• Nvidia in talks to acquire AI21 Labs for $2-3B…. Read more 🔗

• Meta acquired autonomous agent startup Manus for approximately $4 billion to accelerate AI innovation… Read more 🔗

• Polymarket indicate a 41% chance of Perplexity, 36% of Anthropic, and 29% of OpenAI being acquired by the end of 2026… Read more 🔗

• Alphabet is acquiring “Intersect” for $4.75 billion to support energy demands for AI, aiming to secure over 10 gigawatts of power… Read more 🔗

• Brookfield is launching a cloud service called Radiant to lease AI chips, supported by a new $10 billion AI fund… Read more 🔗

• Z AI is filing for a Hong Kong IPO to raise over half a billion dollars… Read more 🔗

• Axiom Math raised $64M to build an “AI mathematician” that solves generations old math problems with provable, step-by-step reasoning… Read more 🔗

• ServiceNow acquires ‘Armis’ for $7.75B to feed real-time security and device data into its AI platform, enabling more automated, proactive cybersecurity decisions across the enterprise… Read more 🔗

• SoftBank has completed its $41 billion investment in OpenAI, with the final tranche of $22–22.5 billion delivered… Read more

• AI security startups raised $6.3B in 2025, nearly 3× YoY, as enterprises rush to mitigate growing risks from AI systems and LLM adoption… Read more 🔗

• Google’s Stitch shipped a big update, turning it from a UI generator into a full design-to-fullstack-app pipeline, it’s now powered by Gemini 3 Pro and can take a screenshot of any app, redesign it, generate working HTML, stitch multiple screens into clickable, animated user flows, and export everything in one click straight into Cursor, Lovable, making it a live fullstack app… Read more 🔗

• xAI's Grok 4.1 topped LMArena in November and ranking high for personality and creativity... Read more 🔗

• Qwen Code v0.6.0 has been released, introducing an experimental Skills feature and support for Gemini and Anthropic providers… Read more

• Amazon's Alexa+ will integrate with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp in 2026, expanding its AI capabilities… Read more

• Alibaba has released the new Qwen-Image-Edit model, a major leap in image editing that finally keeps people and identities intact, even in complex group scenes… Read more 🔗

• TwelveLabs has released Marengo 3.0, its latest video analysis model… Read more 🔗

• Waymo is integrating Google Gemini into its autonomous vehicles to provide a human-like voice assistant… Read more 🔗

• AgiBot launched Qingtian Rent, a platform for leasing humanoid robots for events and business meetings, offering flexible robot rental options… Read more 🔗

• LangGrinch - A security vulnerability has been identified in LangChain Core… Read more 🔗

• xAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta are poaching AI engineers from one another for huge amounts of compensation… Read more 🔗

• Google is piloting a commercial partnership program with news publishers to explore how AI can help drive more engaged audiences.… Read more 🔗

• Gemini now includes features for verifying AI-generated videos, enhancing content authenticity…. Read more 🔗

• xAI has launched Grok Business and Grok Enterprise, offering its conversational assistant with enterprise-grade security, privacy, and admin controls… Read more 🔗

• Fal has released FLUX.2 Turbo, an image generation tool claimed to be 6x faster and 10x cheaper, generating 1024x1024 images in approximately 6.6 seconds… Read more 🔗

• Meta announced Self-play SWE-RL, a novel approach where an AI model generates and fixes its own coding bugs to improve software engineering capabilities… Read more 🔗

• AgentReuse introduces a way to cache and reuse AI agent plans across similar tasks, claiming up to 93% plan reuse and ~93% faster execution… Read more 🔗

Notion is working on AI-first Workspaces to enable users to build AI-powered organizations… Read more 🔗

• Anthropic's 'Claudius' AI shopkeeper experiment was upgraded with a newer model and has shown an improved ability to run its own business… Read more 🔗

• Youtube leaked report indicates that over 20% of videos recommended to new YouTube users are low-quality, AI-generated content… Read more 🔗

• Apple plans to launch a generative-AI powered Siri in 2026… Read more 🔗

• Google's Gemini has seen a significant increase in web traffic, growing its market share to 18% over 12 months, while ChatGPT's market share decreased to 68%… Read more 🔗

• A viral post on X describes a method to identify AI writing… Read more 🔗

• Andrej Karpathy posted a viral tweet named “I’ve never felt this far behind as a programmer”… Read more 🔗

• Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed an AI-powered wearable sleeve that detects early signs of frailty in older adults… Read more 🔗