Meta secretly develops 'Avocado' AI model to replace Llama while spending $14.3 billion to hire Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang as chief AI officer, abandoning open-source strategy after Llama 4's failure and implementing grueling 70-hour workweeks to compete with OpenAI and Google by 2026.
Anthropic launches Claude Code Beta for Slack, transforming the AI assistant into an autonomous coding partner that maintains codebase awareness, creates files, refactors code, runs tests, and provides progress updates directly within workplace messaging channels like a junior engineer.
Despite expecting 40% of projects to fail by 2027 due to reliability and security concerns, 93% of IT leaders plan to deploy AI agents by 2026, driven by early successes showing 30% faster problem resolution at major companies like Bayer and Siemens.
Fiddler AI launches its Agentic Observability platform on December 11, 2025, offering enterprises comprehensive monitoring, evaluation, and control capabilities for AI agent systems in production environments.
Google launches Workspace Studio, enabling users to create intelligent AI agents across Gmail, Drive, and other productivity apps using natural language commands without coding skills, with general availability rolling out to business customers in coming weeks.
Replit and Google Cloud announce expanded multi-year partnership bringing AI-powered coding capabilities to enterprise developers, with Google's Gemini and Imagen models now powering Replit's features while targeting Fortune 1000 companies through joint marketplace initiatives.
AWS launches Kiro powers, a revolutionary system that slashes AI coding assistant token costs by over 50,000 tokens by dynamically loading specialized tool expertise on-demand instead of preloading all capabilities, partnering with major companies like Stripe and Figma to eliminate costly 'context rot.'
Chinese AI companies exploit Kenya's massive youth unemployment crisis by paying students and graduates just $5.42 for grueling 12-hour shifts labeling up to 26,000 video clips daily through shadowy WhatsApp networks, sparking warnings of digital colonialism as workers operate without contracts or knowledge of their actual employers.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns that artificial intelligence will disrupt every job including his own as U.S. job postings crash 32% since ChatGPT's launch, with Gen Z tech employment cut in half while urging workers to adapt rather than avoid AI transformation.
Docker unleashes a revolutionary MCP Toolkit update that slashes AI workflow inefficiencies by 90% through dynamic tool selection, state persistence, and sandboxed execution environments, while introducing an MCP Catalog with verified servers and autonomous tool usage capabilities that dramatically reduce token consumption and eliminate context window bloat.