On December 10, 2025, Tether introduced QVAC Health, an AI-powered wellness app that keeps fitness, nutrition, and biometric data encrypted and stored locally on users’ devices, according to QVAC. The issuer of the $186 billion USDT stablecoin is expanding further into artificial intelligence and decentralized technology. Tether also holds a majority stake in brain-computer interface firm Blackrock Neurotech valued at $200 million.

On December 10, 2025, Nvidia's H200 chips received clearance for export to China following a statement by U.S. President Donald Trump, prompting ByteDance and Alibaba to approach Nvidia about bulk supplies. Both companies signaled they are ready to place large orders if Chinese regulators approve imports, according to Reuters. However, tight production, uncertain schedules and limited output could constrain near-term availability even if Beijing gives the green light.

Amazon said at its Amazon Smbhav Summit in New Delhi on December 10, 2025 that it plans to invest more than $35 billion in India by 2030, focusing on AI infrastructure, export growth and jobs. An Economic Impact Report by Keystone Strategy cites more than 12 million small businesses digitized in India and 2.8 million jobs facilitated in 2024. Amazon has also recently earmarked $12.7 billion for data centers in the states of Telangana and Maharashtra.

On December 9 2025, the European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation into Google’s use of web publisher material and YouTube videos to train and deploy its AI services. Regulators are examining whether Google imposed unfair conditions on creators, granted itself preferential data access, and disadvantaged rival AI developers through features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode in search. If the EU finds breaches of competition rules, Alphabet could face fines of up to 10% of global revenue and changes to how its AI systems access third-party content.

Tether has invested roughly $81.6 million in Italian humanoid-robotics firm Generative Bionics as part of a €70 million funding round, marking another major step in its expanding AI and robotics strategy. The company is also pushing deeper into commodities lending as it channels stablecoin-driven profits into diversified sectors.

U.S. senators introduced bipartisan legislation Thursday to block export licenses for Nvidia's H200 and Blackwell AI chips to China for 30 months. The Secure and Feasible Exports Chips Act would direct the commerce secretary to deny approvals for these advanced processors, which power large-scale AI models and data centers. The move comes amid White House deliberations on chip export policy and concerns over China's AI development capabilities.

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team demonstrated that AI agents autonomously reconstructed 19 real smart contract exploits from 34 incidents occurring after March 2025, extracting $4.6 million in simulated value. GPT-5 scanned 2,849 BNB Chain contracts at $1.22 per target, uncovering two zero-day vulnerabilities worth approximately $3,694 in simulated profit, according to research published December 1.

Alphabet shares climbed nearly 30% this quarter following the November 18 release of Gemini 3 and the Ironwood TPU chip. Nvidia and Microsoft stocks declined during the same period. Wells Fargo analysts report that Gemini and TPU-linked stocks now trade at a premium over ChatGPT and GPU-related equities for the first time in nearly a decade.