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Google's Gemini more than tripled its share of generative AI web traffic to 18.2% over the past year while ChatGPT's dominance plummeted from 87.2% to 68%, according to analytics firm Similarweb.
The 19-point market share loss prompted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to declare a "Code Red," fast-tracking the December 11 release of GPT-5.2 and delaying other initiatives like advertising and AI agents.
Analysts attribute Gemini's surge to its integration across Chrome, Android, Google Workspace, and Search, placing the AI directly in users' existing workflows rather than requiring a separate app, while Alphabet stock climbed over 60% year-to-date.
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X rolled out a feature on December 24, 2025, allowing any user to AI-edit images posted by others using its Grok chatbot, sparking outrage from artists who say there is no opt-out mechanism.
The feature lets users long-press public images to prompt edits that are posted as comments, with artist protection tools like Glaze and Nightshade proving ineffective against the AI alterations.
Artists including manga creator Boichi announced plans to stop posting work or migrate to rival platform Bluesky, while Elon Musk promoted the feature amid backlash, posting "Try Grok image edit."
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- OpenAI is developing ad formats for ChatGPT that could embed sponsored content directly into AI responses or display ads in sidebars, with a planned 2026 rollout targeting its 800 million weekly users.
- The move reverses CEO Sam Altman's previous stance calling AI-powered advertising "dystopian," as the company faces mounting costs with $2.5 billion burned in early 2025 and infrastructure spending projected to exceed $17 billion in 2026.
- Internal mockups show ads appearing alongside responses with clear disclosures, while the company explores using ChatGPT's memory function for personalized targeting based on users' conversation histories.
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A surgeon in Kuwait successfully operated on a patient in Brazil, connecting two rooms across 12,035 km in near real‑time.
This achievement sets a new world record for the most significant distance between a doctor and a patient during a robotic operation.
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced he will pay for in vitro fertilization (IVF) for unmarried women aged 37 or younger who use his sperm. The 41‑year‑old billionaire, who has already fathered over 100 children, calls the offer a way to help solve the global fertility crisis.
The program is managed by Moscow's Altravita Clinic, which promotes it as a unique chance to use donor material from a famous entrepreneur. Durov is covering the full cost of the treatments, which usually run around $5,000.
What do you think?
❤️ — Marketing
🔥 — He's just... being Pavel!
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The AI robot Olaf from Frozen now greets guests at Disneyland Paris. Its smooth, realistic movements are the result of reinforcement learning and Nvidia technologies.
The robot is trained in a simulation, where it learns to accurately reproduce movements crafted by animators.
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We'll see the return of the original Captain America now revealed to have a child with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell, also back), following the time-displaced romance they sealed with a kiss at the end of Endgame.
How this shapes the plot remains unclear, but given the subtitle, it's unlikely the Rogers family's future will be a happy one.
"Avengers: Doomsday" hits theaters on December 18, 2026, followed by "Avengers: Secret Wars" on December 17, 2027.
MiniMax M2.1 was officially announced, scoring 72.5% on SWE-multilingual.
"A SOTA 10B-activated OSS coding & agent model, scoring 72.5% on SWE-multilingual and 88.6% on our newly open-sourced VIBE-bench"
"A SOTA 10B-activated OSS coding & agent model, scoring 72.5% on SWE-multilingual and 88.6% on our newly open-sourced VIBE-bench"
#AI #ChatGPT #YearInReview
ChatGPT Launches a Year-End Review Like Spotify Wrapped
OpenAI's ChatGPT is rolling out "Your Year with ChatGPT," a fun, personalized recap of your 2025 interactions, inspired by Spotify Wrapped's catchy vibes.
This lightweight feature hands out custom "awards" like "Creative Debugger" based on your chats, plus a poem and image tailored to your interests—keeping things privacy-focused with opt-in controls.
Key highlights
⦁ Available now to free, Plus, and Pro users in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand who enable chat history and memories—no teams or enterprises yet.
⦁ Access it via the app home screen, web, iOS/Android, or just ask ChatGPT directly; it's not auto-launched to respect your space.
⦁ Highlights top topics, habits, and styles without sharing data externally, making it a shareable reflection on how AI boosted your year.
⦁ Teases future expansions, especially with ChatGPT's 2026 adult content support, for even wilder personal summaries.
⦁ Perfect for tech enthusiasts: It's a clever way to visualize AI usage patterns and spark ideas for next year's prompts.
Read More: TechCrunch Article
ChatGPT Launches a Year-End Review Like Spotify Wrapped
OpenAI's ChatGPT is rolling out "Your Year with ChatGPT," a fun, personalized recap of your 2025 interactions, inspired by Spotify Wrapped's catchy vibes.
This lightweight feature hands out custom "awards" like "Creative Debugger" based on your chats, plus a poem and image tailored to your interests—keeping things privacy-focused with opt-in controls.
Key highlights
⦁ Available now to free, Plus, and Pro users in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand who enable chat history and memories—no teams or enterprises yet.
⦁ Access it via the app home screen, web, iOS/Android, or just ask ChatGPT directly; it's not auto-launched to respect your space.
⦁ Highlights top topics, habits, and styles without sharing data externally, making it a shareable reflection on how AI boosted your year.
⦁ Teases future expansions, especially with ChatGPT's 2026 adult content support, for even wilder personal summaries.
⦁ Perfect for tech enthusiasts: It's a clever way to visualize AI usage patterns and spark ideas for next year's prompts.
Read More: TechCrunch Article
TechCrunch
ChatGPT launches a year-end review like Spotify Wrapped | TechCrunch
The experience includes awards, poems, and pictures referencing your year in chat.
Manus introduced a new "Design View" flow on web and mobile to help you refine your images and ideas.
"It is an extension of the Manus agent, allowing you to commission, create, and refine visual assets as part of a single, seamless AI design workflow."
"It is an extension of the Manus agent, allowing you to commission, create, and refine visual assets as part of a single, seamless AI design workflow."
#AI #MusicTech #DataLeak
Spotify Leak Rumour: 256M Songs, But Who Has 300TB Storage?
A massive alleged scrape of Spotify's library by pirate activists has sparked buzz, but downloading 300TB of music data is a logistical nightmare for most.
Pirate group Anna’s Archive claims to have extracted metadata for 256 million tracks and 86 million audio files, totaling around 300TB, as a "preservation archive" shared via torrents.
Key highlights
⦁ The release covers 99.6% of Spotify listens, sorted by popularity, with metadata already out and audio files rolling out in stages—think playlists and extras coming soon.
⦁ Reality check: Grabbing this beast requires insane storage, bandwidth, and hardware; it's not a quick binge like your next Arijit Singh playlist.
⦁ Spotify's probing the breach, blaming third-party scraping of public data plus DRM bypass for audio access—no user accounts hit yet.
⦁ Bigger picture: This challenges streaming giants' control, but raises legal red flags for downloaders amid piracy crackdowns.
⦁ For tech fans, it's a wild reminder of data scale in music—perfect for debating open access vs. artist rights.
Read More: Siasat Daily Article
Spotify Leak Rumour: 256M Songs, But Who Has 300TB Storage?
A massive alleged scrape of Spotify's library by pirate activists has sparked buzz, but downloading 300TB of music data is a logistical nightmare for most.
Pirate group Anna’s Archive claims to have extracted metadata for 256 million tracks and 86 million audio files, totaling around 300TB, as a "preservation archive" shared via torrents.
Key highlights
⦁ The release covers 99.6% of Spotify listens, sorted by popularity, with metadata already out and audio files rolling out in stages—think playlists and extras coming soon.
⦁ Reality check: Grabbing this beast requires insane storage, bandwidth, and hardware; it's not a quick binge like your next Arijit Singh playlist.
⦁ Spotify's probing the breach, blaming third-party scraping of public data plus DRM bypass for audio access—no user accounts hit yet.
⦁ Bigger picture: This challenges streaming giants' control, but raises legal red flags for downloaders amid piracy crackdowns.
⦁ For tech fans, it's a wild reminder of data scale in music—perfect for debating open access vs. artist rights.
Read More: Siasat Daily Article
The Siasat Daily
Spotify leak rumour: 256M songs, but who has 300TB storage?
Hyderabad: If you are the kind of listener who switches from Arijit Singh to Anirudh to old Ilaiyaraaja playlists in one night, this news will feel
🧠🦠 Your gut may be shaping your mind more than you think
A new peer-reviewed study adds to the growing evidence that the gut microbiome plays a direct role in brain function, behavior, and mental health — far beyond digestion.
Researchers show that changes in gut bacteria can influence:
• 🧩 cognitive performance
• 😌 stress and anxiety levels
• 🧠 neuroinflammation and brain signaling
• 🔄 the gut–brain communication loop via immune and neural pathways
What’s especially striking is that the effects are bidirectional:
your mental state alters the microbiome, and the microbiome, in turn, alters your mental state.
This reinforces a major shift in neuroscience and medicine:
The brain is not an isolated organ — it’s deeply integrated with the immune system, metabolism, and trillions of microbes living inside us.
Implications range from mental health treatments to personalized nutrition, probiotics, and even preventive psychiatry.
📄 Source (open access):
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19490976.2025.2599562
A new peer-reviewed study adds to the growing evidence that the gut microbiome plays a direct role in brain function, behavior, and mental health — far beyond digestion.
Researchers show that changes in gut bacteria can influence:
• 🧩 cognitive performance
• 😌 stress and anxiety levels
• 🧠 neuroinflammation and brain signaling
• 🔄 the gut–brain communication loop via immune and neural pathways
What’s especially striking is that the effects are bidirectional:
your mental state alters the microbiome, and the microbiome, in turn, alters your mental state.
This reinforces a major shift in neuroscience and medicine:
The brain is not an isolated organ — it’s deeply integrated with the immune system, metabolism, and trillions of microbes living inside us.
Implications range from mental health treatments to personalized nutrition, probiotics, and even preventive psychiatry.
📄 Source (open access):
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19490976.2025.2599562
Taylor & Francis
Discovery and characterization of antitumor gut microbiota from amphibians and reptiles: Ewingella americana as a novel therapeutic…
The utilization of gut microbiota in cancer therapy has attracted considerable attention as an emerging therapeutic frontier. In this study, we systematically evaluated the antitumor effects of nin...
- After uploading an image, you can tap on it to make quick edits by sketching or adding texts (Image credit)
- SynthID can now also identify video content generated using Google AI (up to 100 MB and 90 seconds long)
In the US, UK, and Australia, about 35–39% of the population views AI negatively, according to a YouGov poll. The main fear is job loss: 66% of Britons are convinced that AI models will eliminate more jobs than they create. Notably, "AI pessimism" is most pronounced in English-speaking Western countries. On the other hand, 49% of people in Spain believe the benefits of implementing AI will outweigh the downsides.
Pew Research shows that residents of wealthier nations are much more aware of AI capabilities, yet anxiety levels remain high. For instance, half the US population is concerned about AI development—a sentiment shared by countries often considered outsiders in the "AI race," such as Italy, Australia, and Brazil.
In South Korea, only 16% express similar concerns, compared to 19% in India, 24% in Nigeria, and 30% in South Africa.
However, even in relatively wealthy nations like Sweden, Germany, and France, about a third of the population is worried about the technology's growth. The median percentage of "AI optimists" across countries is just 16%.
How do you feel about the rise of AI?
❤️ — Positive, I'm an AI optimist!
🔥 — Negative, I'm a skeptic!
🤔 — The main thing is that AI brings value...
