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On 17 December 2025 the European Commission unveiled draft rules replacing the bloc’s total 2035 ban on new internal-combustion cars with a looser target that requires only a 90 % CO₂ reduction versus 2021, letting automakers keep selling hybrids and range-extenders.
Pornhub disclosed that hackers used old Mixpanel analytics credentials to copy millions of historic Premium-user activity logs and are now demanding ransom to keep the data private.
On 17-18 Dec 2025, Google replaced its 2.5 Flash model with the faster, cheaper Gemini 3 Flash worldwide, making high-level Gemini 3 capabilities the standard for all users and developers at no extra cost.
On 16-17 Dec 2025, OpenAI swapped in its new GPT Image 1.5 model and a dedicated “Images” tab, cutting generation time by roughly 75 % and allowing pinpoint photo-level edits inside ChatGPT for every user tier and API client.
Dec 15 2025 telescopic images verified that comet 3I/ATLAS is ejecting a coherent, Sun-pointing dust plume stretching roughly 500,000 km – the first time such a gigantic physical anti-tail has been observed.
On 17 Dec 2025, California’s DMV stayed a judge-ordered 30-day suspension of Tesla’s sales license, giving the company 90 days to scrub misleading “Autopilot” and “Full Self-Driving” claims or face the ban.
Brussels has quietly replaced its previously approved 2035 100 % zero-emission mandate for new cars with a 90 % fleet-average CO₂-reduction target after late-night negotiations led by EPP chief Manfred Weber.
Days before its 270-million-km flyby, 3I/ATLAS became the first interstellar comet imaged in X-rays, prompting ESA, NASA and 23 nations to launch their largest-ever planetary-defense exercise.
On 12 Dec 2025 Google opened a Translate-app beta that streams real-time speech-to-speech translations to any Bluetooth or wired headphones in the US, Mexico and India.
Fresh evidence that Islamic State affiliates are mass-producing AI deepfake propaganda pushed U.S. lawmakers to pass a bill in November 2025 ordering annual DHS reports on militant AI threats and, by mid-December, had enterprise and research leaders openly re-orienting AI road-maps around security, privacy and on-prem deployment.
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