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02 Dec 2025

Anthropic Acquires Bun as Claude Code Reaches $1 Billion in Run-Rate Revenue in Just 6 Months

Anthropic has made its first acquisition by purchasing developer tools startup Bun to accelerate Claude Code, its AI coding assistant that reached $1 billion in run-rate revenue within six months of launch. The JavaScript runtime will remain open source while powering the next generation of AI-driven software development tools for enterprises including Netflix, Spotify, and Salesforce.

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Norton Neo AI Browser Launches With Safety-First Approach to Take on ChatGPT Atlas and Comet

Norton has officially launched Neo, an AI-powered web browser that exits beta after six months. The AI browser takes a safety-first approach with built-in security features and a zero-prompt design that anticipates user needs without requiring questions. Neo competes directly with ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity's Comet in the emerging AI browser wars.

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Agentic AI turns supply chain planning into continuous, autonomous systems that respond in minutes

Supply chain planning is shifting from scheduled processes to continuous autonomous systems powered by agentic AI. Companies like Blue Yonder process over 25 billion supply chain operations daily, while early adopters cut manual reconciliation in half. The technology enables planners to respond to disruptions within minutes rather than days.

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Google AI's competitive edge relies on knowing you better through extensive user data collection

Google's VP of Product for Search revealed the company's AI strategy centers on deep personalization using data from Gmail, Drive, and other services. While promising uniquely helpful responses, the approach raises questions about surveillance versus service. Even OpenAI's Sam Altman warns about security risks when AI models learn intimate details about users.

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Android 16 brings AI notification summaries and frequent updates, learning from Apple's mistakes

Google announced a major shift in how Android evolves, moving from yearly updates to frequent releases throughout the year. Android 16's second wave introduces AI-powered notification summaries and a smart organizer that condenses group chats and silences low-priority alerts. The update also brings enhanced accessibility features, scam detection via Circle to Search, and expanded parental controls for Pixel devices.

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Circle to Search now spots scam texts instantly with AI-powered detection across Android devices

Google rolled out scam detection capabilities to Circle to Search and Google Lens globally in December 2025. Users can now circle suspicious messages to receive AI-powered analysis that identifies phishing patterns, explains red flags, and provides suggested next steps. The feature works on-device without sharing data with human reviewers, marking a shift in how Android handles the rising tide of sophisticated fraud attempts.

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Google Plans Space Data Centers to Power AI with Solar Energy, Targets 2027 Launch

Google unveiled Project Suncatcher, planning to launch solar-powered satellites carrying AI chips by 2027 to address artificial intelligence's soaring energy demands. The tech giant joins a growing wave of companies exploring orbital data centers, but experts warn of significant challenges including space debris risks, cooling systems in vacuum, and launch costs that need to drop below $200 per kilogram to become viable.

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Amazon unveils AI Factories with Nvidia partnership and launches Trainium3 chip for on-premises AI

AWS introduced AI Factories, a fully managed on-premises AI solution built with Nvidia, alongside its new Trainium3 chip that delivers four times more performance than its predecessor. The announcements signal Amazon's dual strategy to accelerate cloud computing capacity while addressing data sovereignty concerns for enterprises and governments requiring local AI infrastructure.

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AWS unveils frontier AI agents and custom model tools to unlock enterprise AI value at re:Invent

AWS rolled out frontier AI agents and expanded model customization capabilities at its re:Invent conference, aiming to help enterprises extract real value from AI investments. The company introduced autonomous agents for software development, DevOps, and cybersecurity that work for hours without human intervention, alongside Nova Forge—a $100,000-per-year service for building custom AI models tailored to specific business needs.

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AWS launches Nova Forge and Nova 2 models, giving enterprises a path to custom AI for $100,000

AWS unveiled Nova Forge at re:Invent 2025, a service that lets enterprise customers build custom frontier AI models for $100,000 annually by integrating proprietary data during training. The company also launched four new Nova 2 models with enhanced reasoning capabilities. Early customers including Reddit, Sony, and Booking.com are already using the platform to create domain-specific AI systems.

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HPE adopts AMD's Helios rack architecture with custom Ethernet switch for 2026 AI systems

HPE becomes the first major OEM partner for AMD's Helios rack-scale AI platform, bringing 72-GPU systems to market in 2026. The collaboration features a purpose-built Juniper scale-up Ethernet switch developed with Broadcom, targeting up to 2.9 exaFLOPS per rack. Built on open standards, Helios positions itself as an alternative to Nvidia's GB200 NVL72 platform.

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ASI Alliance members launch first GPU cluster to power decentralized AI infrastructure in Sweden

Singularity Compute has deployed its first enterprise-grade NVIDIA GPU cluster in Sweden, marking a milestone for decentralized AI. The facility serves as the hardware backbone for the ASI Alliance and provides flexible access to high-performance computing power for both commercial enterprises and Web3 projects, addressing the industry's GPU shortage while promoting data sovereignty.

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Stack Overflow launches AI Assist chatbot combining community-verified answers with generative AI

Stack Overflow has publicly launched AI Assist, an AI chatbot for developers that prioritizes community-verified knowledge over general sources. After beta testing with over 250,000 programmers, the tool uses a hybrid RAG+LLM approach to deliver human-validated answers with transparent attribution, addressing declining trust in AI while meeting developers' evolving needs.

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Mistral AI launches 10 open-source models to challenge OpenAI and Google with edge computing focus

French AI startup Mistral AI released its Mistral 3 family featuring 10 open-source AI models, including a 675B-parameter frontier model and nine smaller variants designed for edge devices. The release positions smaller, customizable models as superior alternatives to large closed-source systems, with capabilities spanning robotics, drones, and offline environments while operating on single GPUs.

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AWS CEO Matt Garman declares AI agents bigger than internet as Amazon stakes claim in AI race

AWS CEO Matt Garman positioned Amazon as a major player in the AI race at re:Invent 2025, declaring AI agents will be more transformative than the internet itself. With Bedrock now a multi-billion dollar business serving over 100,000 customers, AWS unveiled new Nova models, Trainium chips, and autonomous agents to compete with Microsoft and Google's faster-growing cloud platforms.

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