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- Elon Musk envisions humanoid robots everywhere. China may be the first to make it a reality - China has made the development of humanoid robots a strategic priority in its tech battle with the U.S.
- Amazon faces 'leader's dilemma' — fight AI shopping bots or join them - Agents like OpenAI's Instant Checkout and Perplexity's Instant Buy threaten to reshape the e-commerce landscape.
- Waymo will update driverless fleet after San Francisco blackout to improve navigation during outages - Three days after blackouts in San Francisco brought down Waymo's service, the company said it's implementing changes for when "infrastructure fails."
- Google was at risk of losing its dominance — until it promoted this AI executive - Josh Woodward, a 16-year Google veteran, is tasked with running the Gemini app and going head-to-head with OpenAI in the booming generative AI market.
- Palo Alto Networks announces multibillion-dollar deal with Google Cloud - The agreement is an expansion of the companies' existing strategic partnership.
- Google's boomerang year: 20% of AI software engineers hired in 2025 were ex-employees - As competition heats up for AI talent, Google turned to hiring more so-called boomerang employees in 2025.
- OpenAI in talks with Amazon about investment that could exceed $10 billion - OpenAI is in discussions with Amazon about a potential investment and an agreement to use its artificial intelligence chips, CNBC confirmed.
- Palantir CIO Jim Siders leaves to become head of Thrive Capital's new IT services business - Siders spent more than 12 years at Palantir, recently overseeing its global IT operations, business applications and infrastructure.
- ServiceNow in talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis in potential $7 billion deal, Bloomberg reports - Software company ServiceNow is in advanced discussions to acquire Armis, a cybersecurity startup last valued at $6.1 billion.
- Trump signs executive order for single national AI regulation framework, limiting power of states - TechTrump signs executive order for single national AI regulation framework, limiting power of statesPublished Thu, Dec 11 20256:43 PM ESTJennifer Elias@https:/