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ChatGPT’s user growth has slowed, report finds

Dec 5, 2025 | AI, AI Tech, Apps, chatgpt, gemini, Google, OpenAI

ChatGPT’s growth is starting to taper off, according to new data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. Today, the OpenAI-owned AI chatbot remains the leader in the space, accounting for 50% of global downloads on mobile devices and 55% of the global monthly active users. However, Google’s...

AWS re:Invent was an all-in pitch for AI. Customers might not be ready.

Dec 5, 2025 | AI, AI agents, AI Tech, amazon, anthropic, AWS, AWS re:invent 2025, Enterprise, Hardware, LLMs, OpenAI, TC

If Amazon Web Services’ annual re:Invent tech conference proves anything, it’s that the cloud infrastructure player is going all in on AI. AWS announced made dozens of announcements from new AI agents and updated large language models, to products with LLM and agent-building capabilities. AI for...

eSIM adoption is on the rise thanks to travel and device compatibility

Dec 5, 2025 | AI Tech, airalo, esim, gsma, Hardware, iphone

As a technology, eSIM has been around for a decade now. However, global eSIM adoption was around 3% last year and will only cross 5% this year. Despite these figures, analysts, eSIM-providing startups, and investors are bullish about eSIM’s upward trajectory, largely thanks to travel. Device...

New ‘KnoWay’ robotaxis cause chaos in upcoming Grand Theft Auto Online DLC

Dec 5, 2025 | AI Tech, autonomous vehicles, avs, Gaming, grand theft auto, robotaxis, rockstar games, Transportation, waymo

The latest expansion to Grand Theft Auto Online includes robotaxis from a fictional-yet-familiar company dubbed “KnoWay,” whose sole purpose appears to be wreaking havoc. A trailer released Friday shows KnoWay vans adorned with lidar sensors swerving through city streets, wrecking other cars, and...

New streaming channel launches to give viewers a peek into city council meetings

Dec 5, 2025 | AI Tech, Government & Policy, Media & Entertainment, politics, Startups, sunil rajaraman

The launch of Hamlet was quite personal for Sunil Rajaraman. Back in 2022, he ran for city council in a small California town. He lost, but the moment forever changed the way he saw the place — and local governments, for that matter. “I was trying to become a better candidate,” he recalled to...

The New York Times is suing Perplexity for copyright infringement

Dec 5, 2025 | AI, AI Tech, copyright infringement, new york times, Perplexity

The New York Times filed suit Friday against AI search startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, its second lawsuit against an AI company. The Times joins several media outlets suing Perplexity, including the Chicago Tribune, which also filed suit this week. The Times’s suit claims that...

Meta signs commercial AI data agreements with publishers to offer real-time news on Meta AI

Dec 5, 2025 | AI, AI Tech, Apps, meta, meta ai

Meta has signed commercial AI data agreements with news publishers to offer real-time global, entertainment, and breaking news on Meta AI, its AI chatbot. Now, when users ask Meta AI news-related questions, it will surface information and links that draw from different content sources to help...

Energy storage industry set aggressive goals for 2025 — and already crushed them

Dec 5, 2025 | AI Tech, Climate, Electrical grid, energy storage, lithium ion batteries, lithium-ion battery

Nearly a decade ago, when the energy storage market was in its infancy, an industry organization set a dreamy goal: By the end of 2025, the U.S. would deploy 35 gigawatts of batteries connected to the grid. So how’d the storage industry do? In the third quarter, 4.7 gigawatts of batteries were...

In its first DSA penalty, EU fines X €120M for ‘deceptive’ blue check verification system

Dec 5, 2025 | AI Tech, Apps, elon musk, eu digital services act, european commission, Government & Policy, Social, twitter, x

The European Commission has imposed its first fine under Europe’s landmark Digital Services Act (DSA), and it’s against Elon Musk’s X. The EC is taking issue with the fact that X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, has been allowing anyone to buy a “blue checkmark,” the platform’s...