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Ai2’s Olmo 3.1 Redefines Open-Source AI With Extended Reinforcement Learning Power

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Google Translate Turns Your Headphones Into Real-Time Translators — Here's What That Means for Language Barriers

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AI’s Next Frontier - Beyond Bots and Into the Real-World Economy

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Inside Indonesia’s $2.7M AI Customs Play - Trade AI Aims to Supercharge Border Enforcement

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Wealthfront’s Billion-Dollar Dawn - How the Robo-Advisor Raised $486M and Shook Up the Fintech IPO Landscape

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Banking on the Future - How BBVA and OpenAI Are Redefining AI in Finance

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AI Showdown - Google’s Deepest Research Agent Drops as OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.2

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AI Robots Are the New Lab Assistants - Medra’s $52M Bet to Reinvent Drug Discovery

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Cyber Tempest - Israel’s Network Under Siege as AI Tools Fuel a New Era of Attacks

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Japan’s Notta Scores Big - $15M Series B Fuels Global Voice AI Ambitions

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When AI Scored 95% – But Humans Didn’t Believe It Was AI

When AI Scored 95% – But Humans Didn’t Believe It Was AI In a revealing internal experiment by SAP, an AI co-pilot delivered work judged about 95% accurate – until consultants learned the truth ab...

Reality Check - Why AI Still Can’t Break 70% Factual Accuracy — And What That Means for Enterprise AI

🧠 Reality Check: Why AI Still Can’t Break 70% Factual Accuracy — And What That Means for Enterprise AI In the whirlwind evolution of generative AI, one metric keeps tripping up even the most advan...

Neutral-Atom, Huge Ambitions - QuEra Computing Scores $230 M Backing from Google and SoftBank Vision Fund

“Neutral-Atom, Huge Ambitions”: QuEra Computing Scores $230 M Backing from Google and SoftBank Vision Fund Quantum computing may have just leapfrogged another milestone — with serious money behind...

U.S. Banks Are Bankrolling AI — but Their Employees Could Pay the Price

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SeaTown Raises US$900 Million in Bold Second Close — What It Means for Asia's Private Credit Boom

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South Korea’s Bold AI Bet - Export‑Import Bank of Korea Pours US$13.6 B Into Domestic AI Push

South Korea’s Bold AI Bet: Export‑Import Bank of Korea Pours US$13.6 B Into Domestic AI Push South Korea is doubling down on its ambition to become a global AI powerhouse. On December 10, 2025, th...

When Your Groceries Become a Gamble - How AI Pricing on Instacart Could Be Costing You More

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Even Top AI Agents Struggle with Real‑World Enterprise Docs — OfficeQA Exposes a Major Gap

Even Top AI Agents Struggle with Real‑World Enterprise Docs — OfficeQA Exposes a Major Gap Enterprises have been banking on the promise of AI: that large language models (LLMs) and AI agents can n...

UAE Greenlights Circle Internet Group — What It Means for Digital Money in the Middle East

UAE Greenlights Circle Internet Group — What It Means for Digital Money in the Middle East A Big Leap for Digital Finance Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the financial free-zone in the United Ara...

Aspire Brings Wise-Powered Global Payments to Hong Kong — A Game Changer for SMEs

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Your Phone Can Do the Work Now - Zhipu AI’s AutoGLM Opens the Door to Fully Automated Smartphones

Your Phone Can Do the Work Now: Zhipu AI’s AutoGLM Opens the Door to Fully Automated Smartphones Imagine telling your phone, “Book me a flight to Tokyo, get me a latte at 8am, and message my frien...

GLM-4.6V - The Next-Gen Open-Source Vision-Language Model That Bridges Seeing, Reasoning — and Doing

GLM-4.6V: The Next-Gen Open-Source Vision-Language Model That Bridges Seeing, Reasoning — and Doing Imagine handing an AI a screenshot, a PDF, or even a one-hour video — and asking it not just to ...

IBM’s Bold $11B Bet - Buying Confluent to Power the Next AI Wave

IBM’s Bold $11B Bet: Buying Confluent to Power the Next AI Wave In a move signaling deep ambition in the AI era, IBM is set to acquire Confluent for roughly $11 billion, including debt — an aggres...

ChemLex Raises US$45M, Launches Autonomous AI Lab in Singapore — A New Era for Drug Discovery

ChemLex Raises US$45M, Launches Autonomous AI Lab in Singapore — A New Era for Drug Discovery In a game-changing move for pharmaceutical R&D, Singapore-based AI-for-science startup ChemLex has...

AI Winter Is Coming to the Car Industry — Why Most Automakers Are Slashing AI Spending by 2029

“AI Winter Is Coming to the Car Industry?” — Why Most Automakers Are Slashing AI Spending by 2029 The buzz around self-driving cars and smart, AI-powered vehicles has reached fever pitch — yet a n...

When a Fake Photo Shuts Down the Rails - How One Viral Image Disrupted Britain’s Train Network

When a Fake Photo Shuts Down the Rails: How One Viral Image Disrupted Britain’s Train Network A single manipulated image was enough — fake but convincing — to throw a major disruption into the hea...

ByteDance Pulls Back - Why Its Promising AI Phone Just Got Gimped

ByteDance Pulls Back: Why Its Promising AI Phone Just Got Gimped Sometimes, the future of tech looks like magic — until reality bites. That seems to be the case for ByteDance’s ambitious new AI-po...

Why Agentic Browsing Isn’t Killing Google Chrome — Yet

Why “Agentic Browsing” Isn’t Killing Google Chrome — Yet The era of “agentic browsing” is upon us — but despite the hype, it’s clear that AI-powered browsers still have a long way to go before the...

AI in Quantitative Research - Transforming the Street

AI in Quantitative Research: Transforming the Street Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping quantitative research and investment strategies across financial markets. From traditiona...

Weekly Updat - Microsoft — Key Developments (Late Nov – Early Dec 2025)

Weekly Update: Microsoft — Key Developments (Late Nov – Early Dec 2025) 📰 Major Announcements This Week Microsoft Launches Microsoft 365 Copilot Business for SMBs Executive Summary On December...

Weekly Update — Qwen (week ending Dec 6, 2025)

Weekly Update — Qwen (week ending Dec 6, 2025) 🔹 Executive Summary This week, Qwen — the AI model family from Alibaba — scored a major milestone: its consumer‑facing app registered an explosive...

DeepSeek Weekly Insight Report — December 6, 2025

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Weekly Report - Updates on Perplexity AI — Week of December 5, 2025

Weekly Report: Updates on Perplexity AI — Week of December 5, 2025 📰 Key Headlines This Week The New York Times (NYT) sues Perplexity for alleged copyright infringement. (Reuters) Cristian...

Anthropic — Weekly Update Report Dec 6 2025

Anthropic — Weekly Update Report Dec 6 2025 Snowflake–Anthropic $200 M Deal to Embed Claude in Enterprise Data Infrastructure Executive Summary On December 4, 2025, Anthropic announced a substant...

Weekly OpenAI Update — official announcements (Nov 30 – Dec 6, 2025)

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Accelerating Multimodal & Agentic AI - Hugging Face Highlights (Dec 29 Nov–6 Dec 2025)

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Daily AI Tech Research Update — 2025-12-06

Daily AI/Tech Research Update — 2025-12-06 1. Executive Summary Date: 2025-12-06 Scope: ML / AI-adjacent papers on arXiv from ~2025-11-29 → 2025-12-06 Focus: Advances in generative model...

Weekly Update — Google (Week ending Dec 6 2025)

Weekly Update — Google (Week ending Dec 6 2025) 📰 Highlights Gemini 3 goes live — marking a new era of AI intelligence (blog.google) Android 16 rolls out AI-powered notification summaries, i...

VC & Accelerator — last 7-day briefing (US, Europe, Asia, Global)

VC & Accelerator — last 7-day briefing (US / Europe / Asia / Global) Window: Nov 30 — Dec 6, 2025 (inclusive). Only organisations with material public updates in that window are listed. ...

Private-Market FOMO on AI Could Trigger Costly Mistakes — Says Top Deal-Maker

Private-Market “FOMO” on AI Could Trigger Costly Mistakes — Says Top Deal-Maker Investors pouring money into private AI startups may be setting themselves up for painful losses, warns veteran nego...

“AI Denial” Is the Real Enterprise Threat - Why Calling Everything “Slop” Undermines How Far AI Has Come

“AI Denial” Is the Real Enterprise Threat: Why Calling Everything “Slop” Undermines How Far AI Has Come In recent months, a striking shift has occurred: where once excitement around artificial int...

Big Bet, Balanced Strategy - Nexus Venture Partners Raises $700 M Fund to Fuel AI, Fintech & Consumer Startups

Big Bet, Balanced Strategy: Nexus Venture Partners Raises $700 M Fund to Fuel AI, Fintech & Consumer Startups Nexus Venture Partners (Nexus) — one of the earliest cross-border venture capital ...

When Safe AI Means Different Things - How Anthropic and OpenAI’s Red-Teaming Philosophies Diverge

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AI Truth Serum - Why the Latest from OpenAI Could Change How We Trust Chatbots

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Jumbo-Shrimp Fintech - How Flex Is Serving Mid-Sized Businesses With Its $60M War Chest

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Trust Lv. Up - Why Gemini 3 Pro Is Winning Where Benchmarks Fail

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Google’s New Move to Make AI Agents Actually Useful at Work

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AI’s Safety Gap - Why Leading Labs Are Failing Global Standards

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Memory Mayhem - AI Boom Sparks a New Global Supply-Chain Crisis

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Singapore’s AI-RAN Disruptor - How SynaXG Raised Over US$20 Million to Power the Future of Wireless

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When AI Deepens Divides - Why the Next Great Divergence Could Leave Millions Behind

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Small, Smart & Multimodal - A New Way to Train AI to See and Reason

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Razorpay’s Big Break - How India’s Fintech Star Just Super-Charged Global Payments

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From Degrees to Drills - Britons Turning to Skilled Trades as AI Looms

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WestBridge Backs Finfactor $15M Push to Power India Open Finance Rails​

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Small Team, Big Ambitions - How OpenAGI Claims Its New Agent Crushes OpenAI

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Small But Mighty - How Liquid AI’s New Blueprint Makes On-Device AI Work for Real Business

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Open-Source AI Just Leveled Up - How DeepSeek Unveiled Models That Rival GPT‑5

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U.S. Strikes Back in Open-Source AI -s Arcee AI Unveils Its First Trinity Models

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