AI News for Dec 16, 2025

Welcome to 'The Automated Daily', your ultimate source for a streamlined and insightful daily news experience. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Invest Like the Pros with StockMVP - https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily Today's topics: -Chrome VPN extension chat spying -Skills pattern spreads across tools -Deterministic guardrails for agents -Ramp’s internal AI operating system -Mintlify fixes doc assistant failures -Diffusion models speed up code -ARC-AGI cost drops over time -Robotics testing with Veo world models -Voice cloning changes podcast trust -Gemini upgrades Google Translate - https://www.mintlify.com/blog/assistant-improvements - https://www.notion.com/blog/how-ramp-built-an-ai-operating-system - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/ - https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection - https://nathan.rs/p