Here are the current technology news, AI developments, and trending tools to watch out for going into December 2025:
This Week’s Tech News and AI Developments
- WhatsApp is reintroducing an improved version of its classic About feature, the very first feature the app ever launched.
- Perplexity has launched Comet for Android, bringing its AI-native browser and assistant features to mobile users for the first time.
- Nokia announced a $4 billion U.S. investment plan to expand R&D and manufacturing for AI-ready network technologies.
- Core AI announced the launch of Core Digital, a new AI-powered digital marketing business designed to expand the company’s reach beyond gaming and into high-growth media sectors.
- The White House announced that President Trump has launched the Genesis Mission, a national AI initiative aimed at accelerating scientific discovery.
- Amazon will invest up to 50 billion dollars to build advanced AI and supercomputing infrastructure for AWS government regions, expanding capacity and supporting federal agencies across all classification levels.
- OpenAI introduced Shopping Research, a new feature inside ChatGPT that helps users find the right products through personalized guides, clarifying questions, and real-time research.
- Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.5, its most advanced model, delivering major upgrades in coding, agents, research tasks, and everyday productivity.
- Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX.2, a powerful new family of image-generation models featuring multi-reference capabilities, photorealistic output, and major performance boosts thanks to NVIDIA’s FP8 optimizations.
- Microsoft’s Copilot is being removed from WhatsApp due to new platform rules.
- xAI announced a $15 billion funding round at a $230 billion valuation, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in an explosive surge of AI investment across the industry.
- TikTok has launched a new Time and Well-being space, replacing the old screen time page. The new space features tools such as an affirmation journal, a soothing sound generator, and breathing exercises to help users unwind, reset, and build more mindful habits on the platform.
- OpenAI is expanding data residency options worldwide, enabling over 1 million business customers to store their data locally and meet regional compliance and regulatory standards.
- Perplexity has introduced a major upgrade to its Comet Assistant: built-in memory that automatically stores user preferences, interests, and past conversations.
This Week’s Trending AI Tools
- Phrasly AI – rewrites and enhances marketing copy to make it clearer and more engaging.
- Nano Banana – automatically clips long videos into short, shareable highlights.
- Otter – transcribes conversations and meetings into searchable, organized notes.
- PolyBuzz – a consumer mobile app for chatting and roleplaying with various AI-generated characters and “virtual friends.”
- PolyAI – an enterprise platform that provides hyper-realistic, voice-based AI agents for automating customer service calls.
- Janitor – a web-based platform for hosting and chatting with custom AI characters.
- WalterWrites – an “AI humanizer” tool designed to rewrite AI-generated text specifically to bypass AI detection software.
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