This Week’s News

  1. European banks plan to cut 200000 jobs by 2030 due to AI. [Link]

  2. The government of India has ordered Elon Musk’s X platform to correct illegal content shown to Indian users on its platform by its AI Grok. [Link]

  3. Time Magazine recognizes “The AI Architects” as their person of the year for 2025 rather than a single individual. [Link]

  4. Italy’s government AI watchdog bars Meta from legal terms forbidding rivals from using its service. [Link]

  5. A new deep learning AI model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell. [Link]

  6. MIT offers a new certificate program to teach Naval officers skills for the AI age. [Link]

  7. Environmentalists worry about the impact of AI data centers on the environment. [Link]

  8. The British NHS uses AI to forecast demand allowing for better planning and allocation of resources. [Link]

  9. Disney corporation and OpenAI have reached a licensing deal to bring Disney characters to Sora. [Link]

  10. Mt Sinai hospital unveils its new AI model V2P which identifies cancer causing disease pathogens. [Link]

  11. The country of Portugal revises its laws to protect ethical cyberhackers. [Link]

  12. OpenAI officially released its latest version of its frontier model, GPT 5.2 on December 11, 2025. [Link]

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