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With tracking tools like the NORAD Santa Tracker and Google’s Santa Tracker, everyone can know when Father Christmas will arrive. Plus, there are now some new AI tools to bring the holiday magic.

There’s plenty of hype around AI and robots in healthcare, but the problem that’s actually costing hospitals money right now is operating room coordination. Two to four hours of OR time is lost every single day, not because of the surgeries themselves, but because of everything in between from manual scheduling and coordination chaos to guesswork about room […]

It's the latest development in an evolving war between Chinese and American consumer tech products.

The deal is expected to yield significant returns for Armis investors, including Sequoia, CapitalG, and Insight Partners.

The company has issued a software update to its autonomous driving system to fix its lane-crossing behavior.

These authors rejected Anthropic's class action settlement, arguing that "LLM companies should not be able to so easily extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at bargain-basement rates."

This was another banner year for crypto hacks and heists — 2025 was the third year in a row that a new crypto theft record was set.

Aflac, one of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., confirmed hackers stole reams of personal data, including Social Security numbers, identity documents, and health information.

Drafted is now nearly five months old, and it's everything Atmos wasn't.

Mayer launched Dazzle after shuttering her photo and contact management startup Sunshine. Green’s investment suggests Dazzle is poised for the coming wave of new AI-infused consumer businesses.

The new integrations join other services like Yelp, Uber, OpenTable and others.

Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image.

France's postal service, La Poste, said it was hit by a disruptive cyberattack that knocked its services offline.

The Uzbek government's national license plate scanning system was discovered exposed to the internet for anyone to access without a password.

Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.

Tooth Fairy Tracker features Kiki the Tooth Fairy as its central character. When a child loses a tooth, parents can visit the website and enter their email to receive notifications as Kiki begins her mission.

OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an "LLM-based automated attacker."

Alphabet is set to pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for the data center and clean energy developer.

The move is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to delay the construction of 6 gigawatts of offshore wind near a hotspot of data center development.

It's the latest attempt by one major Hollywood superpower to acquire another.