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🤖 50+ customizable Claude skills just dropped
🦾Plus: ️📲 Amazon expands Alexa+ with app integrations
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December 24, 2025
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📲 Amazon expands Alexa+ with app integrations
🛡️ ServiceNow is Buying Cybersecurity Startup Armis for $7.75Bn
🙋 Trump’s “Tech Force” draws 25,000 AI applicants
🇫🇷 France’s Postal and Banking Services Went Down
💡 AI Tutorial:How to build, edit, and share mini AI apps
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A subtle but powerful resource just landed for anyone serious about leveraging Claude at scale. A new GitHub repository has dropped with over 50 ready-to-customize "Claude Skills," essentially structured workflows that train Anthropic's AI to execute specific tasks consistently and on demand.
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Amazon’s AI-powered digital assistant Alexa+ is getting more friends. The new integrations will now allow the assistant to work with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp starting in 2026, joining existing integrations with Fodor, OpenTable, Suno, Ticketmaster, Thumbtack, and Uber.
This feels secure. Enterprise software maker ServiceNow has agreed to buy cybersecurity startup Armis for $7.75 billion. The deal marks the software company’s biggest deal ever in an effort to help counter rising cyberattacks driven by AI adoption. The deal will help the company integrate Alphabet-backed Armis’ security features, such as device scanning and threat detection.
The Trump administration’s new Tech Force hiring campaign has attracted over 25,000 applicants for 1,000 federal technology roles focused on AI. The recruits will serve two-year terms across agencies such as Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, and Justice, working on AI and data modernization projects intended to upgrade federal systems.
Mon dieu. France’s national postal and banking services were knocked offline yesterday by a suspected distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on La Poste. The postal service’s online mail and banking services, website, and app are temporarily unavailable, but customers can still carry out banking an postal transactions in person.
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AI Tutorial
How to build, edit, and share mini AI apps
Go to Opal by Google Labs and sign in.
Click ‘Create new’ or select an existing app to remix from the gallery.
Describe what you want to build in simple text and press enter.
Sample Prompt: I want to create slides from the PDF. Ask the user to upload a PDF document and the number of slides required. Based on the PDF content, create the number of slides as specified by the user. Do not create a Google Slides presentation; render the content in HTML and show slides in HTML with proper styling.
Opal will generate the full flow in seconds.
Click on any component to edit, add, or remove steps.
The system automatically sets up instructions, prompts, and logic for you—no manual configuration needed.
When everything looks good, click ‘Start’ to run your app.
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