The 10 most important AI stories of December 4, 2025, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
Social media company considers cutting unit's budget by as much as 30%, with layoffs potentially occurring early next year as Meta shifts focus from metaverse to AI.
Replit will expand usage of Google Cloud services, add more of Google's models onto its platform, and support AI coding use cases for enterprise customers.
Cambricon Technologies Corp. plans to more than triple its production of AI chips in 2026, aiming to wrest market share from Huawei Technologies Co. in China and fill a void left by Nvidia Corp.'s forced exit.
Alphabet Inc. investors are growing increasingly confident that the company's semiconductors could represent a significant driver of future revenue for Google's parent, potentially worth $900 billion.
Nearly all leading artificial intelligence developers are focused on building AI models that mimic the way humans reason, but new research shows these cutting-edge systems can be far more energy intensive, adding to concerns about AI's strain on power grids.
AI research lab Anthropic inked a $200 million deal with Snowflake to bring its AI models to Snowflake's 12,600 customers.
The European Commission is launching an antitrust investigation into Meta's move to ban other AI companies from using WhatsApp's business tools to offer their own AI chatbots to users.
Yann LeCun, the artificial intelligence pioneer who is leaving Meta Platforms Inc. at the end of the year, said Meta will not financially back his new AI company and hinted it could be based in Paris.
7AI, which makes agents that analyze and triage info like cybersecurity alerts, raised a $130M Series A at a ~$700M valuation, taking its total funding to $166M. The agentic AI company closes bumper early-stage round as investors pour funds into AI market.
A US federal judge rules that OpenAI must produce 20 million anonymized chat logs from ChatGPT users in its high-stakes copyright dispute with The New York Times and other news outlets.
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