Scientists develop revolutionary soft robots inspired by Salmonella bacteria that power themselves using body heat and temperature differences as small as 2°C, operating battery-free for hours through molecular oscillations with potential applications in medical devices and environmental sensors.
House Homeland Security Committee summons tech CEOs including Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Google Cloud's Thomas Kurian to testify December 17 about the first documented AI-orchestrated cyberattack, where Chinese state hackers used Claude Code with minimal human involvement in a cyber-espionage campaign.
HP launches massive $1 billion AI initiative that will eliminate up to 6,000 jobs globally by 2028 through automation, while reporting mixed quarterly results with $14.6 billion revenue missing analyst expectations despite rising PC sales.
A powerful AI super PAC launches a $10 million campaign to pressure Congress into creating federal AI regulations that would override state laws, with Trump backing the effort and Republicans pushing preemption language into spending bills while targeting New York lawmakers who support local AI safety measures.
Chinese autonomous vehicle company Pony AI announces plans to triple its robotaxi fleet to over 3,000 vehicles by 2026 while reporting impressive third-quarter revenue of $25.4 million, marking a 72% surge from last year as the company expands commercial operations across four Chinese cities and eight international markets through strategic …
Elon Musk's xAI secures massive $15 billion funding round at $230 billion valuation, closing December 19th despite Musk previously denying such reports on X, as AI investment frenzy continues with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic also raising billions.
Alibaba shares surge 4.3% as cloud revenue rockets 34% to 39.8 billion yuan, with CEO Eddie Wu revealing AI demand is growing so fast the company cannot deploy servers quickly enough to meet customer needs.
Nvidia stock plunges 3% as Meta considers ditching the chip giant's GPUs for Google's tensor processing units in data centers, while Google's new Gemini 3 AI model trained entirely on its own TPUs threatens Nvidia's 90% stranglehold on the AI chip market.
Spotify prepares to raise U.S. subscription prices in early 2025, potentially generating $500 million in additional annual revenue as record labels push streaming platforms to increase fees that have lagged behind inflation compared to competitors like Netflix.
Dragoneye unveils revolutionary AI Playground that creates custom video detection models in under 5 minutes without any training data, eliminating the need for thousands of hours of video annotation and massive financial investment traditionally required for video AI development.