The arrival of the Waymo helps clarify the challenge that lies ahead for Rivian. A few hours earlier, Scaringe was onstage in front of an audience of hundreds of investors, reporters, and influencers gathered for the company's announcement of a huge, expensive, and undeniably risky bet on autonomy and AI. The goal, he said, is for Rivian to design its own AI chips that can help power higher levels of autonomy, eventually leading to Level 4 - no human supervision required within certain limits.
In a recent interview, the former consultant at McKinsey and Innosight, a boutique firm cofounded by Clayton Christensen and Mark Johnson in 2000 and acquired by Huron in 2017, revealed the prevailing mood among the next generation of business leaders isn't just excitement-it is fear. "One of the things that really surprises me consistently is how scared our students are of using it," Anthony said.
Every December, roadmaps get locked, budgets get approved, and board decks are polished until everything looks precise and under control. Underneath, many CTOs and VPs are still working with partial visibility. They have a feel for their teams, but not a reliable view of how work moves through the system, how AI is really changing delivery, or where time and money actually go.
Writing about the terms of Microsoft's initial $1 billion investment in OpenAI, Lanchester writes: To ensure that investors didn't make an exploitative amount of money from the arrangement, returns were capped at a hundred times the initial investment. Microsoft stood to make a paltry $100 billion. Also, the deal would end if and when OpenAI developed Artificial General Intelligence, on the basis that existing forms of money would no longer have any value.
A new report finds that investment in the worldwide data center market reached $61bn this year, setting a new record atop the wave of the artificial intelligence boom. The analysis by S&P Global, first reported by CNBC, documented what the market intelligence firm called a global construction frenzy that shows no signs of slowing, to build out the massive real estate, hardware, and energy requirements driven by insatiable demand from AI companies.
We are now in the era of AI-first results, in which answers are synthesized and it's not always apparent from where. Language models do work in mysterious ways and that's left businesses, from the most tech-savvy Silicon Valley startups to family enterprises, scratching their heads. How can they stay visible in a reality where it seems impossible to crack the code and position oneself ahead of the pack? SerpApi helps developers see what data AI search tools use and build on top of it.
Focusing on AI literacy and blending human expertise with emerging technologies allows organizations to develop more impactful training initiatives. As this eBook emphasizes, it's not about machines taking over jobs, but equipping employees with the know-how they need to understand how AI tools work, what their limitations are, and how they can be used ethically within the context of their roles. For example, using AI to help create compliance branching scenarios and micro-assessments to reduce workplace risks and put judgment and reasoning skills into practice.
The flap of a butterfly's wings in South America can famously lead to a tornado in the Caribbean. The so-called butterfly effect-or "sensitive dependence on initial conditions," as it is more technically known-is of profound relevance for organizations seeking to deploy AI solutions. As systems become more and more interconnected by AI capabilities that sit across and reach into an increasing number of critical functions, the risk of cascade failures-localized glitches that ripple outward into organization-wide disruptions-grows substantially.
To that end, Kodiak has developed the Kodiak Driver, a virtual driver that combines advanced AI-powered software with modular and vehicle-agnostic hardware to further address customers' needs. Kodiak Driver incorporates technology that allows a human to provide remote assistance to a vehicle in certain low-speed and clearly defined scenarios that benefit from human involvement. Verizon connectivity allows Kodiak's driverless vehicles to communicate with Assisted Autonomy drivers and send mission-critical communication between vehicles and command centres, with low latency over long distances in remote environments.
With the rapid advances in cloud and artificial intelligence, the strategic role of technology in business is fundamentally shifting from being merely a business enabler to becoming the core transformation agent for growth-and, increasingly, survival. Yet as organizations adopt or expand their enterprise cloud platforms to stay competitive and solve new business problems, they face critical challenges: how to understand the scope of the financial, skills, and labor investments they need;
Nothing has captured the imagination of investors quite like humanoid robots, though, as they've poured untold billions into the sector amid hype that bots shaped like humans stand to impact almost every part of society - particularly by replacing jobs everywhere from domestic labor to the factory floor.
"We spend an enormous, enormous amount of time really assessing the entrepreneur and how resilient they will be able to be in a moment where things are just rapidly changing," Achadjian said.
The Well‑Architected Framework, long used by architects to benchmark cloud workloads against pillars such as operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability, now incorporates AI-specific guidance across these pillars. The expanded lenses reflect AWS's recognition of the increasing complexity and societal impact of AI workloads, particularly those powered by generative models.
"Going to a client and purely proposing an army of consultants doesn't really work anymore," Gert De Geyter, a former AI lead at Deloitte US, told Business Insider. Instead of the "pure traditional consultant," firms are now looking for a blend of "generalists and technical experts," said De Geyter, who left the firm in July to join AI startup Teragonia.
Bill.com (NYSE:BILL) provides cloud-based financial automation for SMBs, processing approximately $89 billion in quarterly payment volume. The company recently launched BILL AI Agents to enable touchless B2B transactions and serves nearly 500,000 businesses through partnerships with NetSuite, Paychex, and major accounting software providers. Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) dominates small business software through QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Credit Karma. With $19.43 billion in trailing twelve-month revenue, Intuit operates at massive scale and maintains a 21.2% profit margin.
In the last weeks of 2025, as I write this prediction, my social media feeds are awash with a new set of pronouncements about the death of photographic truth. As a historian of photography, I'm familiar with obituaries of this sort, which tend to circulate in popular media at moments when new photographic or image-editing technologies arrive on the scene that force us to reevaluate photography's capacity to represent reality accurately.
A research team based in China used the Claude 2.0 large language model (LLM), created by Anthropic, an AI company in San Francisco, California, to generate peer-review reports and other types of documentation for 20 published cancer-biology papers from the journal eLife. The journal's publisher makes papers freely available online as 'reviewed preprints', and publishes them alongside their referee reports and the original unedited manuscripts. The authors fed the original versions into Claude and prompted it to generate referee reports.
Critical workloads from the security company are migrating to Google's cloud service, and customers will have access to broad protection for their AI deployments. The combination should provide end-to-end security, "from code to cloud" as Palo Alto Networks describes it. Customers can protect their AI workloads and data on Google Cloud with both Prisma AIRS and built-in security options from the hyperscalers.
From data entry to document management, the software applies AI to every layer of your case to save countless billable hours. Now, with its new DraftAI feature, Filevine transforms your creation of legal documents, too. A user can use natural language instructions to draft, edit or modify any kind of document without leaving the security of the Filevine system, said John Rizner, Product Manager at Filevine. During a recent demonstration, Rizner showed us how.
Update December 19: Following controversy over future AI features, Mozilla promises that Firefox will allow all new features to be disabled with a single button. Fierce criticism arose after Mozilla's brand-new CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo explained his vision for the future of the Firefox browser. Jake Archibald, Web Developer Relations Lead at Mozilla, confirms that this "kill switch" was already circulating internally under that name.
Since launching Shorts, we've been listening closely to your feedback on how to improve the viewing experience. We've heard that you often use 'Dislike' and 'Not interested' interchangeably on Shorts, or aren't sure what the differences are. To address this, and to better match with how people typically interact with short-form video feeds today, we're experimenting with options where 'Dislike' and 'Not Interested' are merged into one 'thumbs down' icon behind the three dot menu.
Meanwhile, small teams are shipping products that would have required 100-person companies two years ago. The gap between the AGI debaters and the builders (those who are developing AGI systems) isn't philosophical-it's economic. While everyone waits for perfect AI, builders are dominating markets with today's "broken" tools, those that are functioning, albeit with some quirks, that will be worked out as the technology evolves. They aren't betting on future breakthroughs, they're betting on momentum.
