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As 2025 closed, artificial intelligence shifted from pilot projects to a core instrument across politics, finance, creative industries and consumer tech, triggering record investment and sweeping deployment even as deepfakes, hallucinations and safety lapses forced calls for regulation ahead of the 2026 cycle.
For the first time since Gmail launched in 2004, Google has enabled users to swap their primary @gmail.com username without creating a new account, beginning with a limited Hindi-language rollout on 26 Dec 2025.
On 27-28 Dec 2025, Ubisoft yanked Rainbow Six Siege offline worldwide and reversed all post-11:00 UTC 27 Dec data after intruders injected billions of premium credits and hijacked moderation tools.
On 29 Dec 2025 OpenAI publicly advertised a new Head of Preparedness role—vacant since mid-2024—offering a $555,000 salary plus equity to rebuild its AI-risk safety arm, a move CEO Sam Altman flagged as immediately high-pressure.
On 20 Dec 2025 NASA ran an end-to-end, T-30-seconds countdown test with the four Artemis II astronauts inside Orion, after which freshly confirmed Administrator Jared Isaacman publicly committed to launching the crewed lunar-flyby no later than Feb 5 2026.
On 28 Dec 2025 Ukraine and Russia halted fire for several days so technicians—watched by an IAEA team—could start fixing the damaged autotransformer line that is the Zaporizhzhia plant’s only external power route.
On 27 December 2025, the Cyberspace Administration of China released for public comment a regulation that makes AI-companion providers monitor users’ emotional states, warn them every two hours, and actively intervene when dependency or “extreme emotions” are detected.
On 27 Dec 2025 China’s Cyberspace Administration released draft regulations for public comment that force AI systems with human-like personalities to police user addiction and keep politically sensitive or harmful content off the screen.
On 25 Dec 2025, the National University of Defense Technology fired a one-ton superconducting maglev vehicle from 0 to 700 km/h and back to 0 on a 400-m test line in two seconds, eclipsing its own January record.
A female mouse that spent five–seven days aboard China’s space station gave birth to nine pups on 10 Dec 2025, showing short-term microgravity did not block mammalian reproduction.
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