Being Santa Claus is a year-round calling
"You're Santa Claus 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year." Acting out may shatter "the magic."
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SPEED Act passes in House despite changes that threaten clean power projects
The bill would significantly curtail scope of the federal environmental review process.
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A new framework for keeping AI accountable
A new accountability framework treats AI responsibility as a continuous control problem, embedding values into systems and monitoring harm over time.
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TV Technica: Our favorite shows of 2025
Netflix and Apple TV dominate this year's list with thrillers, fantasy, sci-fi, and murder.
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The future of rail: Watching, predicting, and learning
A recent industry report [PDF] argues that Britain’s railway network could carry an extra billion journeys by the mid-2030s, building on the 1.6 billion passenger rail journeys recorded to year-end March 2024. The next decade will involve a combination of complexity and control, as more digital systems, data, and interconnected suppliers create the potential for […] The post The future of rail: Watching, predicting, and learning appeared first on AI News.
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How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them
From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here's what makes them tick.
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The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here
Big AI companies courted controversy by scraping wide swaths of the public internet. With the rise of AI agents, the next data grab is far more private.
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Why Disney is embedding generative AI into its operating model
For a company built on intellectual property, scale creates a familiar tension. Disney needs to produce and distribute content across many formats and audiences, while keeping tight control over rights, safety, and brand consistency. Generative AI promises speed and flexibility, but unmanaged use risks creating legal, creative, and operational drag. Disney’s agreement with OpenAI shows […] The post Why Disney is embedding generative AI into its operating model appeared first on AI News.
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AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, It’s Still Evolving
WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever.
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US denies visas to ex-EU commissioner and others over social media rules
Thierry Breton, the former top tech regulator at the European Commission, says a "witch hunt" is taking place.
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China just carried out its second reusable launch attempt in three weeks
The launch laid "an important foundation for subsequent launches and reliable recovery."
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Steve Rogers returns in Avengers: Doomsday teaser
It's purportedly the first of four planned teasers, one per week, showing before Avatar: Fire and Ash.
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Elon Musk, AI and the antichrist: the biggest tech stories of 2025
A look back at the biggest tech stories of the year, from the rise and fall of Musk’s Doge to lucrative investments into AIHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, wishing you a happy and healthy end of the year. I myself have a cold.Today, we are looking back at the biggest stories in tech of 2025 – Elon Musk’s political rise, burst, and fall; artificial intelligence’s subsumption of the global economy, all other technology, and even the Earth’s topography; Australia’s remarkable social media ban; the tech industry’s new Trumpian politics; and, as a treat, a glimpse of the apocalypse offered by one of Silicon Valley’s savviest and strangest billionaires.How an obscure US government office has become a target of Elon MuskHow Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutena...
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OpenAI’s child exploitation reports increased sharply this year
Incident reports spiked during the first six months of 2025.
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“Yo what?” LimeWire re-emerges in online rush to share pulled “60 Minutes” segment
Redditor jokes LimeWire is now a "champion against the darkness."
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New York Signs off on AI Safety Legislation
The RAISE Act sets AI safety rules to be enacted Jan. 1 2027, and pushes against Trump's recent executive order to get rid of "excessive state regulation."
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F1’s new engines are causing consternation over compression ratios
A loophole in the rules might have given Mercedes and Red Bull a big advantage.
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Arm and the future of AI at the edge
Arm Holdings has positioned itself at the centre of AI transformation. In a wide-ranging podcast interview, Vince Jesaitis, head of global government affairs at Arm, offered enterprise decision-makers look into the company’s international strategy, the evolution of AI as the company sees it, and what lies ahead for the industry. From cloud to edge Arm […] The post Arm and the future of AI at the edge appeared first on AI News.
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Google’s and OpenAI’s Chatbots Can Strip Women in Photos Down to Bikinis
Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes.
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Call of Duty co-creator Vince Zampella dies in California car crash
The influential video game developer died after his car crashed and caught fire on a highway in Los Angeles.
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Inside China’s push to apply AI across its energy system
Under China’s push to clean up its energy system, AI is starting to shape how power is produced, moved, and used — not in abstract policy terms, but in day-to-day operations. In Chifeng, a city in northern China, a renewable-powered factory offers a clear example. The site produces hydrogen and ammonia using electricity generated entirely […] The post Inside China’s push to apply AI across its energy system appeared first on AI News.
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TikTok removes AI weight loss ads from fake Boots account
The adverts for prescription-only drugs showed healthcare professionals impersonating the British retailer.
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When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr
The US economy is pumped up on tech-bro vanity. The inevitable correction must prompt a global conversation about intelligent machines, regulation and riskIf AI did not change your life in 2025, next year it will. That is one of few forecasts that can be made with confidence in unpredictable times. This is not an invitation to believe the hype about what the technology can do today, or may one day achieve. The hype doesn’t need your credence. It is puffed up enough on Silicon Valley finance to distort the global economy and fuel geopolitical rivalries, shaping your world regardless of whether the most fanciful claims about AI capability are ever realised.ChatGPT was launched just over three years ago and became the fastest-growing consumer app in history. Now it has about 800m weekly us...
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The best of the long read in 2025
Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the yearVictor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship and fled the country, he still sells millions. Has he become a Kremlin apologist? Continue reading...
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Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify
Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadataAn activist group has claimed to have scraped millions of tracks from Spotify and is preparing to release them online.Observers said the apparent leak could boost AI companies looking for material to develop their technology. Continue reading...
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x402 Aims to Enable Agentic Payments With Digital Dollars
The x402 protocol allows digital agents to use stablecoins so that they can pay for data and products autonomously, moving beyond traditional payment methods.
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AI Coding Startup Lovable Now Valued at $6.6B
Lovable, a Swedish AI startup, raised $330 million in a Series B funding round. Its platform enables app creation via text prompts.
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OpenAI’s Child Exploitation Reports Increased Sharply This Year
The company made 80 times as many reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first six months of 2025 as it did in the same period a year prior.
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Uber and Lyft announce plans to trial Chinese robotaxis in UK in 2026
Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis have already accrued millions of driverless rides in cities worldwide.
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People Are Using Sora 2 to Make Disturbing Videos With AI-Generated Kids
Videos such as fake ads featuring AI children playing with vibrators or Jeffrey Epstein- and Diddy-themed play sets are being made with Sora 2 and posted to TikTok.
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Tesco signs three-year AI deal centred on customer experience
For large retailers, the challenge with AI isn’t whether it can be useful, but how it fits into everyday work. A new three-year AI partnership by Tesco points to how one of the UK’s biggest supermarket groups is trying to achieve just that. Tesco plans to work with Mistral to develop AI tools that can […] The post Tesco signs three-year AI deal centred on customer experience appeared first on AI News.
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Extremists are using AI voice cloning to supercharge propaganda. Experts say it’s helping them grow
Researchers warn generative tools are helping militant groups from neo-Nazis to the Islamic State spread ideologyWhile the artificial intelligence boom is upending sections of the music industry, voice generating bots are also becoming a boon to another unlikely corner of the internet: extremist movements that are using them to recreate the voices and speeches of major figures in their milieu, and experts say it is helping them grow.“The adoption of AI-enabled translation by terrorists and extremists marks a significant evolution in digital propaganda strategies,” said Lucas Webber, a senior threat intelligence analyst at Tech Against Terrorism and a research fellow at the Soufan Center. Webber specializes in monitoring the online tools of terrorist groups and extremists around the worl...
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WIRED Roundup: The 5 Tech and Politics Trends That Shaped 2025
In today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into five stories—from AI to DOGE—that encapsulate the year and give us clues as to what might unfold in 2026.
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Investment in data centers worldwide hit record $61bn in 2025, report finds
Analysts see ‘global construction frenzy that shows no signs of slowing’ amid surge in demand from AI boomA new report finds that investment in the worldwide data center market reached $61bn this year, setting a new record atop the wave of the artificial intelligence boom.The analysis by S&P Global, first reported by CNBC, documented what the market intelligence firm called a “global construction frenzy that shows no signs of slowing”, to build out the massive real estate, hardware, and energy requirements driven by insatiable demand from AI companies. S&P pegged 2024’s investment in the data center market at $60.8bn, just below the 2025 number. Continue reading...
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University Researchers Debut Tiny Programmable Robots
The swimming microbots can autonomously sense and navigate their surroundings, using temperature detection to monitor cell health.
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Introducing a New Chapter for ‘Uncanny Valley’
In this episode, we look back at 2025 and look ahead to what's happening in 2026—including what’s in store for Uncanny Valley.
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Beyond chatbots: How to build agentic AI systems
AI is moving from chatbots to agents: systems that plan, use tools, and act autonomously. Why 2025 marks the real inflection point.
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6 Scary Predictions for AI in 2026
Could the AI industry be on the verge of its first major layoffs? Will China spread propaganda to slow the US data-center building boom? Where are AI agents headed?
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£100 contactless card limit to be lifted
Card providers can decide whether to offer unlimited payments on contactless cards.
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Marketing agencies using AI in workflows serve more clients
Of all the many industries, it’s marketing where AI is no longer an “innovation lab” side project but embedded in briefs, production pipelines, approvals, and media optimisation. A WPP iQ post published in December, based on a webinar with WPP and Stability AI, shows what AI deployment in daily operations looks like. Here, we’re talking […] The post Marketing agencies using AI in workflows serve more clients appeared first on AI News.
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Will the US TikTok deal make it safer but less relevant?
The key to the app's success - its algorithm - is to be retrained on US data. Will that make US TikTok blander?
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50,000 Copilot licences for Indian service companies
Cognizant, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, and Wipro have announced plans to deploy more than 200,000 Microsoft Copilot licenses in their enterprises – over 50,000 per company – in what Microsoft is calling a new benchmark for enterprise-scale adoption of generative AI. The companies involved are framing the move as the implementation of a default tool […] The post 50,000 Copilot licences for Indian service companies appeared first on AI News.
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This Chrome Extension Turns LinkedIn Posts About AI Into Facts About Allen Iverson
The developers of a browser tool that changes AI-centric LinkedIn posts to Allen Iverson facts want to help “take back control of your experience of the internet.”
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TikTok owner signs deal to avoid US ban
The deals would end years of efforts by Washington to force ByteDance to sell its US operations.
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What will your life look like in 2035?
When AIs become consistently more capable than humans, life could change in strange ways. It could happen in the next few years, or a little longer. If and when it comes, our domestic routines – trips to the doctor, farming, work and justice systems – could all look very different. Here we take a look at how the era of artificial general intelligence might feel“Does it hurt when I do this?” Continue reading...
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Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash
Productivity Commission recommends waiting three years to establish review into technology after furious response from creative industriesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Productivity Commission has abandoned a proposal to allow tech companies to mine copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models, after a fierce backlash from the creative industries.Instead, the government’s top economic advisory body recommended the government wait three years before deciding whether to establish an independent review of Australian copyright settings and the impact of the disruptive new technology. Continue reading...
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UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’
Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimatesThe UK’s largest proposed datacentre is understating the scale of its planned water use, according to an analysis.The first phase of construction for the hyperscale campus in Cambois in Northumberland has been given the go-ahead by the local council. The US operator QTS, which is developing the site, has promoted its “water-free” cooling system as proof of its sustainability. Continue reading...
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Salesforce Buys Qualified in Agentic Marketing Push
It's the CRM provider's latest move to build out its Agentforce platform.
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UK to ban deepfake AI 'nudification' apps
A new offence looks to build on existing rules outlawing sexually explicit deepfakes and intimate image abuse.
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Google Releases Gemini 3 Flash Aimed at Enterprises
The move is part of Google's strategy to meet diverse enterprise needs while simplifying model selection for users.
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One in three using AI for emotional support and conversation, UK says
The Artificial Intelligence Security Institute (AISI) says the tech is being used by one in 25 people daily.
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AI in Human Resources: the real operational impact
Human Resources is an area in many organisations where AI can have significant operational impact. The technology is now being embedded into day-to-day operations, in activities like answering employees’ questions and supporting training. The clearest impact appears where organisations can measure the tech’s outcomes, typically in time saved and the numbers of queries successfully resolved. […] The post AI in Human Resources: the real operational impact appeared first on AI News.
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Wall Street’s AI gains are here — banks plan for fewer people
By December 2025, AI adoption on Wall Street had moved past experiments inside large US banks and into everyday operations. Speaking at a Goldman Sachs financial-services conference in New York on 9 December, bank executives described AI—particularly generative AI—as an operational upgrade already lifting productivity across engineering, operations, and customer service. The same discussion also […] The post Wall Street’s AI gains are here — banks plan for fewer people appeared first on AI News.
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Ensuring effective AI in insurance operations
Artificial intelligence has been part of the insurance sector for years – the Finance function in many businesses is often the first to automate. But what’s remarkable in the instance of AI is how directly the technology is woven into day-to-day operational work. Not sitting in the background as a niche modelling capability, AI is […] The post Ensuring effective AI in insurance operations appeared first on AI News.
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Building enterprise AI agents: Frontline lessons with TrueFoundry
Lessons from enterprise teams working with TrueFoundry on what it really takes to deploy agentic AI at scale.
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Nvidia Aims to Bolster HPC With Acquisition
The SchedMD deal comes as Nvidia continues to bolster its open source AI portfolio.
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Roblox brings AI into the Studio to speed up game creation
Roblox is often seen as a games platform, but its day-to-day reality looks closer to a production studio. Small teams release new experiences on a rolling basis and then monetise them at scale. That pace creates two persistent problems: time lost to repeatable production work, and friction when moving outputs between tools. Roblox’s 2025 updates […] The post Roblox brings AI into the Studio to speed up game creation appeared first on AI News.
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US Government Seeks Tech Talent
Part of the Tech Force initiative is to unite AI talent with tech companies such as Apple, Microsoft and OpenAI.
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AIAI London
Stream every session from AIAI London, with sessions from OpenAI, Synthesia, Wayve, Databricks, Financial Times, BBC and more.
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The hidden risk of one-size-fits-all AI advice
AI advice can be rated “safe” yet still harm vulnerable users. New research reveals why context, not benchmarks, defines real AI safety.
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Forking data for AI agents: The missing primitive for safe, scalable systems
Agent failures stem from inconsistent state. Tigris delivers immutable storage, snapshots, and forks for deterministic, reproducible AI workflows.
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Building your agentic stack: A roadmap to real integration
Building an agentic AI stack is chaotic, but strong architecture and data foundations stay constant. Here’s what truly matters for long-term success.
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AIAI Toronto, 2025
Stream every session from AIAI Toronto, with sessions from OpenAI, Nvidia, BMO Financial Group, Meta and more.
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When GPT-5 thinks like a scientist
GPT-5 is transforming research with novel insights, deep literature search, and human-AI collaboration that accelerates scientific breakthroughs.
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Case Study: Loveable
Loveable, the Stockholm-based "vibe coding" platform, is demonstrating that Europe is still a prime incubator for global AI unicorns.
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AGI Is Not Multimodal
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry WinogradThe recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these models appear to capture the essence of human
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What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose
LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonnet 3.5, gpt-4o). However, as these measures get more and more saturated, is user experience increasing in proportion to these scores? If we envision a future
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We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing
IntroductionImagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy. Won’t this technology almost certainly transform society — and hasn’t AI’s impact on us so far been
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Financial Market Applications of LLMs
The AI revolution drove frenzied investment in both private and public companies and captured the public’s imagination in 2023. Transformational consumer products like ChatGPT are powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) that excel at modeling sequences of tokens that represent words or parts of words [2]. Amazingly, structural
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A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI
A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
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Mamba Explained
Is Attention all you need? Mamba, a novel AI model based on State Space Models (SSMs), emerges as a formidable alternative to the widely used Transformer models, addressing their inefficiency in processing long sequences.
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Car-GPT: Could LLMs finally make self-driving cars happen?
Exploring the utility of large language models in autonomous driving: Can they be trusted for self-driving cars, and what are the key challenges?
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Why Doesn’t My Model Work?
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to real world data? If so, you’re in good company.
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