Amazon has unveiled a new AI-powered capability for Fire TV that lets viewers jump directly to a particular movie moment simply by describing it to the voice assistant Alexa+. Users can say things like “Jump to the scene in Mamma Mia where Sophie sings ‘Honey Honey’” or “Take me to the card scene in Love…

California regulators have proposed new rules at the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) that would allow self-driving trucks to test—and eventually operate—on public highways, potentially ending a long-standing prohibition on heavy autonomous vehicles. The draft regulations include a phased permitting process similar to that for robotaxis: companies would first be allowed to test with…

Meta has signed several commercial AI-data licensing deals with major news publishers — including CNN, Fox News, USA Today, Le Monde and others — to power its Meta AI chatbot with real-time, diverse, and verified news content. The deals mark a strategic return to paying for editorial content after Meta previously scaled back its news…

Waymo, the autonomous-vehicle subsidiary of Alphabet, said on December 5, 2025 that it will voluntarily file a software recall with federal regulators after its self-driving robotaxis failed multiple times to properly stop for school buses — including at least 19 incidents documented this school year in Austin, Texas, where vehicles illegally passed stopped buses with…

New data from Sensor Tower indicates that ChatGPT’s user-growth has markedly decelerated: between August and November 2025, its global monthly active users rose only about 6–6.5%, reaching roughly 810 million. Meanwhile, Google Gemini saw a roughly 30% increase in monthly active users over the same period. Although ChatGPT still holds a majority of downloads and…

The Chicago Tribune has filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against AI-powered search engine Perplexity, accusing the startup of scraping and republishing its articles — often verbatim or in close paraphrase — through Perplexity’s retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system and Comet browser, which reportedly bypasses the newspaper’s paywall. The complaint argues that by delivering Tribune content…

Former Neuralink co-founder and now-CEO of Science Corp., Max Hodak, is pushing far beyond the brain-computer interface work that defined his early career. Science Corp. has already acquired and refined a retinal-implant technology — dubbed Prima — which, in clinical trials, enabled about 80 percent of blind patients to read again letter by letter. But…

Meta has acquired Limitless — the AI-wearable startup formerly known as Rewind — integrating Limitless’s conversation-recording pendant technology into its broader hardware plan. According to TechCrunch, Limitless will cease selling its pendant and discontinue its Rewind desktop software, while continuing to support existing users for a year at no extra cost. The deal folds Limitless’s…

Reports show that on Meta Platforms’ networks (like Facebook and Instagram), fake e-commerce storefronts powered by AI-generated images are proliferating — convincing users that they’re buying from real, local or boutique retailers only to deliver nothing or cheap knock-offs. A recent campaign highlighted by consumer watchdog Which? revealed hundreds of scams advertised as British brands;…

A report by The Information — later summarized by The Verge — indicates that Microsoft quietly lowered its growth expectations for some of its AI-driven enterprise products, like Foundry, after many sales teams failed to hit the previous ambitious quotas. While some Azure teams were initially expected to grow AI product sales by up to…

Android is rolling out new in-call scam protection in the United States. When users open a supported financial app — such as a banking or payment app — while on a call with an unsaved number and sharing their screen, Android will display a warning and force a 30-second pause before proceeding. The alert also…

The recently upgraded Grokipedia — the AI-powered encyclopedia launched by Elon Musk’s firm xAI — has opened its doors to user-suggested edits, but reviewers and early users warn the changes are a mess. As of version 0.2, anyone can flag text and propose alternatives, but all edits are reviewed and applied solely by the AI…

OpenAI has internally declared a “code red” alert for its flagship AI chatbot, ChatGPT — a signal that the once-dominant service is now under serious pressure as rivals like Google assert ground. CEO Sam Altman reportedly urged staff to drop other projects (like advertising plans or new AI agents) and redirect all resources toward improving…

Micron Technology has announced it will retire the consumer-facing Crucial brand — famous among PC builders for affordable RAM and SSDs — by February 2026. The move reflects the company’s pivot to prioritize high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and other advanced memory products for AI data centers, where demand is booming. The shutdown is already causing ripples…

AWS has rolled out a new generation of AI — dubbed “frontier agents” — aimed squarely at changing how software gets built, secured, and maintained. The trio of first-generation agents includes Kiro Autonomous Agent for coding and bug-triage, AWS Security Agent for integrated security reviews and on-demand penetration testing, and AWS DevOps Agent for mapping…