Pivot 5: Today's Top AI Headlines

(0:15) Nvidia's Vera Rubin System Delivers 10x Efficiency Gains Over Blackwell (1:21) WiseTech Cuts 2,000 Jobs as AI Replaces Manual Coding Work (2:25) Medicare Uses AI to Block Fraud Before Payment and Saves Two Billion Dollars in Ten Months (3:36) Nimble Raises $47M to Structure Real Time Web Data for AI Agents (4:45) Electronic Nose Uses Machine Learning to Detect Ovarian Cancer With 97 Percent Accuracy Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Meta Commits to 6 Gigawatts of AMD Data Center Gear in Multiyear Deal (1:09) Meta Signs Up to $100 Billion Chip Deal With AMD to Power AI Ambitions (2:01) Brookfield Acquires Ori Industries and Launches Radiant to Lease AI Chips on Demand (2:53) Meta Commits Over $100 Billion to AMD in Massive AI Chip Deal (3:44) Waymo Opens Robotaxi Service in Four More US Cities Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Amazon Commits $12 Billion to Louisiana Data Centers as AI Spending Hits $200 Billion (1:09) OpenAI Signs Multiyear Deals With Accenture, BCG, Capgemini and McKinsey to Deploy Enterprise Platform (1:59) Bernalillo County Deploys AI to Handle Non-Emergency 911 Calls (2:48) AI Predicts Colorectal Cancer Risk in Ulcerative Colitis Patients by Reading Clinical Notes (3:43) Guide Labs Open Sources LLM That Traces Every Output Back to Training Data Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Odynn Raises $9.5 Million to Replace Legacy Bank Travel Portals With AI Platform (1:17) AI System Detects Colorectal Cancer in Ulcerative Colitis Patients With 99 Percent Accuracy (2:19) Vatican Launches AI Translation Service for Mass in 60 Languages at St. Peter's Basilica Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Nvidia Returns to Consumer PCs With New Integrated Processor Chips (1:08) Consulting Firms See Fastest Growth Since Pandemic as Companies Seek AI Implementation Help (2:05) Automakers Face New Chip Shortage as AI Demand Drains DRAM Supply (3:01) Qumis Raises $4.3 Million for AI That Analyzes Insurance Policy Language Like a Coverage Attorney (4:04) Humans Can No Longer Reliably Detect AI Generated Faces Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) OpenAI Plans Smart Speaker With Camera and Always-On Listening for 2027 Launch (1:19) Anthropic Launches AI Code Scanner That Triggered Cybersecurity Stock Selloff (2:24) Colorado State Builds AI Platform to Give Farmers Real-Time Soil Health Recommendations (3:26) Iktos and Servier Strike €1 Billion AI Drug Discovery Deal Targeting Cancer and Neurological Disease (4:22) AI Chatbots Built Preterm Birth Prediction Models in Minutes Instead of Months Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Google Ships Gemini 3.1 Pro With Improved Reasoning and Higher Usage Caps for Paying Users (1:15) OpenAI Cuts Infrastructure Spending Target to $600 Billion by 2030 After Revenue Concerns (2:21) Collier County Florida Deploys AI Mapping System to Speed 911 Emergency Response (3:15) SpendRule Raises $2M to Automate Healthcare Procurement Audits With AI (4:12) Mount Sinai Develops AI ECG Tool to Prioritize Heart Scans for Congenital Disease Patients Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Nvidia Negotiates $30 Billion Investment in OpenAI at $730 Billion Valuation (1:20) Amazon Web Services Suffers Multiple Outages Caused by Its Own AI Tools (2:21) Trump Administration Moves to Block State Regulations on AI in Insurance (3:25) Plato Raises $14.5M to Automate Wholesale Distribution With Embedded AI (4:37) AI Detects Severe Heart Attacks With 95% Accuracy in Hospital Study Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) OpenAI Closes In on $100 Billion Raise at $850 Billion Valuation (1:13) Reliance Commits $110 Billion to Build AI Computing Infrastructure Across India (2:08) Nebraska Supreme Court Grills Attorney Over Fake Case Citations in Court Brief (3:07) Freeform Raises $67M to Scale Metal 3D Printing With Hundreds of Lasers (4:09) Germans Trust AI Health Advice Directly but Distrust Doctors Who Use It Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Nvidia Ships Blackwell Ultra GPUs to Indian Cloud Providers E2E and Yotta (1:08) Saudi Arabia Invests Three Billion Dollars in xAI Before SpaceX Merger (2:04) Federal Judge Rules AI-Generated Legal Documents Are Not Protected by Attorney-Client Privilege (3:03) Kana Raises $15M to Build Customizable AI Agents for Marketing Operations (4:02) AI Rewrites Medical Scan Reports to Match Middle School Reading Level Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Intel Spinout Articul8 Raises Half of $70M Round at $500M Valuation (1:17) Zocks Raises $45 Million Series B to Scale AI Assistant for Financial Advisers (2:20) Resolve AI Raises $125 Million Series A at Unicorn Valuation to Automate System Reliability Engineering (3:23) Google Labs Launches GenTabs to Turn Browser Tabs Into Instant Apps (4:28) Fitbit Founders Launch AI Caregiving Platform for Families Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) AMD Partners With Tata to Deploy 200 Megawatts of AI Infrastructure in India (1:10) Blackstone Leads $600 Million Investment in Indian AI Cloud Startup Neysa (2:04) Indiana Supreme Court Releases AI Guidelines for Trial Judges (3:15) Algorized Raises $13 Million to Build Wireless Sensing for Industrial Robots (4:23) AI System Maps Gene Control Networks Driving Alzheimer's Progression Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Memory Chip Shortage Threatens AI Expansion and Tech Production Across Industries Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Microsoft Builds Its Own AI Models to Reduce Dependence on OpenAI (1:17) Meta Launches Dear Algo Feature That Lets Threads Users Customize Their Feeds With Text Prompts (2:25) Former Google Executive Launches AI Startup Targeting Oil Refineries and Chemical Plants (3:30) Bretton AI Raises $75 Million Series B for Financial Crime Compliance Platform (4:32) Waymo Deploys Sixth Generation Robotaxis in San Francisco and Los Angeles Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Google Adds Direct Shopping and Ads to AI Search and Gemini (1:09) Mistral Commits $1.4 Billion to Build European AI Data Centers in Sweden (1:59) KPMG Launches AI Training Program for Corporate Tax Departments (2:57) Monaco Raises $35 Million to Challenge Salesforce With AI Sales Agents and Human Oversight (3:55) Seattle Nonprofit Writes Safety Standards for AI Mental Health Tools in South Africa Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Alphabet Raises $20 Billion in Debt to Finance AI Infrastructure Buildout (1:18) Runway Raises $315 Million at $5.3 Billion Valuation to Build Next Generation World Models (2:17) Insurance Broker Stocks Drop on New AI Application Threat (3:09) Hauler Hero Raises $16 Million Series A to Expand AI Powered Waste Management Platform (4:03) Ring Launches AI Search Feature to Help Owners Locate Missing Pets Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) OpenAI Data Shows Enterprise AI Adoption Accelerating and Widening Performance Gap (1:23) AI Chatbots Take Over Christmas Gift Shopping (2:23) OpenAI Lines Up Image-2 Models to Sharpen Visual Output in ChatGPT (3:27) OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.2 as Its Most Advanced Professional AI Model (4:26) Wall Street Questions AI Spending Spree as Flagship Stocks Slip Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) AI Layoff Fears Spike as KPMG Finds Over Half of U.S. Workers Feel Threatened (1:24) OpenAI Halts Side Projects And Goes Code Red To Defend ChatGPT Lead (2:27) Microsoft Rejects Claims of Cutting AI Sales Targets as Stock Slides (3:35) Bank of England Flags AI-Fueled Tech Bubble and Loosens Bank Capital Rules (4:45) AI Blamed for Youth Job Woes but Hiring Freeze Is the Real Drag Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Sierra Hits $100 Million ARR To Stand Out In The AI Talent War (1:16) OpenAI Adds Shopping Research to ChatGPT to Pull Holiday Shoppers Into Its Ecosystem (2:15) US Retailers Build AI-Only Websites to Catch ChatGPT and Gemini Holiday Shoppers (3:12) Anthropic Says Claude Slashes Task Time 80 Percent and Could Double US Productivity Growth (4:15) ChatGPT Turns Three as Nvidia Rockets 979% and Executives Warn of Bubble Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Luma AI Raises $900 Million at $4 Billion Valuation to Scale Video Generation (1:14) Google’s Gemini 3 Puts OpenAI on the Defensive in Consumer AI (2:20) AI Trading Bots Create Quiet Wave of Everyday Millionaires (3:18) Minecraft Turns First-Night Survival Into a Free AI Coding Lesson (4:12) Executives Use AI as Cover for Mass Layoffs Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:20) Google Moves To Own Power Supply For AI With $4.75 Billion Intersect Deal (1:12) Oracle Seeks Up To $50 Billion To Expand AI Infrastructure (2:03) CFOs Shift Up to Three Quarters of Finance Work to AI Agents (2:51) Fieldguide Raises $75 Million Series C to Power AI for Audit Firms (3:37) Cambridge AI Wearable Restores Natural Speech for Stroke Survivors Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Snowflake Secures Two Hundred Million Dollar Partnership With OpenAI To Expand Model Access (1:05) SpaceX Merges With xAI Ahead Of Potential Initial Public Offering (1:55) AI Supported Mammograms Reduce Missed Breast Cancer Cases (2:43) SentinelOne Expands AI Security Footprint Through Strategic Investment and Acquisition (3:31) DinoTracker AI Identifies Prehistoric Footprints With Expert Accuracy Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Generative AI Agents Fail 97% of Real Office Tasks in New Benchmark (1:13) Peec AI Lands $21 Million Series A To Boost Brand Visibility in ChatGPT Searches (2:08) Parents Turn To ChatGPT For Parenting And Medical Advice, Alarming Doctors (3:01) AI Wealth Boom Collides With Public Distrust (3:55) DBS CEO Says AI Already Adds Nearly $768 Million to Annual Revenue Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:20) Google Chrome Launches AI Agent That Browses and Clicks for Users (1:10) Amazon Cuts 16,000 Corporate Jobs as AI Competition Heats Up (2:06) Thomson Reuters Deploys Agentic AI Tools to 120,000 Law Students Across 200 US Schools (3:01) Decagon Raises $250 Million at $4.5 Billion Valuation for AI Customer Support (3:55) Anthropic Partners With Teach for All to Train 100,000 Teachers on Claude Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:20) Micron Commits $24 Billion to Singapore Memory Production as AI Demand Surges (1:22) Baker Hughes Doubles Data Center Equipment Target to $3 Billion on AI Power Demand (2:24) Trump Administration Plans to Draft Federal Transportation Rules Using Google Gemini (3:22) CVector Raises $5 Million to Turn Industrial Equipment Data Into Cost Savings (4:18) Essex Pharmacy Uses AI Robots to Automate Prescription Dispensing and Free Staff for Patient Care Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:18) Nvidia Overtakes Apple as TSMC's Largest Customer in 2026 (1:25) UK Companies Cut More Jobs Than They Create as AI Adoption Accelerates (2:22) General Mills Reports Over Twenty Million in AI Driven Logistics Savings (3:16) Zocks Raises $45 Million Series B to Scale AI Assistant for Financial Advisers (4:11) Google's AI Weather Model Outperforms Traditional Forecasts in Hurricane Tracking Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:18) Taiwan Commits $250 Billion to Build Chip Factories in the United States (1:05) Anthropic Hires Former Microsoft India Chief to Lead Bengaluru Office (1:51) Medical Schools Turn to AI to Draft Student Recommendation Letters (2:34) GovDash Raises $30M to Scale AI Platform for Government Contractors (3:19) Boys Town Uses AI to Eliminate Painful Hearing Aid Fittings for Children Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:19) Apple Chooses Google Gemini to Power Its Next Generation Siri (0:56) Microsoft Sentinel Adds AI Layer That Converts Security Logs Into Readable Threat Timelines (1:43) BMW Trains AI Agents to Manage Global Supply Chain Risk (2:28) Proxima Raises $80 Million Seed Round to Build AI Drug Discovery Platform (3:08) Cambridge AI Detects Leukemia Cells More Reliably Than Human Specialists Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:19) Nvidia Commits $1 Billion to Build AI Drug Discovery Lab With Eli Lilly (1:04) Societe Generale Abandons Homegrown AI Assistant for Microsoft Copilot (1:50) Malaysia Blocks Grok After xAI Fails to Stop Non-Consensual Sexualized Images (2:34) French Defense AI Startup Harmattan Reaches Unicorn Status With $200M From Dassault Aviation (3:17) Bentonville High School Students Build AI Stress Detector for Nonverbal Autistic Users Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:15) Alphabet Overtakes Apple to Become Second Most Valuable Company Behind Nvidia (0:55) Samsung Reports Record Profit as AI Server Demand Drives Memory Chip Prices Higher (1:35) JPMorgan Drops Proxy Advisory Firms and Switches to AI for Shareholder Voting (2:11) CrowdStrike Acquires Identity Startup SGNL for $740 Million to Defend Against AI-Powered Attacks (2:51) Penn and Michigan Researchers Build Fully Autonomous Robots Smaller Than a Grain of Salt Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:20) Google Overtakes OpenAI With Faster AI Model and Search Overhaul (1:08) JPMorgan Drops Proxy Advisory Firms and Switches to Internal AI Voting System (1:54) Utah Becomes First State to Allow AI to Prescribe Medications Without Physician Involvement (2:42) Intel Spinout Articul8 Raises Half of $70M Round at $500M Valuation (3:26) AI Model Predicts Over 100 Health Conditions From Single Night Sleep Study Data Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:21) Elon Musk's xAI Raises $20 Billion at $230 Billion Valuation (1:06) Data Centers Drive $23 Billion in Grid Costs as AI Demand Strains Power Supply (1:46) Air Force AI Generates Battle Plans Faster and More Accurately Than Human Military Planners (2:27) Accenture Acquires UK AI Firm Faculty to Lead Consulting Industry Transformation (3:10) Federal Judges Deploy AI to Draft Opinions and Manage Case Backlogs Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:20) Federal Reserve Official Says AI Is Slowing Hiring at Large Companies (1:12) Amazon Opens Alexa Plus to Web Browsers in Direct Challenge to ChatGPT (1:56) Utah Becomes First State to Allow AI Systems to Renew Prescriptions Without Human Review (2:38) Luca Raises $8 Million to Scale AI-Powered K-12 Platform Across Latin America (3:24) Generative AI Helps Users Lower Body Mass Index in Three Week Trial Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:21) Google AI Overviews Deliver Dangerous Medical Misinformation in Search Results (1:08) European Banks Plan to Cut 200,000 Jobs by 2030 as AI Automates Back Office Functions (1:54) Physicians Use AI for Clinical Decisions During Patient Visits, Not Just Administrative Work (2:39) Universal Music Group Partners With Splice to Build AI Music Creation Tools for Signed Artists (3:26) Chinese Hospitals Use AI to Detect Pancreatic Cancer Before Symptoms Appear Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:18) OpenAI Builds Audio AI Team as Hardware Device Takes Shape (0:59) Brookfield Launches Cloud Business to Undercut Hyperscalers on AI Computing Costs (1:43) Insurers Use Flawed Algorithms to Deny Post-Acute Care Coverage (2:29) Evermind AI Releases Open Source Memory Operating System for AI Agents (3:11) AI App Matches Expert Dietitians in Identifying Gluten-Free Foods Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:19) Federal Agents Seize $160 Million in Smuggled Nvidia AI Chips Bound for China (1:07) Microsoft Named Top AI Investment as Enterprise Adoption Accelerates (1:52) European Banks Plan to Cut 200,000 Jobs Through AI by 2030 (2:40) BigBear.ai Closes $250 Million Acquisition of Ask Sage to Deploy Secure Generative AI for Government (3:21) Companies Use AI Automation to Enable Four Day Workweeks Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:20) Nvidia Moves to Acquire Israeli AI Startup AI21 Labs for Up to Three Billion Dollars (1:04) AI Workloads Force Data Centers Into Emergency Infrastructure Overhauls (1:41) Healthcare System Cuts $650K in Two Months Using AI Phone Automation (2:11) Octopus Energy Spins Off AI Platform Kraken as Independent Company Worth $8.65 Billion (2:46) AI Voice Companions Cut Depression and Anxiety in Nursing Home Study Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:16) Critical LangChain Vulnerability Exposes AI Applications to Remote Attacks (1:12) Meta Acquires Manus to Strengthen Its Agentic AI Capabilities (2:10) SoftBank Eyes DigitalBridge Acquisition to Dominate AI Infrastructure Market (2:58) AI Power Stock Rally Ends as Investors Shift Focus to Revenue Winners (3:45) Accountancy Exams Return In-Person as AI Cheating Threatens Professional Standards Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:17) Trump Administration Pushes Federal Control Over Data Center Power Connections (1:11) AI Swarm Agents Promise Small Businesses Multi-Agent Workflow Automation (2:00) Federal Agencies Move AI From Pilots to Production at Scale (2:51) French Insect Farming Startup Ÿnsect Collapses After Raising Over $600 Million (3:40) AI Decodes Wolf Language in Yellowstone to Transform Wildlife Conservation Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:18) Meta Bets Smart Glasses Will Replace Smartphones as Billionaire Hedge Funds Buy In (1:34) ByteDance Plans $23 Billion AI Spending Spree for 2026 (2:46) Mortgage Lenders Buy Insurance Against AI Underwriting Mistakes (3:55) Fleet Management Software Maker Motive Files for IPO Despite Growing Losses (5:00) Users Turn to AI Chatbots for Spiritual Guidance as Companies Chase Superintelligence Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:18) White House Credits AI Investment for Strong GDP Growth and Pushes Fed Rate Cuts (1:18) AI Eliminates Entry Level Jobs That Launch Careers (2:12) Visa Completes Hundreds of AI Agent Transactions in Pilot Program (3:01) Chinese GPU Maker Biren Technology Targets $623 Million Hong Kong IPO (3:48) Disney Builds Walking Olaf Robot That Learns to Manage Its Own Overheating Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:18) White House Credits AI Investment for Strong GDP Growth and Promises Job Gains Ahead (1:05) AI Eliminates Entry-Level Jobs That Launch Careers (1:48) Visa Completes Hundreds of AI Agent Transactions in Pilot Program (2:36) Chinese GPU Maker Biren Technology Targets $623 Million Hong Kong IPO (3:19) Disney Builds Walking Olaf Robot That Manages Its Own Temperature to Avoid Meltdown Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:22) Alphabet Buys Data Center Developer Intersect for $4.75 Billion to Secure AI Power Supply (1:20) Instacart Kills AI Pricing Tests After Shoppers See 23% Price Gaps on Identical Items (2:12) Junior Lawyer Salaries Rise Despite AI Automation Because Firms Need More Billable Hours (3:01) NSO Group Founder Launches New Startup After Spyware Scandal (3:49) Fine Tuned Language Models Now Produce Fiction That Readers Prefer to Human Imitations Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:17) Nvidia Remains the Safest Bet in the AI Infrastructure Boom (0:54) Mobile Shopping Drives a Surge in Regret-Prone Holiday Impulse Buys (1:33) OpenAI Targets $100 Billion Raise for $830 Billion Valuation (2:12) SoftBank Scrambles to Close $22.5 Billion OpenAI Bet by Year End (2:51) Schools Spend Hundreds of Thousands on AI Detectors That Don't Work Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:21) ChatGPT Mobile App Rockets to $3 Billion in Consumer Spend in Just 31 Months (1:09) Anthropic’s AI Shopkeeper Turns Vending Experiment Into Profitable Multi-City Business (2:06) Bank of England Chief Warns AI Adoption Will Push Workers Out Like The Industrial Revolution (2:57) Arizona State University Unveils Standalone AI PhD Program for Fall 2026 (3:42) Philosopher Warns We May Never Prove AI Consciousness Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:18) OpenAI Opens ChatGPT App Store to Developers (1:08) Google Embeds NotebookLM in Gemini Web App and Boosts Daily Prompt Allowances (1:59) Lovable Triples Valuation to $6.6 Billion in Accel and Khosla-Backed Raise (2:48) Generative AI Falls Short in 2025 as Essential Voice, Coding and Memory Tools Remain Missing (3:32) Fort Lewis College Draws 600 Attendees to Rural AI Adoption Conference Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:20) OpenAI Debuts GPT Image 1.5 to Turn ChatGPT Into a Speedy Creative Studio (1:07) Meta Adds Conversation Amplification and Spotify Visual Song Match to Its AI Glasses (1:53) Google Tests Email-Based AI Assistant CC for Daily Briefs (2:40) Instacart Unifies AI Image Creation With Company-Wide Pixel Platform (3:27) AI Griefbots Offer Digital Communion With The Dead But Raise Profit And Privacy Fears Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:19) Gallup Finds Nearly Half of U.S. Workers Now Use AI on the Job (1:07) Merriam-Webster Flags AI Junk Content As Its 2025 Word Of The Year (1:55) Federal Government Deploys 1,000-Person Tech Force to Accelerate AI (2:39) Indie Dev Ships Codex Mortis as First Fully AI-Built Game (3:23) Google Labs Launches GenTabs to Turn Browser Tabs Into Instant Apps Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:17) Wall Street Questions AI Spending Spree as Flagship Stocks Slip (1:12) Google Turns Any Headphones Into Real-Time Translators With New Translate Beta (1:57) Sora Deepfakes Expose Social Media’s Fragile Defenses (2:43) Midea Rolls Out Six-Armed Factory Robot to Lift Chinese Manufacturing Efficiency (3:28) Brains’ “Cognitive Lego” Trick Outclasses AI at Task Switching Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com

(0:18) OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.2 as Its Most Advanced Professional AI Model (1:13) Time Crowns AI Architects as 2025 Person of the Year (2:06) McDonald’s Pulls AI Christmas Ad After Online Backlash (2:54) Google Targets 2026 Launch for AI Glasses to Challenge Meta (3:39) AI Tool From University Of Hawai‘i Maps Sun’s Magnetic Field In 3D Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com