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Amazon debuts three frontier agents: Kiro autonomous agent, AWS Security Agent, and AWS DevOps Agent, each focused on a different aspect of software development (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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AWS announces new features for its AI agent platform Bedrock AgentCore, including new tools for managing AI agent boundaries and memory capabilities (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)

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AWS launches Nova Forge, a $100,000/year service allowing clients to customize Amazon's AI models at various stages of training and refine open-weight models (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Sources: OpenAI is developing a new LLM, codenamed Garlic, that outperforms Gemini 3 and Claude Opus 4.5 in coding and reasoning tasks, per internal evaluations (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Amazon launches second generation of its Nova AI models, including Nova Lite, Nova Pro, Nova Sonic, and Nova Omni, a fully multimodal reasoning model (Will Knight/Wired)

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Amazon launches the Trainium3 UltraServer, powered by the 3nm Trainium3 AI training chip, and teases Trainium4, which will be able to work with Nvidia's chips (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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Amazon launches Trainium3, saying the AI chip is 4x faster than Trainium2 and can cut AI training and operating costs by up to 50% compared to equivalent GPUs (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

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A look at Anthropic's societal impacts team, which broadly studies AI's impacts and finds and publishes "inconvenient truths", building on most AI safety teams (Hayden Field/The Verge)

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Barcelona-based Titan OS, which provides a smart TV operating system to TV makers like Philips and JVC, raised a €50M Series A led by Highland Europe (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Axiado, which is making a chip designed to save space and power in AI servers, raised $100M led by Maverick Silicon (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of 10 models under the Apache 2.0 license, including its new flagship Mistral Large 3 and nine smaller Ministral 3 models (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

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Adobe: US shoppers spent $14.25B online during Cyber Monday, up 7.1% YoY, compared with a 9.1% rise on Black Friday; five-day spending rose 7.7% YoY to $44.2B (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

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A Claude user gets Claude 4.5 Opus to generate a 14K-token document that Claude calls its "Soul overview"; an Anthropic employee confirms the doc's validity (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

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Vista Equity-backed infrastructure software company LogicMonitor acquires Catchpoint, which monitors user experiences across the internet, for $250M+ in cash (Liana Baker/Bloomberg)

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YouTube launches Recap, which lets users review their most notable video habits over the past year, in the US, ahead of a global rollout next week (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Michael and Susan Dell say they will deposit $6.25B for 25M children, or $250 per investment "Trump account", comparing the gift to Dell's direct PC sales model (Nicholas Kulish/New York Times)

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South Korean police arrest four over hacking 120K home security cameras, whose footage was used to make sexually exploitative material; one person made ~$12K (John Yoon/New York Times)

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Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

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Prediction market Kalshi raised $1B led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation, up from $5B after its $300M Series D in October, making its co-founders billionaires (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

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