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AI News 📰

• Time magazine named “The Architects of AI” as its 2025 Person of the Year, spotlighting the small group of tech leaders and investors who have driven this year’s rapid acceleration in AI adoption, investment, and policy fights. – source

• Disney announced a landmark deal with OpenAI to bring characters from across Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars into Sora-generated video experiences, signaling how major IP holders may experiment with AI-native content formats. – source

  • Disney also reportedly sent Google a cease-and-desist letter over AI-generated videos in Google’s search results that remix Disney-owned IP without permission, underscoring the legal and licensing friction around generative video. – source

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• U.S. attorneys general from multiple states formally warned Microsoft, Meta, Google and Apple that their AI systems’ “delusional” or misleading outputs could expose them to legal and consumer-protection action if not better controlled. – source
  

• Disappointing quarterly results at Oracle wiped roughly $70 billion off its market value, as investors questioned whether all cloud players can sustain AI-driven growth expectations – source

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Robots in the Wild 🤖

• xAI and El Salvador announced what they describe as the world’s first nationwide AI education program, using Grok-based tools and infrastructure to bring AI curricula and assistants into schools and government services across the country. – source
  

• McDonald’s pulled an AI-generated Christmas ad in the Netherlands after it was widely criticized. AI is epic, but end results matter! – source
  

• New research reported on by WSJ showcased an AI “hacking bot” coming dangerously close to beating top human teams in cybersecurity competitions, raising concerns about automated offensive capabilities and escalation risks. – source

News That Even AI Couldn’t Hallucinate 🌎

Not everything in the news can be about AI. Here’s some stuff you should know about:

• Google is rolling out Emergency Live Video on Android, letting 911 operators request an encrypted live video stream during emergency calls so they can better assess situations and guide callers through steps like CPR in real time. – source
  

• A San Francisco woman gave birth in a Waymo self-driving taxi after going into labor en route to the hospital. Waymo says its not the first time this has occurred. – source

Advancing AI Awards 🏆

This is where we’ll highlight AI in the real world today!

Last week we highlighted the launch of nano-banana. This week we’re highlighting some potential game-changing rumors around Apple’s AI efforts:

• Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco have released Pillar (Pillar-0), an open-source AI model for medical image generation.

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