The 10 most important AI stories of December 17, 2025, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
Claude Code creator Boris Cherny said that he looked for engineers with "cool weekend projects." Anthropic is also looking for "generalists," he said.
Deal could push AI start-up's valuation above $500bn and involve it using the cloud giant's chips
Chip startup Mythic Inc. has raised $125 million in a new funding round, money that will help support its attempt to challenge Nvidia Corp. in the lucrative market for artificial intelligence processors.
Google is making Gemini 3 Flash the default model in the Gemini app and oAI model for Search
Amazon.com Inc. is reorganizing teams working on artificial intelligence projects, putting a top leader from the company's cloud division in charge of a new unit.
Cloud-computing companies including Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. have committed to spend a combined $500 billion on data center leases in the coming years, an astronomical sum that underscores the bet the industry is making on artificial intelligence.
Shares of Chinese chipmaker MetaX Integrated Circuits Shanghai soared nearly 700% after raising nearly $600 million in its initial public offering.
Meta has released SAM Audio, a prompt driven audio separation model that targets a common editing bottleneck, isolating one sound from a real world mix without building a custom model per sound class. Meta released 3 main sizes, sam-audio-small, sam-audio-base, and sam-audio-large. The model is available to download and to try in the Segment Anything […]The postMeta AI Releases SAM Audio: A State-of-the-Art Unified Model that Uses Intuitive and Multimodal Prompts for Audio Separationappeared fir...
Alphabet's robotaxi venture plans to expand to dozens of cities, including London and New York
Skana Robotics built a decision-making algorithm that helps unmanned vessels react and adapt to data from other vessels.
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