The 10 most important AI stories of December 18, 2025, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
OpenAI and Anthropic are looking to expand their office footprints in Dublin, a move that underscores both firms’ growing presence in Europe and the race to boost global uptake of their artificial intelligence services.
China’s robot boom sparks bubble fears, U.S. AI work use rises, Gemini 3 Flash launches, OpenAI–Amazon talks, Coursera buys Udemy, Google challenges NVIDIA.
A startup building artificial intelligence software to speed up and automate scientific research has raised $70 million in a new funding round, the latest sign of investor enthusiasm for using AI in the sciences. The financing for Edison Scientific, announced Thursday, was co-led by Spark Capital, Triatomic Capital and a US-based biotech investor that the company declined to name. Other participants included Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean and CrowdStrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch. The fund
OpenAI releases GPT-5.2-Codex, the most advanced agentic coding model for professional software engineering and defensive cybersecurity, with improvements on long-horizon work through context compaction and stronger performance on large code changes.
Anthropic said it would release its Agent Skills technology as an open standard, a strategic bet that sharing the technology will help establish Claude as the leading AI assistant platform. Microsoft, Cursor, and others already use Agent Skills.
Micron stock surged 12% as the company reported that AI memory demand has left it 'more than sold out,' with the company expecting the total addressable market for high-bandwidth memory to hit $100 billion by 2028.
Ares Management Corp. is ramping up its bet on the AI boom, spending $700 million to build a sprawling data-center complex and buy fully-leased properties in Virginia.
Michigan regulators approved a request from utility DTE Energy Co. to power a massive data center development planned by Oracle and OpenAI, marking a significant infrastructure expansion for AI compute capacity.
OpenAI has established a beachhead at many US colleges, overcoming university administrators' wariness of artificial intelligence and giving ChatGPT a headstart on becoming the go-to assistant for the next generation of workers. OpenAI has sold 700K+ ChatGPT licenses to ~35 US public universities.
Two dozen top artificial intelligence companies have signed on to join the federal government's "Genesis Mission," an effort by the Trump administration to boost the use of the emerging technology for scientific discovery and energy projects.
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