1. The AI industry’s biggest week: Google’s rise, RL mania, and a party boat
Source: https://www.theverge.com/column/841207/ai-neurips-2025
Summary: This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next frontier, Google is surging, and the party scene has gotten completely out of hand. Those were the through lines from this year's NeurIPS […]
2. CoreWeave CEO defends AI circular deals as ‘working together’
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/coreweave-ceo-defends-ai-circular-deals-as-working-together/
Summary: The CEO of the AI data center provider, which has Nvidia as an investor and a supplier, described the environment as a "violent change" in demand.
3. Unconventional AI confirms its massive $475M seed round
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/unconventional-ai-confirms-its-massive-475m-seed-round/
Summary: Led by Naveen Rao, the former head of AI at Databricks, the new hardware startup is valued at $4.5 billion.
4. Call of Duty won’t release Modern Warfare or Black Ops back to back anymore
Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/841290/activision-call-of-duty-modern-warefare-black-ops-back-to-back
Summary: Future Call of Duty releases will no longer include back-to-back launches of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games, Activision announced on Tuesday. The past four releases in the series have been Modern Warfare II (2022), Modern Warfare III (2023), Black Ops 6 (2024), and Black Ops 7 (2025), but moving forward, Activision wants to offer […]
5. Hinge CEO steps down to launch Overtone, an AI dating app
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/hinge-ceo-steps-down-to-launch-overtone-an-ai-dating-app/
Summary: Overtone is described as "an early-stage dating service focused on using AI and voice tools to help people connect in a more thoughtful and personal way."
6. Both sides of the aisle hate the AI moratorium
Source: https://www.theverge.com/column/841161/ai-moratorium-midterm-elections-republicans
Summary: Hello and welcome to Regulator. If you're a subscriber, you are stalwart and true, and if you're here from the internet, prove your chivalry and worth by subscribing to The Verge here. (And if you're David Sacks: we said what we said.) As of Tuesday, President Donald Trump has committed to signing some sort of […]
7. Somehow, this AI-generated McDonald’s ad about hating Christmas was a flop
Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/841220/mcdonalds-ai-generated-christmas-ad
Summary: If you're having a stressful holiday season, the answer is McDonald's - at least, that's what a now-removed AI-generated ad suggested, as reported by Futurism. Set to a song calling holiday season "the most terrible time of the year," the ad shows AI-generated people falling victim to a slew of wintery woes, including family dinners, […]
8. Google is powering a new US military AI platform
Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/841219/google-gemini-us-military-ai-platform-genai-mil
Summary: The Department of Defense is announcing its own "bespoke" AI platform, GenAI.mil, and Google Cloud's Gemini will be the first AI tool available on it, according to a press release. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (who has dubbed himself Secretary of War, though the name has not been legally changed by Congress) promised that the […]
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