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04 Dec 2025

NVIDIA AI Servers Achieve 10x Performance Boost for Mixture of Experts Models from DeepSeek and Moonshot

NVIDIA has shattered performance records with its GB200 Blackwell NVL72 servers, delivering a tenfold efficiency boost for mixture-of-expert AI models including those from China's DeepSeek and Moonshot AI. The breakthrough addresses a critical computing bottleneck in scaling MoE models, using 72 chips with high-bandwidth links and 30TB of fast shared memory to enable expert parallelism at unprecedented levels.

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Meta faces EU antitrust investigation over WhatsApp policy blocking rival AI chatbots

The European Commission launched a formal antitrust investigation into Meta over WhatsApp's October policy change that bans third-party AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot from the platform. The probe examines whether Meta is abusing its dominant position by blocking competing AI providers while keeping its own Meta AI accessible, potentially stifling competition in AI markets across Europe.

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OpenAI ordered to hand over 20 million ChatGPT logs in New York Times copyright lawsuit

A federal judge ruled that OpenAI must turn over 20 million de-identified ChatGPT logs to The New York Times and other publishers in a copyright infringement lawsuit. The decision, issued by U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang, rejected OpenAI's privacy objections and could reshape how AI companies handle training data and user information. OpenAI has appealed the ruling, warning it undermines user trust.

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OpenAI and TCS advance talks on HyperVault partnership to build AI compute infrastructure in India

OpenAI is negotiating a leasing agreement for at least 500 MW of data centre capacity from TCS' HyperVault subsidiary, positioning itself as the first anchor tenant. The partnership would launch OpenAI's Stargate India initiative and help TCS become a leading AI-led services company through co-developed agentic AI solutions for enterprises.

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Snowflake and Anthropic Strike $200M Deal to Deploy Claude AI Across 12,600 Enterprise Customers

Snowflake and Anthropic announced a $200 million multi-year AI deal to integrate Claude AI models into Snowflake's data cloud platform. The partnership brings Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.5 to over 12,600 enterprise customers across regulated industries, enabling advanced AI agents for multimodal data analysis within secure data environments.

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Google funds $10M chair at University of Toronto to honor Nobel Prize-winner Geoffrey Hinton

Google is investing $10 million CAD to establish the Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Toronto, honoring Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton's foundational work on neural networks. The university will match the donation, creating a $20 million initiative to recruit visionary scholars and drive AI innovations across medicine, engineering, and scientific discovery.

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Salesforce raises AI pricing as Agentforce momentum builds amid investor skepticism

Salesforce is increasing prices for its AI agent platforms while reporting that Agentforce has reached $540 million in annual recurring revenue, growing 330% year-over-year. CEO Marc Benioff is working to counter investor skepticism as the company navigates new pricing strategies and pursues aggressive monetization of AI products despite broader market doubts about enterprise AI adoption.

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ChatGPT and Apple Health integration could deliver personalized health advice from your data

Code hidden in the ChatGPT iPhone app reveals plans to connect with Apple Health, potentially allowing the AI chatbot to access activity, sleep, diet, breathing, and hearing data. The integration could transform how users receive health-related guidance, though privacy concerns and accuracy questions remain unresolved.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang lobbies Trump, kills AI chip export bill targeting China sales

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with President Donald Trump and congressional leaders in Washington, successfully lobbying against the GAIN AI Act that would have forced chipmakers to prioritize domestic buyers over China. The proposal was removed from the National Defense Authorization Act shortly after the meetings, marking a significant policy win for the AI chip giant despite ongoing geopolitical tensions.

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AWS unveils AI Factories to deploy full-stack systems inside customer data centers

AWS introduced AI Factories at its re:Invent conference, bringing complete AI infrastructure directly into customer facilities. The service deploys AWS-managed racks with Trainium3 accelerators or Nvidia Blackwell GPUs alongside Nova Forge for custom model training. This shift addresses data sovereignty and regulatory requirements while AWS also announced multi-cloud partnerships with Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

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03 Dec 2025

OpenAI Acquires Neptune to Enhance AI Model Training Workflows and Research Capabilities

OpenAI has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Neptune, a Poland-based startup that provides tools for analyzing AI model training progress. The stock transaction, reportedly valued under $400 million, will integrate Neptune's experiment tracking and monitoring platform into OpenAI's training infrastructure. Neptune, used by over 60,000 AI researchers, will wind down external services by March 4, 2025.

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OpenAI trains AI models to confess when they lie, cheat, or hallucinate in new safety experiment

OpenAI is testing a novel approach to AI safety by training models to produce 'confessions'—secondary outputs where they admit to misbehavior like hallucination or rule-breaking. The experimental technique rewards models solely for honesty, not performance, and has reduced undetected failures to 4.4% in controlled tests. While promising, researchers caution that confessions don't prevent bad behavior—they only flag it after the fact.

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Steve Bannon and conservatives push Trump to block Big Tech's AI copyright defense strategy

A coalition of conservative groups led by Steve Bannon has urged the Trump administration to reject Big Tech's attempts to use copyrighted materials freely for AI training. The letter warns that weakening copyright protections would help China, harm American workers, and undermine the $2 trillion copyright-driven economy supporting 11 million jobs.

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Google Workspace Studio launches to help businesses create AI agents without coding experience

Google has launched Workspace Studio, a no-code platform that enables Business and Enterprise users to create, manage, and share AI agents powered by Gemini 3. The tool integrates with Gmail, Drive, and third-party apps like Salesforce and Jira, allowing employees to automate repetitive tasks using simple natural language prompts. Over 20 million tasks have already been automated in the past month.

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Google Drive upgrades with Gemini AI insights, but only for paid subscribers

Google Drive is rolling out a new AI-powered feature called Insights from Gemini that automatically summarizes folder contents for quick navigation. The upgrade replaces the previous nudges system with proactive intelligent summaries, but access is limited to Google Workspace subscribers and Gemini Plus or Pro users.

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