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Italy Orders Meta to Suspend WhatsApp Policy Blocking Third-party AI Chatbots

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 24, 2025

Key Highlights: Europe is one of the markets across the globe where tech giants find themselves under heavy scrutiny from the European Commission. Meta, this time, has found itself in a spot of bother after introducing a WhatsApp policy that blocks third-party AI providers. Italy’s antitrust regulator asks Meta to suspend its WhatsApp policy that blocks third-party AI providers Earlier this month, the European Commission launched a separate investigation into this matter. At the time, the regulator announced that the probe will cover the entire EEA, except one country, Italy. That’s because Italy’s competition watchdog, theItalian Competition Authority (AGCM), launched […]

Waymo could soon integrate Gemini into its robotaxis for smarter ride

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 24, 2025

Key Highlights: Google has been making massive strides to turn Gemini into a useful AI assistant that not only helps us with summarizing emails, generating images, and much more. Thanks to the growing list of features now associated with Gemini, Waymo appears to be exploring a new frontier for its robotaxis. Formerly the Google self-driving car project, Waymo is now looking to integrate Gemini AI chatbot as an in-car assistant. In a blog post, tech blogger and app researcher Jane Manchun Wong mentioned that while examining Waymo’s mobile app code, she uncovered the complete system prompt for its unreleased Gemini […]

Google Fully Rolls Out Customizable Video Overviews in NotebookLM

Google reportedly working on new ‘Lecture’ mode for NotebookLM

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 24, 2025

Key Highlights: If you use NotebookLM, this might be the news you wanted to hear for a long time now. NotebookLM is unarguably one of the best AI tools to exist at this point, but Google isn’t done with pushing even more upgrades. The company is reportedly working on another notable upgrade related to long-form audio learning behind the scenes. NotebookLM’s Lecture mode focuses on long-form explanations The news comes via Testing Catalog, which reported that Google is working on a new “Lecture” format for Audio Overviews that can provide AI-generated audio of up to 30 minutes long. To catch […]

OpenAI Launches “Your Year with ChatGPT”: Here’s How to Check Yours

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 23, 2025

Key Highlights: As 2025 is coming to an end, more and more online platforms have released their specific year-in-review. Here I’m talking about Spotify Wrapped, Google’s Year in Search, Snapchat Recap, and more. OpenAI, meanwhile, is an AI company, but it isn’t shying away from joining the bandwagon and has released its own version called “Your Year with ChatGPT.” ChatGPT users can get personalized year in review, but it’s limited to select regions now As the name suggests, ChatGPT users can have a personalized look back at how they used the chatbot over the past year. The new feature is […]

OpenAI Rolls Out Security Update for ChatGPT Atlas to Block Prompt Injection Attacks

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 23, 2025

Key Highlights: It’s not hidden anymore that AI browsers are slowly making their way into the market. Earlier this year, AI companies like Perplexity and OpenAI launched Comet AI browser and ChatGPT Atlas, respectively. The idea behind AI browser is quite fascinating but is it reliable enough to make users transition to these options for everyday web browsing is still a big question. Here’s how OpenAI is blocking prompt injection attacks in ChatGPT Atlas That’s especially true when the browser market is alone dominated by Google Chrome, which is already making strides by adding AI features. But, for AI-powered browsers […]

UAE Leaders Meet Elon Musk in Abu Dhabi to Discuss AI and Technology

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 23, 2025

Key Highlights: Countries in the Middle East are increasingly working to bolster plans for future innovations in advanced technology, AI, and other areas. One such example is the UAE. The country is partnering with some of the top tech giants from the U.S., like Microsoft and OpenAI, to make it more efficient in the AI sector. More recently, Microsoft announced $15.2 billion investment in the UAE to expand its AI footprint in the country. That’s not all; the company is also aiming to build trust and make people aware of AI and turn the UAE into an AI-ready nation. Speaking […]

AMD Eyes Major China Breakthrough as Alibaba Weighs MI308 AI Chip Order

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 22, 2025

2025 has anything but quiet for the AI and semiconductor industry. While AI giants are making progress in their respective expertise, major semiconductor companies NVIDIA and AMD have been in the spotlight for backing such companies with their best AI chips. Alibaba reportedly looking to buy AMD’s MI308 AI chip Now, AMD has entered the scene after securing export license for the MI308, and agreeing to pay a 15% fee to the U.S. government on approved sales to Chinese customers. For those unaware, the MI308 AI chip is a trimmed down version of AMD’s premium offering. However, the good news […]

NVIDIA NIM on AWS Supercharges AI Inference

NVIDIA reportedly plans to export H200 AI chips to China by mid-February 2026

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 22, 2025

Key Highlights: After demand from China soared high, followed by some leniency in the H200 chip export rule by the Trump administration, NVIDIA has once again found itself in a position where it has to adjust its AI chip strategy. However, the approval from the U.S. government isn’t straight-forward. The Trump administration has set a condition of 25% fee on each sale. After Trump eases China export rules, NVIDIA plans to ram-up production of H200 AI chips Last week, reports came in that NVIDIA reportedly has told Chinese customers that it was mulling over the idea of ramping up the […]

Microsoft CEO reportedly overseeing Copilot development personally

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 22, 2025

Key Highlights: Ever since AI picked up the hype, Microsoft has been one of the frontrunners in the race, alongside some of the big names, like OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more. At this point, the company has been pushing AI so much that Windows users have started feeling annoyed with everything Microsoft has to announce about Copilot. Last month, Windows chief Pavan Davuluri took to X and shared a post mentioning that Windows is evolving into an agentic OS. That very post didn’t sit well with already-frustrated Windows users, who called out the company under Davuluri’s post about forcing users […]

TikTok U.S. Sale Finalized, But Ownership Deal Triggers Fresh Controversy

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | December 19, 2025

Key Highlights The long-awaited change in TikTok’s ownership in the U.S. is now officially taking place. The deal, which has been announced by TikTok CEO Shou Chew, creates a new company, the TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, which will be in charge of content moderation, data governance, and the U.S. business starting January 22, 2026. This deal marks the end of the app’s chaotic political past for a while, at least. The app was frequently threatened with a total ban due to various issues such as Chinese ownership, data privacy, and national security. President Donald Trump signed an executive order […]

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