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18 Dec 2025

Samsung unveils Google Gemini-powered AI home appliances at CES 2026

Samsung is showcasing its Bespoke AI appliance lineup at CES 2026, integrating Google Gemini and Google Cloud into kitchen and living products. The upgraded AI Vision technology recognizes food items without registration, tracks wine bottles, and manages inventory automatically. New releases include enhanced refrigerators, laundry combos, air conditioners, and a Qualcomm-powered robot vacuum.

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Google and Meta team up to challenge Nvidia dominance in AI chip market with TorchTPU project

Alphabet's Google is joining forces with Meta Platforms to develop TorchTPU, making Google's TPU chips fully compatible with PyTorch. The strategic move aims to reduce the AI industry's reliance on Nvidia, which dominates the market through its CUDA ecosystem. Nvidia shares dropped 2% following the announcement as competition in AI hardware intensifies.

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT app store, opening doors for third-party developers to build AI-powered apps

OpenAI has officially launched its ChatGPT app store, now accepting app submissions from third-party developers. The App Directory features popular services like Spotify, Canva, Adobe Photoshop, and Expedia, transforming the AI chatbot into a comprehensive platform where users can integrate applications directly into conversations. With over 800 million active users, this marks a shift from ChatGPT being just a product to becoming a full-fledged platform ecosystem.

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Skana Robotics enables underwater robots to communicate securely using AI algorithms

Tel Aviv-based Skana Robotics has developed an AI-powered capability that allows underwater robots to communicate across long distances without surfacing. The breakthrough addresses a critical challenge in defense operations and infrastructure protection, where submersibles traditionally had to expose themselves by rising to the surface to transmit data.

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Adobe faces class-action lawsuit over alleged use of pirated books in AI training

Oregon author Elizabeth Lyon filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Adobe, claiming the company used pirated versions of her books and thousands of others to train its SlimLM AI model. The case centers on the Books3 dataset, which contains 191,000 copyrighted works allegedly incorporated without permission or compensation through the SlimPajama training dataset.

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Patronus AI unveils Generative Simulators to fix 63% failure rate plaguing AI agents

Patronus AI introduced Generative Simulators, a training architecture that creates adaptive simulation environments to address the 63% failure rate AI agents face on complex tasks. The technology dynamically generates new challenges and provides continuous feedback, moving away from static benchmarks that fail to predict real-world performance.

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Instacart Ends AI Pricing Tests After FTC Investigation and Public Backlash Over Price Discrepancies

Instacart has terminated its AI pricing tests following regulatory scrutiny and consumer outcry. A study found that shoppers saw different prices for the same items from the same store, with variations averaging 13% and potentially costing families an extra $1,200 annually. The Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation, and lawmakers including Sen. Chuck Schumer demanded transparency. The company will no longer allow retailers to use its Eversight technology for pricing experiments.

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Google News Audio Briefing uses AI to transform how users consume daily stories

Google News introduces Audio Briefing, an AI-powered feature that converts top stories into consumable audio content. The new Listen tab on Android delivers personalized news summaries narrated by two AI hosts, pulling from approved publishers. Users get playback controls, article markers, and background play capabilities, making news accessible during commutes and daily routines.

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Micron Technology soars as AI boom drives memory chip shortage and record earnings

Micron Technology delivered blockbuster fiscal first-quarter results, crushing Wall Street expectations with $4.78 earnings per share on $13.64 billion revenue. The memory chip maker's stock surged nearly 16% as CEO Sanjay Mehrotra forecasted continued growth through 2026, driven by an acute shortage of high-bandwidth memory chips essential for AI infrastructure. Analysts raised price targets to $300-$500, citing the memory super-cycle.

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Gemini for Home arrives on Nest devices with promise and frustration in equal measure

Google's Gemini for Home has finally rolled out to Nest Hub and Nest Mini devices, bringing features like chain commands and Google Keep integration. Early users report mixed experiences—while some capabilities like multi-step commands work well, contextual awareness and natural language understanding still struggle with basic tasks that modern AI should handle effortlessly.

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Mythic Raises $125 Million to Challenge Nvidia with 100x More Efficient AI Chips

Palo Alto-based Mythic has secured $125 million in funding to develop analog processing units that cut AI energy use by up to 100 times compared with GPUs. Led by DCVC with backing from SoftBank, Honda, and Lockheed Martin, the AI chip startup plans to deploy its compute-in-memory technology across data centers, automotive systems, robotics, and defense applications.

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17 Dec 2025

Tesla faces 30-day California sales ban over deceptive Autopilot and Full Self-Driving claims

California regulators threaten to suspend Tesla's sales license for 30 days after a judge ruled the company engaged in deceptive marketing practices with its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving terminology. Tesla has 90 days to clarify the limitations of its self-driving technology or face the suspension early next year.

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Amazon launches Alexa+ web portal to compete with ChatGPT and Google Gemini

Amazon quietly rolls out a web version of its AI-enhanced Alexa+ assistant at Alexa.com, enabling users to interact with Alexa via keyboard and mouse. The new browser interface lets users upload files for analysis, manage reminders and calendars, and continue conversations across Echo devices. Currently free during early access, it will later cost $19.99 monthly for non-Prime users.

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AI-generated code contains 1.7x more bugs and severe defects than human-authored code

A CodeRabbit study analyzing 470 open source pull requests found that AI-generated code contains significantly more defects than human-written code. AI-authored PRs averaged 10.83 issues compared to 6.45 in human PRs, with 1.4x more critical issues and heightened security vulnerabilities including XSS and password handling flaws. The findings raise questions about code quality as companies like Microsoft report 30% of their code now comes from AI tools.

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AI Security System Triggers School Lockdown After Mistaking Student's Clarinet for a Gun

An AI-powered surveillance system at Lawton Chiles Middle School in Florida flagged a student's clarinet as a weapon, triggering a full police response. The student was dressed as a military character for a themed dress-up day. Despite human review, officers rushed to the scene expecting an armed threat. The incident highlights growing concerns about AI threat-detection systems in schools, with critics calling them unproven technologies that cause undue stress while companies defend their better-safe-than-sorry approach.

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