News•Dec 18, 2025
TileDB Announces Integration with Snowflake to Launch TileDB Carrara
TileDB launched Carrara, an omnimodal data intelligence platform, as a Snowflake Connected App for Healthcare and Life Sciences. The integration unifies complex scientific data—genomics, proteomics, imaging, and documents—across TileDB arrays and Snowflake tables within a single catalog. Automatic RSA key authentication and built‑in Python SDK handling streamline credential management and data science workflows. Joint customers can now build end‑to‑end AI and analytics pipelines that leverage both array‑native storage and Snowflake’s scalable analytics engine.
By AI-TechPark
News•Dec 18, 2025
Deepfakes Are No Longer Just a Disinformation Problem. They Are Your Next Supply Chain Risk
In February 2025, engineering firm Arup lost $25 million after attackers used AI‑generated video and audio to impersonate senior leaders and convince an employee to transfer funds. The breach highlighted a critical weakness: a lack of identity resilience, the ability to...
By Fast Company AI
News•Dec 18, 2025
Researchers Co-Develop New Deep Learning Platform to Advance Precision Medicine
Researchers from Marshall University and the University of Missouri unveiled G2PDeep, a web‑based deep‑learning platform that fuses six major omics data streams to predict complex health outcomes. The peer‑reviewed study in *Biomolecules* demonstrates the tool’s ability to identify molecular markers,...
By Phys.org – Biotechnology
News•Dec 18, 2025
Indie Agency Glow Dips Its Toe In Software Sales With Creator Vetting Tool
Glow, an independent social and digital marketing agency, has introduced CreatorView, an AI‑driven platform that vets influencers for brand safety and alignment. The move reflects a broader trend of agencies expanding into software sales as AI shortens product development cycles...
By Adweek AI
News•Dec 18, 2025
Nissan Selects IPfolio From Clarivate
Nissan Motor Co. has chosen Clarivate’s IPfolio platform to modernize its intellectual‑property management. The cloud‑based solution will introduce advanced workflow automation, API‑driven integration, and analytics to streamline patent handling. Nissan aims to build a scalable IP management system that enhances...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 18, 2025
Third of UK Citizens Have Used AI for Emotional Support, Research Reveals
A recent AI Security Institute report shows that one‑third of UK citizens have turned to artificial intelligence for emotional support, companionship or social interaction. Nearly one in ten users engage with chatbots weekly and 4 % do so daily, with general‑purpose...
By The Guardian AI
News•Dec 18, 2025
The Antibiotic Delafloxacin Emerges as a Potential Therapeutic Alternative Against Legionella
Researchers at the IGTP demonstrated that delafloxacin inhibits intracellular Legionella replication more effectively than levofloxacin in a macrophage model. The fluoroquinolone achieved bacterial killing at concentrations five to ten times lower than the current standard, except for L. longbeachae where...
By World Pharma News
News•Dec 18, 2025
OpenAI Reportedly Seeking up to $100 Billion in New Funding Round
OpenAI is in early discussions to raise as much as $100 billion, which could lift its valuation to roughly $750 billion—a 50% jump from its October share sale. The company reports an annualized revenue run rate of $19 billion and aims for $30 billion...
By THE DECODER
News•Dec 18, 2025
Fortinet and Arista Networks Announce Joint Secure AI Data Center Solution
Fortinet and Arista Networks unveiled a Secure AI Data Center solution, first deployed at Monolithic Power Systems, that merges Fortinet’s ASIC‑accelerated security with Arista’s ultra‑low‑latency networking. The reference architecture offers a modular, zero‑trust design, zero‑touch provisioning and hardware‑offloaded TLS that...
By AI-TechPark
News•Dec 18, 2025
Penguin Ai and FTI Unite Expertise for Next-Gen Revenue Cycle Performance
Penguin AI, a healthcare AI specialist, announced a partnership with global advisory firm FTI Consulting to embed its AI platform into FTI’s revenue cycle management (RCM) transformation services. The integration aims to automate claims denial and appeals workflows, delivering faster...
By AI-TechPark
News•Dec 18, 2025
GPT0.app Launches High-Accuracy AI Content Detector
GPT0.app unveiled an AI Content Detector that claims up to 99.7% accuracy in identifying AI‑generated text. The tool integrates with the platform’s existing writing suite, including the AI Humanizer, allowing users to both detect and refine content. It targets educators,...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 18, 2025
10to1PR Launches IVY Press Room, Its Answer to GEO (SEO for AI)
10to1PR has launched IVY Press Room, an AI‑optimized press‑room platform that converts client announcements into question‑and‑answer formats for generative AI consumption. The service leverages the firm’s GEO (Answer Engine Optimization) strategy, aiming to become the direct answer in AI queries...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 18, 2025
Fake Minns, Altered Images and Psyop Theories: Bondi Attack Misinformation Shows AI’s Power to Confuse
Following the deadly Bondi beach attack, AI‑generated deepfakes and manipulated images flooded social platforms, especially X, with false narratives ranging from psy‑ops to misidentified perpetrators. Prominent examples included a deep‑faked video of NSW Premier Chris Minns, fabricated crisis‑actor photos, and...
By The Guardian AI
News•Dec 18, 2025
Wondershare Releases EdrawMax V15, Ushering in a New Era of AI-Powered Diagram Creation
Wondershare launched EdrawMax V15, an AI‑powered diagramming platform featuring the new Edraw Agent that creates and refines diagrams via natural‑language interaction. The release adds support for over 50 AI‑generated diagram types, integrates Google’s Nano Banana Pro for scientific visuals, and...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 18, 2025
CreatorIQ Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Influencer Marketing Platforms for Large Enterprises
CreatorIQ has been named a Leader in IDC’s 2025‑26 MarketScape for Worldwide Influencer Marketing Platforms targeting large enterprises. The report highlights the platform’s AI‑driven creator discovery, enterprise‑grade integrations, and comprehensive brand‑safety and compliance tools. IDC’s assessment underscores CreatorIQ’s strong product...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 18, 2025
Semrush Launches Official App in ChatGPT, Offering Users Direct Access to Semrush Data
Semrush has introduced an official app within ChatGPT, allowing marketers to pull live Semrush data directly through conversational prompts. The integration leverages Semrush’s OpenAI SDK and Model Context Protocol, removing the need for custom API coding and enabling single sign‑on...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 18, 2025
A Great Example of a Terrible UX (#Barclays)
Barclays recently altered its online login flow, forcing users to choose between mobile access and a PINsentry card reader, which many customers mistake for their usual mobile PINsentry method. The ambiguous labeling leads to repeated access failures, wasted time, and...
By The Finanser
News•Dec 18, 2025
Things Worth Reading: 18th December 2025
Chris Skinner’s "Things worth reading" roundup highlights the most consequential fintech stories of December 2025, from the sector’s biggest headlines and a surge in UK hiring to a landmark industry‑communication report. The list also spotlights credit‑debit innovation, the AI compliance...
By The Finanser
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...
By VentureBeat
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
News•Dec 17, 2025
Amazon Appoints Longtime AWS Exec Peter DeSantis to Lead New AI Org
Amazon announced that longtime AWS executive Peter DeSantis will head a new AI-focused organization. The unit will oversee Amazon’s AI models such as Nova, custom silicon development, and quantum computing initiatives. DeSantis brings 27 years at Amazon, including eight as...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 17, 2025
A New Hunt for an Earth Analog Begins
The Terra Hunting Experiment, launching in the Canary Islands, will deploy the HARPS3 spectrograph to conduct a decade‑long radial‑velocity survey of up to 50 Sun‑like stars. Led by Nobel laureate Didier Queloz, the project aims to detect at least two...
By ScienceNews - Space
News•Dec 17, 2025
Billionaires Want Data Centers Everywhere, Including Space
Tech billionaires are turning space into the next frontier for AI data centers, citing limitless solar power and reduced terrestrial footprint. Google’s Project Suncatcher aims to launch a cluster of up to 81 low‑Earth‑orbit satellites by 2027, each packed with...
By The Verge AI
News•Dec 17, 2025
Ground Robots Teaming with Soldiers in the Battlefield
Modern militaries are rapidly fielding ground robots, known as robotic combat vehicles or autonomous ground systems, to act as force multipliers for infantry units. Ukraine’s deployment of more than 150 Milrem THeMIS unmanned ground vehicles demonstrates the technology’s transition from...
By Roboticmagazine
News•Dec 17, 2025
Bank of London Product Head: “Clients Don’t Want to Wait for Cutoff Times” On-Chain
Charlotte Bullock, Head of Product at The Bank of London, highlighted the bank’s focus on rapid experimentation and short approval cycles, contrasting it with the slower, layered processes of large corporates. The bank is embedding AI assistants directly into its...
By Finance Magnates Fintech
News•Dec 17, 2025
Robotic Arm Successfully Learns 1,000 Manipulation Tasks in One Day
Researchers at Imperial College London introduced MT3, an imitation‑learning system that taught a Sawyer robotic arm 1,000 distinct manipulation tasks in less than 24 hours. The method uses trajectory decomposition and a retrieval‑based memory to learn from a single human demonstration...
By Tech Xplore Robotics
News•Dec 17, 2025
Former Rivian Exec Says ‘Every Car Company Will Become a Robotics Company’
Former Rivian chief growth officer Jiten Behl, now a partner at Eclipse, argues that every automaker will evolve into a robotics company as AI‑driven factories replace low‑cost overseas labor. He highlighted Rivian’s strategy of spinning out startups like Also and...
By TechCrunch Robotics
News•Dec 17, 2025
Urban VPN Proxy Is the Latest Free VPN Spying on Users – Here's How to Stay Safe
Urban VPN Proxy, a free Chrome and Edge extension, was found to covertly capture every AI prompt users type and transmit the data to analytics servers for resale. Security firm Koi Security identified a hidden script added in the July 9 2025...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 17, 2025
AWS Systems Targeted by Crypto Mining Scam Using Hijacked IAM Credentials
AWS reported a wave of crypto‑mining attacks that exploited stolen high‑privilege IAM credentials to spin up massive EC2 and ECS workloads. Threat actors quickly launched GPU‑heavy auto‑scaling groups and malicious Fargate containers, even enabling termination protection to keep instances alive....
By TechRadar