AI News for Dec 20, 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: -School AI gun alert fiasco -LeCun’s world-model startup raise -Vibe coding funding and comparisons -Agents in the real world -Portable skills for AI agents -New ways to reward RL -OCR gets cheaper and better -Scraping, privacy, and regulation - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/metas-yann-lecun-targets-3-110641727.html - https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-12-15/shoshana-zuboff-philosopher-ai-is-surveillance-capitalism-continuing-to-evolve-and-expand.html - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17746 - https://benanderson.work/blog/contra-dspy-gepa/ - https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-2 - https://blog.replit.com/inside-replits-