Here are the biggest technology news, AI developments, and business updates this week in December 2025:
This Week’s Technology News
- Meesho is launching a $606 million IPO, marking India’s first major horizontal e-commerce listing as top investors like SoftBank choose to hold their stakes.
- Adobe Analytics announced that U.S. Black Friday online sales reached a record $11.8 billion, driven by a major surge in AI-powered shopping tools.
- Palantir announced its stock fell 16% in November, marking its worst month in two years amid a broader selloff in AI shares.
- Runway has released Gen 4.5, a new AI video model that outperforms Google and OpenAI on independent leaderboards by mastering physics and motion.
- Shopify confirmed a Cyber Monday outage affected merchant logins and point-of-sale systems.
- USA Compression Partners has agreed to acquire J-W Power Company for approximately $860 million, expanding its compression fleet and geographic footprint across key U.S. basins.
- Anthropic has partnered with GivingTuesday to launch Claude for Nonprofits. This new initiative offers discounted access to AI and specialized tools to help charitable organizations maximize their global impact.
- Mistral AI has launched its Mistral 3 family, featuring a massive mixture-of-experts model and three efficient edge models, all released under the open Apache 2.0 license.
- Salesforce has introduced Agentforce Nonprofit, a new suite of AI agents designed to automate administrative tasks in fundraising, program management, and volunteer coordination.
- Anthropic has acquired the JavaScript runtime Bun to enhance the speed and performance of its AI coding tool, Claude Code, which recently surpassed $1 billion in run-rate revenue.
- Waymo has announced that it will begin manually testing its robotaxi fleet in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis, expanding its operational footprint to 26 markets as competition in the autonomous vehicle sector intensifies.
- Amazon Web Services has introduced DevOps Agent, an AI-powered tool designed to help engineers diagnose and fix cloud outages significantly faster than manual methods.
- OpenAI has agreed to acquire neptune.ai to strengthen the tools and infrastructure used for tracking and analyzing frontier model training.
- Cristiano Ronaldo has officially invested in the AI search startup Perplexity, having used the tool to prepare for his Prestige Globe Award speech.
This Week’s Trending AI Tools
- Nano Banana – an AI tool that creates high-quality short-form videos from text prompts or scripts.
- Otter – an AI transcription tool that captures meetings, generates notes, and summarizes conversations in real time.
- Wsup AI – an AI tool that turns long-form content into short, social-ready summaries, hooks, and posts.
- Halo AI – an AI agent platform that automates tasks, answers questions, and executes workflows across your apps.
- PolyAI – an enterprise-grade voice AI platform that automates customer service by creating lifelike voice assistants to handle complex phone calls for businesses.
- Janitor – a versatile chatbot platform that allows users to create and interact with highly customizable, often unfiltered AI characters for roleplay and storytelling.
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