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SuperBryn Raises $1.2M to Fix Voice AI Reliability Issues Plaguing Enterprise Deployments

Bengaluru-based Voice AI startup SuperBryn has secured $1.2 million in pre-seed funding led by Kalaari Capital's CXXO initiative. The company is building a reliability framework that helps businesses deploy and monitor voice agents in real-world scenarios, claiming to move companies from pilot to production 20 times faster and at 10 times lower cost.

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Databricks OfficeQA benchmark exposes AI agents struggling with real enterprise document work

Databricks launched OfficeQA, a new AI benchmark testing agents on real enterprise document tasks using U.S. Treasury Bulletins. The results reveal a sobering reality: even the best AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic achieve less than 45% accuracy on document-heavy work that mirrors actual business needs, exposing a critical disconnect between academic tests and enterprise requirements.

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US Navy awards Palantir $448 million to modernize shipbuilding with AI-powered ShipOS platform

The US Navy signed a two-year, $448 million contract with Palantir to deploy its ShipOS program across America's Maritime Industrial Base. Early pilots show submarine schedule planning reduced from 160 hours to under 10 minutes, while material review times dropped from weeks to under one hour at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

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CoreWeave CEO defends debt-heavy AI infrastructure strategy as stock volatility raises questions

CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator defended his company's performance at Fortune's AI Brainstorm summit, calling the March IPO incredibly successful despite stock volatility and criticism. The AI cloud infrastructure provider's stock debuted at $40, climbed above $150, and now trades around $90. Intrator dismissed concerns about circular business deals and debt levels as growing pains from disrupting the cloud computing market.

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Hinge CEO Justin McLeod steps down to launch Match Group-backed AI dating app Overtone

Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of Hinge, is leaving his role to launch Overtone, an AI dating app focused on voice tools and personal connections. Match Group is backing the venture with substantial ownership and will lead its early 2026 funding round. Jackie Jantos, Hinge's president and CMO, takes over as CEO as the app targets $1 billion in revenue by 2027.

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Instacart AI pricing experiments charge different prices for identical items at same stores

A study by Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative exposed Instacart's AI-powered pricing experiments that show different prices to customers buying identical products from the same store. The investigation found price variations up to 23% on items like Wheat Thins and eggs, with nearly 75% of tested products displaying multiple prices. The practice could add $1,200 to annual grocery bills, raising concerns about consumer trust and transparency.

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Mistral AI launches Devstral 2 with autonomous vibe coding capabilities and open-source CLI

French AI startup Mistral AI released Devstral 2, a 123 billion parameter open-weights coding model achieving 72.2% on SWE-bench Verified. The company also introduced Mistral Vibe CLI, a command-line interface for autonomous software engineering. A smaller 24 billion parameter version can run locally on laptops, challenging proprietary systems from OpenAI and Anthropic while undercutting costs by seven times.

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09 Dec 2025

Three in ten US teens use AI chatbots daily as safety concerns mount, Pew study reveals

New research from Pew Research Center shows 64% of US teens have used AI chatbots, with 28% engaging daily. ChatGPT dominates teen usage at 59%, while Black and Hispanic teens show higher adoption rates. But growing lawsuits against OpenAI and Character.AI over teen suicides raise urgent questions about user well-being and the technology's impact on developing minds.

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AI bionic hand lets amputees grasp objects naturally, reducing cognitive burden by half

Researchers at the University of Utah developed an AI-powered bionic hand that restores natural grasping ability for amputees. The system uses proximity and pressure sensors combined with an artificial neural network to enable intuitive control without extensive training. Four participants demonstrated improved grip precision and security while performing everyday tasks with significantly less mental effort.

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OpenAI Hires Slack CEO Denise Dresser as Chief Revenue Officer to Drive Profitability Push

OpenAI has appointed Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its first chief revenue officer, signaling a strategic push toward profitability. With over 14 years at Salesforce and experience scaling AI features, Dresser will oversee global revenue strategy and enterprise growth as OpenAI faces mounting pressure to monetize its technology amid fierce competition from Google and others.

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Amazon Ring deploys facial recognition to doorbells as privacy experts sound the alarm

Amazon has rolled out its AI-powered Familiar Faces feature to Ring doorbells across the United States, allowing users to catalog up to 50 faces for personalized notifications. While the company promotes convenience and security, privacy advocates including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Senator Ed Markey warn of mass surveillance risks, especially given Amazon's partnerships with law enforcement and past data security failures that resulted in a $5.8 million FTC fine.

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Oracle's $18 billion debt raises investor concerns over AI buildout and OpenAI dependence

Oracle faces mounting scrutiny over its aggressive AI infrastructure expansion, funded by an $18 billion bond sale—one of tech's largest debt issuances. With a $300 billion OpenAI contract anchoring its strategy, investors question the sustainability of this debt-fueled AI buildout as the company reports quarterly earnings amid uncertainty about OpenAI's own financial stability.

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Pentagon launches GenAI.mil platform with Google Gemini to transform military operations

The Department of Defense unveiled GenAI.mil, a new military AI platform powered by Google Gemini, promising to put AI tools into the hands of 3 million Pentagon employees. Secretary Pete Hegseth declared it the future of American warfare, though initial uses focus on administrative tasks like summarizing documents and creating compliance checklists rather than combat applications.

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Wells Fargo CEO announces AI will drive job cuts as bank pursues efficiency gains

Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf confirmed AI will lead to more job cuts as the bank rolls out generative AI tools in 2026. The company has already reduced its workforce from 275,000 to 210,000 since 2019, cutting $15 billion in costs. Engineering teams using Gen AI tools are now 30-35% more efficient at writing code, signaling what's ahead for compliance, call centers, and other divisions.

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Sam Altman warns AI rate of change is outpacing society's ability to adapt responsibly

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared on The Tonight Show to discuss ChatGPT's explosive growth, revealing that 800 million people now use it weekly. While calling AI an equalizing force, he admitted concern about the rate of change happening in the world and the risk of getting responsible integration wrong as competition from Google, Meta, and Anthropic intensifies.

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