AI News on December 22nd
1. Waymo suspends service in San Francisco as robotaxis stall during blackout
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Waymo suspended its SF robotaxi service on Saturday evening after a massive blackout appeared to leave many of its vehicles stalled on city streets.
2. OpenAI allows users to directly adjust ChatGPT’s enthusiasm level
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ChatGPT users can now tweak the chatbot’s warmth, enthusiasm, and emoji use.
3. New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs RAISE Act to regulate AI safety
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The bill will require large AI developers to publish information about their safety protocols and report safety incidents to the state within 72 hours.
4. Ex-Splunk execs’ startup Resolve AI hits $1 billion valuation with Series A
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The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to people familiar with the deal.
5. Cursor continues acquisition spree with Graphite deal
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Graphite is an AI code review assistant that was last valued at $290 million.
6. Agent autonomy without guardrails is an SRE nightmare
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João Freitas is GM and VP of engineering for AI and automation at PagerDutyAs AI use continues to evolve in large organizations, leaders are increasingly seeking the next development that will yield major ROI. The latest wave of this ongoing trend is the adoption of AI agents. However, as with any n...
7. Hiring specialists made sense before AI — now generalists win
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Tony Stoyanov is CTO and co-founder of EliseAIIn the 2010s, tech companies chased staff-level specialists: Backend engineers, data scientists, system architects. That model worked when technology evolved slowly. Specialists knew their craft, could deliver quickly and built careers on predictable fou...
8. Palona goes vertical, launches Vision, Workflow: 4 key lessons for AI builders
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Building an enterprise AI company on a "foundation of shifting sand" is the central challenge for founders today, according to the leadership at Palona AI. Today, the Palo Alto-based startup—led by former Google and Meta engineering veterans—is making a decisive vertical push into the rest...
9. Anthropic launches enterprise ‘Agent Skills’ and opens the standard, challenging OpenAI in workplace AI
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Anthropic said on Wednesday it would release its Agent Skills technology as an open standard, a strategic bet that sharing its approach to making AI assistants more capable will cement the company's position in the fast-evolving enterprise software market.The San Francisco-based artificial inte...
10. Gemini 3 Flash arrives with reduced costs and latency — a powerful combo for enterprises
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Enterprises can now harness the power of a large language model that's near that of the state-of-the-art Google’s Gemini 3 Pro, but at a fraction of the cost and with increased speed, thanks to the newly released Gemini 3 Flash.The model joins the flagship Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 3 Deep Think, and...