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News•Dec 17, 2025
Small Business Tech Tips: A Guide to Getting More Done with Zoom Workplace [Sponsored]
Zoom Workplace bundles phone, chat, meetings, whiteboard and AI Companion into a single platform aimed at small businesses. The AI Companion, included at no extra cost, can generate meeting summaries, draft emails, schedule appointments and extract insights from calls. By consolidating communication tools and offering built‑in scheduling and cloud phone services, Zoom promises to cut app‑switching and reduce operational overhead. A 2024 U.S. Chamber study shows 99% of SMBs use multiple tech tools, highlighting the need for such an integrated solution.
By Tech.eu
News•Dec 17, 2025
Akii Launches AI Engage to Train AI Search Engines on Brand Content
Akii introduced AI Engage, a platform that runs automated, geo‑targeted campaigns to teach AI search engines like Google AI Search, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot about a brand’s content and positioning. The service deploys queries from over 150 million residential IP addresses...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
AdMarketplace Strengthens Executive Leadership Team to Build the Next Generation of Search Advertising
adMarketplace announced two senior hires to power its next‑generation native search advertising platform. John Nitti, a 25‑year industry veteran, joins as Global Chief Business Officer to drive commercial strategy, partnerships, and revenue growth. Sam Cox, former Amazon DSP product lead...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
Eight of the Biggest Immunology and Inflammation (I&I) Deals in 2025
In 2025 the immunology and inflammation sector saw eight blockbuster partnerships, each worth between $1.7 billion and $4 billion. Deals ranged from AstraZeneca’s $175 million upfront, $4.4 billion‑potential collaboration with Harbour BioMed to Vor Bio’s surprising $4 billion licensing of telitacicept despite a massive wind‑down....
By Labiotech.eu
News•Dec 17, 2025
Skana Robotics Helps Fleets of Underwater Robots Communicate with Each Other
Skana Robotics unveiled SeaSphere, an AI‑driven software that lets underwater autonomous vessels exchange data and coordinate missions without surfacing. The platform uses mathematically‑focused AI algorithms to enable real‑time decision‑making across large fleets. Skana, founded in 2024, is targeting European defense...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 17, 2025
Pendo’s Agent Analytics Is Now GA, Helping Companies See and Optimize How Users Interact With Agents
Pendo announced the general availability of its Agent Analytics platform, now free to start, giving enterprises a dedicated tool to measure AI agent performance, usage, and business impact. During beta, dozens of customers, including Pushpay, used the solution to surface...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
AI Agents Fail 63% of the Time on Complex Tasks. Patronus AI Says Its New 'Living' Training Worlds Can Fix...
Patronus AI, backed by $20 million, unveiled Generative Simulators—a dynamic training architecture that creates adaptive, continuously evolving environments for AI agents. The platform aims to replace static benchmarks, which have struggled to predict real‑world performance, by generating on‑the‑fly challenges and feedback....
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 17, 2025
Your Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Just Got a Major Audio Update — Especially for Spotify Users
Meta has released version 21 of its Ray‑Ban and Oakley smart‑glasses, introducing a new audio suite that includes Conversation Focus. The feature uses AI‑driven microphones to isolate the voice of a person you’re speaking with, cutting out background chatter. It is...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 17, 2025
Your SEO Playbook Is Toast: Welcome to Search in 2026
In a recent episode of Playbook Broken, SEO veteran Myriam Jessier explains why traditional SEO playbooks are collapsing under AI‑driven search. She outlines the rise of zero‑click results, the importance of privacy‑first relevance engineering, and how brand authority must be...
By MarTech
News•Dec 17, 2025
The Open Evaluation Standard: Benchmarking NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano with NeMo Evaluator
NVIDIA released the Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B model alongside a fully open evaluation recipe built with the NeMo Evaluator library. The blog details how developers can reproduce the model‑card results, inspect structured logs, and run the same benchmarks on any inference endpoint. Published YAML...
By Hugging Face
News•Dec 17, 2025
How to Use the Holidays to Stop Our ‘WhatsApp Aunties’ Falling for AI
Generative AI is flooding WhatsApp groups, especially diaspora “auntie” networks, with realistic but fake videos and messages. The article shows how older relatives often trust this content as they would traditional broadcast media, leading to misinformation spread during the holiday...
By The Guardian AI
News•Dec 17, 2025
Microsoft Explains How Windows 11's AI Agents Will Get Access to Your Files – but Bigger Worries Remain
Microsoft clarified that AI agents in Windows 11 will not automatically access personal folders. Users must approve each file‑access request or grant permanent permission through a dialog box. Permissions can be set per agent—Copilot, Researcher, Analyst—but apply to all personal directories...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 17, 2025
Payments on the Move: Three Ways Checkout Is Changing
Generation Alpha grows up in a cashless world, pushing merchants to reinvent the checkout experience. Three trends are reshaping payments: software‑based solutions such as SoftPOS and SmartPOS, integrated payments through ISV partnerships, and AI‑driven conversational commerce. SoftPOS turns any smartphone...
By Payments Cards & Mobile
News•Dec 17, 2025
AI Can Now Pass the CFA Exams: What Does that Mean for Finance Jobs?
Advanced reasoning models have now passed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams, with Gemini 3.0 Pro scoring 97.6% on Level I and GPT‑5 achieving 94.3% on Level II. The study tested six leading AI systems on 980 mock questions, showing...
By Indian Express AI
News•Dec 17, 2025
OpenAI Reveals Major Hire to Lead Global Stargate Data Center Expansion
OpenAI announced that former UK Chancellor George Osborne will serve as Managing Director and Head of OpenAI for Countries, overseeing the global Stargate data‑center expansion beyond the United States. The "for Countries" initiative, added to Project Stargate in May 2025,...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 17, 2025
“A Band-Aid on a Giant Gash”: Trump’s Attacks on Science May Ruin His AI Moonshot
Donald Trump issued an executive order launching the “Genesis Mission,” an AI‑driven “Manhattan Project” intended to fuse federal scientific data into a national platform for rapid breakthroughs. Critics, including former science advisor Arati Prabhakar and academic leaders, warn the initiative is...
By Ars Technica AI
News•Dec 17, 2025
People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’
Swedish creative director Petter Rudwall launched Pharmaicy, an online marketplace selling code modules that make chatbots behave as if they are under the influence of substances such as cannabis, ketamine, and ayahuasca. The service requires a paid ChatGPT tier to...
By WIRED AI
News•Dec 17, 2025
Accelerating Drug Combination Discovery with Machine Learning
St. Jude researchers unveiled Combocat, an open‑source platform that merges acoustic liquid handling with machine‑learning models to screen drug combinations at unprecedented scale. The system tested 9,045 drug pairs on a neuroblastoma cell line, identifying multiple synergistic hits that were...
By World Pharma News
News•Dec 17, 2025
Apple Engineers Are Inspecting Bacon Packaging to Help Level Up US Manufacturers
Apple engineers have customized an open‑source computer‑vision AI to spot color errors on ImageTek's bacon label prints, preventing a major client loss. The effort is part of Apple’s broader $600 billion U.S. manufacturing investment and its newly launched Apple Manufacturing Academy,...
By WIRED AI
News•Dec 17, 2025
Ghost Jobs, Robot Gatekeepers and AI Interviewers: Let Me Tell You About the Bleak New Age of Job Hunting |...
Eleanor Margolis describes a deteriorating UK job market where 40% of 2024 listings are "ghost jobs"—vacancies posted to project growth rather than fill roles. Applicants now face AI‑driven resume filters that prioritize keyword matches, often reproducing bias. Even when a CV...
By The Guardian AI
News•Dec 17, 2025
Why B2B Payments Are Becoming the Next Acquirer Battleground
Mastercard is urging payment acquirers to shift focus from consumer‑centric models to B2B card acceptance, highlighting an estimated $80 trillion addressable opportunity in accounts payable and receivable. It argues that commercial‑card economics now outpace legacy B2B2C margins, especially as acceptance moves...
By Payments Cards & Mobile
News•Dec 17, 2025
"AI Is Too Big for the European Internet" - so It's Time for Companies to Work Together, Nokia Says
Nokia’s latest research warns that AI traffic is overwhelming Europe’s internet infrastructure, with 86% of European enterprises saying current networks can’t keep pace. The study also shows similar concerns in the United States, where 88% of telecoms and enterprises cite...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 17, 2025
Kharon and Digital Science Launch Integration to Strengthen Research Security
Kharon and Digital Science have announced a strategic integration that embeds Kharon’s sanctions, export‑control and affiliation risk intelligence into the Dimensions Research Security platform. The joint solution lets universities, funders and government agencies automatically surface foreign affiliations of concern, export‑control...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
PayPal’s US Banking Ambition Signals a Strategic Shift
PayPal has filed applications with the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the FDIC to launch PayPal Bank, marking its first attempt to obtain a U.S. banking charter. The move would shift the company from a pure payments platform to...
By Payments Cards & Mobile
News•Dec 17, 2025
As AI Accelerates How Fast Code Ships, Netlify Delivers the Production Tools Built for This AI Era
Netlify announced the general availability of three new platform capabilities—Observability, AI Gateway, and Prerender extensions—designed to streamline the post‑deployment phase of AI‑accelerated development. The features give developers real‑time insight into production behavior, simplify integration of multiple AI models, and ensure...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
Optimizely Unveils New Research on AI-Powered Content Ecosystems
Optimizely released a new report revealing that today’s marketing ecosystem contains over 15,000 tools, a ten‑fold increase in the past 14 years. The study introduces the concept of “agentic content ecosystems,” where AI actively creates, shapes, and optimizes content across...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
Uberall Launches First Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Studio in Collaboration with AthenaHQ to Help Multi-Location Brands Get Recommended by AI
Uberall, together with AthenaHQ, launched the industry’s first Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Studio to make multi‑location brands AI‑ready. The platform lets brands monitor how AI systems view each location, generate structured, locally relevant content, and distribute it across Google Business...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
Roblox Brings AI Into the Studio to Speed up Game Creation
Roblox has embedded generative AI directly into its Studio development environment, giving creators on‑demand tools for asset generation, text‑to‑speech and real‑time translation. The new Assistant can turn simple prompts into fully functional objects, initially for vehicles and weapons, and connects...
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Dec 17, 2025
5 Predictions for AI’s Growing Role in the Media in 2026
Fast Company columnist Pete Pachal outlines five predictions for AI’s influence on media in 2026. He emphasizes that copyright disputes will intensify as publishers block AI crawlers while AI firms cling to fair‑use defenses. Google retains a competitive edge because...
By Fast Company AI
News•Dec 17, 2025
BIO IP Conference Looks at Academics and Perceptions of IP
The BIO IP Counsel Committee Conference addressed growing skepticism toward patents in biopharma, amplified by pandemic‑era messaging that frames IP as a barrier to care. Panelists argued that patents remain vital incentives for costly research and development, despite public concerns...
By Bio.News
News•Dec 17, 2025
‘A Missed Opportunity’: What Does the Autumn Budget Mean for UK Startups?
The Autumn Budget introduced modest tweaks to the UK startup tax regime, notably expanding the EMI share‑scheme and doubling investment limits under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). While the EIS increase was praised as a positive surprise, the reduction of...
By Sifted
News•Dec 17, 2025
This Guy’s Obscure PhD Project Is the only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Image Chaos
Dr. Eric Wengrowski, a Rutgers PhD graduate, turned his decade‑long steganography research into Steg AI, a startup that embeds invisible watermarks in images to track their movement online. The technology has gained unprecedented attention as AI‑generated imagery proliferates, prompting the...
By Fast Company AI
News•Dec 17, 2025
Patient Advocates Urge Action on PPRV to Help Fight Rare Disease
Patient advocates at BIO’s December Coffee Chat urged Congress to reauthorize the Pediatric Priority Review Voucher (PPRV) program before year‑end. The voucher scheme, which expired in 2024, has awarded 63 vouchers for 47 rare pediatric diseases, turning four treated conditions...
By Bio.News
News•Dec 17, 2025
Strata, a Strategic Communications Agency for Deep-Tech B2B Brands, Launches
Strategic communications agency Strata has launched to serve deep‑tech B2B brands, leveraging the founders’ decades of experience from Publitek and McClenahan Bruer. The firm employs an earned ecosystem approach that aligns media, analyst, social, and community channels to match how engineers...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
AI Is Moving to the Edge – and Network Security Needs to Catch Up
Small and mid‑size businesses are rapidly deploying AI at the edge, moving workloads from centralized data centers to retail stores, clinics, and remote sites. This shift delivers real‑time insights, resilience, and faster deployment but strains network bandwidth and security controls....
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 17, 2025
Later Surpasses $2.4 Billion Annual GMV Run Rate and More Than $250 Million in Cumulative Creator Payouts, One Year After...
Later announced that its unified creator commerce platform now runs at a $2.4 billion annual GMV run rate, more than $1 billion higher than a year ago, and has paid over $250 million to creators since acquiring Mavely. The company highlighted a record...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
Insightly CRM Introduces Conversational AI Copilot Built to Transform Mid-Market CRM Efficiency
Insightly announced Copilot, a generative AI‑powered assistant designed for mid‑market CRM users. The tool lets sales, marketing and customer‑success teams issue natural‑language commands to automate tasks, retrieve insights, and maintain data hygiene. By turning the CRM into a conversational partner,...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
Vonage Deepens Native Contact Center with Salesforce’s Agentforce Voice Integrations
Vonage announced a native integration of its Contact Center with Salesforce’s Agentforce 360 voice AI, creating a single AI‑powered platform for voice and digital interactions. The solution combines Vonage’s skills‑based routing and network APIs with Salesforce’s Agentforce Voice, enabling automated fraud...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
Mundial Media Taps National Political Strategy Leader Junelle Cavero Harnal to Lead AI-Driven Political Campaign Division
Mundial Media announced the hiring of Junelle Cavero Harnal, a veteran political strategist, to head its new AI‑driven political campaign division. The move positions the company to serve electoral campaigns, advocacy groups, and nonprofits ahead of the 2026 midterms and...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
Persistent and DigitalOcean Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Accessible, Scalable and Secure AI
Persistent Systems and DigitalOcean have forged a strategic partnership to run Persistent’s SASVA AI platform on DigitalOcean’s Gradient AI Agentic Cloud. The collaboration promises to make artificial intelligence more accessible, scalable, and secure for enterprises and developers by combining Persistent’s...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
ClaimScore Rebrands as Covalynt, Expanding Data Science Platform for Complex Litigation
ClaimScore has rebranded as Covalynt, shifting from a single fraud‑detection tool to a full‑service data‑science platform for complex litigation. The new suite includes ClassResolution, DeepValidation, an expanded ClaimScore engine, and Bespoke Data Solutions, covering the entire case lifecycle from discovery...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
Afripol Focuses on Regional Cyber Challenges, Deepening Cooperation
Law‑enforcement officials from more than 40 African countries gathered in Algiers for Afripol’s sixth heads‑of‑national‑liaison meeting, focusing on cross‑border cybercrime, equipment standardisation, and investigator training. The forum highlighted a surge in digital adoption that has produced an average of 3,153...
By Dark Reading
News•Dec 17, 2025
Things Worth Reading: 17th December 2025
Chris Skinner’s daily reading roundup spotlights a sweeping set of financial‑sector developments. It highlights the European Central Bank’s ambitious banking‑rules overhaul and a forward‑looking analysis of how central banks should steer through the uncertainty of 2026. The list also captures fintech’s...
By The Finanser
News•Dec 17, 2025
Thinking Machines Lab Makes Tinker Generally Available: Adds Kimi K2 Thinking And Qwen3-VL Vision Input
Thinking Machines Lab has moved its Tinker training API to general availability, removing the waitlist and opening access to all developers. The update adds three major capabilities: support for the 1‑trillion‑parameter Kimi K2 Thinking reasoning model, an OpenAI‑compatible sampling interface, and multimodal...
By MarkTechPost
News•Dec 17, 2025
Monzo Board Reportedly Pushed Out CEO Anil over IPO Timing
Monzo’s board asked chief executive TS Anil to step down amid a dispute over the timing of the bank’s initial public offering. Anil favored an earlier IPO and hinted at leaving post‑listing, while directors wanted more time to expand internationally...
By TechCrunch Fintech
News•Dec 17, 2025
Scale Wants to Make the Oscars for AI
The episode explores Scale AI's launch of its inaugural "Models of the Year" awards and the company's ambition to host an Oscars‑style ceremony for AI models next year. Host Bing Liu, Scale’s head of research, explains that the awards, based...
By Sources
News•Dec 17, 2025
AI-Powered Robotic Hands Learn Dexterity by Mimicking Human Movements and Anatomy
ETH Zurich’s Soft Robotics Lab unveiled an AI‑driven robotic hand that mimics human anatomy using artificial tendons instead of joint motors. The 21‑degree‑of‑freedom hand learns dexterous tasks through a blend of reinforcement and imitation learning powered by transformer models. Data...
By Tech Xplore Robotics
News•Dec 16, 2025
RTW Leans Into NewCo Model with GenSci Deal for Ocular Autoimmune Therapy: Deals Report
RTW Therapeutics announced a strategic partnership with GenSci to form a new joint‑venture focused on developing an ocular autoimmune therapy. The collaboration adopts a NewCo model, with both parties contributing capital and expertise to accelerate drug discovery for non‑infectious uveitis....
By BioCentury
News•Dec 16, 2025
Why a 17-Year-Old Built an AI Model to Expose Deepfake Maps
A California high‑school junior, Vaishnav Anand, built an AI model to detect manipulated satellite imagery after becoming a victim of a personal deepfake. He presented his research at MIT’s IEEE Undergraduate Research Technology Conference, highlighting a largely unexplored field known...
By Dark Reading
News•Dec 16, 2025
SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind Call Recap Dec 16, 2025
The SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind call on Dec 16, 2025 dissected the year‑end slowdown in the UK, high churn, and a 50‑60% pipeline drop, urging SaaS leaders to double‑down on enterprise accounts and multi‑year contracts. Participants debated whether slipping product‑market fit or macro‑economic...
By SaasRise