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Bill Gates warns that high AI valuations may not hold as competition intensifies, even as he calls artificial intelligence a transformative and long-term global technology.
Empromptu raised $2M to let nontechnical business users create production-ready AI apps, combining agentic automation with governance and integration for regulated and complex industries.
Riyadh Air, in collaboration with IBM, has launched as the world’s first AI-native airline, using AI-powered operations to transform employee and guest experiences while optimizing operational efficiency.
IBM acquires Confluent in $11 B deal, combining real-time data streaming and AI infrastructure to support the next generation of cloud and enterprise applications.
Nvidia partner Foxconn reports a 26% revenue increase in November as demand for next-generation AI infrastructure rises.
Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright violations, including scraping paywalled content and using it in AI search engine systems, amid broader legal battles over AI training data.
Meta may reduce Metaverse funding by as much as 30% amid weak consumer demand and rising AI investment priorities, while regulatory pressure in Europe continues to grow.
Nvidia’s newest AI server accelerates mixture-of-experts models by 10x, leveraging 72 chips and high-speed interconnects, maintaining an edge over AMD and competitors.
Anthropic engages Wilson Sonsini to ready for a potential IPO in 2026, while weighing a new funding round that could value the AI company above $300 billion.
Security startup Verkada reaches a $5.8 billion valuation after a $100 million funding round led by CapitalG to expand AI-driven security solutions.
Senator Warner highlights risks of AI job displacement for recent graduates, calling for industry and government collaboration to track and manage AI’s workforce impact.
French AI startup Mistral launched its Mistral 3 family of open-weight models, including a large multimodal frontier model and nine smaller, customizable models aimed at enterprise efficiency and accessibility.