All 6 Science & Technology updates published in December 2025, grouped into 4 subtopics. Each one carries the exam-relevant facts and its GK Bytes; open an update for the complete note with static GK.
IIT Delhi researchers (with Denmark and Germany) unveiled AILA, an autonomous AI system that designs, runs and interprets experiments and directly controls instruments such as an atomic force microscope.
By December, the IndiaAI Mission had onboarded over 38,000 high-end GPUs (about Rs 65/hour), and 12 startups (including Sarvam AI, Soket AI, BharatGen and Fractal) were selected to build indigenous foundation models.
The WHO reiterated the case for coordinated financing and equitable access for the first new tuberculosis vaccines in over a century, now in advanced clinical trials.
The report estimated 282 million malaria cases and 610,000 deaths globally in 2024 and flagged growing artemisinin resistance; India cut cases and deaths by over 80% (2015-2023) and exited WHO's High Burden to High Impact group in 2024.
The Department of Telecommunications released NFAP-2025 (effective 30 December), governing spectrum from 8.3 kHz to 3000 GHz, identifying the 6425-7125 MHz band for 5G/6G and allocating Ka/Q/V bands for satellite services.
MeitY announced DHRUV64, India's first fully indigenous 64-bit, 1.0 GHz dual-core microprocessor, developed by C-DAC on the RISC-V open-source architecture and fabricated on a 28 nm node.