Google rolls out Gemini 3 Deep Think to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app, after saying in November it needed "extra time for safety evaluations" (Abner Li/9to5Google)

A Polymarket trader, known as AlphaRaccoon, has reportedly earned over $1 million in just 24 hours by making highly accurate bets on Google's anticipated 2025 Year in Search rankings, raising questions about the integrity of the betting platform.

OpenAI is facing intensified competition from Google, particularly with the rapid rise of Google's Gemini 3, which has gained 200 million users in just three months. In response, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared a 'code red' for ChatGPT, emphasizing the urgent need for improvements to maintain its market position.

Google AI has launched an updated 'Deep Think' mode for Gemini Ultra subscribers within the Gemini app, enhancing user experience and interaction capabilities. This rollout follows a previous delay for safety evaluations, indicating a careful approach to AI deployment.

Google’s AI image generator, Nano Banana Pro, has been criticized for producing racialized visuals that depict white women helping Black children in Africa when prompted about humanitarian aid. This has raised concerns about the perpetuation of 'white saviour' narratives in AI-generated content.

Fluidstack, an AI cloud provider assisting Google in expanding access to its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), is reportedly in discussions to secure over $700 million in funding, led by Situational Awareness. This financing could significantly enhance Fluidstack's valuation and operational capabilities.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Kiro powers, a new system designed to enhance AI coding assistants by providing them with specialized expertise in specific tools and workflows, announced during the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. This innovation addresses a key limitation in current AI coding tools, which typically overload the AI with unnecessary information by loading all capabilities at once.

The Nevada desert, historically known for its gold rush, is now experiencing a significant expansion in technology with the development of vast datacenters, particularly at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, which is larger than Denver. This area hosts major tech companies like Google and Microsoft, marking a shift towards digital infrastructure in the region.

A research team from China and Hong Kong has introduced a new memory architecture called General Agentic Memory (GAM) aimed at addressing the issue of 'context rot' in AI models, which leads to the loss of information during lengthy interactions. This dual-agent system separates memory functions to enhance information retention and retrieval, potentially improving the performance of AI assistants in complex tasks.