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Target has deployed a generative AI-based accessory recommendation system, GRAM, which uses large language models to identify relevant product attributes and improve add-to-cart interactions by 11%.

Meta released details about its Generative Ads Model (GEM), a foundation model designed to improve ads recommendation across its platforms. GEM uses LLM-scale training, hybrid parallelism, and knowledge transfer to tackle the complexity of learning from diverse ads data.

Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market is fueled by companies taking out loans to buy its chips, with the chips themselves used as collateral. This creates a risky cycle of debt and depreciation, with Nvidia having a strong incentive to keep the neoclouds afloat. However, increasing competition from other chip makers, such as Google and AMD, may threaten Nvidia's position and create a ripple effect throughout the industry.

OpenAI says prompt injection attacks on AI browsers may never be fully solved, and the company is working to harden its Atlas AI browser against these attacks through continuous testing and patching. The company is using a proactive, rapid-response cycle and an LLM-based automated attacker to discover novel attack strategies and strengthen its defenses.

Alphabet is acquiring Intersect Power, a clean energy developer, for $4.75 billion to expand its power-generation capacity and bypass energy grid bottlenecks, particularly for its data centers that power AI models.

Lesley Cordero discusses how DevOps principles can be applied to product engineering, focusing on sociotechnical systems, platform engineering, and community-informed leadership to drive organizational sustainability and excellence.

Toad is a new, open-source CLI tool that provides a unified interface for multiple LLM agents, aiming to improve the user experience of existing tools. It supports 12 agent CLIs and uses the Agent Communication Protocol to standardize communication, allowing new tools to be added easily. Toad focuses on UX features such as fuzzy search, prompt editor, and Markdown syntax highlighting, and is designed to integrate seamlessly with shell commands.

Neptune is a conversational AI agent that handles provisioning, wiring, and configuration of cloud services for containerized apps, supporting AWS, GCP, and Azure, and integrating with AI coding assistants.

1ForAll AI is an all-in-one AI studio that handles voice, visuals, video, and book creation. It offers lifetime access for a one-time payment of $89.99, using top-tier AI models from OpenAI, Google, AWS, Azure, and others. The platform features unlimited context processing, voice cloning, Excel-to-Speech, PDF-to-Speech, and quick video generation, making it a powerful tool for content creation and workflow simplification.

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is acquiring Intersect, a data center and energy company, for $4.75 billion to expand its data center capacity and support AI infrastructure development.

Every's 2025 year in review highlights their top essays, podcasts, and tools. They featured 272 original articles, 40 unique writers, and 32 Vibe Checks. Their podcast, AI & I, had 41 interviews and 83,957 hours of listening time. They also launched several tools, including Spiral, Sparkle, and Cora, and hosted 8 camps with 5,395 attendees.

SoftBank must secure $22.5 billion in funding for OpenAI before the end of the year. The company has several options, including borrowing against its stake in Arm Holdings or using its cash reserves. OpenAI's $500 billion Stargate datacenter initiative relies on this funding, and SoftBank's CEO Masayoshi Son is personally reviewing funding over $50 million.

Hyperscale datacenter operators have nearly tripled their infrastructure spending over the past three years, driven by the AI craze. Quarterly capex has grown by 180% to $142 billion, with operational capacity increasing by 170%. The number of datacenters has reached 1,297 worldwide, with total operational capacity more than fourfold since 2018.

ChatGPT has launched a year-end review feature called 'Your Year with ChatGPT', similar to Spotify Wrapped, which provides users with a personalized review of their interactions with the chatbot, including awards and a poem about their year, available on web and mobile apps

Uber and Lyft will start testing Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis in London in 2026, joining Waymo. The companies plan to scale to hundreds of Baidu's electric RT6 SUVs after receiving local regulatory approval.

Palo Alto Networks is expanding its Google Cloud partnership to move key internal workloads onto Google Cloud's infrastructure, tightening integrations between its security tools and Google Cloud to deliver a unified security experience. The deal could save Palo Alto $114 million in cloud purchase commitments in 2027.

Zafran Security CEO Sanaz Yashar, a former spy, warns that AI is increasing the speed and efficiency of breaches, and that a major AI-related attack, similar to WannaCry, is inevitable. She also notes that AI can be used to mitigate these risks, and that her company has developed a threat-exposure management platform to help companies prepare.

Instacart is ending its AI-powered price tests after an investigation found customers were charged different prices for the same items. The company faced backlash and a probe from the FTC, leading to a decision to scrap the program and issue $60 million in refunds.

The article discusses the top 5 tech and politics trends of 2025, including the rise of AI, data centers, and the Department of Government Efficiency. It also touches on the Jeffrey Epstein saga and the impact of technology on society.

Over 115,000 WatchGuard Firebox devices are exposed online and remain unpatched against a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability actively exploited in attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-14733, affects Firebox firewalls running Fireware OS 11.x and later, and enables unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely on vulnerable devices.