News•Dec 19, 2025
b.well Launches the First-Ever SDK for Health AI Assistants
b.well Connected Health unveiled the first SDK designed to power healthcare AI assistants with real‑time, unified medical data. The platform aggregates information from 2.2 million providers, over 300 health plans, and a broad ecosystem of pharmacies, labs, devices, and patient‑generated sources. Its proprietary 13‑step Data Refinery cleanses and compresses data, cutting large‑language‑model processing costs by up to tenfold. The HITRUST‑certified SDK also embeds clinical vocabularies, enabling AI agents to deliver evidence‑based, actionable recommendations such as appointment scheduling and prescription transfers.
By AI-TechPark
News•Dec 19, 2025
Align Continues Strategic Expansion to Accelerate AI and HPC Data Center Deployments
Align is accelerating its U.S. expansion to meet soaring AI and high‑performance computing (HPC) data‑center demand. The company is bolstering vendor partnerships to shorten time‑to‑token for clients and has grown its internal Data Center Solutions team. Align appointed Keith Hopkins,...
By AiThority
News•Dec 19, 2025
Lionsgate Partners Exclusively with FreeWheel to Give Ad Buyers Direct Access to Its Premium FAST Inventory
Lionsgate announced an exclusive partnership with FreeWheel, making its premium FAST inventory accessible through the FreeWheel SSP. The deal covers more than 30 U.S. FAST channels, including flagship MovieSphere and the 50 Cent Action channel, and allows both direct and programmatic...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 19, 2025
Laserfiche Is a Leader in Info-Tech Research Group’s Enterprise Content Management – Enterprise Data Quadrant
Laserfiche has been named a Leader in Info‑Tech Research Group’s Enterprise Content Management – Enterprise Data Quadrant, earning a composite score of 9.1. The vendor topped the quadrant for product features and customer satisfaction, backed by more than 400 user...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 19, 2025
How Can Martech Teams Combine AI SEO And Digital PR To Dominate First-Page Rankings?
MarTech teams must fuse AI‑driven SEO with digital PR to thrive in today’s AI‑centric SERPs. Google now prioritizes entity authority, trust signals, and multi‑surface visibility over simple keyword matches. Integrated platforms enable AI to spot content gaps, while PR secures...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 19, 2025
BigBear.ai and C Speed Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver AI-Enabled Border Security
BigBear.ai and C Speed announced a strategic partnership to fuse BigBear.ai’s ConductorOS AI orchestration platform with C Speed’s software‑defined LightWave Radar. The integration will deliver autonomous, real‑time threat detection and decision support for border security, air‑missile defense, and counter‑UAS missions....
By AiThority
News•Dec 19, 2025
GoDaddy’s New ANS Marketplace Tells You Which AI Agents You Can Trust
GoDaddy unveiled the Agent Name Service (ANS) Marketplace, a platform that lists ANS‑verified AI agents and displays trust signals for each. The marketplace launches with five demo agents—including a Brand Advisor and a Home Page Advisor—designed for small‑business workflows. GoDaddy...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 19, 2025
Proposal to Allow Use of Australian Copyrighted Material to Train AI Abandoned After Backlash
The Australian Productivity Commission has scrapped its plan to grant a “fair dealing” exemption that would let tech firms mine copyrighted Australian material for AI training, after a fierce backlash from the creative sector. Instead, the commission advised the government...
By The Guardian AI
News•Dec 19, 2025
The Arguments for and Against Digital Identification
Fintech commentator Chris Skinner outlines the growing push for digital identity systems, citing government initiatives in the UK, the US mobile driver’s licence, and Apple’s Wallet ID. He contrasts these programs with public resistance rooted in privacy fears, especially around...
By The Finanser
News•Dec 19, 2025
Things Worth Reading: 19th December 2025
Chris Skinner’s December 19 2025 roundup curates six fintech stories that illustrate the sector’s evolving landscape. Highlights include Citi’s perspective on funding trends, Aspire’s acquisition of global licences, the emergence of fintech‑driven gambling platforms, HSBC’s £55 million physical‑branch refurbishment, and the Bank of...
By The Finanser
News•Dec 19, 2025
Reinventing the Dial-Up Modem (2019)
Simple, a healthcare app, replaced paper registers and landline calls with an offline‑first solution that uses DTMF tones to transmit patient numbers through a toll‑free line. Nurses initiate a call, the app plays the patient’s number as DTMF, and Twilio...
By Hacker News
News•Dec 19, 2025
Microsoft AI CEO Admits Gemini 'Can Do Things that Copilot Can’t Do'
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman publicly acknowledged that Google’s Gemini 3 can perform tasks that Microsoft’s Copilot cannot, a rare admission in the AI arms race. He highlighted Gemini’s multimodal strengths while emphasizing Copilot’s real‑time visual assistance and integration across Windows,...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 19, 2025
Unsloth AI and NVIDIA Are Revolutionizing Local LLM Fine-Tuning: From RTX Desktops to DGX Spark
Unsloth, a GPU‑optimized fine‑tuning library, now runs on everything from GeForce RTX desktops to NVIDIA's DGX Spark, delivering up to 2.5× faster training for LLMs. The tool supports parameter‑efficient methods like LoRA/QLoRA, full model updates, and reinforcement‑learning pipelines, each with clear...
By MarkTechPost
News•Dec 19, 2025
Stelios Papadopoulos Brings the Long View on Biotech on The BioCentury Show
Stelios Papadopoulos, former Biogen chair and current Exelixis leader, warned that biotech faces heightened pricing pressure and rising competition from China despite a surge of over $3 billion in capital in a single day. He argued that the sector can no...
By BioCentury
News•Dec 19, 2025
How Alphamab Is Differentiating in Crowded Cancer Targets
Alphamab is launching a next‑generation bispecific antibody‑drug conjugate (ADC) platform that simultaneously engages two tumor antigens while employing a lower drug‑to‑antibody ratio (DAR). The company argues that this design improves the therapeutic index by delivering potent payloads more selectively and...
By BioCentury
News•Dec 18, 2025
Oracle Has One Last Ampere Hurrah - New Cloud Platforms Offer up to 192 Custom Arm Cores, and Aren't OCI...
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure launched A4 Standard instances powered by Ampere Computing’s AmpereOne M silicon, offering up to 192 custom Arm cores per chip in both virtualized and bare‑metal forms. The configurations deliver up to 48 OCPUs (96 cores) with up to...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
AI-Driven Personalization ‘No Longer Optional’
Udi Ziv, CEO of Personetics, explains that AI-driven personalization has become essential for banks and credit unions seeking growth and retention, as customers now expect the same seamless digital experiences offered by other apps. He highlights the shift from competing...
By Bank Automation News
News•Dec 18, 2025
Third Rock Backs Steve Paul’s Latest Schizophrenia Spinout in $165M Round: Venture Report
Third Rock Ventures led a $165 million financing round for Steve Paul’s newest schizophrenia‑focused biotech, marking a significant venture capital commitment to neuropsychiatric innovation. Paul, a serial biotech founder, will use the capital to move novel mechanisms from discovery into early...
By BioCentury
News•Dec 18, 2025
I Tried the Apple Music App for ChatGPT, and It Felt Like Talking to a Music‑obsessed Friend
Apple Music has launched a ChatGPT app that lets users generate playlists, discover songs, and play short music clips via conversational prompts. Subscribers can link their Apple Music accounts to save the AI‑crafted playlists directly to their library. The integration...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
YouTube Bans Two Popular Channels that Created Fake AI Movie Trailers
YouTube shut down the Screen Culture and KH Studio channels, which together amassed over 2 million subscribers by posting AI‑generated movie trailers that mimicked real releases. The platforms initially demonetized the creators for missing disclaimer tags, briefly reinstated them, and then...
By Ars Technica AI
News•Dec 18, 2025
Early Signals Stack Up: Two Small Molecules Activate GCase in Parkinson’s
Gain Therapeutics reported Phase Ib data showing that its small‑molecule program reduces glucosylceramide substrate in the central nervous system, confirming target engagement of glucocerebrosidase (GCase). In parallel, Vanqua Bio presented early evidence that its distinct compound activates peripheral GCase while...
By BioCentury
News•Dec 18, 2025
SonicWall Edge Access Devices Hit by Zero-Day Attacks
SonicWall disclosed a medium‑severity zero‑day vulnerability, CVE‑2025‑40602, affecting the SMA1000 access platform’s management console. The flaw, rated 6.6 CVSS, is being actively exploited in chained attacks that also leverage the critical CVE‑2025‑23006 vulnerability. SonicWall released hotfixes in firmware versions 12.4.3‑03245...
By Dark Reading
News•Dec 18, 2025
Product Adoption: The Missing Link Between Acquisition and Revenue Growth
The post positions product adoption as the critical bridge between acquisition efforts and sustainable revenue growth. It defines adoption as users discovering, integrating, and repeatedly using core features, which accelerates activation, extends retention, and drives expansion. Sales and marketing teams...
By Martech Zone Interviews
News•Dec 18, 2025
New InstallAware X18 Launching With Solana Payment System
InstallAware Software has unveiled InstallAware X18, its latest installer platform that embeds a Solana cryptocurrency payment system directly into the setup wizard. The solution converts fiat to SOL in real time, records each transaction on the Solana blockchain, and charges...
By SD Times
News•Dec 18, 2025
Best Shipping Companies for Amazon Sellers
The article outlines the top shipping providers for Amazon sellers, highlighting ARDI Express, UPS, FedEx, DHL Express, ShipBob, ShipHero, Sendle, EasyShip and OnTrac. It details each carrier’s core strengths, from international freight and customs clearance to regional ground services and...
By Martech Zone Interviews
News•Dec 18, 2025
It's Not Just RAM Getting More Expensive - the Tools to Make Chips Are Set to Explode in Cost Too,...
Global semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales are projected to reach $133 billion in 2025, rising 13.7% year‑over‑year, with forecasts of $145 billion in 2026 and $156 billion in 2027. The surge is driven by heightened demand for AI accelerators, high‑performance computing and advanced 2 nm...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
School Security AI Flagged Clarinet as a Gun. Exec Says It Wasn’t an Error.
A Florida middle school was placed under lockdown after ZeroEyes, an AI‑driven security system, mistakenly identified a student’s clarinet as a rifle. Human reviewers failed to halt the alert, prompting police to respond before discovering the false alarm. ZeroEyes’ co‑founder...
By Ars Technica AI
News•Dec 18, 2025
Snowflake Update Caused a Blizzard of Failures Worldwide
Snowflake’s latest release introduced a backwards‑incompatible schema change, causing a major outage that affected 10 of its 23 global regions for about 13 hours. The failure prevented users from executing queries and ingesting data across Azure and AWS data centres...
By The Register
News•Dec 18, 2025
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: From Dish to Freezer and Back
Kobe University researchers have devised a cryopreservation protocol that freezes induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) directly in their 2‑dimensional culture dishes. The method uses the inexpensive amino acid D‑proline combined with a synthetic polymer and a brief enzymatic step to...
By Phys.org – Biotechnology
News•Dec 18, 2025
Pickle Robot Adds Tesla Veteran as First CFO
Pickle Robot, a Massachusetts‑based maker of autonomous unloading robots, appointed Jeff Evanson as its first chief financial officer. Evanson, a former Tesla vice president of global investor relations, had been consulting for Pickle since September and now joins full‑time. The...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 18, 2025
Microsoft, Google Rule AI Vendor Market for Enterprises
Gartner’s 2025 report crowns Microsoft and Google as the dominant AI vendors for enterprises. Microsoft’s broad partner and platform ecosystem gives it an edge in enterprise‑wide AI, while Google’s integrated agentic AI stack positions it as the company to beat...
By CIO Dive
News•Dec 18, 2025
ICE Seeks Cyber Upgrade to Better Surveil and Investigate Its Employees
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is renewing its Cyber Defense and Intelligence Support Services contract to broaden digital surveillance of employee activity. The updated agreement mandates continuous network monitoring, automated anomaly detection, and systematic archiving of logs from servers, workstations, and...
By WIRED (Security)
News•Dec 18, 2025
T5 Services Scales Rapidly as Data Center Delivery Demand Grows
T5 Services, the services arm of T5 Data Centers, reported record growth in 2025, expanding revenue from $87 million in 2021 to $1.6 billion. The company’s integrated construction and operations model, backed by more than 200 professionals and 6,000 subcontractors, delivered over...
By AI-TechPark
News•Dec 18, 2025
GPT-5.2 Tops OpenAI's New FrontierScience Test but Struggles with Real Research Problems
OpenAI introduced the FrontierScience benchmark, a two‑part test featuring Olympiad‑level problems and open‑ended PhD‑level research challenges. GPT‑5.2 topped the leaderboard, reaching 77% accuracy on the Olympiad set and 25% on the research set, while Gemini 3 Pro trailed closely on Olympiad...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 18, 2025
Show HN: Spice Cayenne – SQL Acceleration Built on Vortex
Spice.ai announced Spice Cayenne, a next‑generation data accelerator that pairs the Vortex columnar file format with an embedded SQLite‑based metadata layer. The solution targets multi‑terabyte object‑storage workloads, delivering up to 1.4× faster TPC‑H queries and 14% faster ClickBench runs while...
By Hacker News
News•Dec 18, 2025
Two Asteroids Crashed Around a Nearby Star, Solving a Cosmic Mystery
Astronomers using Hubble have captured two fresh dust clouds around the nearby star Fomalhaut, each created by the collision of ~60‑km asteroids. The new source, designated Fomalhaut cs2, replaces the previously debated Fomalhaut b, which likely was an older dust...
By New Scientist - Space
News•Dec 18, 2025
New Hubble Images May Solve the Case of a Disappearing Exoplanet
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a bright dust cloud around the nearby star Fomalhaut, indicating a collision between two asteroid‑sized planetesimals about 30 km in diameter. The impact provides the first direct observation of colliding planetesimals outside the Solar System and...
By ScienceNews - Space
News•Dec 18, 2025
NASA Will Soon Find Out if the Perseverance Rover Can Really Persevere on Mars
NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) program remains in limbo as costs balloon to $11 billion, pushing a likely launch into the 2030s. Meanwhile, the Perseverance rover, five years on Mars, is in excellent health and has traveled 40 km—double its original mobility...
By Ars Technica (Space)
News•Dec 18, 2025
Palona Goes Vertical, Launching Vision, Workflow Features: 4 Key Lessons for AI Builders
Palona AI, founded by former Google and Meta engineers, announced a vertical shift into the restaurant and hospitality sector with two new products—Palona Vision and Palona Workflow. Vision leverages in‑store security cameras to monitor queue lengths, table turnover, and kitchen...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 18, 2025
'A Lot of People Cry Using the App — We’ve Had Users Say It Put Into Words Things They’d Been...
Mark Manson and AI entrepreneur Raj Singh have launched Purpose, an AI‑mentor app that delivers personalized self‑help coaching directly on users' phones. The platform tailors advice to individual values, fears and goals while explicitly refusing therapy‑level issues and directing users...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
Stablecoins and Strategy
The episode examines how stablecoins fit into long‑term strategic thinking, using China’s CCP and its recent policy discussions as a case study. It highlights the view that stablecoins are a gateway to a tokenised capital‑market ecosystem where settlement can be...
By 15Mb
News•Dec 18, 2025
Anthropic Launches Skills Open Standard for Claude
Anthropic announced an open‑source Agent Skills specification for its Claude model, expanding the platform’s ability to create, share, and deploy task‑specific capabilities. The update adds organization‑wide management for enterprise teams and bundles pre‑built Skills from partners such as Canva, Notion,...
By AI Business
News•Dec 18, 2025
SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of December 15-18, 2025
The SaaS CEO Mastermind for Dec 15‑18, 2025 tackled market contraction, product‑market fit ambiguity, AI positioning, and 2026 strategy. Leaders were urged to shift toward enterprise customers, secure multi‑year deals, and treat AI as an optional productivity boost. Recommendations emphasized a unified...
By SaasRise
News•Dec 18, 2025
The Ultra-Realistic AI Face Swapping Platform Driving Romance Scams
Haotian, a Cambodia‑based AI face‑swapping platform, is earning millions by selling ultra‑realistic deep‑fake software to scammers via Telegram. The service offers 50 customizable facial parameters and voice‑cloning, enabling fraudsters to conduct convincing video‑chat scams, especially pig‑butchering schemes. Cryptocurrency tracing shows...
By WIRED AI
News•Dec 18, 2025
Spray-On Antibacterial Coating Offers New Protection for Plants Against Disease and Drought
UC San Diego engineers have created a water‑based spray polymer coating that shields plant leaves from bacterial infection and improves drought tolerance. The polynorbornene polymer carries positive charges that disrupt bacterial membranes while remaining gas‑permeable for normal leaf respiration. Laboratory...
By Phys.org – Biotechnology
News•Dec 18, 2025
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. ...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
TDK Ventures, Accel Set to Back India’s EtherealX in Reusable Launch Vehicle Push: Sources
EtherealX, an Indian startup developing a fully reusable medium‑lift launch vehicle, is close to closing a $21 million funding round led by TDK Ventures with participation from Accel and BIG Capital. The round, up from an initial $15 million target, follows a...
By TechCrunch - Space
News•Dec 18, 2025
How Social Media “Really” Works… It’s Not What You Think
Social media platforms are engineered as attention‑selling machines, prioritizing user dwell time over content quality. Design elements—red notifications, infinite scroll, and ambiguous sounds—exploit dopamine-driven anticipation and variable rewards to keep users engaged. Algorithms now favor emotionally charged posts because they...
By Martech Zone Interviews
News•Dec 18, 2025
Beyond Code: How Bitrix24’s AI Powers End-to-End Project Management
Bitrix24 launches a full‑lifecycle AI‑powered project management platform that embeds intelligence directly into planning, execution, and reporting. The solution replaces fragmented AI add‑ons with a unified workspace that combines task management, Gantt/Kanban views, chat, video calls, and CRM. AI CoPilot...
By SD Times
News•Dec 18, 2025
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...
By VentureBeat