The AI industry’s biggest week: Google’s rise, RL mania, and a party boat

Published: (December 9, 2025 at 09:00 PM EST)
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Source: The Verge

Source: The Verge

Summary

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.
Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next frontier, Google is surging, and the party scene has gotten completely out of hand. Those were the through lines fr…

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