CC connects to users' Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive and Docs to access emails, calendar events, and documents for its briefings.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-17
CC Gmail Google Calendar Google Drive Google Docs
Google launches CC, an experimental AI assistant that delivers a personalized daily “Your Day Ahead” briefing email based on users' emails, calendar, and docs
The Verge · 2025-12-17 · #51
Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-weight mixture-of-experts (MoE) model described as having 309B total and 15B active parameters and targeting reasoning, coding, and agentic use cases.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-17
Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Flash
Google unveils Gemini 3 Flash, announcing the new model for consumers and developers following the launch of Gemini 3 Pro.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-17
Google Gemini 3 Flash
Google unveils Gemini 3 Flash, which it says has Pro-grade reasoning with lower latency, outperforming 2.5 Pro “while being 3x faster at a fraction of the cost”
9to5Google · 2025-12-17 · #2
Meta plans to roll out the AgeKey age-verification technology across multiple countries in 2026.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-17
Meta AgeKey multiple countries
Meta partners with Singapore-based startup K-ID to add its AgeKey age-verification tech to Meta apps, and plans to roll it out across multiple countries in 2026
Financial Times · 2025-12-17 · #46
CC delivers a personalized 'Your Day Ahead' briefing to users' inbox every morning.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-17
CC
Google launches CC, an experimental AI assistant that delivers a personalized daily “Your Day Ahead” briefing email based on users' emails, calendar, and docs
The Verge · 2025-12-17 · #51
Google positions Gemini 3 Flash to compete with OpenAI's offerings.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-17
Google OpenAI
OpenAI adds a new images section in ChatGPT's app and website.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-17
OpenAI ChatGPT app ChatGPT website images section
OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit uploads more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images
Bloomberg · 2025-12-17 · #18
ChatGPT's growth in India was boosted by its free plans.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-17
ChatGPT free plans
Sensor Tower: ChatGPT had 73M DAUs in India as of last week, up 607% YoY and more than double the US, boosted by its free plans, far above Gemini's 17M DAUs
Reuters · 2025-12-17 · #39
ChatGPT's India DAUs (73M) far exceeded Gemini's 17M DAUs.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-17
ChatGPT Gemini Gemini
Sensor Tower: ChatGPT had 73M DAUs in India as of last week, up 607% YoY and more than double the US, boosted by its free plans, far above Gemini's 17M DAUs
Reuters · 2025-12-17 · #39
Gemini 3 Flash is based on the Gemini 3 model released the previous month.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-17
Gemini 3 Flash Gemini 3
ChatGPT had 73M daily active users in India as of last week, up 607% year-over-year.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-17
ChatGPT India
Sensor Tower: ChatGPT had 73M DAUs in India as of last week, up 607% YoY and more than double the US, boosted by its free plans, far above Gemini's 17M DAUs
Reuters · 2025-12-17 · #39
OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to edit uploaded images more precisely.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-17
OpenAI ChatGPT Images
OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit uploads more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images
Bloomberg · 2025-12-17 · #18
CC is an experimental AI agent developed and released by Google Labs.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-17
CC Google Labs
Google launches CC, an experimental AI assistant that delivers a personalized daily “Your Day Ahead” briefing email based on users' emails, calendar, and docs
The Verge · 2025-12-17 · #51
Mythic develops analog processing units to perform AI computations within memory (compute-in-memory).
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-17
Mythic analog processing units in-memory AI computing
AI chip startup Mythic, which develops “analog processing units” to perform AI computations within memory, raised $125M led by DCVC; its CEO is a Nvidia veteran
Bloomberg · 2025-12-17 · #37
Gemini 3 Flash scored 33.7% without tool use versus Gemini 3 Pro's 37.5% on Humanity's Last Exam.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-17
Gemini 3 Flash Gemini 3 Pro Humanity's Last Exam
Ford is targeting about 20 GWh per year of battery storage production beginning in 2027.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-16
Ford 20 GWh/year 2027
Ford plans to repurpose its Kentucky factory manufacturing capacity to launch a battery storage business for data centers, amid its shift from making large EVs
TechCrunch · 2025-12-16 · #32
Ford is pivoting away from making large EVs toward hybrids and energy storage solutions.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-16
Ford large EVs hybrids energy storage
Ford plans to repurpose its Kentucky factory manufacturing capacity to launch a battery storage business for data centers, amid its shift from making large EVs
TechCrunch · 2025-12-16 · #32
Ford plans to repurpose Kentucky manufacturing capacity to launch a battery storage business supplying data centers and the electric grid.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-16
Ford battery storage data centers electric grid
Ford plans to repurpose its Kentucky factory manufacturing capacity to launch a battery storage business for data centers, amid its shift from making large EVs
TechCrunch · 2025-12-16 · #32
SpaceX is uniquely positioned to try building or operating orbital solar data centers.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-16
SpaceX orbital solar data centers
Orbital solar data centers' cost-per-watt of compute is $51.10/W, far above $15.85/W for terrestrial sites; SpaceX is uniquely positioned to try orbital
Andrew McCalip · 2025-12-16 · #10
PayPal intends to offer savings accounts through the proposed PayPal Bank.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-16
PayPal savings accounts
PayPal says it filed US applications to establish PayPal Bank, to offer savings accounts and cut its reliance on third parties when loaning to small businesses
Wall Street Journal · 2025-12-16 · #31
Visa says it will allow US banks to settle transactions using Circle's USDC stablecoin over Solana, representing the US' first full deployment of a stablecoin settlement.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-16
Visa US banks Circle's USDC Solana
Visa says it will allow US banks to settle transactions using Circle's USDC stablecoin over Solana, the US' first full deployment of a stablecoin settlement
Bloomberg · 2025-12-16 · #24
GM rolls out digital key support for select 2025 Cadillac and Chevrolet vehicles.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-16
GM Cadillac (select 2025 models) Chevrolet (select 2025 models)
GM adds native Apple Music to select 2025 model year Cadillac and Chevrolet vehicles, and rolls out digital key support, after phasing out CarPlay from 2023
The Verge · 2025-12-16 · #38
Sources say the front camera on the iPhone 18 Pro lineup will move to the top-left corner.
rumored 1 article 2025-12-16
Apple iPhone 18 Pro lineup front camera top-left corner
A look at Apple's iPhone roadmap; sources say the iPhone 18 Pro lineup will get under-screen Face ID, and the front camera will move to the top-left corner
The Information · 2025-12-16 · #7
GM adds a native Apple Music app to select 2025 Cadillac and Chevrolet vehicles.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-16
GM Cadillac (select 2025 models) Chevrolet (select 2025 models)
GM adds native Apple Music to select 2025 model year Cadillac and Chevrolet vehicles, and rolls out digital key support, after phasing out CarPlay from 2023
The Verge · 2025-12-16 · #38
Adobe adds a prompt-based video editor to its Firefly app that enables precise prompt-driven edits.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-16
Adobe Firefly app prompt-based video editor
Adobe adds a prompt-based video editor to its Firefly app that uses Runway's Aleph model, and adds image and video models from Black Forest Labs and others
TechCrunch · 2025-12-16 · #9
Tesla confirmed it is testing driverless robotaxis on public roads in Austin without human safety operators.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-16
Tesla Austin
Tesla's shares closed at a 2025 high on December 15, after the company confirmed it is testing its driverless vehicles in Austin without a human safety operator
CNBC · 2025-12-16 · #30
Cloudflare reports ChatGPT was the most popular generative AI service in 2025.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-16
Cloudflare ChatGPT
Cloudflare's 2025 report: global internet traffic grew 19% in 2025, ChatGPT was the most popular generative AI service, Starlink traffic grew 2.3x, and more
Cloudflare · 2025-12-16 · #37
Volkswagen plans to convert its Dresden plant into a research hub focused on AI, robotics, and chip design.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-16
Volkswagen Dresden plant research hub AI robotics chip design
VW plans to end vehicle production at its Dresden plant, which opened in 2001, and convert it into a research hub focused on AI, robotics, and chip design
New York Times · 2025-12-16 · #19
The team claims Bolmo matches or surpasses state-of-the-art subword models across many tasks and sometimes comes close to or surpasses Olmo 3, especially on character-focused benchmarks.
rumored 1 article 2025-12-16
Bolmo 7B Bolmo 1B subword models Olmo 3
Allen Institute for AI launches Bolmo 7B and Bolmo 1B, claiming they are “the first fully open byte-level language models”, built on its Olmo 3 models
VentureBeat · 2025-12-16 · #29
Bolmo uses byte-level modeling where every token receives the same compute regardless of complexity (byteified approach).
rumored 1 article 2025-12-16
Bolmo models
Allen Institute for AI launches Bolmo 7B and Bolmo 1B, claiming they are “the first fully open byte-level language models”, built on its Olmo 3 models
VentureBeat · 2025-12-16 · #29