AI Strategy Shift: Google Appoints Infrastructure Chief, Amazon Invests $35B & Palantir Wins Navy Contract | December 11, 2025
📋 Quick Takeaways
- Google elevates Amin Vahdat to Chief Technologist for AI Infrastructure, reporting directly to CEO Sundar Pichai.
- Amazon commits $35 billion+ to India, focusing on AI infrastructure and export growth.
- Palantir shares rally after securing a critical U.S. Navy submarine maintenance contract.
- Adobe raises 2026 guidance, citing surging demand for its AI-powered creative tools.
- New “Orbital Data Centers” planned by Blue Origin to handle AI processing in space.
- $340M in fresh capital for DevOps AI startups Port ($100M) and Harness ($240M).
🏢 Big Tech Strategy & Leadership
Google Appoints Amin Vahdat to Lead AI Infrastructure Wars
Strategic Shift: In a move to unify its hardware and software efforts, Google has promoted Amin Vahdat to the newly created role of Chief Technologist for AI Infrastructure. He will report directly to CEO Sundar Pichai.
By Daily AI Blog
read moreMajor AI Developments: Pentagon AI Platform Launch, Microsoft $17.5B India Investment & Enterprise AI Partnerships | December 10, 2025
📋 Quick Takeaways
- Pentagon launches GenAI.mil platform with Google Gemini for Government as first frontier AI capability for military personnel
- Microsoft commits $17.5 billion investment in India through 2029, integrating Azure OpenAI into government platforms serving 310 million workers
- Anthropic and Accenture form strategic business group training 30,000 professionals on Claude, marking largest-ever AI deployment
- Anthropic donates Model Context Protocol to newly established Agentic AI Foundation for industry collaboration
- Claude Code integrates with Slack enabling end-to-end development workflows in team collaboration platforms
- Google launches 10 new Gemini-powered Chrome features with cross-app integration for Calendar, YouTube, and Maps
- Meta shifts AI strategy with proprietary “Avocado” model, moving away from open-source Llama approach
- Netflix declares “all in” on generative AI across content production, search, advertising, and personalization
🛡️ Military & Government AI
Pentagon Launches GenAI.mil Platform with Google Gemini for Government
Historic Defense AI Deployment: The US Department of Defense unveiled GenAI.mil on December 9, 2025, marking the Pentagon’s most significant push to deploy generative AI capabilities across military operations [web:21].
By Daily AI Blog
read moreGlobal AI Shift: Trump Approves Nvidia China Exports & Unconventional AI Raises $475M | December 9, 2025
📋 Quick Takeaways
- President Trump greenlights Nvidia H200 chip exports to China, conditional on a 25% government cut on sales
- Unconventional AI secures massive $475M seed round at $4.5B valuation to build new AI hardware
- NeurIPS 2025 highlights include breakthroughs in “Artificial Hiveminds” and stable LLM attention mechanisms
- Google Cloud CEO unveils 3-part energy strategy to tackle data center electricity bottlenecks
- Instacart launches “Agentic Commerce” pilot inside ChatGPT for autonomous meal planning and shopping
- Intuit AI Chief warns CEOs that 2026 must be the year of AI-driven revenue growth, not just cost-cutting
🌏 Global Policy & Trade
Trump Approves Nvidia H200 Sales to China with 25% “US Cut”
Major Policy Shift: In a significant reversal of strict export controls, President Donald Trump announced on December 8 that Nvidia will be permitted to sell its advanced H200 AI chips to China.
By Daily AI Blog
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