AI Agents

Meta Acquires Singapore-Based Manus AI for Autonomous Agent Technology

Meta Platforms announced on December 29, 2025, the acquisition of Manus, a Singapore-headquartered AI startup specializing in general-purpose autonomous agents. The deal, valued at approximately $2-4 billion according to reports, integrates Manus's technology for executing complex multi-step tasks (e.g., research, coding, data analysis) into Meta's ecosystem while allowing Manus to operate independently from Singapore

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AI Infrastructure

Nvidia Licenses Groq's AI Inference Technology in Reported $20 Billion Deal

Nvidia announced on December 24, 2025, a non-exclusive licensing agreement for Groq's inference technology, integrating Groq's low-latency Language Processing Unit (LPU) designs into Nvidia's AI architecture.

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AI

Moore Threads Unveils New AI Chip Generation Post-Record IPO

Moore Threads Technology Co., a Beijing-based Chinese GPU designer, unveiled its latest AI chip architecture, named Huagang, on December 20, 2025, at a Beijing event

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Robotics

iRobot Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Acquired by Chinese Supplier Picea Robotics

iRobot Corporation, the pioneering U.S. robotics firm known for the Roomba vacuum cleaner, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware on December 14, 2025. Under a pre-packaged restructuring plan, the company will be acquired by its primary manufacturer and creditor, Shenzhen Picea Robotics

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AI

Yann LeCun Launches Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs

Yann LeCun, Meta's outgoing chief AI scientist and 2018 Turing Award winner, is in early-stage talks to raise €500 million for his new startup, Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs, targeting a €3 billion valuation ahead of its January 2026 launch.

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Starcloud, SpaceTech, AI

Starcloud Achieves First Orbital AI Model Training with Nvidia H100 GPU

Starcloud, a Washington-based startup formerly known as Lumen Orbit, announced on December 10, 2025, the successful training and inference of AI models aboard its Starcloud-1 satellite, launched in early November 2025. The satellite, equipped with an Nvidia H100 GPU—reportedly 100 times more powerful than any prior space-based compute—ran Google's open-source Gemma large language model for inference and trained Andrej Karpathy's NanoGPT.

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Meta, Layoffs, XR, VR, AR

Meta Implements Deep Cuts in Reality Labs Amid Shift to AI Priorities

Meta Platforms Inc. is planning significant budget reductions of up to 30% in its Reality Labs division for 2026, potentially leading to layoffs as early as January, according to reports from December 4, 2025. The move, part of annual budget planning, follows internal strategy sessions at CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Hawaii compound in November and reflects a broader reallocation of resources from metaverse initiatives to artificial intelligence (AI) development.

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AI, Chatbot, Anthropic, IPO,

Anthropic Advances IPO Preparations Amid Escalating AI Competition

Anthropic, the AI safety-focused startup behind the Claude chatbot, is gearing up for a potential initial public offering (IPO) as early as 2026, according to a Financial Times report published on December 3, 2025. The company has engaged the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, known for handling high-profile tech IPOs like those of Google and LinkedIn

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AI Technology, Chips, Hardware

AWS Unveils Trainium 3 Chip Amid Push for Cost-Efficient AI Training

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on December 2, 2025, the launch of its third-generation Trainium 3 AI accelerator chip, designed to offer faster training for large language models at reduced costs compared to competitors. The chip, part of AWS's broader strategy to challenge market leaders in AI hardware, delivers 4.4 times the computing performance of its predecessor, Trainium 2, while being 40% more energy efficient and enabling up to 50% lower training expenses for AI models.

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AI Technology, Music

Warner Music Group and Suno Announce Landmark AI Music Partnership

On November 25, 2025, Warner Music Group (WMG), a leading global music corporation listed on Nasdaq (WMG), and Suno, a prominent AI music generation platform, unveiled a strategic partnership aimed at advancing licensed AI-driven music creation.

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AI Technology

U.S. Department of Energy Unveils Genesis Mission to Harness AI for Scientific Advancement

US. Dept of Energy will be leading the Genesis Mission initiative to harness AI to advance the development of energy production capabilities, advancement of material science, and defence innovations, and other broad scientific endevours

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AI Technology

Foxconn's AI Expansion Plans and OpenAI Partnership

Foxconn is strategically expanding its US manufacturing presence with a multibillion-dollar investment and a key partnership with OpenAI to innovate AI data center architecture, supporting large-scale infrastructure projects and reducing reliance on traditional consumer electronics assembly.

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AI Technology

Google gets closer to AGI with Gemini 3

Gemini 3 represents a major step toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) by combining state-of-the-art reasoning, multimodal understanding, and agentic abilities, enabling users to 'bring any idea to life' through learning, building, and planning tasks at scale.

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Technology

Jeff Bezos Returns to Operational Role with AI Startup Project Prometheus

On November 17, 2025, The New York Times reported that Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and former CEO, is taking on his first formal executive position since stepping down from Amazon in 2021 by serving as co-CEO of a new artificial intelligence startup named Project Prometheus.

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Space Technology

Blue Origin's New Glenn NG-2 Mission

Blue Origin conducted the second flight of its New Glenn rocket on November 13, 2025, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This marked the vehicle's first mission carrying customer payloads, including NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) spacecraft—two identical probes named Blue and Gold, built by Rocket Lab with instruments from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Technology

Google DeepMind's AI Model Advances Hurricane Forecasting

Google DeepMind's AI hurricane model represents a breakthrough in weather forecasting by delivering faster, more accurate predictions than traditional methods, as demonstrated in the 2025 season, enabling bolder and timely warnings that could mitigate disaster impacts.

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Technology

Google Proposes Adtech Policy Changes to Address EU Antitrust Concerns

Alphabet's Google has submitted a proposal to the European Commission to modify its online advertising technology (adtech) practices, aiming to resolve antitrust issues without divesting any assets. This follows a 2.95 billion euro ($3.4 billion) fine in September for favoring its own services, particularly its ad exchange AdX, which disadvantaged competitors, advertisers, and publishers.

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Technology

McKinsey Report: The State of AI in 2025 Highlights Agents, Innovation, and Transformation Challenges

McKinsey's annual survey on AI adoption, based on responses from over 1,500 global executives, reveals that AI usage has expanded, with 88% of organizations employing it in at least one function, up from 78% the previous year. However, scaling remains limited, as nearly two-thirds have not extended AI beyond experimentation or pilots, and only about one-third have achieved organization-wide implementation.

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Technology

Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Plans to Depart for New Startup

Yann LeCun, Meta's chief artificial intelligence scientist and a recipient of the 2018 Turing Award for advancements in deep neural networks, is reportedly planning to leave the company in the coming months to establish his own startup. He is in early discussions to raise funding for the venture, which is expected to focus on continuing his research into world models.

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Technology

Snap and Perplexity Announce AI Integration Partnership

Snap Inc. and Perplexity revealed a partnership on November 5, 2025, to integrate Perplexity’s AI-powered answer engine into Snapchat, starting early 2026. The feature will appear in Snapchat’s Chat interface, enabling users to ask questions and receive conversational, source-cited answers from verifiable data.

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