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What to Be Thankful for in AI in 2025

2025 marks a turning point for generative AI as the ecosystem diversifies beyond a handful of cloud‑only giants. OpenAI launched GPT‑5, GPT‑5.1, Atlas, Sora 2 and open‑weight models, while enterprises report over‑50% ticket‑resolution gains using the new models. China’s open‑source wave,...

Another Major Survey Warns AI Could Lead to Major Job Cuts at Your Business

A new BearingPoint survey finds half of global executives say their workforce is already 10‑19% over capacity, and 45% anticipate a 30‑50% surplus within three years. The study highlights back‑office, customer service, and entry‑level finance and HR roles as most...

How OpenAI and Google See AI Changing Go-to-Market Strategies

AI is reshaping go‑to‑market (GTM) playbooks, allowing startups to generate more messaging and leads with fewer resources. Executives at Google Cloud and OpenAI stress that AI augments, not replaces, core marketing fundamentals such as customer insight and creative strategy. The...

The Race to Regulate AI Has Sparked a Federal vs State Showdown

Washington is edging toward its first comprehensive AI regulatory framework, sparking a clash between federal ambitions and a wave of state legislation. Dozens of states have already passed more than 100 AI‑related laws targeting deepfakes, transparency, and safety, while industry...

Microsoft Teams Guest Access Could Let Hackers Bypass some Critical Security Protections

Microsoft Teams recently enabled a guest chat feature that lets any user start a conversation with an external email address, even if the recipient does not use Teams. The feature is turned on by default for many small‑business licenses and...

Scientists Uncover the Brain’s Hidden Learning Blocks

Neuroscientists at Princeton discovered that the prefrontal cortex reuses discrete neural patterns—dubbed “cognitive Legos”—across different tasks, enabling flexible learning. Experiments with rhesus macaques performing three visual categorization tasks revealed recurring activity blocks for shared components like color discrimination or eye‑movement...

Sora and Nano Banana Pro Throttled Amid Soaring Demand

OpenAI announced that free users of its Sora video generator are now limited to six generations per day, citing GPU overload. Google responded similarly, cutting the free image generation limit for its newly launched Nano Banana Pro to two images...

Omri Kohl, CEO & Co-Founder of Pyramid Analytics — AI’s Impact on Data Analytics, Decision Intelligence, Citizen Analysts, ROI, Scaling...

Omri Kohl, CEO of Pyramid Analytics, warns that AI alone won’t solve enterprise data challenges; a unified, governed semantic layer is required to merge BI and AI. He champions "decision intelligence"—a user‑centric approach that starts with the decision and works...

Andrej Karpathy to Educators: Stop Trying to Catch AI-Generated Homework

Closing High-Trust, High-ACV Deals: How ElasticScale Uses SaaStock Events to Win Revenue

ElasticScale, a Dutch AWS‑infrastructure specialist for SaaS firms, launched in November 2024 and quickly adopted events as its primary go‑to‑market engine. The company discovered that 95% of its target CEOs and CTOs are unaware their AWS spend is four times higher...

Zendesk Users Targeted by Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters Hackers and Fake Support Sites

The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters gang has expanded its phishing campaign to target Zendesk users, registering more than 40 typosquatted domains that mimic legitimate Zendesk URLs. Researchers at ReliaQuest identified these domains, all registered through NiceNic and protected by Cloudflare‑masked nameservers....

This Cheap, Compact Projector Can Turn Your Wall Into a Giant Whiteboard – and It Has Gesture Controls Too

Honor introduced the Choice Bee AI Projector Air, a compact 1080p projector that supports stylus input and gesture controls, effectively turning any wall into an interactive whiteboard. Priced at roughly CNY 599 (about $85), it offers 280 lumens, Wi‑Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, HDMI 2.0...

Perplexity AI’s New Clothes Try-On Tool Takes on Google – I Tested It and I'm Starting to Get Addicted to...

Perplexity AI has added a virtual‑try‑on feature to its shopping suite, rolling it out to all Pro and Max subscribers. Users upload a selfie or full‑body photo, and the system generates a digital avatar that can model individual clothing items...

Over 90% of Indian Organisations Now Using AI: Zoho Study

Zoho’s AI Privacy Equation report finds that 93% of Indian organisations have adopted artificial intelligence, with 71% strengthening privacy measures and 61% establishing ethics committees. Over two‑thirds of firms allocate more than 20% of their IT spend to privacy, and...

DeepSeek’s New Math-V2 AI Model Can Solve and Self-Verify Complex Theorems

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled DeepSeek‑Math‑V2, an open‑weight LLM that generates and self‑verifies mathematical theorems. Built on DeepSeek‑V3.2‑Exp, the model includes a verifier and theorem generator and is released under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and GitHub. In benchmark tests it earned...

AI and the Promise of Tech4Good

Mint’s All About AI Tech4Good awards spotlight AI projects that advance human welfare, reduce inequality, and broaden access to essential services across Asia. The piece outlines the three core Tech4Good principles—expanding capability, lowering barriers, and serving overlooked communities—and showcases real‑world...

Microsoft Unveils Fara-7B, a Lightweight AI Model that Can Use a PC From a Single Screenshot

Microsoft introduced Fara-7B, a 7‑billion‑parameter computer‑use agent that runs locally on a PC and can interpret a screenshot to execute clicks, typing and navigation. The model was trained on 145,630 synthetic web sessions generated by the FaraGen pipeline, achieving competitive...

These Worrying Security Flaws Could Put Every Major Cloud Provider at Risk - Here's What We Know so Far

Researchers at Oligo Security disclosed five critical vulnerabilities (CVE‑2025‑12969 to CVE‑2025‑12978) in the open‑source log processor Fluent Bit. The flaws permit log manipulation, authentication bypass, and remote code execution across major cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Fluent Bit’s...

OpenAI Apologizes for Big Mixpanel Data Breach that Exposed Emails and More – Here's What We Know

OpenAI disclosed that a data breach at its analytics vendor Mixpanel leaked limited developer information, including names, email addresses, and coarse location data. The breach did not affect ChatGPT users, API keys, passwords, or payment details, and OpenAI terminated Mixpanel’s...

Opera Neon’s AI Researcher Does in One Minute What Used to Take a Dozen Tabs

Opera Neon introduced a one‑minute Deep Research mode powered by its Opera Deep Research Agent (ODRA), delivering citation‑backed mini‑reports in roughly 60 seconds. The update also adds a model selector that lets users toggle between AI engines such as Gemini 3 Pro...

Get Business-Grade Cloud Storage for Just $1 per Month This Black Friday

Ionos is slashing its HiDrive Business plan to $1 per month for the first year, a 90% Black Friday discount, then rising to $7 per month—a 30% reduction from the regular rate. The plan provides 1 TB of storage, support for...

The Role of AI in Modern Marketing: Personalization at Scale

Artificial intelligence is reshaping marketing by turning massive data sets into real‑time, individualized experiences. Recommendation engines, predictive models, and dynamic content delivery enable brands to personalize at a scale humans cannot achieve. Case studies from Spotify and Nike show that...

Google Hints at Google Assistant Shutdown Date for Android Auto – Here's What that Means for You

Google’s support page reveals that the current Google Assistant will be retired from Android Auto as early as March 2026, with the Gemini AI model taking its place. The transition is positioned as a move toward more natural, conversational interactions that...

More Job Cuts on the Way? MIT Study Claims AI Could Currently Replace 12% of Total US Jobs Market

An MIT and Oak Ridge study using the Iceberg Index finds that 11.7% of the U.S. labor force—about 151 million workers—could already be replaced by artificial intelligence, translating into roughly $1.2 trillion in annual wages at risk. The analysis covers 923 occupations...

Amazon Blocks ChatGPT's New Shopping Agent – What the Fallout Could Mean for You

OpenAI’s Shopping Research and Perplexity’s new shopping assistant launched this week, offering AI‑driven price comparison, review analysis, and product recommendation. In response, Amazon updated its robots.txt to block ChatGPT from scraping its site, cutting off access to Amazon product pages,...

Alibaba’s Eddie Wu Dismisses Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s AI Bubble Concerns, Vows Aggressive Investment

Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu rejected Sundar Pichai’s AI‑bubble warnings, pledging aggressive investment in artificial‑intelligence despite market concerns. He highlighted that demand outstrips supply, noting the Qwen app reached 10 million downloads in a week and that AI‑related cloud services grew 34%....

AWS Is Building a New DNS Backstop to Prevent Further Outages

Amazon Web Services announced Accelerated Recovery for Route 53, a feature that guarantees a 60‑minute recovery time objective for DNS changes in the US East (N. Virginia) region. The enhancement lets customers modify public hosted zones and provision infrastructure during regional...

A Humanoid Robot-Shaped Bubble Is Forming, China Warns

China’s National Development and Reform Commission warned on Thursday that the country’s rapidly expanding humanoid robotics sector may be forming a bubble. The agency highlighted that more than 150 firms, many startups or cross‑industry entrants, are pouring capital into humanoid...

Popular JavaScript Library Can Be Hacked to Allow Attackers Into User Accounts

A critical vulnerability (CVE‑2025‑12816) was discovered in the widely used Node‑forge JavaScript cryptography library, allowing attackers to craft malicious ASN.1 structures that bypass signature and certificate validation. The flaw carries an 8.6/10 severity rating and affects an ecosystem with roughly...

B2B Video Marketing: Videos Have Increasingly Influenced Purchasing Decisions in 2025

The eMarketer B2B Video Marketing 2025 report shows video has become a core driver of trust and revenue in B2B buying cycles. Video now commands a growing share of digital ad spend, with formats like demos, creator‑led pieces, and short...

What Is Antigravity, Google’s New Agentic AI Coding Platform Raising Fresh Security Concerns?

Google unveiled Antigravity, an agentic AI coding platform, on November 18 alongside Gemini 3. Within 24 hours, security researchers identified a persistent backdoor that exploits the tool’s “trusted workspace” model, allowing malicious code to run on both Windows and macOS. The...

Why Can’t ChatGPT Tell Time?

ChatGPT cannot reliably tell the current time because its core language model operates without built‑in access to a system clock or live data feeds. The model can only provide time information when it is explicitly linked to external tools such...

Generations in Dialogue: Embodied AI, Robotics, Perception, and Action with Professor Roberto Martín-Martín

In this episode, host Ella Lan talks with Professor Roberto Martín‑Martín about his journey from tinkering with toys to pioneering embodied AI that integrates perception, learning, and action in robotics. Martín‑Martín explains how his research—spanning pick‑and‑place, navigation, and complex tasks like...

This Devious Botnet Tried a Trial Run During the Recent AWS Outage - so when Will It Be Back?

A new Mirai‑based botnet called ShadowV2 briefly emerged during the recent AWS outage, operating for roughly 15 hours. The cloud‑native malware infected IoT devices such as routers, NAS boxes and DVRs across more than two dozen countries, targeting vulnerabilities in...

UBTech Strikes Deal with China to Assist at Border Crossings, and This Isn't a Dystopian Nightmare at All

UBTech announced a $37 million contract with a Chinese province to deploy its Walker S2 humanoid robots at the China‑Vietnam border. The robots will handle patrols, traveler guidance, and logistics, leveraging rapid battery swapping and an onboard large‑language model for communication. UBTech...

Experts Divided over Claim that Chinese Hackers Launched World-First AI-Powered Cyber Attack — but That's Not What They're Really Worried...

Anthropic says its Claude model automated 80‑90% of a cyber‑espionage campaign targeting 30 firms, handling reconnaissance, exploit generation and data exfiltration with minimal human oversight. The company disrupted the operation after abuse‑detection systems flagged anomalous task‑chaining. Experts dispute the claimed...

My AI Shopping Assistants Are Stuck in the Past

In the holiday season, OpenAI, Google, Perplexity, and Microsoft rolled out AI‑driven shopping assistants that can generate buying guides, track prices, and even call stores. The author tested ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot while searching for an Android smartwatch compatible...

EU Proposal to Delay Parts of Its AI Act Signal a Policy Shift that Prioritises Big Tech over Fairness

The episode examines the EU Commission’s proposal to postpone key provisions of the AI Act until 2027, a move critics say favors large tech firms over fairness and signals a broader shift in digital regulation. It contrasts this with the...

Small AI Models Can Now See for Powerful Language Models Like GPT-4

Researchers from Microsoft, USC and UC Davis introduced BeMyEyes, a framework that couples lightweight vision models with powerful text‑only language models such as GPT‑4 and DeepSeek‑R1. By having the vision model describe images and engaging in multi‑turn dialogue, the system...

OpenAI API Customer Details, Including User IDs, Exposed in Mixpanel Data Breach

OpenAI disclosed that a breach at analytics vendor Mixpanel exposed personal data of its API customers, including user IDs, email addresses, operating‑system details and coarse location information. The incident occurred on November 9, 2025, but OpenAI’s core systems, API keys, payment data...

Prompt Security's Itamar Golan on Why Generative AI Security Requires Building a Category, Not a Feature

Prompt Security, founded by Itamar Golan in August 2023, built a full‑stack GenAI security platform and was acquired by SentinelOne for an estimated $250 million in August 2025. The company pioneered runtime protection, shadow‑AI discovery, and real‑time data sanitization, moving beyond...

The Sources Reader Survey

In this brief episode, Alex Heath pauses the Sources newsletter to solicit reader feedback while outlining his vision for expanding the AI‑focused publication in 2026. He highlights recent AI industry shifts, including Nvidia’s defensive response to Google’s TPU outreach, speculation...

Sam Altman Wants His AI Device to Feel Like 'Sitting in the Most Beautiful Cabin by a Lake,' But It...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced an AI‑first device that promises a serene, cabin‑by‑the‑lake experience while delivering context‑aware assistance. The hardware is designed to monitor users continuously, gathering location, speech, mood and habit data to personalize interactions. Critics argue the device...

SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of November 23-26, 2025

The SaasRise CEO Mastermind week of November 23‑26, 2025 centered on low‑cost growth tactics for SaaS founders. Participants exchanged tactics for stretching tiny marketing budgets through LinkedIn retargeting and lean content workflows. They also debated hiring reliable sales talent, choosing...

Here Are the 49 US AI Startups that Have Raised $100M or More in 2025

U.S. AI startups have raised $100 million or more in 49 companies during 2025, matching the previous year’s total. Seven firms secured rounds exceeding $1 billion, including Anysphere’s $2.3 billion Series B and Anthropic’s $13 billion Series F, pushing valuations into the tens of billions. The...

Pentagon Contractors Want to Blow up Military Right to Repair

Pentagon contractors are pushing a data‑as‑a‑service (DAS) model to replace the right‑to‑repair provision in the upcoming National Defense Authorization Act. The provision, championed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Tim Sheehy, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, would require manufacturers to share...

Nio Licenses Its Autonomous Driving Chip Tech

Chinese EV maker Nio announced it will license its proprietary Shenji NX9031 autonomous‑driving chip, the first non‑vehicle revenue stream for the company. The five‑nanometer chip houses 50 billion transistors and delivers computing power four times that of Nvidia’s Orin‑X, already powering...

Please Don't Date Your AI because It Will Never Love You or Pick up the Check

EVA AI, a virtual‑dating startup, announced a pop‑up AI Date Café in New York slated for December, where patrons will sit opposite a smartphone displaying an AI companion. The concept blends physical ambience with a digital “girlfriend” experience, using phone...

OpenAI Says Dead Teen Violated TOS when He Used ChatGPT to Plan Suicide

OpenAI filed its first defense in the Raine suicide lawsuits, arguing the teen violated its terms of service and that ChatGPT did not cause his death. The company points to the teen’s prior suicidal ideation, medication changes, and ignored help...