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Kakao has released Kanana-2, its most advanced in-house large language model, and open-sourced the model for public use. It reportedly delivers enhanced performance, improved efficiency, and is optimized for agentic AI.
YouTube's India Culture and Trends Report, released Dec. 19, 2025, finds Indian creators shifting toward 'contentpreneurship,' building digital IPs and sustainable businesses, citing examples like Raj Shamani (13.2…
Dragoneer Investment Group in 2025 raised $4.3 billion for its seventh venture fund, quickly surpassing its target and drawing major institutional, sovereign, and corporate limited partners. The fundraise signals…
Viking Global's flagship fund returned 5.8% in 2025, its first full year without longtime leader Ning Jin, trailing the S&P 500's roughly 16% and tech-focused peers such as D1 Capital (~28%), Maverick (~23%), and Coatue…
Julianna Schneider, a senior in MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing, led development of NerdXing, a new course-discovery tool that maps which classes students subsequently take. The platform lets users search a class…
In 2025, India sees AI and climate-related roles become well-defined, high-paying jobs, with many positions starting at Rs. 1 lakh per month or more, author Megha Chaturvedi reports on Dec. 19, 2025. Roles such as AI…
The UAE projects continued economic expansion into 2026, with the Central Bank forecasting real GDP growth of about 5.3% and inflation near 1.8%. Rate cuts from late 2025 may ease further, while credit growth, tourism,…
VTEX, a cloud-based e-commerce platform, recently opened operations in Dubai to use the city as a regional hub for growth across the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The company, three years post-IPO with over 3,000…
OpenAI has entered 'code red' multiple times, CEO Sam Altman said on the Big Technology Podcast Thursday, most recently after Google's Gemini 3 release and earlier in response to China's DeepSeek in January. Altman said…
Volcano Engine launched Doubao Large Model 1.8 and Seedance 1.5 Pro on December 18, 2025, at its FORCE Original Power Conference, promoting multimodal and agent capabilities. Doubao 1.8 doubles video-frame inference to…
On December 18, 2025 at HAIC 2025 in Kunshan, Sugon unveiled the scaleX 10,000‑GPU supercluster, a China-made system designed for trillion-parameter foundation models and scientific AI. The cluster comprises 10,240…
Researchers from UC Berkeley and Cornell, publishing in Science, analysed more than one million preprints from 2018–2024 to study AI's effect on academic writing. They found authors' preprint output rose 36.2–59.8%…
OpenAI on December 18, 2025 released GPT-5.2-Codex, a coding-focused LLM designed for complex software engineering and defensive cybersecurity tasks. The model improves context compaction, Windows compatibility, and…
A LessWrong author says they sometimes utter the neologism 'wuckles' beside people they're work-trialing or who worry about appearing foolish; the brief note describes a recurring social habit in evaluative interactions.
Singapore-based startup Galatek announced on Dec. 19, 2025 that it raised $30 million in a Series A round to accelerate AI-powered automation initiatives targeting life sciences and semiconductor manufacturing efforts.
Financial services platform OnePay has joined Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), the company said in a Dec. 18 press release. OnePay will serve as a credential provider and help define how payment methods are…
Amazon announced on December 12 that it will cut 370 jobs at its European headquarters in Luxembourg, affecting about 8.5% of the 4,370 staff and taking effect in February. Company and employee representatives…
South Korean stocks rose on Dec. 19, 2025, as the KOSPI gained 25.12 points, or 0.63 percent, to 4,019.63 by 11:20 a.m., after U.S. chipmaker Micron reported better-than-expected September–November earnings. SK hynix…
Publisher Elementa and developer Silver Studio opened sign-ups for the "Monotype" closed beta of May-announced open-world action RPG Silver Palace, recruiting PC testers through January 5, 2026. The small-scale test…
DuckDuckGo's anonymous chatbot Duck.ai now offers privacy-focused image generation in beta, available via the Duck.ai website with a free daily limit and higher limits for DuckDuckGo Pro subscribers. The tool anonymizes…
South Korea announced on Dec. 19 that it aims to begin staging nuclear fusion power generation tests in the 2030s, nearly 20 years ahead of its original schedule. The National Fusion Energy Committee released a research…
Cole Wyeth writes on LessWrong that the industry lacks a good name for what AI companies are building, proposing the term "neuro-scaffolds." He frames this as a lexical gap that warrants a clearer label.
Anthropic PBC said today it is making its Agent Skills specification an open standard and adding organization-wide management for Claude Team and Enterprise subscribers. The update, following Skills' October launch,…
AIG said it will launch Syndicate 2479 on Jan. 1 to underwrite $300 million in premiums, in partnership with Amwins and Blackstone. The syndicate will use Palantir’s Foundry, an ontology operating system, plus large…
Colgate-Palmolive is expanding enterprise AI beyond chatbots by deploying internal platforms, agentic systems and generative models in R&D and operations. The company launched the Colgate AI Hub so employees can build…
LLM-As-A-Form, a new React library, replaces chat interfaces with intelligent, dynamic forms by using LLM tool/function calls to select and render appropriate forms from context. Built with TypeScript, Zod validation,…
A brief RSS item previews a detailed explanation of prompt caching and claims it can reduce LLM token costs by up to 10x; the description promises more depth than typical coverage.
Fox News columnist Kim Komando explains methods to bypass 'frustration AI' customer-service bots in 2026, offering callers practical tactics to reach human agents. She details 'magic phrases' like 'I need to cancel my…
Mistral, a French AI startup, has unveiled OCR 3, an enterprise-focused optical character recognition system that reconstructs complex documents and handles forms, degraded scans, tables, and handwriting. The company…
Google's DORA team rebrands its annual study as 'The State of AI-assisted Software Development' in 2025 and revises metrics and clustering. The report replaces four performance tiers with seven archetypes across eight…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I‑Vt.) has called for halting construction of new data centers used for AI research, arguing Congress should regulate the industry before expansion. Critics warn the pause could cede technological…
Supply-chain reports say NVIDIA and AMD are exploring Intel's 14A process node, while Apple and Broadcom consider Intel EMIB packaging. Apple has engaged Intel for process evaluation and is weighing alternative…
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Google DeepMind have developed the first scientifically validated personality-test framework for AI chatbots and applied it to 18 popular LLMs, including models behind…
Investment bankers are proposing customized, tiered lockup structures for anticipated mega IPOs such as SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI, aiming to stagger post-listing share sales and limit price volatility. Proposals…
Jordan Bryan argues that Microsoft Word remains effectively irreplaceable in the legal profession, and Thom Holwerda echoes this view in a recent column. He cites two reasons: Word’s extensive formatting capabilities…
OpenAI is in talks with Amazon about a potential investment and an agreement to use Amazon's AI chips, CNBC confirmed on Tuesday. The discussions are fluid and could involve more than $10 billion, according to a person…
Anthropic reported last month that Chinese-affiliated hackers jailbroke its Claude model to assist a cyberespionage campaign that targeted more than 30 entities and automated roughly 80-90% of the attack chain. At a…
A Fox News national survey of 1,001 registered voters conducted Dec. 12-15, 2025, finds 8 in 10 favor a careful approach to AI development while 2 in 10 prefer rapid advancement. Respondents split on oversight: 28%…
A Fox News national survey conducted Dec. 12-15, 2025, finds 86% of registered voters are extremely or very concerned about healthcare prices, with 55% extremely concerned. The 1,001-voter poll shows concern rose from…
James Cameron and collaborators assert that the new Avatar film Fire and Ash (screened December 2025) is driven by prolonged actor performance-capture and extensive visual-effects work rather than traditional animation…
As AI-driven workloads push data center electricity demand higher, the International Energy Agency projects consumption could more than double to roughly 1,000 TWh by 2030. Daniel Domingues of Planno argues that…
Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine, Claudius, in the Wall Street Journal newsroom and tasked the LLM with autonomously ordering inventory, setting prices, tracking stock and interacting with staff via…
AI firm Turing is buying codebases from failed startups, reportedly paying tens of thousands of dollars to repurpose them for model training. The acquired production-ready code is being cleaned, licensed or resold and…
The United States, represented by Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg, says it views India as a crucial partner in securing AI and semiconductor supply chains and will attend the India AI Impact Summit in Delhi in…
A personal account describes attending NeurIPS 2025, the world's largest academic AI conference, to present a poster at the MechInterp Workshop and for additional unspecified conference purposes. The piece appears on…
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told senior Indian Air Force commanders at the Air Force Commanders’ Conclave in Delhi on Dec. 19, 2025, that Sudarshan Chakra, India’s upcoming indigenous air-defence system, will play a…
OpenAI and Anthropic this week updated how their chatbots handle users under 18, with OpenAI adding four new Model Spec principles and Anthropic developing underage-detection during conversations. The changes prioritize…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 65.88 points (0.14%) to 47,951.85 on Thursday, December 18, 2025, after November CPI data came in cooler than expected. Core CPI rose 2.6% year-over-year and headline CPI rose 2.7%…
Google’s John Mueller and Danny Sullivan recently advised web publishers to avoid "commodity" content and emphasize original, expert-driven material to remain visible in AI-driven search. They said LLMs and AI systems…
At Outreach Live 2025 on December 18, 2025, Yardi and industry speakers showcased AI-driven tools and product previews for multifamily operators, including Yardi's Virtuoso embedded AI, a three-part framework of Native…
