News•Dec 18, 2025
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 access it via ChatGPT and a forthcoming API pilot that offers trusted defenders more permissive access. OpenAI emphasizes a balanced deployment strategy to enable defensive security work while managing potential risks.
By VentureBeat
Podcast•Dec 18, 2025•8 min
Lovable Raises $330M at $6.6B Valuation
The episode dissects Lovable's $330 million Series round that lifted its valuation to $6.6 billion, highlighting the surge of investor interest in developer‑first AI tools. It explains the concept of “vibe‑coding”—AI‑driven code generation that adapts to a programmer’s style—and why this approach...
By AI Chat
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Zero‑Click Marketing Shows Algorithms, Not Humans, Drive Reach
"If the problem of the future is Zero-Click Marketing, then the solution is just to be human-centric; make great content and a great product." OH MY SWEET SUMMER CHILD, NO. Anyone telling you Zero-Click Marketing is about optimizing for people...
By Rand Fishkin
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Streamlined Multitasking with Claude via Contextual Chat Streams
Managing a dozen chats with Claude at once ⬇️ Majority of AI superusers I meet with are doing multiple AI tasks at once. Like, 8 different coding windows. Or 16 different client projects. A fun AI hack for me has...
By Allie Miller
News•Dec 18, 2025
Lyssna: How Marketers Test Messaging, Ads, and UX Faster
Lyssna is a user‑research platform that lets marketers test messaging, ads, and digital experiences with a global panel in hours rather than weeks. It offers a suite of methods—including five‑second, first‑click, card sorting, and live‑site testing—plus AI‑generated summaries to turn...
By Martech Zone Interviews
News•Dec 18, 2025
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...
By Sources
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Podcast•Dec 18, 2025•6 min
SANS Stormcast Thursday, December 18th, 2025: More React2Shell; Donicwall and Cisco Patch; Updated Chrome Advisory
The episode highlights evolving React2Shell attacks that now target less‑common endpoints and non‑Next.js applications, urging operators to assume compromise if systems remain unpatched. It also covers active exploits in Cisco Secure Email Gateway (UAT‑9686) and a SonicWall SMA1000 local privilege...
By SANS Internet StormCast
Social•Dec 18, 2025
AI-Generated Code Requires More Scrutiny, Has More Bugs
AI-authored code needs more attention, contains worse bugs • The Register https://t.co/5g05bZCTFc #artificialintelligence #aicode #AI #Tech #Coding #100DaysOfCode #codingerror
By Amitav Bhattacharjee
News•Dec 18, 2025
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...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
New Role for Tam Man Hong at Xtalpi
Xtalpi announced that veteran biotech executive Tam Man Hong will assume the role of President, Business Development, effective immediately. The appointment comes as the company finalizes a $150 million Series B financing round to expand its AI‑driven protein therapeutics platform. Hong, who...
By BioCentury
News•Dec 18, 2025
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...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 18, 2025
Science Spotlight: Dialing in Pathway Balance in Friedreich Ataxia
Two independent research groups have pinpointed reduced expression of the mitochondrial protein FDX2 as a novel therapeutic axis for Friedreich ataxia, publishing their findings in Nature. The studies argue that frataxin (FXN) and FDX2 function as a stoichiometric pair, and...
By BioCentury
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Innovation Thrives on Strong Links, Not Weakest Links
Innovation is a "strong-link problem". In a chain (weak-link problem), the weakest element breaks the system. In discovery (strong-link problem), the strongest element makes the breakthrough. The rest of the system provides the infrastructure that allows the outlier to function
By François Chollet
News•Dec 18, 2025
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...
By Hugging Face
News•Dec 17, 2025
SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Dec 17, 2025
The SaasRise mastermind will pause its calls for two weeks, returning on January 7 2026. The session highlighted a shift toward holistic, multi‑channel marketing systems, emphasizing omnipresence across paid ads, outbound email, and content. CEOs received tactical advice on ABM data sourcing...
By SaasRise
News•Dec 17, 2025
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...
By Fast Company AI
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Patience Finds Buyer, Speed Closes Deal
He sold SwiftNet in 30 days on @acquiredotcom. After months of calls that went nowhere, Nikita Danilov finally met the right buyer. His secret? > Patience in finding the right buyer > Speed once aligned Don’t rush the process. But when it’s time, move...
By Andrew Gazdecki
News•Dec 17, 2025
Jared Isaacman Confirmed as Next Head of NASA
U.S. Senate confirmed billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman as the next NASA administrator, finalizing a nomination that President Trump withdrew and later reinstated. Isaacman, founder of Shift4 Payments and a private astronaut, steps into leadership as the agency pivots toward a...
By TechCrunch - Space
News•Dec 17, 2025
Jared Isaacman, Billionaire Who's Flown with SpaceX, Confirmed to Lead NASA
The Senate confirmed billionaire Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator in a 67‑to‑30 vote. Isaacman, a former SpaceX space‑tourist who has flown on commercial missions and performed a private citizen spacewalk, will lead the agency during a critical period. He pledged...
By CBS News Space
News•Dec 17, 2025
'Cellik' Android RAT Leverages Google Play Store
Cellik is a Remote Access Trojan offered as a service that automatically wraps malicious payloads around legitimate Android apps downloaded from the Google Play Store. The RAT provides full device control, including screen streaming, keylogging, file system access, and encrypted...
By Dark Reading
News•Dec 17, 2025
Securing the Network Edge: A Comprehensive Framework for Modern Cybersecurity
Enterprise computing is rapidly moving to the edge, with analysts forecasting more than $100 billion in annual edge spend by 2030. The proliferation of IoT, AI, 5G and data‑sovereignty mandates is pushing workloads beyond centralized clouds, creating latency, cost and compliance...
By Dark Reading
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Our Brains Are Tuned to the Universe’s Stable Laws
Because our universe follows stable laws, a sufficiently general intelligent system adapted to it, like human-driven science, can eventually model any phenomenon within it. Human intelligence may not be "universal" in the mathematical sense (see No Free Lunch theorem), but we...
By François Chollet
News•Dec 17, 2025
'Fake Proof' And AI Slop Hobble Defenders
Exploitation attempts have surged around the React2Shell vulnerability, a CVSS 10.0 flaw in the popular React UI library. While researchers have published roughly 145 public exploits, many are AI‑generated proof‑of‑concepts that fail to trigger the flaw. These fake PoCs mislead...
By Dark Reading
Podcast•Dec 17, 2025•13 min
Europe’s Ariane 6 Launch and Asia’s Space Momentum.
The episode highlights Europe’s successful Ariane 6 launch of two Galileo satellites and the ESA’s decision to repurpose the Ariane 6 kick‑stage into an orbital transfer vehicle, underscoring a push for greater launch resilience. It also covers Asia’s growing space capabilities, noting...
By T-Minus Space Daily
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News•Dec 17, 2025
The Future of Quantum-Safe Networks Depends on Interoperable Standards
Quantum key distribution is transitioning from laboratory‑scale, point‑to‑point links to multi‑node, carrier‑grade networks. Recent pilots in London and Paris, led by BT, Toshiba, HSBC and Orange Business, demonstrate real‑world QKD deployments combined with post‑quantum cryptography. Industry groups such as ETSI’s...
By Dark Reading
News•Dec 17, 2025
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,...
By THE DECODER
Social•Dec 17, 2025
AI Marketing Is Just Evolution, Not Revolution
If you've been doing SEO, running social ads, or optimizing for any algorithm, you've already been doing AI marketing. The panic around AI agents and machine learning is overblown because marketers have been marketing to machines for over a decade....
By Neil Patel
Blog•Dec 17, 2025
What Is an Influencer? A Guide to Influencer Marketing
Influencer marketing has become a core growth channel, with 92% of consumers trusting creator recommendations over traditional ads. The global market reached $30 billion in 2025 and is projected to exceed $120 billion by 2030. Brands of all sizes, including B2B, are...
By Neil Patel
News•Dec 17, 2025
Addition Therapeutics: One Genomic Safe Site, Many DNA Insertions
Addition Therapeutics, a newly launched biotech, is deploying engineered retrotransposons to insert therapeutic payloads into a single ribosomal DNA (rDNA) locus, a recognized genomic safe harbor. By concentrating multiple genes at this highly transcribed, repetitive site, the platform promises stable...
By BioCentury
News•Dec 17, 2025
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...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 17, 2025
AI‑Powered Cloud Browser Redefines Multi‑Site Web Interaction
How is the Web changing due to AI? This visit to @Tiny_Fish yesterday goes deeply into just how. TinyFish makes a new kind of web browser. One that is started virtually. It is like a Google Chrome in the cloud. But it...
By Robert Scoble
News•Dec 17, 2025
Cisco Says Chinese Hackers Are Exploiting Its Customers with a New Zero-Day
Cisco disclosed that Chinese‑linked hackers are exploiting a critical zero‑day vulnerability in its AsyncOS software, specifically targeting the Secure Email Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager appliances. The flaw, active since at least November 2025, allows full device takeover and...
By TechCrunch (Cybersecurity)
News•Dec 17, 2025
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,...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 17, 2025
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,...
By Adweek AI
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Great Leaders Embrace Judgment, Diversity, and Contradiction
There's a lot to learn from Amazon in terms of how they execute and how they think about leadership. This is one of favorite snippets from the book "Think Like Amazon": “Leaders are right a lot. They have strong judgment...
By Dharmesh Shah
News•Dec 17, 2025
PayPal User Beware - Experts Warn Subscriptions Being Abused to Send Fake Purchase Emails
Scammers are abusing PayPal’s Subscriptions feature to inject phishing messages into legitimate PayPal emails. They modify the customer‑service URL and use a Google Workspace mailing list to forward the fake notice to many recipients. The forwarded emails bypass standard SPF...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Agentic AI & MCP Power Sustainable Enterprise Transformation
🚀 The Future of Enterprise Transformation Starts Now 🔍 Harnessing Agentic AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Sustainable Growth 🔹 Businesses are entering a new era driven by autonomy, security, and intelligent adaptability. 🔹 Agentic AI and MCP are redefining...
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Dec 17, 2025
World Models: The Path to True AGI
Why World Models are the way to AGI.
By Robert Scoble
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Step-by-Step Guide: Building Our Editions Page
Technical how-to on how the team build the editions page
By Tobi Lutke
Social•Dec 17, 2025
ChatGPT Launches App Directory for Developer Submissions
🚨 JUST IN → Devs can now submit their apps to ChatGPT. "Approved apps will be listed in the app directory, which is a new surface for users to search for apps directly in ChatGPT" https://t.co/KLyf91GOhk
By Data Chaz
Social•Dec 17, 2025
AI Will Tackle Complex Group Dynamics in Business, Politics, Economy
After math, code, assistant competence AI will take on complex group dynamic problems like firms, politics, economy.
By Alex Graveley
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Seek Evidence, Not Consensus, to Shrink Startup Risk
Founders often wait for consensus when they should be waiting for evidence. Agreement feels safer, but it does not reduce risk. Evidence does. Risk shrinks fastest when opinions are forced to meet the real world.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Dec 17, 2025
First to Build Grok Voice Agent for Reachy Mini?
Who's going to be the first to build a grok voice agent app for reachy mini?
By Clément Delangue
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Gemini 3 Flash Masters Multimodal Geometry Calculations
In this demo, you’ll see Gemini 3 Flash’s frontier-level reasoning and multimodal capabilities on display. The model is able to simultaneously conduct complex geometric calculations while processing complex inputs (video and image). You can play around with the slingshot in...
By Google AI
Social•Dec 17, 2025
SpaceX Brings Internet to the World's Most Underserved
SpaceX is providing connectivity to the least served
By Elon Musk
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Fix Fundamentals Early; Growth Won’t Hide Inefficiencies Later
Growth hides inefficiency the way adrenaline hides pain. It feels good while it lasts. When growth slows, everything surfaces at once. Teams that fix fundamentals early experience fewer emergencies later.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Dec 17, 2025
AI Triggers Cascade: From Efficiency to Industry Overhaul
AI-driven shifts are reshaping productivity, market behaviors, competitive pressure, and organizational design, creating a sequence of changes that move from immediate efficiency gains to broader transformations across industries. Infographic @Gartner_inc via @antgrasso https://t.co/BckFf1DZ02
By Antonio Grasso
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Blend Training and Team‑Building for Maximum Impact
- How training and #teambuilding achieve similar goals in distinct ways; - Why combining them is beneficial; - Which specific #professionaldevelopment and team building activities pair most effectively; and - What to do next: https://t.co/uxPbL5neWN via @bestcorpevents
By Tom Pick
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Narrative Gives Meaning to Shipping; Otherwise It's Noise
Shipping answers the question “what changed.” Narrative answers “why this matters.” Without the second, the first just feels like noise.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Truth Latency Drains Energy, Compounds Problems Faster than Metrics
Every organization has a truth latency. The longer it takes for bad news to reach the people who can fix it, the more energy gets spent managing impressions instead of solving problems. That delay compounds faster than any metric.
By Hiten Shah