Amazon's $35bn investment will build on the $40bn already invested in India - establishing the company as "the largest foreign investor" in India, the company said in a statement. A key component of it will go into local cloud and AI infrastructure. Microsoft's fresh commitment follows a $3bn investment announced by the company earlier this year.
Gemini and Grok lead chatbots in growth While ChatGPT remains the dominant tool in the space with 54 million visitors on desktop, reflecting an 86% year-to-date (YTD) growth, Gemini grew at 971% YTD on desktop, with 19 million total visitors. Grok also saw high growth, with 472% YTD growth on mobile, coming in at 4 million visitors, and 286% growth on desktop, with 1 million visitors.
Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next frontier, Google is surging, and the party scene has gotten completely out of hand. Those were the through lines from this year's NeurIPS in San Diego. NeurIPS, or the "Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems," started in 1987 as a purely academic affair. It has since ballooned alongside the hype around AI into a massive industry event where labs come to recruit and investors come to find the next wave of AI startups.
It was a distinctly clever, if somewhat surprising, choice from Altman who has mostly kept his personal life out of the media spotlight. But Altman is a salesman, and a good salesman understands the optics of good television. So he talked about being a dad and being worried that his son-who wasn't crawling at six months-was developing slower than other children (spoiler: he's not). "I cannot imagine having gone through, figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT," Altman told Fallon. "People did it for a long time, no problem. So clearly it was possible, but I have relied on it so much."
The latest: Trump is now allowing Nvidia to sell its H200 chips to China, with the U.S. government getting a 25% cut from any sales. The chips are a major upgrade from the H20, the heavily downgraded model Nvidia was forced to design under previous export rules and which China largely rejected. Trump is touting the approval of the H200 as a reversal of Biden-era policy. "The Biden Administration forced our Great Companies to spend BILLIONS OF DOLLARS building "degraded" products that nobody wanted, a terrible idea that slowed Innovation, and hurt the American Worker," Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social. Yes, but: While by far the most powerful chip Nvidia has been allowed to sell in China, the H200 is still a full generation behind Nvidia's newest Blackwell chips.
AWS kicked off re:Invent 2025 with a defensive urgency that is unusual for the cloud leader, arriving in Las Vegas under pressure to prove it can still set the agenda for enterprise AI. With Microsoft and Google tightening their grip on CIOs' mindshare through integrated AI stacks and workflow-ready agent platforms, AWS CEO Matt Garman and his lieutenants rolled out new chips, models, and platform enhancements,
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (who has dubbed himself Secretary of War, though the name has not been legally changed by Congress) promised that the platform "puts the worlds [sic] most powerful frontier AI models directly into the hands of every American warrior" and will "make our fighting force more lethal than ever before." In a video, Hegseth says that "the future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled A-I."
Amazon's Nova 2 announcement at AWS re:Invent 2025 is exactly the type of AI offering we expected from AWS and, frankly, exactly what should make thoughtful architects nervous. Nova 2 is positioned as a frontier-grade model, tightly integrated with Amazon Bedrock. It's part of a growing ecosystem of "frontier agents" and the AgentCore framework unveiled at re:Invent 2025. The story is compelling: better models, better tools, and a single platform to build, deploy, and scale agentic AI.
Elon Musk and Tesla are touting the company's Optimus robot as its next revolutionary moneymaker, but after several incidents, some are questioning how autonomous it actually is. During an event titled "autonomy visualized" at a Tesla location in Miami over the weekend, one of the humanoid robots handing out water bottles fell backwards after making upward motions toward its head with both hands, according to a video posted to Reddit.
That's why this year's AI Excellence Awards 2026: Best Strategic Application of AI in Leadership Development recognizes the vendors who aren't just using AI as a feature, but as a strategic enabler of transformative leadership growth. The companies honored in this category demonstrate how AI can unlock deeper insights into leadership behaviors, personalize coaching in real time, and support leaders in building the strategic, cognitive, and interpersonal capabilities modern workplaces demand.
It's my first job interview in more than eight years. Even though it's a video interview, I'm still keen to impress. When I log on, my interviewer, whose name I didn't catch, looks relaxed and friendly. He asks carefully articulated questions, listens intently, and even asks follow ups regarding particular examples I mention. But then, strange things start happening. He takes a while to process what I'm saying, and his facial expression remains unchanged.
As Salesforce explains, AI models have a wealth of general knowledge, but often know nothing about your organization. As soon as you start using AI for specific business processes, it sometimes has to guess what certain values mean or how they should be interpreted. Some things may still be clear, such as a customer number, but what if there is an order form number, invoice number, order number, ticket number, batch number, and quotation number?
Today the foundations of truth, and trust, are systematically eroded by a hybrid hurricane: artificial intelligence sophisticated enough to mimic reality, with human minds increasingly unable to discern the difference. Beyond the challenge of technology advancing faster than regulation, this is about dangerous synchronicity. AI's explosive capabilities collide with our own cognitive deterioration. We're navigating a hybrid tipping zone, where micro (agency decay), meso (AI mainstreaming), macro (race toward AI supremacy), and meta (planetary deterioration) forces mutually accelerate each other into an unprecedented crisis of trust.
Mistral AI is betting on the added value of context awareness, which is particularly relevant in business use cases. Similar to its AI assistant, Le Chat, which can remember previous conversations with users and use that context to guide its answers, Vibe CLI features persistent history, and can also scan file structures and Git statuses to build context to inform its behavior.
The U.S. workforce is facing a pivotal challenge: A widening skills gap that threatens economic growth and innovation. While demographic trends-like declining birth rates and a shrinking pipeline of young workers-are real, the more actionable issue is the growing mismatch between the skills employers need and those available in the labor market.
One afternoon in June 2024, I stood up against the fence of a sprawling industrial facility a few miles outside of Corsicana, Texas. Over a metal gate, I watched a bright yellow excavator claw at the dirt and flatbed trucks shuttle to and fro. A hangar-like structure with a gleaming white roof stretched hundreds of meters along the opposite perimeter. The company that owned the plot, Riot Platforms, was busily constructing the world's largest bitcoin mine.
Cornell Tech faculty made a strong showing at the 2025 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), held Dec. 2-7 in San Diego, presenting 23 research papers at one of the world's premier gatherings for artificial intelligence and machine learning. NeurIPS draws thousands of scholars and industry leaders each year and is widely recognized as a leading forum for breakthroughs in AI, computational neuroscience, statistics, and large-scale modeling.
It has been noted that some individuals who engage with AI tools report symptoms of psychosis-especially delusions-resulting from their interactions with AI. 1,2 It may not only be the AI interaction, but exposure to its products, such as deep fakes, that are implicated. In fact, any AI-generated doubt concerning the bedrock or background belief system that stops a cascade of delusional thinking from starting 3 may be implicated.
Revenue grew in the mid to high teens throughout the year, supported by rising enterprise demand and accelerating AI workloads. Amazon leaned heavily into its custom silicon strategy -- Trainium and Inferentia -- providing customers with more cost-efficient options for training and inference. Meanwhile, Bedrock made it easier for companies to build generative AI applications using Amazon's own models or those of partners like Anthropic. Rather than competing for consumer-facing AI attention, AWS focused on powering the back end of AI adoption.
For nearly three years, Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, was a ChatGPT devotee. Then, late last month, he abruptly converted to Google's chatbot, Gemini. "Holy shit," he wrote on X. "I've used ChatGPT every day for 3 years. Just spent 2 hours on Gemini 3. I'm not going back. The leap is insane." When Gemini 3 was released in mid-November, it appeared to crush OpenAI's top model on a suite of evaluations shared by Google.
For decades, expertise has lived inside the minds of top creators, engineers, strategists, and designers. It has been valuable but limited, powerful but personal, and always bound by time and availability. Osyle believes that is about to change forever. With the rise of Taste and Judgment Models, Osyle is introducing a future where a person's unique way of thinking can become a scalable, deployable, and licensable asset. In other words, your expertise is now downloadable.
"The first thing you should be doing right now is running visibility reporting for your brand or organization," he said. Lamp will speak on this topic at AI Horizons Conference during the session, "AI Search Workshop: Turn GEO into ROI with an AI-First Content Strategy." The method isn't complicated, he said. It's a back-to-basics audit designed to help organizations understand when people ask AI tools about your brand how you're showing up.
Tractor Supply, the No. 1 large company in this year's Best Places to Work in IT rankings, cultivates and reinforces its innovation culture through company-wide events as well as a broad spectrum of training and education programs. Tractor Supply IT employees are encouraged to spend time in-store to get first-hand experience in what frontline team members accomplish on a daily basis. Job shadowing lets IT staffers to explore new roles they may be interested in.
Rednote is also known as Xiaohongshu, which translates to "Little Red Book." For Chinese tech workers in the Bay Area working at companies like OpenAI and Meta, Rednote has become a sort of home away from home for shopping and food recommendations. And since the launch of ChatGPT, AI-related content on Rednote has exploded. Technology-related content on the app has more than doubled in the past year, and the number of tech-related creators has more than tripled, according to Rednote.
The Pew Research Center released a study on Tuesday that shows how young people are using both social media and AI chatbots. Teen internet safety has remained a global hot topic, with Australia planning to enforce a social media ban for under-16s starting on Wednesday. The impact of social media on teen mental health has been extensively debated - some studies show how online communities can improve mental health, while other research shows the adverse effects of doomscrolling or spending too much time online.
AI will help us navigate the immense amounts of information and data created every day in the modern world, but it will also make it easier for bad actors to swamp the infosphere with disinformation. AI can enable real-time translations to spread ideas seamlessly across language barriers, but it may also make the marketplace of ideas less pluralistic by concentrating power in a few individuals.
