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Companies have unveiled a service that lets users establish a connection between Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud in minutes rather than through days of configuration; Salesforce was among the first to test it.
The Ministry of Digital Transformation and Kyivstar have chosen the open Gemma 3 model as the basis for creating a Ukrainian large language model. It will be adapted to Ukrainian, further trained on national data, and tested using their own benchmarks.
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun said the company plans to introduce humanoid robots in factories within five years, cited the use of an X‑ray system with computer vision as an example, and assessed the potential market opportunity.
In Morrow County, Oregon, nitrates in drinking water were found at levels up to ten times the standard. Researchers link the elevated levels to increases in cancer cases and miscarriages; large data centers operate in the region.
In the beta version of the ChatGPT Android app (1.2025.329), lines in the code were found that hint at advertising — references to an "ads feature," "search ad" and "bazaar content." The release has not yet been published. Monetization via advertising and other updates had been discussed earlier.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order launching "Genesis Mission" — a plan to integrate AI into scientific research. The Department of Energy will open datasets and equipment to external researchers working with artificial intelligence tools.
BGV estimates annual production from three deposits at 1,340 tonnes of uranium, which could meet the needs of Ukraine’s nuclear power sector. The group has invested more than $10 million in exploration, carried out technical and environmental assessments, and plans to use the fuel in future reactors.
French President Emmanuel Macron said that Brussels is too slow to investigate American tech companies because of U.S. pressure over the EU’s digital laws. He accused the European Commission and member states of being afraid to pursue cases in the face of an American onslaught.
Anduril Industries experienced difficulties with drones in Ukraine. In 2024, Ukraine’s SBU halted the use of Altius drones because they were vulnerable to Russian electronic warfare systems.
Ukraine and Latvian company Tilde have signed an agreement to cooperate on artificial intelligence, which will help accelerate the process of adapting to European legislation.
The European Commission named Diia.AI the winner in the Solutions for Citizens category at the Best Cases Awards 2025; the AI feature in Diia has more than 120,000 users.
OpenAI said hackers accessed analytics data in Mixpanel; passwords, payment data and chat history were not exposed to third parties.
Amazon, Google, OpenAI and Walmart have launched bots for online shopping; testing revealed they recommended buying a warm bathrobe for one's mother. The bots mostly select products, while completing the order remains up to the user.
Startup Thermopylae, founded by Ukrainian Yehor Balytskyi, has received $1.6 million from investors to develop interceptor drones.
The defence ministers of Japan, the UK and Italy agreed on the first contract under the GCAP project to develop a sixth‑generation fighter, with serial production planned by 2035.
Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 mobile chipset, featuring a 3.8 GHz Oryon core, Adreno graphics and AI support. The first smartphone to use the new chip is the OnePlus 15R; it will later appear in devices from Motorola, iQOO and Vivo.
Ukraine and NATO launched the UNITE program with a €10 million budget for miltech startups. The first winners of the competition will be announced in spring 2026, and grants will be awarded across four defense-technology areas.
Anthropic has released Opus 4.5 — a new version of the Claude model with extensions for Chrome and Excel. The model offers improved context handling and an "infinite chats" feature for paid subscribers.
The new feature works even in the free version – up to 20 people can be added to one chat.
The mobile version for Android has received most of the features of the desktop browser, including voice mode and ad blocking.
On November 18, a major outage occurred at Cloudflare, the company that provides network security and optimization services for millions of websites worldwide.
Tim Cook may leave his position as CEO of Apple in early 2026, according to the Financial Times, citing informed sources. The board of directors has intensified preparations for a leadership change.
Google DeepMind has presented an updated version of its AI agent – SIMA 2 (Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent), which has mastered dozens of video games, including No Man's Sky, Valheim, and Goat Simulator 3.
American startup Chaos Industries, which specializes in radar technology for drone detection, has raised $510 million in a Series D funding round, Reuters reports. The company's valuation has increased to $4.5 billion.
French investigators have completely lifted the travel restrictions on Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who was a subject of an investigation into possible facilitation of crimes through his messenger, Bloomberg reports.
The company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, successfully landed the first stage of its New Glenn rocket on a sea platform in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time during its second launch, NASA reports.
Idol claims that 77% of the components are of Russian production.