Monday's AI News Roundup // 29 December 2025
💥 This week’s AI News Roundup captures the moment when the internet, the industry, and governments all showed their hand.As 2025 winds down, the mood online turns sour with “AI slop” and “rage bait” crowned as Words of the Year, Mistral drops an OCR model that finally makes unreadable documents usable, China quietly pushes toward a semiconductor “Manhattan Project,” and the U.S. officially responds with a nationwide AI mobilization called Genesis. Less hype, more power plays — and AI’s next phase is clearly underway.
