Daily Tech & AI News Digest

**πŸŽ‰ Today’s Tech & AI News Digest πŸŽ‰**

πŸ€– OpenAI’s Latest Advances
OpenAI’s new o3 model approaches AGI and achieves breakthrough scores in reasoning tasks.
https://arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-breakthrough

πŸ’Ό AI Funding Surge
AI companies, including xAI and Databricks, raised massive funding rounds in 2024, highlighting continued investor interest.

Here’s the full list of 49 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024

πŸ“ˆ AI Talent Wars
Competition for top AI talent intensifies, with companies like Databricks making significant hires and investments.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/20/24326135/ai-talent-wars-databricks-interview

πŸš€ Building Effective AI Agents
Practical advice and patterns for developing successful AI agents from various industry implementations.
https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents

🌍 AI and Global Security
Apple collaborates with a nonprofit security lab to assist spyware victims, reflecting ongoing cybersecurity challenges.

Why Apple sends spyware victims to this nonprofit security lab

πŸ’‘ AI in Education and Training
Gauntlet AI trains AI engineers and offers high-paying jobs in Austin, showcasing the transformative potential of AI education.
https://gauntletai.com

🌐 Google’s AI Research Expansion
Google expands Gemini’s in-depth research mode to 40 languages, enhancing global research capabilities.

Google is expanding Gemini’s in-depth research mode to 40 languages

πŸš— EV Battery Swapping in China
China promotes large-scale battery swapping adoption with CATL and NIO leading the initiatives.

China intensifies focus on EV battery swapping as CATL joins the battle with NIO

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