News•Dec 19, 2025
Cai Succeeding Zhang as Head of CSPC
Cai has been appointed to replace Zhang as head of China Starch & Pharmaceutical Co. (CSPC), the country’s largest generic drug manufacturer. The transition was announced in December 2025 and is effective immediately. Cai brings a background in AI-driven drug discovery, having recently led teams at ProFound. The board expects the change to speed up CSPC’s pipeline and strengthen its global market position.
By BioCentury
News•Dec 19, 2025
How Google Cloud Is Shaping the Enterprise AI Inference Moment
Google Cloud is positioning its container‑first platforms to solve the enterprise AI inference bottleneck, moving focus from model training to reliable, low‑latency serving. GKE now treats accelerators as first‑class resources and introduces the Inference Gateway, which routes requests by model...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Dec 19, 2025
Palo Alto Networks Inks Multibillion-Dollar AI Deal with Google Cloud
Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks announced a multibillion‑dollar partnership with Google Cloud, valued at nearly $10 billion through 2025. The agreement moves key internal workloads to Google’s platform and embeds the Gemini family of large language models via Vertex AI into...
By SiliconANGLE
Blog•Dec 19, 2025
November 2025 Patent Highlights
The November 2025 Patent Highlights post serves as a gateway to Drug Hunter’s most‑read resources, including top‑10 lists of popular articles, reviews, and case studies from the year. It spotlights a detailed review of FcRn biology and the push toward oral...
By Drug Hunter
News•Dec 19, 2025
Watch Out - Hackers Are Coming After Your Christmas Bonus, as Paychecks Come Under Threat
Cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting corporate help desks to hijack payroll systems, especially during bonus season. By posing as employees, attackers obtain password resets and then modify banking details on platforms like Workday, ADP, and Dayforce to divert individual paychecks. This...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 19, 2025
AI B2B Takes Off in 2026 After 2025 Foundations
We are literally >just< getting going in AI B2B. Really, most stuff didn’t even work before Claude 4 and the beginning of 2025. That’s why Lovable, Replit, Cursor, Gamma, etc. exploded. The models alone weren’t good enough — until early...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 19, 2025
SF Streets Turned Into AI‑Powered Future Showcase
I'm across the street from @FactoryAI in @blevlabs's offices. He's talking to his AI agents (we're working through architecture of a new kind of news system that I'll be using next year to step up my game). Meanwhile a stream...
By Robert Scoble
Podcast•Dec 19, 2025•23 min
From Presidential Decrees to Tumbling Satellites.
The episode reviews President Trump's new Executive Order on American space superiority, discusses major industry deals—including Rheinmetall and ICEYE's €1.7 billion German defense contract and HawkEye 360's $150 million acquisition and financing round—and highlights recent satellite incidents such as a Starlink loss...
By T-Minus Space Daily
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Schedule a Systems Hack Day to Automate Workflows
Your team needs a Systems Hack Day. I know the name isn’t perfect, but I’m talking about dedicating one day entirely to rethinking how a process gets done. If you haven’t built Claude skills you’re using regularly... If you haven’t built...
By Allie Miller
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News•Dec 19, 2025
How to Scale B2B Digital Ad Spend to $100K+ Monthly Profitably
Scaling B2B digital ad spend to $100K+ monthly requires a systematic, data‑driven approach rather than isolated hacks. Companies must first lock in unit economics, defining target CAC and LTV, before allocating additional budget. Selective scaling of only the campaigns, audiences,...
By SaasRise
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News•Dec 19, 2025
B2B Digital Ads Strategy: Meta, Bing, Google, and LinkedIn
B2B digital advertising must be treated as a systematic awareness engine rather than a single‑channel conversion tool. Google captures intent‑driven demand, Bing adds low‑cost incremental reach, LinkedIn delivers precise ABM targeting, and Meta provides scalable awareness and retargeting. Success hinges...
By SaasRise
News•Dec 19, 2025
Businesses Are Hiring AI Specialists Instead of Data Engineers - and Its a Big Problem
Businesses are flooding the market with AI and machine‑learning specialists while neglecting data‑engineer hires, creating a 46% gap in US job postings. RAND research shows more than 80% of AI projects fail, largely due to poor data quality and governance...
By TechRadar
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News•Dec 19, 2025
How to Set up Third Party Ad Tracking with Cometly
Cometly tackles the chronic problem of duplicate and fragmented conversion data in B2B advertising by providing a server‑side, cross‑channel attribution layer. The platform replaces native pixels with a single identity that tracks visits, clicks, and revenue events across Meta, Google,...
By SaasRise
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News•Dec 19, 2025
How to Set up Ad Conversion Tracking on Meta, Bing, Google, and LinkedIn
Accurate conversion tracking is now essential for B2B marketers as privacy changes and multi‑device journeys complicate attribution. The article explains how to install Meta, Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft pixels and then choose among three tracking methods: native pixel‑based, server‑side APIs,...
By SaasRise
News•Dec 19, 2025
Google Releases FunctionGemma: A Tiny Edge Model that Can Control Mobile Devices with Natural Language
Google AI unveiled FunctionGemma, a 270‑million‑parameter model that converts natural‑language commands into executable code on edge devices. Trained on a dedicated Mobile Actions dataset, its function‑calling accuracy climbs to 85%, far surpassing generic small models. The model runs locally on...
By VentureBeat
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News•Dec 19, 2025
How to Set up First Touch, Last Touch, and U-Shaped Ad Attribution on Cometly
Cometly now supports first‑touch, last‑touch, and U‑shaped attribution models, letting B2B marketers view the full customer journey from discovery to conversion. The platform uses a persistent identifier to stitch together email clicks, ad views, site visits, and conversions, avoiding cookie‑based...
By SaasRise
News•Dec 19, 2025
Scammers in China Are Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds
Chinese e‑commerce platforms are facing a surge in refund fraud as scammers deploy generative‑AI images and videos to fabricate product damage. Reports from sellers on RedNote and Douyin reveal fake photos of dead crabs, torn sheets, and broken ceramics, prompting...
By WIRED AI
News•Dec 19, 2025
Xiaomi Unveils MiMo-V2-Flash, Its New Open-Weight AI Model to Take on DeepSeek
Xiaomi has launched MiMo‑V2‑Flash, a 309‑billion‑parameter open‑weight AI model designed for complex reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks. The model delivers up to 150 tokens per second and operates at a cost of $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.3 per...
By Indian Express AI
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Organize Diligence and Keep Competition to Prevent Retrades
One of the most frustrating things for a founder selling their business: A retrade. Retrading is when a buyer tries to renegotiate the terms of a transaction late in a process due to "new" information that arose during final diligence....
By Michael Lyon
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Cross‑platform AI Agent Store Opens New Marketplace
How is Web 3.0 and AI colliding? Here is an example. I am not compensated by them or own their token. But this is a new AI agent store. Now @OpenAI just turned in a store of its own, but will that...
By Robert Scoble
News•Dec 19, 2025
Cloudflare's Impact Report for 2025 Reveals How Elections, Journalism, and Nonprofits Faced Rising Online Threats
Cloudflare’s 2025 Impact Report highlights how its security suite shielded more than 3,000 public‑interest sites, including journalists, NGOs, and election infrastructure, from a staggering 9.9 billion cyber‑attacks each month. The Athenian Project protected 441 election‑related properties, blocking 200 million DDoS attacks across...
By BetaNews
News•Dec 19, 2025
Seven Roles, One Goal: How To Organize For Answer Engine Optimization
The episode explains that Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) demands a dedicated Center of Excellence (CoE) to coordinate seven cross‑functional roles—including content, web development, paid search, social, PR, and brand marketing—to boost visibility in answer engines. It highlights how social listening,...
By Forrester MarTech
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Startups Must Join ChatGPT Early or Lose Customers
The startups mentioned here are thinking about the ChatGPT App Store wrong. Distribution mechanisms are only one part of the puzzle. The reality is that ChatGPT is becoming the starting point for many startups' customers. As other competing...
By Brian Balfour
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Future AI Success Depends on These 9 Skills
9 AI skills that will actually matter in 2026 (not just “use ChatGPT”) 👉Prompt engineering 👉RAG pipelines 👉Agentic workflows 👉Fine-tuning & distillation 👉LLM evaluation & red-teaming 👉Cost & latency optimization 👉Tool calling + function calling ...
By Giuliano Liguori
News•Dec 19, 2025
Google Releases FunctionGemma to Bring AI Commands to Smartphones
Google unveiled FunctionGemma, a function‑calling‑optimized variant of the compact Gemma 3 270M model, designed to run directly on Android smartphones. The on‑device AI can translate natural‑language prompts into executable commands, such as creating calendar events or manipulating game elements, demonstrated in the...
By THE DECODER
Social•Dec 19, 2025
AI‑first, Word‑of‑Mouth, Personal Brand: SaaS Survival 2026
It's almost 2026. If you're a SaaS founder, you're probably screwed. Anything you do that works gets copied, CAC is up, LTV is down. Here are the 7 things I see that ARE working - in a world where most...
By Adam Robinson
News•Dec 19, 2025
No Storefront Needed — Get Paid via DMs and QR Codes with Squarespace’s New Tool
Squarespace unveiled Pay Links, a free tool that lets freelancers, solopreneurs, and small businesses collect payments without a traditional storefront. Users generate branded URLs, QR codes or direct‑message links that can be shared on any channel. The feature integrates with...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 19, 2025
We Asked Four AI Coding Agents to Rebuild Minesweeper—The Results Were Explosive
Ars Technica tested four leading AI coding agents—OpenAI Codex, Anthropic Claude Code, Mistral Vibe, and Google Gemini CLI—by asking each to build a web‑based Minesweeper clone with sound and a surprise feature. Codex delivered the most complete game, including the critical...
By Ars Technica AI
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Hyperscaler Marketplaces Set to Capture $42B by 2029
Hyperscaler Marketplaces are becoming a mainstream enterprise procurement channel. By the end of 2025, over $21B in third-party software purchases will flow through hyperscaler-operated marketplaces, rising toward $42B by 2029. These marketplaces now represent roughly 5% of global enterprise software...
By Tiffani Bova
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Data Center Permits Must Include Full Water Impact Metrics
Where "easing permits" means "reporting on the use of water and energy is deprioritized," it should be noted this reflects on anyone's definition of "responsible" AI or GenAI. Because speed or growth for speed or growth's sake are not values...
By John C. Havens
News•Dec 19, 2025
Beyond Chatbots: How to Build Agentic AI Systems
Google DeepMind’s senior AI relations engineer highlights the shift from chat‑based LLMs to autonomous agents that can pursue goals and invoke tools on their own. Early models acted as text autocompleters, then evolved into instruction‑following chatbots with function‑calling capabilities. The...
By AI Accelerator Institute
News•Dec 19, 2025
An Asteroid Could Hit the Moon in 2032, Scattering Debris Toward Earth
A building‑sized asteroid, 2024 YR4, has a roughly 4 percent chance of striking the Moon in December 2032, with a 1 percent chance that the impact will eject debris into near‑Earth space. The collision could unleash energy comparable to 6 million metric tons of TNT—about...
By ScienceNews - Space
News•Dec 19, 2025
AI Is Likely to Replace Jobs, Bank of England Governor Warns
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned that artificial intelligence will replace certain jobs, drawing a parallel with the Industrial Revolution. He stressed that the technology is unlikely to cause mass unemployment, but will raise the skill bar for entry‑level...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 19, 2025
LongNosedGoblin Caught Snooping on Asian Governments
ESET has identified a new Chinese‑backed advanced persistent threat group, LongNosedGoblin, conducting cyber‑espionage against Japan and other Southeast Asian governments since 2023. The group leverages custom C#/.NET malware and uniquely abuses Windows Group Policy to drop payloads and move laterally...
By Dark Reading
News•Dec 19, 2025
New Research Reveals AI Is Fueling an 'Unprecedented Surge in Cloud Security Risks'
Palo Alto Networks’ State of Cloud Security Report warns that rapid AI adoption is inflating cloud attack surfaces, creating an unprecedented surge in risk. More than 70% of enterprises now run AI‑powered cloud services, often granting overly permissive access. Identity‑related...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 19, 2025
New Managed Web Hosting Service Brings Flat-Rate node.js Pricing
Hostinger has introduced managed Node.js support on its shared‑hosting plans, offering flat‑rate pricing that covers up to ten web apps on the Cloud Startup tier and five on the Business tier. The service includes one‑click GitHub deployment and eliminates the...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 19, 2025
10 Ways to Increase Your Site’s Page Views Per User
The post argues that "views per user" has replaced the outdated "pages‑per‑visit" metric as a more accurate gauge of content engagement. Martech Zone boosted its views per user from 1.01 to 1.27 by improving site speed, cleaning up tags, enhancing...
By Martech Zone Interviews
Social•Dec 19, 2025
AI Turns Research Into Cross‑Industry Insight Superpower
There are actually two ways to use AI for research. The first is obvious. The second is a superpower. The first is to speed up what you were already going to do. Duh. Researching competitors. Looking up people before meetings. Background...
By Allie Miller
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Tailor ChatGPT: Personalize Your AI Experience
You can customize ChatGPT
By Nick Turley
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Google Says AI Search Rewards Human‑written Content
Google's Danny Sullivan says that all their ranking systems, including AI search, reward content that is written for humans. https://t.co/8GqjcUFl32 via @martinibuster, @sejournal
By Tom Pick
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Computer Vision: Machines Interpreting Visual Data Beyond AI
Computer Vision isn’t “just AI.” It’s how machines interpret visual data—from cameras to X‑rays to telescopes—solving tasks like detection, recognition, OCR, and 3D reconstruction. #ComputerVision #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #ImageProcessing https://t.co/KhVODmTBBU
By Satya Mallick
Social•Dec 19, 2025
South Korean Firms Dominate CES 2026 Innovation Awards
South Korean Companies Sweep CES 2026 Innovation Awards https://t.co/lNC9O0R0fn #CES2026 #AI #IoT #5G @JimHarris @Analytics_699 https://t.co/5TUPhSL1bd
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Comment Counts Added to Cards for Conversation Insight
Fizzy refinement continues. Now we show the number of comments on a card. Helps you spot ones with conversation vs. ones with crickets. https://t.co/KSonHBvAqX
By Jason Fried
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Grok by xAI: The Only Truth‑Focused AI
The only AI with truth as the fundamental goal is @Grok from @xAI
By Elon Musk
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Recordables Pattern Keeps Basecamp and HEY Code Joyful
The recordables pattern has been the single-most important architectural pattern we've used on both Basecamp and HEY. It's a key reason both code bases are still a joy to work on. Jeff breaks down the magic in this new podcast....
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 19, 2025
AI Adds 2% GDP Boost, Lifts Wages and Jobs
The AI boom is a +2% tailwind to GDP growth — driving both wage and job increases (Vanguard) — and you’re blackpilling about it? Stop being gaslit by doomers, socialists, and EA weirdos.
By David Sacks
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Stripe Lets You Monetize ChatGPT Apps in Minutes
Wow. Stripe just made it insanely easy to monetize a ChatGPT app, literally a few lines of code 🤯 link in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/nDW0CbkEs4
By Data Chaz
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Salient Scales to $25M ARR, Zero Churn,
In just two years, Salient has hit $25M ARR—with zero customer churn and 100% of pilots converting to paid deals. They're automating loan servicing for auto lenders (including 5 of the top 10), cutting costs by 50% and delivering 30x better...
By YCombinator
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Founders' Decision Speed Limits Startup Growth, AI Highlights
Every startup eventually hits the same wall. The company can only move at the speed the founder is willing to make irreversible decisions. AI exposes this because everything else can move instantly.
By Hiten Shah