# AI News Digest - 2025-12-23

1. Alphabet acquired clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus assumed debt, to secure energy reserves for its AI infrastructure expansion.

2. Nvidia released NitroGen, a vision-action base model for gaming agents that was trained on 40,000 hours of gameplay from more than 1,000 games.

3. Alibaba's Qwen released Qwen-Image-Layered, an image-editing model that split images into multiple RGBA layers with transparent backgrounds for editable edits.

4. OpenAI was reported to have dramatically improved its compute profit margins.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/google-locks-in-new-energy-reserves-for-its-ai-expansion/](https://the-decoder.com/google-locks-in-new-energy-reserves-for-its-ai-expansion/)

[Google locks in new energy reserves for its AI expansion](https://the-decoder.com/google-locks-in-new-energy-reserves-for-its-ai-expansion/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/nvidia-wants-to-create-universal-ai-agents-for-all-worlds-with-nitrogen/](https://the-decoder.com/nvidia-wants-to-create-universal-ai-agents-for-all-worlds-with-nitrogen/)

[Nvidia wants to create universal AI agents for all worlds with NitroGen](https://the-decoder.com/nvidia-wants-to-create-universal-ai-agents-for-all-worlds-with-nitrogen/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/alibabas-qwen-releases-ai-model-that-splits-images-into-editable-layers-like-photoshop/](https://the-decoder.com/alibabas-qwen-releases-ai-model-that-splits-images-into-editable-layers-like-photoshop/)

[Alibaba's Qwen releases AI model that splits images into editable layers like Photoshop](https://the-decoder.com/alibabas-qwen-releases-ai-model-that-splits-images-into-editable-layers-like-photoshop/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/openai-reportedly-dramatically-improved-its-compute-profit-margins/](https://the-decoder.com/openai-reportedly-dramatically-improved-its-compute-profit-margins/)

[OpenAI reportedly dramatically improved its compute profit margins](https://the-decoder.com/openai-reportedly-dramatically-improved-its-compute-profit-margins/)

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