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📅December 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM

AI agentic systems, big-model efficiency advances, AI-driven cyber threats, quantum and government-AI partnerships, medical AI approvals, and major industry policy moves dominate technology news.

Google Research outlines 2025 breakthroughs in generative AI, efficiency and scientific AI co‑scientists

Google published a 2025 research review highlighting advances that made generative models more efficient, factual, multilingual and multi‑cultural and introduced a ‘generative UI’. The post details new architectures (Titans), retrieval advances (MUVERA), scheduling algorithms (LAVA), and an AI co‑scientist multi‑agent system aimed at accelerating scientific discovery.

Agentic AI emerges as dominant trend across enterprises in 2025

Industry analysis describes 2025 as the year Agentic AI—systems that plan, execute and monitor multi‑step tasks autonomously—matured into enterprise production, shifting focus from pilots to ROI and human‑AI collaboration while driving new job roles.

Researchers push LLM safety: selective ‘unlearning’ to remove toxic or private content

Academic programs funded by NSF and university initiatives are developing LLM unlearning techniques to selectively erase toxic, private, or copyrighted data from large models without full retraining, addressing hallucination and privacy risks in deployed systems.

NVIDIA and U.S. Department of Energy sign MOU to expand AI infrastructure and scientific R&D

NVIDIA and the U.S. Department of Energy announced a memorandum of understanding to coordinate investments in AI infrastructure, high‑performance computing, and R&D across areas including quantum computing, fusion/fission, digital twins and open‑science models.

AI accelerates discovery in physics and astronomy with DOE and NSF funding

DOE and partner projects are funding AI and ML research to handle massive observatory datasets (e.g., Vera C. Rubin Observatory) and to create smart detectors, improve accelerator operations, and build digital twins — programs backed by multi‑million dollar awards to improve experimental efficiency.

Cybersecurity landscape escalates as AI enables autonomous, adaptive attacks

Consultancy reporting finds attackers using AI to launch autonomous, multistep campaigns and synthetic identity attacks, eroding identity‑based authentication and forcing adoption of Zero Trust architectures and AI‑driven defenses .

Clarius reports profitability and multiple FDA‑cleared AI ultrasound models in 2025

Medical imaging vendor Clarius announced profitability in 2025 alongside two new FDA‑cleared AI models (bringing their total to six), expanded T‑Mode capabilities and wider deployment of AI features across clinical and research settings.

UX and product design transformed by AI: research at machine speed and visual democratization

Industry reviewers summarize 2025 as a disruptive year for UX: AI automates user research, democratizes visual communication, and reshapes career paths toward AI literacy and agency, changing how products are designed and validated.

AI‑driven weather and Earth‑system forecasting improves extreme event prediction

Coverage of 2025 AI applications highlights breakthroughs where ML models improved hurricane prediction and weather forecasting, enabling faster, more accurate early warnings and operational decision support for extreme events.

Healthcare AI prototypes move toward bedside: synthetic imaging and agent aids for clinicians

University research initiatives showcased AI that synthesizes CT‑like scans from MRI inputs and explored AI assistants for surgeons and EMTs; researchers emphasize reducing hallucinations and validating clinical safety before deployment.

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