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Thomson Reuters shares surged 12% after announcing its AI-powered legal assistant CoCounsel has reached one million users across 107 countries. The milestone marks a shift from experimentation to production and eases investor fears about AI disruption. CEO Steve Hasker emphasized the company's fiduciary-grade AI strategy, built on 175 years of authoritative content and validated by domain experts.
A new global report reveals that 61% of organizations now identify AI as their primary data security risk, as AI agents gain broad access to enterprise systems with fewer controls than human workers. The research exposes a troubling gap: companies are granting AI tools insider-level privileges while 47% of sensitive cloud data remains unencrypted and nearly two-thirds have lost track of their data entirely.
SurrealDB launched version 3.0 of its multimodel database alongside a $23 million Series A extension, bringing total funding to $44 million. The company aims to solve a critical challenge for AI agents: eliminating the complexity of running multiple databases for structured data, vectors, and graph relationships by consolidating everything into a single Rust-native engine with transactional consistency.
Micron has begun mass production of the world's first PCIe 6.0 SSDs, the 9650 series, delivering sequential read speeds up to 28GB/s—double that of PCIe 5.0. These enterprise-grade SSDs target AI data centers and hyperscalers running AI inference workloads, with capacities ranging from 7.68TB to 30.72TB. Samsung is also preparing PCIe 6.0 drives for later in 2026, signaling a storage performance shift driven entirely by AI demands.
Google has released a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, its specialized AI reasoning model designed for scientific research. The update achieves record-breaking scores on benchmarks like ARC-AGI-2 (84.6%) and Humanity's Last Exam (48.4%), outperforming OpenAI's GPT-5.2 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6. Real-world applications include identifying peer review flaws in mathematics papers and optimizing semiconductor fabrication methods.
OpenAI has upgraded its Deep Research feature in ChatGPT with the GPT-5.2 model, introducing the ability to specify research sources, a full-screen report viewer with citations, and real-time progress tracking. The upgrades to Deep Research feature aim to deliver more accurate, citation-backed insights for professionals conducting complex research tasks.
Google is testing Personal Intelligence in NotebookLM, enabling the AI-powered note-taking tool to learn from user conversations and adapt responses. Unlike Gemini's version, NotebookLM Personal Intelligence appears limited to analyzing chat history within the app rather than pulling data from other Google apps. The feature may allow users to set editable personas at both global and per-notebook levels.
Reddit revealed plans to merge traditional and AI search during its Q4 earnings call, highlighting AI-powered search as a future revenue driver. Weekly active users for search grew 30% to 80 million, while Reddit Answers surged from 1 million to 15 million users throughout 2025.
AI bots now represent one in every 31 website visits, a dramatic jump from one in 200 at the start of 2025, according to new data from TollBit and Akamai. The surge is driven by retrieval augmented generation tools like ChatGPT rather than training scrapers, with over 13 percent of bots ignoring robots.txt protections. Publishers are seeing click-through rates plummet while human web traffic declines by 5 percent.
Academic researchers unveiled OpenScholar, an open-source AI tool that outperformed major LLMs like GPT-4o in scientific literature reviews. The system combines a language model with 45 million open-access articles to deliver accurate citations without hallucinations. Over 30,000 scientists have already tested the free tool since its debut.
Microsoft unveiled the Publisher Content Marketplace, an AI licensing hub where publishers set usage terms and AI companies license content for their models. Co-designed with Vox Media, The Associated Press, and Condé Nast, the platform addresses concerns about unpaid content usage during the AI boom while providing usage-based reporting for fair compensation.
Cloud data company Snowflake has entered a $200 million multi-year AI deal with OpenAI, bringing advanced models directly into its platform for over 12,600 customers. The partnership embeds OpenAI's capabilities into Snowflake Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence, enabling enterprises to build AI agents and run natural language queries on their data across all major cloud providers without compromising security or governance.
OpenAI unveiled Prism, a free AI workspace for scientists that integrates GPT-5.2 with LaTeX editing. Built on acquired platform Crixet, it aims to streamline drafting research papers and managing citations. The company receives 8.4 million weekly science queries on ChatGPT, but concerns about AI-generated research quality persist as studies show human-led work remains superior.
Yahoo has launched Scout, an AI-powered answer engine built on Anthropic's Claude model that prioritizes visible source links over hidden citations. The beta release marks Yahoo's return to its roots as a web guide, now enhanced with generative AI capabilities across Mail, Finance, Sports, and News. With 250 million U.S. monthly users and no search-ads empire to protect, Yahoo is positioning Scout to compete with Google's AI Mode and Perplexity.
Medical schools across the U.K. and U.S. are integrating AI patients into their curricula to train student doctors in communication and diagnosis. Students interact with lifelike virtual patients that respond in real time, display emotions, and simulate complex medical scenarios. The shift addresses faculty shortages and rising costs while offering students unlimited practice opportunities that traditional actor-based training cannot provide.
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