Trump signs order to block states from enforcing own AI rules.[1] Disney making $1 billion investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI video generator.[2] Google launched its deepest AI research agent yet — on the same day OpenAI dropped GPT-5.2.[3] Amazon Prime Video pulls AI-powered recaps after Fallout flub.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

‘Ruined my Christmas spirit’: McDonald’s removes AI-generated ad after backlash.[1] Google launches managed MCP servers that let AI agents simply plug into its tools.[2] From Llamas to Avocados: Meta’s shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion.[3] Inside Fei-Fei Li’s Plan to Build AI-Powered Virtual Worlds.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

U.S. military to use Google Gemini for new AI platform.[1] EU opens investigation into Google’s use of online content for AI models.[2] Microsoft invests US$17.5 billion in India to drive AI diffusion at population scale.[3] Three in 10 US teens use AI chatbots every day, but safety concerns are growing.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Google’s AI try-on app Doppl adds a shoppable discovery feed.[1] Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds.[2] Google Colab Integrates KaggleHub for One Click Access to Kaggle Datasets, Models and Competitions.[3] Trump says AI executive order limiting state rules coming this week.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers.[1] Elementary school students use AI to combat homelessness.[2] Accurate single-domain scaffolding of three nonoverlapping protein epitopes using deep learning.[3] Apple Researchers Release CLaRa: A Continuous Latent Reasoning Framework for Compression‑Native RAG with 16x–128x Semantic Document Compression.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Nvidia CEO to Joe Rogan: Nobody "really knows" AI's endgame.[1] New York Times sues AI startup for ‘illegal’ copying of millions of articles.[2] Meta acquires AI-wearables startup Limitless.[3] MIT researchers “speak objects into existence” using AI and robotics.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense.[1] AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people's political opinions, study finds.[2] Watch ‘The Thinking Game,’ a documentary about Google DeepMind, for free on YouTube.[3] Meta centralizes Facebook and Instagram support, tests AI support assistant.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race.[1] Amazon previews 3 AI agents, including ‘Kiro’ that can code on its own for days.[2] Bank of England warns of AI bubble risk.[3] NVIDIA and Mistral AI Bring 10x Faster Inference for the Mistral 3 Family on GB200 NVL72 GPU Systems.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Apple names former Microsoft, Google exec to succeed retiring AI chief.[1] AI may be scoring your college essay. Welcome to the new era of admissions.[2] Nvidia announces new open AI models and tools for autonomous driving research.[3] DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeekMath-V2: The Open Weights Maths Model That Scored 118/120 on Putnam 2024.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Deepgram Launches Streaming Speech, Text, and Voice Agents on Amazon SageMaker AI.[1] AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it.[2] More of Silicon Valley is building on free Chinese AI.[3] "Avatar: Fire and Ash" director James Cameron on generative AI: "That's horrifying to me".[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

AI helps drive record $11.8 billion in Black Friday online spending.[1] StepFun AI Releases Step-Audio-R1: A New Audio LLM that Finally Benefits from Test Time Compute Scaling.[2] Musk’s xAI to build small solar farm adjacent to Colossus data center.[3] Are you balding? There’s an AI for that.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce.[1] China's DeepSeek Releases New Open Source AI Model Amid Google's Gemini 3 Roll Out.[2] US Patent Office issues new guidelines for AI-assisted inventions.[3] OpenAI claims teen circumvented safety features before suicide that ChatGPT helped plan.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

White House crafting executive order to thwart state AI laws.[1] Why an AI 'godfather' is quitting Meta after 12 years.[2] ChatGPT launches group chats globally.[3] Gemini starts rolling out to Android Auto globally.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

OpenAI and Target partner to bring new AI-powered experiences across retail.[1] UN calls for legal safeguards for AI in healthcare.[2] Trump-MBS meeting brings AI money.[3] Nvidia’s record $57B revenue and upbeat forecast quiets AI bubble talk.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Google launches Gemini 3, embeds AI model into search immediately.[1] Hugging Face CEO says we’re in an ‘LLM bubble,’ not an AI bubble.[2] Meta AI Introduces DreamGym: A Textual Experience Synthesizer For Reinforcement learning RL Agents.[3] TikTok now lets you choose how much AI-generated content you want to see.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

OpenAI named Emerging Leader in Generative AI.[1] Authors dumped from New Zealand’s top book prize after AI used in cover designs.[2] Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive.[3] Google rolls out its AI ‘Flight Deals’ tool globally, adds new travel features in Search.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Russia's first AI humanoid robot falls on stage.[1] Google will let users call stores, browse products, and check out using AI.[2] OpenAI unveils GPT-5.1: smarter, faster, and more human.[3] Disney+ to Allow User-Generated Content Via AI.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Anthropic to spend $50 billion on U.S. AI infrastructure, starting with Texas, New York data centers.[1] New Mexico officials announce new AI wildfire monitoring network.[2] Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product.[3] Meta AI Releases Omnilingual ASR: A Suite of Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition Models for 1600+ Languages.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Google is introducing its own version of Apple’s private AI cloud compute.[1] Microsoft plans to invest $10 billion in Portuguese AI data hub.[2] Google to integrate Kalshi, Polymarket predictions into its finance AI tools.[3] Alright, alright, alright. Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine sign voice deal with AI company.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

What parents need to know about Sora, the generative AI video app blurring the line between real and fake.[1] Pope Leo XIV urges Catholic technologists to spread the Gospel with AI.[2] OpenAI asked Trump administration to expand Chips Act tax credit to cover data centers.[3] How to Build an Agentic Voice AI Assistant that Understands, Reasons, Plans, and Responds through Autonomous Multi-Step Intelligence.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Minnesota attorneys caught citing fake cases generated by 'AI hallucinations'.[1] EU weighs pausing parts of landmark AI act in face of US and big tech pressure, FT reports.[2] Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT’s role in suicides, delusions.[3] Kim Kardashian says ChatGPT is her ‘frenemy’.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Meta and Hugging Face Launch OpenEnv, a Shared Hub for Agentic Environments.[1] Exclusive: China bans foreign AI chips from state-funded data centres, sources say.[2] Apple nears deal to pay Google $1B annually to power new Siri.[3] Tinder to use AI to get to know users, tap into their Camera Roll photos.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Amazon and Perplexity have kicked off the great AI web browser fight.[1] International stocks slide as concerns about AI and tech company values spread.[2] NVIDIA, Qualcomm join U.S., Indian VCs to help build India’s next deep tech startups.[3] AI can speed antibody design to thwart novel viruses: study.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

AI researchers ’embodied’ an LLM into a robot – and it started channeling Robin Williams.[1] ClairS-TO: a deep-learning method for long-read tumor-only somatic small variant calling.[2] Chinese Unleashing AI-Powered Robot Dinosaurs.[3] AI-driven automation triggers major workforce shift across corporate America.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

NVIDIA, South Korea Government and Industrial Giants Build AI Infrastructure and Ecosystem to Fuel Korea Innovation, Industries and Jobs.[1] Airbnb says it's deploying AI technology to stop Halloween parties.[2] Google AI Unveils Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL): A Step Wise Framework with Expert Trajectories to Teach Small Language Models to Reason through Hard Problems.[3] ElevenLabs CEO says AI audio models will be ‘commoditized’ over time.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]