President Donald Trump signed an executive order on 11th December 2025 that seeks to limit the ability of states to regulate artificial intelligence whilst attempting to thwart some existing state laws. The order aims to sustain and enhance the United States' global AI dominance through a minimally burdensome national
On 11th December 2025, global energy technology company SLB signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Shell to develop digital and AI solutions that drive measurable performance and efficiency gains across upstream operations. The collaboration aims to develop agentic AI-powered solutions that will accelerate and amplify the capabilities of technical experts
The NAACP, the prominent U.S. civil rights organisation, unveiled a blueprint aimed at preventing AI from deepening racial inequities in healthcare, calling for bias audits and equity-first standards as hospitals, technology firms, and regulators adopt AI tools. The 75-page report, Building a Healthier Future: Designing AI for Health Equity,
Oracle shares closed down nearly 11% on 11th December 2025, after the company announced revenue that fell short of Wall Street estimates, wiping nearly 70 billion dollars off the company's market value in a matter of hours. Its revenue came in at 16.06 billion dollars, compared with
On 11th December 2025, Google released a reimagined version of its research agent, Gemini Deep Research, based on its foundation model, Gemini 3 Pro. For the first time, developers can embed Google's Deep Research tool into their own apps, whilst the agent is available through a new application
YouTube is expanding its likeness detection tool, first introduced in October, to millions of creators in the YouTube Partner Programme as AI-manipulated content becomes more prevalent. The tool uses creators' biometrics to help remove AI-generated videos that exploit their likeness, but experts have warned that it also allows Google
Approximately three in ten US teenagers use AI chatbots every day, with 16% engaging several times daily or almost constantly, according to a Pew Research Centre survey of 1,458 teens aged 13 to 17 conducted from 25 September to 9 October 2025. Overall, 64% of teens report using AI
Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous vehicle subsidiary, announced a voluntary software recall on 5th December 2025 after its robotaxis illegally passed stopped school buses and were involved in other safety incidents. The recall affects the entire fleet. Between September and November 2025, Waymo vehicles improperly navigated around school buses on
Google has integrated SynthID detection directly into the Gemini app, enabling users to verify whether images were generated or edited by Google AI. SynthID was introduced in 2023 – and since then 20 billion AI-generated pieces of content have been watermarked using the technology – but the technology detecting watermarks was previously
Italian defence company Leonardo unveiled on 27 November 2025 an AI-powered integrated defence system called Michelangelo Dome, designed to protect critical infrastructure and urban areas amid rising geopolitical tensions. The company targets full operational capability by the end of the decade. Leonardo's shares rose approximately 77% since January
AI chatbots can influence voters in major elections more effectively than conventional campaigning and advertising, according to a study published on December 4th, 2025, in Nature. The authors tested AI's conversational capabilities in the context of three real-word elections: the 2024 American presidential election, the 2025 Polish presidential
A team at OpenAI has devised an approach that gets their AI systems to produce confessions—self-generated explanations where the model reflects on its actions and admits to any questionable conduct. Understanding misleading behaviours in large language models – such as hallucination, dishonesty or manipulation – has become one of the most
