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OpenAI's CEO has declared a 'code red' to improve ChatGPT as Google's AI technology catches up. The company will delay other initiatives to focus on ChatGPT's speed, reliability, and personalization.

AWS re:Invent 2025 announcements include AI training chip Trainium3, Nvidia compatibility, expanded AgentCore capabilities, and new AI models. The event focuses on AI for the enterprise, with a theme of giving customers greater control to customize AI agents.

Amazon announced 'AI Factories', a product that allows corporations and governments to run AI systems in their own data centers, addressing data sovereignty concerns. This is a collaboration with Nvidia, using a combination of AWS and Nvidia technology, including Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs and Amazon's Trainium3 chip.

Google is testing a new feature that combines AI Overviews with AI Mode, allowing users to seamlessly go deeper into topics from the search results page. This move aims to simplify the search experience and provide more conversational interactions with Google's Gemini AI.

Google aims to win the AI race by making interactions hyper-personalized. The company's VP of product for Search, Robby Stein, envisions a future where AI models use connected services like Gmail to paint a detailed picture of users' likes and dislikes, providing targeted product releases and ads. This approach raises security concerns, as the more an AI system knows about a user, the bigger the risk of data breaches or sales.

A new report from BloombergNEF forecasts that data center energy demand will increase nearly 300% by 2035, driven by the growth of AI and large-scale data centers. The average new data center will draw over 100 megawatts of electricity, with some exceeding 1 gigawatt. This growth will put a strain on the electrical grid, particularly in regions like Virginia and Texas.

Google and Amazon Web Services have introduced a new tool that allows customers to connect to both cloud providers within minutes, providing a possible safety net in case of outages. The tool comes with a proactive monitoring system and coordinated maintenance to minimize service impact.

Mutual TLS (mTLS) is a security protocol that authenticates both the client and server using certificates, providing stronger security than traditional TLS. It's particularly useful in microservices architectures and zero-trust environments, preventing unauthorized access, man-in-the-middle attacks, and credential theft. However, implementing mTLS can add complexity, requiring careful planning, certificate management, and potential code modifications.

Researchers found that large language models can prioritize sentence structure over meaning, allowing attackers to bypass safety rules by using specific grammatical patterns. This vulnerability can be exploited to generate harmful responses, highlighting the need for improved AI safety measures.

Google's second Android 16 release is rolling out to Pixel phones, featuring AI-powered notifications, icon customization, and easier parental controls. The update also includes general improvements for the wider Android ecosystem, such as tab pinning in Chrome and a new feature to stop scams.

Nvidia announced new infrastructure and AI models, including Alpamayo-R1, an open reasoning vision language model for autonomous driving research. This model is based on Nvidia's Cosmos-Reason model and is available on GitHub and Hugging Face. The company also released new step-by-step guides and resources to help developers use and train Cosmos models.

Android 16 introduces AI-powered notification summaries, customizable icons, and parental controls. It also features a 'Notification organizer' to group and silence lower-priority notifications. Additionally, Google is releasing several new Android features, including 'Call Reason', 'Expressive Captions', and improved accessibility features.

AWS has launched new Nova 2 AI models, including Nova 2 Lite, Nova 2 Pro, Nova 2 Sonic, and Nova 2 Omni, along with a service called Nova Forge that allows customers to build custom AI models for $100,000 a year. The new models offer improved reasoning and generation capabilities, and the Nova Forge service enables enterprises to train AI models on their own proprietary data.

Amazon launches a new 'ultra-fast' delivery service, completing orders in 30 minutes or less in Seattle and Philadelphia, with plans to expand its delivery network

The article discusses the key cyber security lessons from 2025, including nation-state risk, human vulnerability, AI's rise, accountability, and critical infrastructure threats. It also looks ahead to 2026, predicting trends such as increased attack sophistication, critical infrastructure attacks, and the need for human oversight in AI-driven security.

Google is expanding its AI-powered notification summaries to more Android devices, allowing users to quickly view condensed versions of long texts and group chats. The feature is part of the latest Android 16 update and is currently available on Google Pixel devices. Other phone makers, such as Samsung, can now begin adding the feature to their devices. The update also includes a new notification organizer and other features like personalized home screens and expanded dark mode.

ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps increased 28% year-over-year over the Black Friday holiday shopping weekend. Amazon's share of ChatGPT referrals grew to 54%, while Walmart's share increased to 14.9%. Despite the growth, ChatGPT referrals remain a small portion of the overall referral market.

OpenAI's ChatGPT is experiencing a global outage, with users encountering errors when trying to access chats. Over 30,000 users are affected, and OpenAI has confirmed they are working on a fix.

The cybercrime ecosystem now functions like a subscription-based technology sector, with crime-as-a-service solutions allowing inexperienced attackers to rent resources and access. This includes phishing-as-a-service, Telegram bots for social engineering, infostealer logs as cloud data feeds, access brokers for network breaches, and advanced tools for low subscription fees.

Europol's Operation Olympia has shut down Cryptomixer, a cryptocurrency laundering platform, seizing €25M in Bitcoin and 12TB of data. The operation targeted the platform's infrastructure, including three Swiss servers and the cryptomixer.io domain. Cryptomixer had laundered over €1.3 billion since its launch in 2016.