India proposes groundbreaking mandatory royalty system forcing AI giants like OpenAI and Google to pay creators for using copyrighted content in training models, marking one of the world's most aggressive regulatory approaches as tech industry groups strongly oppose the intervention.
Google launches Preferred Sources feature globally, letting users customize news feeds from favorite outlets while piloting AI-powered partnerships with major publishers like The Guardian and Washington Post to create article overviews and audio briefings.
Google launches AI Plus plan in India at ₹199 monthly for six months then ₹399, featuring Gemini 3 Pro, image editing, video generation, and 200GB storage as tech giants battle for India's massive market through telecom partnerships and competitive pricing against ChatGPT.
Geothermal startup Fervo Energy secures $462 million led by B Capital and Google to complete its massive 500-megawatt Cape Station plant in Utah, targeting 2026 to power Google's data centers while revolutionizing the industry by cutting well drilling time in half.
Amazon announces massive $35 billion investment in India by 2030, promising to create 3.8 million jobs, boost exports to $80 billion, and provide AI education to 4 million students while supporting 15 million small businesses through AI-driven digitization initiatives.
Google launches fully managed MCP servers that enable AI agents to seamlessly connect to Maps, BigQuery, and other cloud services without complex setup, using open-source protocols and existing security infrastructure at no additional cost to enterprise customers.
Adobe revolutionizes creative workflows by integrating Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat directly into ChatGPT, enabling users to edit images, modify PDFs, and create animations through simple voice commands across desktop, web, and mobile platforms.
McDonald's pulls its AI-generated Christmas commercial in the Netherlands after widespread public backlash over grotesque characters and poor visual quality, highlighting consumer rejection of artificial intelligence in advertising despite the production company's defense of their seven-week creative process.
India launches urgent $1.25 billion AI mission securing 19,000 GPUs to build six large-scale models by 2025, selecting Sarvam AI for a 70-billion-parameter model optimized for the country's 22 official languages after DeepSeek's breakthrough sparks global AI competition.
Pentagon receives orders to establish an Artificial Intelligence Futures Steering Committee by April 2026, tasked with developing policies for advanced military AI systems including artificial general intelligence while monitoring adversary capabilities and reporting findings to Congress by early 2027.