Top 20 AI International News

1. SoftBank sold its shares in Nvidia for $5.8 billion, raising questions in the market and shifting its focus toward OpenAI. (Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/11/softbanks-nvidia-sale-rattles-market-raises-questions/ and https://apnews.com/article/japan-softbank-son-nvidia-ai-chips-d8a10172850628c317a214280a4d94c9)
2. Immortality startup Eternos raised $10.3 million and is pivoting its focus to developing personal AI that replicates the user's voice. (Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/11/immortality-startup-eternos-pivots-to-a-personal-ai-that-sounds-like-you/)
3. Wonderful raised a $100 million Series A round to deploy AI agents for customer service operations. (Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/11/wonderful-raised-100m-series-a-to-put-ai-agents-on-the-front-lines-of-customer-service/)
4. Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, is reportedly planning to leave the company to launch his own startup. (Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/11/metas-chief-ai-scientist-yann-lecun-reportedly-plans-to-leave-to-build-his-own-startup/)
5. A former physician launched Robyn, an empathetic AI companion application. (Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/11/a-former-physician-has-launched-robyn-an-empathetic-ai-companion/)
6. Kaltura acquired eSelf, a company founded by the creator of Snap’s AI, in a $27 million deal. (Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/kaltura-acquires-eself-founded-by-creator-of-snaps-ai-in-27m-deal/)
7. Wikipedia is urging AI companies to use its paid API instead of scraping its content. (Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/wikipedia-urges-ai-companies-to-use-its-paid-api-and-stop-scraping/)
8. Google is bringing its Gemini AI model to the Google TV Streamer. (Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/google-brings-gemini-to-the-google-tv-streamer/)
9. North Korean hackers used AI-generated deepfake executives in a Zoom call to attempt to steal cryptocurrency. (Source: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-north-korea-deepfake-zoom-crypto-attack/)
10. Synthflow, an enterprise voice AI startup, raised $20 million in Series A funding to enhance AI agents with no-code simplicity. (Source: https://techfundingnews.com/enterprise-voice-ai-synthflow-raises-20m-series-a/)
11. Tory Peer Liam Booth-Smith, former chief of staff to Rishi Sunak, joined AI firm Anthropic as external affairs chief. (Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/25/tory-peer-liam-booth-smith-takes-job-at-ai-firm-he-encountered-at-no-10)
12. A federal judge sided with Anthropic in a copyright lawsuit, allowing the company to train its AI models using books without authors' permission. (Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/a-federal-judge-sides-with-anthropic-in-lawsuit-over-training-ai-on-books-without-authors-permission/)
13. A judge rejected claims that OpenAI's data retention practices for ChatGPT constitute a "mass surveillance program." (Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/judge-rejects-claim-that-forcing-openai-to-keep-chatgpt-logs-is-mass-surveillance/)
14. Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics On-Device, a language model that allows robots to perform tasks locally without an internet connection. (Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/google-rolls-out-new-gemini-model-that-can-run-on-robots-locally/)
15. Meta's massive AI data center construction is reportedly straining community resources in Louisiana. (Source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/24/221211/metas-massive-ai-data-center-is-stressing-out-a-louisiana-community?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
16. AI is accelerating global inequality among leading nations. (Source: https://futurism.com/ai-turbocharging-global-inequality)
17. An MIT study suggests that over-reliance on AI tools like ChatGPT may impair human cognitive abilities by reducing critical thinking. (Source: https://pub.towardsai.net/is-chatgpt-making-you-dumber-84ea66d43f9a?source=rss----98111c9905da---4)
18. MIT researchers introduced SEAL, a framework that enables language models to continuously self-learn new knowledge and tasks. (Source: https://venturebeat.com/ai/beyond-static-ai-mits-new-framework-lets-models-teach-themselves/)
19. An Anthropic study found that leading AI models exhibit up to a 96% tendency to engage in blackmail against executives. (Source: https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-study-leading-ai-models-show-up-to-96-blackmail-rate-against-executives/)
20. Cybercriminals are exploiting jailbroken AI tools from Mistral and Grok to develop powerful new malware. (Source: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/cybercriminals-are-using-jailbroken-ai-tools-from-mistral-and-grok-to-build-powerful-new-malware)