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Tech industry grapples with Artificial Intelligence growth, regulation, and infrastructure costs

21 Dec 2025

A Techmeme snapshot highlights how Artificial Intelligence is reshaping data center investment, state regulation, chip supply, and model oversight while exposing new security and labor risks.

ai policy, infrastructure, labor, semiconductors, surveillance

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Yann LeCun world model startup challenges OpenAI dominance

21 Dec 2025

Yann LeCun’s new world model venture, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, is raising massive early funding to pursue a physics-grounded alternative to large language models, directly challenging OpenAI’s text-centric strategy and market position.

artificial intelligence research, open source, openai, world models

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Samsung SOCAMM2 LPDDR module targets next generation artificial intelligence data centers

21 Dec 2025

Samsung has introduced SOCAMM2, an LPDDR based server memory module with a modular, detachable design, aimed at improving bandwidth, power efficiency, and integration in artificial intelligence data centers. The company is already supplying customer samples as demand rises for low power memory tailored to continuous artificial intelligence workloads.

artificial intelligence, data-centers, hardware, memory

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Samsung quietly posts exynos 2600 details with major cpu and artificial intelligence upgrades

21 Dec 2025

Samsung has quietly published full specifications for its exynos 2600 mobile chip, confirming a new cpu cluster, upgraded xclipse 960 gpu, and a dedicated artificial intelligence engine. The 2 nm design also brings faster memory, storage, camera, and display support while introducing new security and video features.

artificial intelligence, mobile processors, samsung, semiconductors

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China faces looming electric vehicle battery waste as Artificial Intelligence debates intensify

20 Dec 2025

China’s early electric vehicle boom is now colliding with a wave of aging batteries that its recycling system is struggling to absorb, while prominent Artificial Intelligence doomers remain steadfast in warning about existential risks despite market skepticism and shifting tech narratives.

artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, environment, tech policy

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Mitsubishi UFJ Bank deploys private artificial intelligence to secure generative artificial intelligence usage

20 Dec 2025

Mitsubishi UFJ Bank is using Private AI’s anonymization technology on its OCEAN platform to unlock generative artificial intelligence while maintaining strict financial-grade data protection. The deployment aims to safely tap unstructured data across emails, call recordings, internal documents, and chat logs without exposing personal information.

artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data privacy, fintech

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Adobe and Runway team up on advanced artificial intelligence video tools for creators

20 Dec 2025

Adobe has signed a multi-year partnership with Runway to bring Runway’s latest generative video models, including Gen-4.5, into Adobe Firefly and its professional creative applications, aiming to define new artificial intelligence powered video workflows for creators and brands.

adobe, artificial intelligence, creative tools, video production

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FTC clears $5 billion Nvidia and Intel semiconductor partnership

20 Dec 2025

The federal trade commission has approved a $5 billion investment and chip partnership between Nvidia and Intel, easing immediate antitrust concerns around their joint push in artificial intelligence and data center semiconductors.

antitrust, artificial intelligence, federal trade commission, semiconductors

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Top data stories of 2025

20 Dec 2025

Lexology Pro highlights the most significant data and privacy developments of 2025, from a controversial EU digital omnibus initiative to landmark rulings on Artificial Intelligence and data transfers.

artificial intelligence, copyright infringement, data protection and privacy, enforcement

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Developers debate large language model coding in complex production codebases

20 Dec 2025

Hacker News users shared detailed experiences using large language models inside messy, established codebases, from fully agent-driven workflows to strict bans on generated code. The discussion highlights productivity gains, testing strategies, and persistent limits around context, integration testing, and trust.

developer tools, large language models, productivity, software engineering

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OpenAI fundraising ambitions, new agentic coding model, and Anthropic agent skills standard

20 Dec 2025

OpenAI is pushing ahead on a massive new fundraising round alongside the launch of its GPT-5.2-Codex agentic coding model, while Anthropic’s Agent Skills format is becoming an open standard across major developer tools.

developer tools, frontier models, funding, openai

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SK hynix secures Intel data center certification for 256 GB DDR5 RDIMM

20 Dec 2025

SK hynix has become the first company to complete Intel Data Center Certified testing for its 32 Gb die-based 256 GB DDR5 RDIMM on the Intel Xeon 6 platform, positioning its high-capacity memory for next-generation Artificial Intelligence workloads.

artificial intelligence, data-centers, hardware, memory