Nvidia pours a record $23.7 billion into AI companies through 59 deals in 2025, but Wall Street analysts raise concerns about the chip giant's controversial practice of investing in the same firms that buy its processors, questioning whether this circular funding strategy artificially inflates demand for its own products.
A nonprofit warns parents against AI toys this holiday season after a chatbot teddy bear gives children inappropriate sexual advice, prompting Singapore-based FoloToy to suspend sales of its Kumma bear amid growing concerns about data privacy and safety risks from AI-embedded toys.
Paul McCartney releases a 2 minute and 45 second silent track called 'Bonus Track' for a protest album of complete silence, challenging proposed U.K. copyright laws that would allow AI companies to exploit recorded music without compensating creators.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue warns that the tech industry's 'LLM bubble' could burst next year as investors pivot from expensive universal language models to smaller, specialized AI systems that offer faster, cheaper solutions for specific tasks like banking chatbots.
TikTok launches new AI content controls allowing users to filter artificial intelligence-generated videos from their feeds while introducing invisible watermarking technology and investing $2 million in AI literacy education partnerships.
Warner Music Group settles copyright lawsuit with AI music platform Udio, clearing the path for a 2026 licensed platform featuring catalog artists like Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, and Dua Lipa, while Sony remains the sole major label still fighting the AI company in court.
Cybersecurity firm Guardio secures $80 million in funding to combat the rising threat of AI-generated malicious code, reaching $100 million in annual revenue with 500,000 paying users as artificial intelligence creates new security vulnerabilities across digital platforms.
Major AI chatbots including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Meta AI receive 'unacceptable risk' ratings for failing to detect mental health crises in teenagers, missing critical warning signs of depression, anxiety, and eating disorders while three-quarters of teens increasingly rely on these systems for emotional support and companionship.
Microsoft Thailand constructs three data centers and launches ambitious initiative to train 300,000 professionals with AI credentials by 2026, while urging the government to prioritize artificial intelligence as national policy to transform local businesses into 'frontier firms' and boost exports.
OpenAI expands Singapore operations with billion-dollar data center investments across Asia as ChatGPT explodes to 700 million weekly users globally, with Asia-Pacific leading all regions in usage while the company races to build infrastructure matching unprecedented AI demand.