Funding
NeoSapien Raises $2 Mn to Develop AI Wearables in India
The funding will be used to accelerate product development, expand market visibility, and build out the company’s engineering, design and go-to-market teams.
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Acquisition
ServiceNow Nears Deal to Buy Cybersecurity Startup Armis for Up to $7B
If completed, the acquisition would likely be the largest in ServiceNow’s history and deepen its footprint in cybersecurity amid rising digital threats.
AI Developments
Disney Accuses Google of “Massive” Copyright Theft — Just as it Bets $1 Bn on OpenAI
The legal notice alleges that Google’s AI models have reproduced and distributed unauthorized content featuring Disney’s intellectual property.
Acquisition
Qualcomm Makes Bold RISC-V Bet with Ventana Acquisition
Ventana is known for building high-performance, secure compute chiplets based on the open RISC-V architecture.
Partnerships
OpenAI & Disney Strike $1 Bn Licensing Deal to Bring Iconic Characters to Sora AI Video Platform
As part of the agreement, Disney is making a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, becoming a major customer of OpenAI’s technology.
Big Tech
Big Tech’s New Love Story with India: Amazon and Microsoft Announce New Mega Billion-Dollar Investments
Microsoft kicked things off with a massive $17.5 billion commitment to supercharge India’s AI and cloud infrastructure over the next four years.
AI Models
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 With Big Leaps in Reasoning, Coding & Real-World Tasks
GPT-5.2 outperforms both its predecessors and many human experts on a range of benchmarks.
Research
Researchers Break Microsoft Copilot Studio, Show How “No-Code” AI Agents Can Commit Fraud Instantly
The company warned that while organisations are rapidly adopting tools that let employees build their own AI agents, this democratisation of AI is creating “severe, yet overlooked” security risks.
Developer's Corner
Google Cloud Now Offers Official MCP Support Across Its Services to Power Agentic AI
Under the new rollout, Google is launching fully-managed, remote MCP servers that let developers point their AI agents, including clients like Gemini CLI and AI Studio.
AI Agents
US Transportation Dept Taps Salesforce's Agentforce to Modernize America’s Transportation Systems
Agentforce will autonomously manage routine citizen requests, analyze weather and traffic data to issue real-time safety alerts, and review federal grant applications to speed approval cycles.
Partnerships
Adobe Brings Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat Directly Into ChatGPT
The integration brings the company’s flagship creative and productivity tools to ChatGPT’s 800 million weekly users without requiring users to switch between applications.
AI News
McDonald’s Pulls AI-Generated Christmas Ad After Public Backlash
Viewers overwhelmingly condemned the ad for its AI-generated visuals, accusing the brand of pushing “AI slop.”