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»Aus Calls werden automatisierte Aktionen: Sparen Sie sich die manuelle Erfassung Ihrer Daten. Sobald ein AI Agent ein Gespräch beendet hat, können Sie eine vollständige Daten-Payload per Webhook an die Systeme pushen, die Sie bereits nutzen.«
Was soll schon groß schiefgehen. Trust me, I'm an engineer. 😵‍💫🤡🤯

PUBG maker Krafton unveils an "AI First" strategy, investing ~$70M to build a GPU cluster to automate AI workflows and strengthen AI R&D and in-game AI services (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/805509/krafton-pubg-ai-…

PUBG maker Krafton is turning into an ‘AI first’ developer
Krafton is making a big push into becoming “AI First.” Under this new “AI First” strategy, Krafton plans to use agentic AI to help automate work.

NY Senate Bill 4505 Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications;
directs the commissioner of mental health to design the warning label
Bluesky=Facebook
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills

NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4505
Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications; directs the commissioner of mental health to design the warning label.

Gas-loving Trump cedes electric car market to China – DW – 12/16/2025
https://www.dw.com/en/us-ev-rollback-pushes-chinese-automakers-ahead-favoring-oil-and-gas-fossil-fuel-powered-cars/a-75155303

Baidu and Swiss Post's PostBus plan to launch Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicle service in Switzerland, testing in December ahead of rollout by Q1 2027 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/baidu-expands-robotaxi-push-swit…

There has been an insane amount of high-profile cybersecurity developments since Friday morning, so check out today's Metacurity for what you might have missed over the weekend, including
--US issues seizure warrants for Starlink terminals in Myanmar cyberscam compounds,
--US citizens plead guilty to aiding DPRK IT worker fraud,
--$28B tied to cybercrime activity over the last two years,
--Princeton got hit by a data-stealing cyberattack,
--Anthropic's r…

US issues seizure warrants for Starlink terminals in Myanmar cyberscam compounds
US citizens plead guilty to aiding DPRK IT worker fraud, $28B tied to cybercrime activity over the last two years, Princeton got hit by a data-stealing cyberattack, Anthropic's report of autonomous AI Chinese hacks hits pushback, Cybercom invests in cyberwarfare AI agents, much more

Sources: Salient, which uses AI to automate loan servicing, raised $10M following a $60M Series A in June, pushing its valuation to ~$500M; its ARR hit $25M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/salient

Salient’s quiet AI boom: How this two-year old startup is building a company to survive the bubble burst
Salient cofounder Ari Malik built AI to automate loan servicing, turning collections calls into a high-growth business now valued around $500 million.

Coinbase is rolling out stock trading, more advanced trading tools, prediction markets via Kalshi, and more, amid a push to be a one-stop financial app (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/17/coinbase-prediction-markets-stock-tradin…

Coinbase adds prediction markets and stock trading in push to be one-stop trading app
Coinbase is expanding into stocks, advanced trading, prediction markets, and new tools for businesses, developers, and automated financial guidance.

Nvidia announces Alpamayo-R1, an AI model for autonomous driving research, and calls it the "first industry-scale open reasoning vision language action model" (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/nvid

Nvidia announces new open AI models and tools for autonomous driving research | TechCrunch
Nvidia continues its push into physical AI with the release of a new reasoning world model and other tools for physical AI.

Cobots, or robots that collaborate with humans, are bringing automation to even the smallest US factories, amid a push to bring manufacturing back to the US (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…