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Artificial intelligence consortium outlines key risks and trends for UK financial services

19 Dec 2025

The Bank of England’s artificial intelligence consortium used its second quarterly meeting to examine concentration risk, evolving edge cases, explainability and artificial intelligence accelerated contagion in UK financial services, alongside emerging technologies such as agentic systems and small language models.

artificial intelligence, bank of england, financial stability, regulation

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Stratechery 2025 year in review focuses on artificial intelligence, big tech, and american industry

19 Dec 2025

Ben Thompson’s 2025 Stratechery year in review spotlights artificial intelligence’s dominance across big tech, american manufacturing worries, and a wide slate of interviews with leading executives and founders.

apple, artificial intelligence, big tech, geopolitics

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Nvidia faces stalled antitrust scrutiny amid global artificial intelligence infrastructure race

19 Dec 2025

Governments are probing Nvidia’s market power in artificial intelligence chips and software even as they deepen reliance on the company to build national computing infrastructure, potentially weakening antitrust enforcement.

antitrust, artificial intelligence, competition, nvidia

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European Commission opens consultations on EU Artificial Intelligence Act copyright rules and regulatory sandboxes

19 Dec 2025

The European Commission has launched parallel consultations on how the EU Artificial Intelligence Act should handle copyright reservations for text and data mining and on the detailed rules for national Artificial Intelligence regulatory sandboxes.

artificial intelligence, european union, policy and legislation

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PaTH Attention boosts large language model positional reasoning

19 Dec 2025

Researchers at MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson Artificial Intelligence Lab have introduced PaTH Attention, a new positional encoding method that makes transformers more context-aware and better at tracking state over long sequences. The technique adapts position information based on token content and can be combined with forgetting mechanisms to improve long-context reasoning and efficiency.

artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing

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Windows 11 adds consent checks for artificial intelligence agents accessing personal files

19 Dec 2025

Microsoft is introducing a consent framework in Windows 11 that requires artificial intelligence agents to request explicit permission before accessing key personal folders, with controls applied individually to each assistant. Users will be able to decide how and when agents can reach files or system features, or block them entirely.

artificial intelligence, microsoft, privacy, windows 11

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Rapidus debuts new artificial intelligence design tools for advanced chip manufacturing

19 Dec 2025

Rapidus has introduced a new set of artificial intelligence driven design tools under its rebranded Rapidus AI-Agentic Design Solution, aimed at accelerating chip development for its 2 nm manufacturing process. The suite centers on automating register-transfer level design generation and early power, performance, and area prediction.

artificial intelligence, eda tools, semiconductors

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Rapidus develops glass panel-level packaging for high-performance artificial intelligence chips

19 Dec 2025

Japanese foundry Rapidus has built a glass-based panel-level packaging prototype aimed at high-performance artificial intelligence hardware and plans to push it toward mass production by 2028, positioning itself as a potential rival to TSMC.

artificial intelligence hardware, packaging, semiconductors

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China reportedly tests domestically built euv lithography prototype

19 Dec 2025

China has reportedly built and begun testing a domestically developed euv lithography prototype assembled from second-hand components and reverse-engineered designs. Huawei is leading a broader effort to create a fully domestic artificial intelligence semiconductor supply chain spanning chip design to advanced manufacturing tools.

artificial intelligence, china, manufacturing, semiconductors

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OpenUSD, Omniverse and Halos connect simulation and standards for safer robotaxis and physical artificial intelligence

18 Dec 2025

Nvidia is tying OpenUSD, Omniverse simulation tools and the Halos inspection framework into a shared pipeline that aims to make robotaxis and other physical artificial intelligence systems safer to develop, validate and deploy at scale.

autonomous vehicles, nvidia, robotics, simulation

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Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi pursues metal organic frameworks to make water from air

18 Dec 2025

Chemist Omar Yaghi, whose childhood in water-scarce Jordan shaped his ambitions, is using metal organic frameworks to pull drinkable water from the atmosphere in even the driest places without relying on conventional energy-hungry desalination.

climate technology, energy, materials science, water scarcity

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Adobe advances Firefly from Artificial Intelligence demos to production video tools

18 Dec 2025

Adobe is updating Firefly with finer control over Artificial Intelligence video edits, integrated upscaling, partner models, and a browser-based editor, aiming to turn generative experiments into reliable production workflows.

adobe, creative tools, generative artificial intelligence, video production