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Meta Snaps Up Asian AI Startup
Meta Makes
a Big AI Acquisition
Dec 30, 2025 9:40 PM CST

Meta Makes a Big AI Acquisition

Insiders say company paid more than $2B for Singapore-based Manus

(Newser) - Meta is buying artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the owner of Facebook and Instagram continues an aggressive push to amp up AI offerings across its platforms. The California tech giant declined to disclose financial details of the acquisition, but sources tell the Wall Street Journal that Meta closed the deal...

World Markets Have Outrun Wall Street by a Decent Margin

Performance gap is the biggest since 2009

(Newser) - The stock market has treated US investors well this year, with the benchmark S&P 500 up about 17%. But the Financial Times reports something of a surprise: World markets have done significantly better. The MSCI ex-US index, which excludes American companies from its basket of international stocks, is up...

Something Else AI Is Creating: Young Billionaires

Forbes adds more than 50 to the ranks thanks to the boom in artificial intelligence

(Newser) - Artificial intelligence didn't just dominate headlines in 2025—it quietly turned more than 50 people into billionaires, reports Forbes . An unprecedented surge of investment into AI models, infrastructure, and workplace tools reshaped the global wealth rankings, with founders of data-labeling firms, chip suppliers, cloud providers, and coding assistants joining...

'Stressful' OpenAI Job Comes With $555K Salary

Head of preparedness will deal with 'new risks of severe harm'

(Newser) - OpenAI is dangling a salary of $555,000 plus equity for the person willing to take on what may be the most nerve-wracking job in artificial intelligence. The San Francisco company behind ChatGPT is recruiting a "head of preparedness," tasked with anticipating and limiting harms from rapidly advancing...

AI Pioneer Has Advice for Young Grandson

'Work on the beautiful human being that you can become,' says Yoshua Bengio

(Newser) - If the machines end up doing most of the work, Yoshua Bengio wants his grandson ready for what they can't replace. On Steven Bartlett's Diary of a CEO podcast , the deep-learning pioneer—often grouped with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun as "godfathers of AI"—was asked...

Among Travel Influencers, an 'Uproar' Over AI

Brands are deploying digital avatars as cheaper, more controllable marketing personalities

(Newser) - Radhika posts about the tang of spicy chutneys and her lunchtime meals of saffron noodles, although she can't taste either. That's because Radhika is one of a growing number of AI-generated travel influencers quietly populating social media as tourism boards and travel firms look to cut costs, speed...

AI Is Making Life Miserable for Food Bloggers

Recipes are being taken, and site visits are declining

(Newser) - A story in the Guardian and another at Bloomberg drive home a similar point: These are trying times for the nation's food bloggers, thanks to artificial intelligence. In fact, the word "trying" might be an understatement. "For websites that depend on the advertising model, I think this...

Sanders Calls for a Halt to AI Data Center Construction

'This process is moving very, very quickly, and we need to slow it down'

(Newser) - Bernie Sanders doesn't just want to regulate artificial intelligence—he wants to hit the brakes. In a video posted Tuesday, the independent Vermont senator said he will push for a nationwide pause on building new AI data centers, the massive facilities that power systems like ChatGPT. Calling AI one...

Report: Key Backer Walks Away From $10B Oracle AI Project

Insiders say Blue Owl had multiple concerns about Michigan project to power OpenAI

(Newser) - Oracle's latest mega–data center project is moving ahead in Michigan—but without its usual financial backer. The Financial Times , citing people familiar with the talks, reports that private capital firm Blue Owl Capital, Oracle's biggest partner on US data center builds, has walked away from a planned...

McDonald's Scraps 'Creepy' AI Christmas Ad
A McDonald's Holiday Ad
Is Creeping People Out
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Dec 14, 2025 2:10 PM CST

A McDonald's Holiday Ad Is Creeping People Out

Dutch holiday spot removed after backlash over AI-generated visuals

(Newser) - McDonald's latest holiday ad tried to skewer Christmas stress, but it ended up being pulled after viewers panned it as AI junk. The 45-second spot, produced for McDonald's Netherlands, used artificial intelligence to depict a chaotic "most terrible time of the year," with rapid-fire scenes of...

20% of Today's Jobs Didn't Exist in 2000

These 2 stories dig into the strange new titles quickly emerging

(Newser) - A Wall Street Journal feature on the strange new jobs emerging in the modern world includes a remarkable stat:
  • "LinkedIn estimates 1 in 5 Americans has a job that didn't exist in 2000."

Trump Signs Order to Override State Rules on AI

States are expected to challenge it in court

(Newser) - President Trump moved Thursday to strip states of much of their power over artificial intelligence, setting up a major legal and political fight over who gets to police the fast-growing technology. In an executive order signed Thursday, Trump gave the attorney general sweeping authority to challenge and overturn state AI...

ChatGPT Now Accused of Aiding a Murder

Family sues OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging chatbot fueled man's delusions ahead of murder-suicide

(Newser) - Several lawsuits have blamed AI-driven chatbots for users' suicides. Now, one alleges ChatGPT is to blame for a woman's murder . The wrongful death lawsuit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that Stein-Erik Soelberg, a 56-year-old former tech executive with a documented history of mental illness, turned to ChatGPT...

Newsom Shares AI Clip of Trump, Aides in Handcuffs

California governor mocks ICE 'cuffing season' video amid musicians' backlash

(Newser) - Gavin Newsom just answered a White House "cuffing season" video with one of his own—this time putting President Trump in digital handcuffs. The California governor on Wednesday posted an AI-generated clip on X that shows Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller sitting...

Disney Opens Up Its Characters to AI Video

Who knows what Moana, Mufasa will get up to on OpenAI's Sora

(Newser) - Disney is taking its most public leap yet into generative AI, cutting a deal with OpenAI to open up its beloved characters to user-generated AI videos. Under the three-year agreement , Disney will allow OpenAI's Sora tool to generate short-form videos featuring Disney-owned characters, with clips to be available for...

Pentagon Launches New AI Platform
Pentagon Launches
New AI Platform
Dec 11, 2025 10:19 AM CST

Pentagon Launches New AI Platform

GenAI.mil to support analysis for 3M Pentagon employees

(Newser) - The Pentagon is hitching much of its AI future to Google's biggest brain. Defense officials say they've selected Alphabet's Gemini for Government—Google's tailored version of its flagship AI model—to power a new platform called GenAI.mil, which will be available to about 3 million...

Time Person of the Year: 'Architects of AI'

The bots will approve of the magazine's pick for 2025

(Newser) - The "Architects of AI" were named Time magazine's Person of the Year on Thursday. The magazine cited 2025 as the year when the potential of artificial intelligence "roared into view," with no turning back, per the AP . "For delivering the age of thinking machines, for...

Trump Moves to Override State AI Regs With One Federal Order

Executive order set for this week would allow DOJ to sue states over AI regulations

(Newser) - President Trump has announced he'll sign an executive order this week to establish a single federal policy on artificial intelligence, effectively overriding state-level regulations. "You can't expect a company to get 50 approvals every time they want to do something," Trump wrote on social media , referencing...

For Figure Skaters, AI Is Now Watching

OOFSkate is an AI-driven system that can catch tiny athlete errors that the human eye might not

(Newser) - American figure skater Andrew Torgashev was at an invitation-only camp organized by US Figure Skating not long ago, prepping for the Grand Prix season to work out any flaws in his performance. To the naked eye, Torgashev landed one of his more challenging moves perfectly. To the camera watching him,...

SpaceX Goal Is a Valuation Topping OpenAI's

Company considers an IPO next year

(Newser) - SpaceX is seeking a new $800 billion valuation in a secondary share sale, which would make Elon Musk's enterprise the most valuable private company in the US—overtaking OpenAI. The potential price tag is double what SpaceX was valued at for a share sale in October. Executives said the...

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