Amid Demand Surge

OpenAI and Google have introduced daily usage caps on their AI generation tools after a surge in demand. OpenAI limits free Sora video generation to six videos per day, while paid ChatGPT Plus and Pro users remain unrestricted. Google restricts...

Amazon Workers Push Back as over 1,000 Sign Letter Warning Against ‘Warp-Speed’ AI Rollout

More than 1,000 Amazon employees have signed an open letter urging the company to slow its aggressive AI rollout. The staff cite climate damage, job security threats, and heightened surveillance as primary concerns. They highlight Amazon's $150 billion investment in new...

Sam Altman Says It’s Time for a ‘Very Aggressive’ AI Infrastructure Bet

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a “very aggressive” infrastructure bet, targeting the construction of the world’s largest data‑center network to power next‑generation AI models. The plan hinges on massive capital investment and broad partnerships with firms such as AMD, Oracle...

Andrej Karpathy to Educators: Stop Trying to Catch AI-Generated Homework

Over 90% of Indian Organisations Now Using AI: Zoho Study

Zoho’s AI Privacy Equation report finds that 93% of Indian organisations have adopted artificial intelligence, with 71% strengthening privacy measures and 61% establishing ethics committees. Over two‑thirds of firms allocate more than 20% of their IT spend to privacy, and...

DeepSeek’s New Math-V2 AI Model Can Solve and Self-Verify Complex Theorems

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled DeepSeek‑Math‑V2, an open‑weight LLM that generates and self‑verifies mathematical theorems. Built on DeepSeek‑V3.2‑Exp, the model includes a verifier and theorem generator and is released under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and GitHub. In benchmark tests it earned...

Microsoft Unveils Fara-7B, a Lightweight AI Model that Can Use a PC From a Single Screenshot

Microsoft introduced Fara-7B, a 7‑billion‑parameter computer‑use agent that runs locally on a PC and can interpret a screenshot to execute clicks, typing and navigation. The model was trained on 145,630 synthetic web sessions generated by the FaraGen pipeline, achieving competitive...

What Is Antigravity, Google’s New Agentic AI Coding Platform Raising Fresh Security Concerns?

Google unveiled Antigravity, an agentic AI coding platform, on November 18 alongside Gemini 3. Within 24 hours, security researchers identified a persistent backdoor that exploits the tool’s “trusted workspace” model, allowing malicious code to run on both Windows and macOS. The...

OpenAI API Customer Details, Including User IDs, Exposed in Mixpanel Data Breach

OpenAI disclosed that a breach at analytics vendor Mixpanel exposed personal data of its API customers, including user IDs, email addresses, operating‑system details and coarse location information. The incident occurred on November 9, 2025, but OpenAI’s core systems, API keys, payment data...

What Is Agentic AI, and Would You Trust It to Book a Flight?

Agentic AI, an emerging class of artificial intelligence, can autonomously search, price‑track, and book travel reservations with minimal human input. Major players such as Expedia, Google, Kayak and Priceline are piloting or rolling out these bots, and 80% of travel...

Jensen Huang Dismisses Job Loss Fears, Tells Nvidia Employees to ‘Use AI for Every Task’

ChatGPT’s New Shopping Research Feature Helps You Compare Products and Get Personalised Buying Guides

OpenAI has introduced a Shopping Research feature for ChatGPT that automatically compiles product comparisons and personalized buying guides. Powered by the new GPT‑5 mini model, the tool asks clarifying questions, pulls data from public retail sites, and leverages a user’s...