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09 Dec 2025

Snowflake Ventures invests in Ataccama to strengthen data trust for AI agents and enterprise AI

Snowflake Ventures has made a strategic investment in Ataccama, a data quality and governance platform provider, to deliver trusted data for AI agents and enterprise applications. The partnership addresses a critical readiness gap, with only 3% of banks currently running AI initiatives at scale, highlighting the urgent need for automated data reliability in production AI systems.

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Launch Agentic AI Foundation to Standardize AI Agents Development

Major tech companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block have formed the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to establish open source standards for AI agents. The initiative brings together three key technologies—Model Context Protocol, AGENTS.md, and Goose—to create interoperable infrastructure and prevent the AI agent ecosystem from fracturing into incompatible, proprietary systems.

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Google brings gesture controls back to Pixel Watch 4 with Double Pinch and Wrist Turn features

Google is rolling out new wearable gesture controls exclusively for the Pixel Watch 4, including Double Pinch and Wrist Turn features borrowed from Apple's playbook. The update also brings enhanced Smart Replies powered by Gemma AI to both Pixel Watch 3 and 4, offering twice the speed and three times better memory efficiency than previous models.

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Alexa+ shopping features can automatically buy products when prices drop to your target

Amazon rolls out Alexa+ shopping features that track deals and buy for you when prices hit your target. The AI assistant monitors your cart, wishlists, and specified items 24/7, completing automatic purchases using default payment settings. A new Shopping Essentials dashboard launches on Echo Show 15 and 21, consolidating order tracking, shopping lists, and personalized gift suggestions into one interface.

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Pebble's founder launches $75 AI smart ring that turns fleeting thoughts into organized notes

Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble, has unveiled the Index 01, a $75 AI smart ring designed as external memory for your brain. Unlike always-on AI wearables, this privacy-preserving device only records when you press its button, processing voice notes locally on your smartphone. With a battery lasting up to two years and no subscription fees, the ring enters a growing market alongside competitors like Sandbar's $249 Stream Ring.

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Vibe Coding Named Word of the Year as AI Reshapes How Software Gets Built

Collins Dictionary crowned vibe coding its 2025 Word of the Year, marking a shift in software development where AI tools generate code from simple text prompts. While the approach democratizes programming and accelerates development, it raises critical questions about code quality, security vulnerabilities, and the evolving role of developers who must now balance creative freedom with rigorous oversight.

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Accenture and Anthropic forge multi-year partnership to train 30,000 on Claude AI

Accenture has expanded its collaboration with Anthropic through a multi-year strategic partnership that will train approximately 30,000 professionals on Claude AI. The new Accenture Anthropic Business Group marks Anthropic's largest enterprise deployment to date, focusing on scaling AI-powered software development across regulated industries including financial services, life sciences, and the public sector.

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Salesforce reveals how $8 billion Informatica deal solves enterprise AI's context problem

Salesforce has detailed how Informatica fits into its unified data strategy alongside MuleSoft, addressing the core challenge that causes 80% of AI projects to fail: lack of trusted context. The $8 billion acquisition creates a data foundation combining metadata-rich enterprise context with real-time operational signals, aiming to transform AI agents from 'corporate stupid' to reasoning-based systems.

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Over 230 groups demand moratorium on AI data center expansion as communities revolt nationwide

More than 230 environmental organizations have called on Congress to halt new data center construction, citing soaring energy demands and utility costs. The AI-driven boom is sparking grassroots opposition across Republican and Democratic strongholds, with residents in Virginia, Indiana, and other states fighting projects that threaten to raise electricity bills by up to 70 percent while delivering minimal local benefits.

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Microsoft and Amazon pledge over $52 billion to fuel India's AI infrastructure and skills training

Microsoft announced a $17.5 billion investment—its largest in Asia—while Amazon committed over $35 billion to India's AI and cloud infrastructure by 2030. The massive investments by Microsoft and Amazon signal India's emergence as a critical battleground in the global AI race, driven by its vast developer base, 310 million informal workers, and government push for digital transformation.

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iFixit launches FixBot, an AI repair assistant trained on 125,000 guides to fix anything

iFixit has released a mobile repair app featuring FixBot, an AI-powered chatbot that guides users through fixing devices, appliances, and vehicles. Trained on over 125,000 repair guides and millions of pages of documentation, the app uses computer vision to identify broken items and provides step-by-step guidance with voice commands. Currently free, the app will eventually introduce a paid subscription tier at $4.99 per month.

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Brookfield and Qatar form $20 billion joint venture to build AI infrastructure across Middle East

Brookfield Asset Management has partnered with Qatar's Qai to create a $20 billion joint venture focused on developing artificial intelligence infrastructure. The partnership aims to position Qatar as a leading AI hub in the Middle East through an Integrated Compute centre, while also exploring opportunities in select international markets.

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India Proposes Mandatory Royalties for AI Training, Targeting OpenAI and Google Operations

India's government has released a framework requiring AI companies to pay royalties for training models on copyrighted content. The proposal establishes a central collecting body to distribute payments to creators, marking a sharp departure from the U.S. fair use approach. Tech giants like OpenAI and Google face potential new costs in one of their fastest-growing markets.

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McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas ad after massive public backlash over quality and ethics

McDonald's Netherlands removed its AI-generated holiday commercial following intense criticism over poor quality visuals, distorted faces, and concerns about job displacement in creative industries. The 45-second ad, created by The Sweetshop, featured bizarre physics and unnatural movements that viewers found unsettling. Despite claims the production took seven weeks with ten specialists, the negative public reception forced McDonald's to delist the advertisement from YouTube.

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Qualcomm acquires Augentix to expand Edge AI and smart camera capabilities across India

Qualcomm has completed the acquisition of Augentix, a provider of low-power image signal processors and multimedia SoCs. The deal expands Qualcomm's Insight Platform hardware ecosystem, enabling scalable Edge AI camera deployments across enterprise, industrial, and public infrastructure sectors. The move aligns with India's growing demand for secure, locally supported IP camera solutions as digital infrastructure projects accelerate nationwide.

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