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23 Dec 2025

Agentic AI moves enterprises from assistance to autonomous decision-making across workflows

Agentic AI marks a shift from reactive assistants to autonomous systems capable of multi-step orchestration. These AI-driven agents evaluate context, make decisions independently, and coordinate complex workflows across departments. Enterprises must now rethink how they design workflows, balance human oversight with automation, and build trust through governance frameworks.

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Splat app uses AI to transform your photos into coloring pages, signaling shift in kid-friendly tech

The team behind photo-sharing app Retro has launched Splat, a new app that uses generative AI to convert any photo into customizable coloring book pages for kids. Parents can choose from artistic styles like anime, cartoon, or manga, then print or color on-screen. The app offers an ad-free alternative to cluttered websites, charging $4.99 per week for 25 pages or $49.99 annually for 500 pages.

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AI Tool Predicts Underfeeding Risk in ICU Patients on Ventilators, Enabling Early Intervention

Researchers at Mount Sinai developed NutriSighT, an AI tool that predicts which critically ill ICU patients on ventilators face underfeeding risk during their first week of care. The study, published in Nature Communications, found that 41-53% of patients were underfed by day three, with the system updating predictions every four hours to help clinicians intervene earlier.

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Salesforce AI gains 6,000 customers while quietly pulling back on large language models

Salesforce's Agentforce added 6,000 enterprise customers in one quarter, reaching 18,500 total users and $540 million in annual recurring revenue. Yet executives now admit confidence in AI has dropped, with the company scaling back its use of large language models after facing reliability issues and laying off 4,000 support staff.

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Yann LeCun vs Demis Hassabis: Public Clash Over General Intelligence Reopens AGI Debate

Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis engaged in a heated public disagreement over whether general intelligence exists. LeCun argues human intelligence is highly specialized, while Hassabis defends it as genuinely general. The debate carries significant implications for artificial general intelligence development across the AI industry.

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Anthropic releases Bloom, an open-source tool to test AI models for bias and dangerous behaviors

Anthropic unveiled Bloom, an open-source agentic framework that automates the testing of AI behavior in frontier models. The tool evaluates problematic traits like sycophancy, self-preservation, and bias by generating custom scenarios and analyzing responses. Benchmark results across 16 models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and DeepSeek reveal alignment challenges that could shape AI safety standards.

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John Carreyrou Sues Six AI Companies Over Unauthorized Use of Copyrighted Books for Training

New York Times reporter John Carreyrou and five other authors filed a copyright lawsuit against Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity, accusing them of training AI models on pirated books. Unlike previous cases, the authors rejected class action settlements, arguing they undervalue intellectual property rights and allow AI companies to resolve claims at bargain-basement rates.

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OpenAI admits AI browser security against prompt injection attacks may never be fully solved

OpenAI acknowledges that ChatGPT Atlas and other AI browsers face a persistent security threat that might never be completely eliminated. The company revealed that prompt injection attacks—malicious instructions hidden in web pages or emails—represent a long-term challenge, even as it deploys automated AI attackers using reinforcement learning to identify vulnerabilities before hackers exploit them in the wild.

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22 Dec 2025

Bank of America CEO says AI economic impact is accelerating as US growth forecast rises to 2.4%

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan told Bloomberg Television that AI is having an increasingly strong marginal impact on the US economy. The bank forecasts 2.4% GDP growth for 2026, up from 2% in 2025, with AI investments playing a bigger role. Despite concerns about an AI bubble, Moynihan sees limited economic risk due to the sector's narrow composition.

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Google upgrades Gemini for Home cameras with smarter face and pet recognition

Google is rolling out significant AI model improvements for Gemini for Home-enabled cameras from Nest and other compatible devices. The updates enhance Familiar Face detection by filtering out low-quality images, improve animal identification to better distinguish between cats and dogs, and provide more detailed descriptions in Home Brief when faces aren't fully visible.

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OpenAI launches Your Year with ChatGPT, a Spotify Wrapped-style recap for AI chatbot users

OpenAI has rolled out its first year-end recap feature called Your Year with ChatGPT, offering users a personalized review of their interactions with the AI chatbot throughout 2024. The Spotify Wrapped-style experience includes conversation themes, usage statistics, user archetypes, AI-generated poetry, and custom images, available now to eligible users in select countries.

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StubHub launches ChatGPT app that transforms how fans find tickets for concerts and sports

StubHub has integrated with ChatGPT to create a conversational ticket discovery experience. Fans can now search for concerts, sporting events, and theater tickets using natural language prompts instead of traditional filters. The AI integration remembers preferences throughout the conversation and displays real-time inventory and pricing, fundamentally changing the ticket buying experience.

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Satya Nadella Steps Up as AI Product Overseer Amid Copilot Performance Issues

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has openly criticized Copilot's integration with email platforms, calling it 'mostly unusable' and 'not smart enough.' He's now holding weekly meetings with 100 top engineers and stepping back from other duties to focus entirely on fixing Microsoft AI products. The move comes as Google Gemini outperforms Copilot in key areas, raising concerns about whether AI revenue will justify massive investments.

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Michael Burry warns Nvidia's power-hungry AI chips could hand China the edge in global AI race

Michael Burry, famed for predicting the 2008 crisis, warns that Nvidia's energy-intensive AI chips could disadvantage the US against China in the global AI race. He points to China's superior energy generation capacity and rapid infrastructure expansion as key advantages, while criticizing America's constrained power grid and calling for a shift to more efficient AI-tuned ASICs.

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Alphabet buys Intersect for $4.75 billion to solve AI data centers' power crunch

Google's parent company Alphabet announced a $4.75 billion acquisition of Intersect, a clean energy developer and data center company, to bypass energy grid bottlenecks that slow AI expansion. The deal lets Alphabet build power generation alongside data centers, avoiding lengthy grid connection delays that have stalled the industry's AI ambitions.

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