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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
OpenAI launches GPT-5.2, its “best model yet,” in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants, with significant improvements in writing, coding, and reasoning — The ChatGPT-maker is releasing its “best model yet” as it faces new pressures from Google and other AI competitors.
More: Business Insider, The Economic Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, OpenAI, iClarified, Axios, Every, and Crypto Briefing
X: @bindureddy, @scaling01, @miles_brundage, @nickaturley, @sama, @cursor_ai, @sama, @satyanadella, @satyanadella, @satyanadella, @scaling01, @natolambert, @fidjissimo, @sama, @sama, @beker_09, @sama, @arena, @scaling01, @scaling01, @scaling01, @miles_brundage, @shakeelhashim, @scaling01, @scaling01, @openai, @openai, @openai, @openai, @openai, @satyanadella, and @openai. Forums: Hacker News
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says GPT‑5.2 Thinking beats or ties industry professionals on 70.9% of GDPval knowledge work tasks, delivering outputs at >11x the speed and <1% the cost — The most advanced frontier model for professional work and long-running agents. — We are introducing GPT‑ …
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LinkedIn: Xuedong D. Huang, Adam Hede, Olivier Godement, Marc Manara, and Jeff Wang
Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, and Slashdot
| The Verge: |
OpenAI's Fidji Simo says ChatGPT's “adult mode” is expected to launch in Q1 2026, says OpenAI wants to get better at age prediction before launching the feature — OpenAI wants to get its age-prediction model right before launching the feature.
Bluesky: @thinkyparts and @haydenfield
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
OpenAI says GPT-5.2 Thinking hallucinates less than GPT-5.1 and has improved reliability for agentic AI needs; pre-release testers include Notion, Box, Shopify — According to OpenAI, its new model ‘hallucinates less’ and is more accurate than GPT-5.1.
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Bluesky: @lemmk, @haydenfield, and @tomwarren.co.uk
| OpenAI: |
Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a major OpenAI client — Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.
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LinkedIn: Hans Ku and Jeff Jenkins
Bluesky: @ivanthek, @chimeracoder, @matthewdowsmith, @markriedl, @chrisyogerst.com, @hunterwalk.com, @jbirken, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @keithkurson, @jackcarterbenjamin, @kevinschaul, @damonberes.com, @mergesort.me, @dankim.com, @mollytempleton.com, and @tyleraking.com. Threads: @joshpetersel
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist letter, accusing Google of “massive scale” copyright infringement and using AI to “exploit and distribute” its content — Disney sends cease-and-desist letter to internet giant — As Disney has gone into business with OpenAI …
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Bluesky: @nitishpahwa.com, @ryougasaotome, @davelee.me, @gigawattconduit, @rwmead, and @wavesblog. Forums: Ars OpenForum
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| Time: |
Time names “the Architects of AI” as its 2025 Person of the Year and takes a look at AI's effect on the economy, geopolitics, and how we interact with the world — Jensen Huang needs a moment. — The CEO of Nvidia enters a cavernous studio at the company's Bay Area headquarters and hunches over a table, his head bowed.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Disco, a Gemini 3-powered experiment that suggests and creates GenTabs, web apps based on the user's open browser tabs and Gemini chat history — Google on Thursday introduced a new AI experiment for the web browser: the Gemini-powered product, “Disco,” which helps to turn your open tabs into custom applications.
More: 9to5Google, The Keyword, Android Police, CNET, PCMag, The Verge, Engadget, and Tom's Guide. Bluesky: @durumcrustulum.com
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Google brings Gemini to Chrome for iOS and iPadOS, after debuting on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, starting in the US in English for signed-in users — It can summarize pages, create a FAQ on a topic and modify recipes for your dietary needs. — After rolling it out on desktop …
More: 9to5Google, Thurrott, PCMag, MacRumors, and Forbes
| The Keyword: |
Google DeepMind launches an enhanced Gemini Deep Research agent accessible to developers via its new Interactions API, along with a new DeepSearchQA benchmark — We have reimagined Gemini Deep Research to be more powerful than ever. It is now accessible to developers via the new Interactions API …
More: Google DeepMind, VentureBeat, The Keyword, 9to5Google, The Decoder, Implicator.ai, Google AI for Developers, WinBuzzer, and Google AI for Developers
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Operation Bluebird, a Virginia-based startup planning to launch a “Twitter.new” social network, petitions the USPTO to cancel X's trademarks over “abandonment” — A Virginia startup calling itself “Operation Bluebird” announced this week that it has filed a formal petition …
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Forums: r/Twitter, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/Fauxmoi, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Courtney Rozen / Reuters: |
US state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and nine others, warning that their chatbots' “delusional outputs” could be violating state laws — Microsoft, Meta, Google and Apple were among the 13 companies that received a warning from a bipartisan group …
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| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers; TikTok says that 14 of the accounts don't violate its rules — TikTok AI — AI-generated videos showing what appear to be underage girls in sexualized clothing or positions have together racked … | Tim Dettmers: |
An Ai2 research scientist says AGI may never emerge because such a concept ignores the physical realities and limits of computation, such as energy constraints — If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI.
X: @deanwball, @yonashav, @boazbaraktcs, @scaling01, @sriramk, @tim_dettmers, and @tim_dettmers
LinkedIn: Ryan Iyengar and Ali Minai
Bluesky: @alexcampolo and @sungkim
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/BetterOffline
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Rivian says it is building its own 5nm AI chip called the Rivian Autonomy Processor and a foundational “Large Driving Model”, to enable fully autonomous driving — The company's chips, quoted at 1,600 trillion operations a second, will fuel a new push into self-driving cars for the EV company.
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X: @edludlow, @benbajarin, @theaustinlyons, @theaustinlyons, and @mweinbach. LinkedIn: Javier Varela. Forums: r/RIVN
| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
a16z crypto expands to Asia, opens a Seoul office, hires Monad's Sungmo Park as its Asia head, and calls South Korea the world's second-largest crypto market — What to know: … A16z crypto, a venture capital fund of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), said it is expanding into Asia … | Hayden Field / The Verge: |
A look at the Model Context Protocol and how it went from a passion project from two Anthropic employees to an industry standard managed by the Linux Foundation — Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation …
More: Fierce Network and Blocks and Files
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing via Cursor's agent — The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market.| Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: |
Worktrace AI, founded by ex-OpenAI product lead Angela Jiang and researcher Deepak Vasisht, launches with a $9.3M seed, and releases a workflow automation agent — After helping to oversee the launch of two of the most influential AI models in recent years - OpenAI's GPT-3.5, also known as ChatGPT … | Kritika Lamba / Reuters: |
Fortnite returns to the Google Play Store in the US following a US District Court injunction; Google and Epic announced a settlement last week — Epic Games' popular battle royale title Fortnite is back on the Google Play Store in the United States after Google (GOOGL.O) …
More: TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Pocketables, and Sherwood News
X: @ssamat, @fortnite, and @timsweeneyepic
| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
NY governor signs bills requiring ads to disclose AI-generated performers and mandating consent of heirs to use a deceased person's likeness commercially — The New York bill requires anyone producing or creating an ad to identify if it includes AI generated synthetic performers.| Megan Morrone / Axios: |
A Microsoft analysis of 37.5M Copilot conversations from January to September 2025 finds that health, career, and relationship topics dominated users' questions — People are increasingly turning to Microsoft's Copilot chatbot for advice about their health, careers and relationships …
More: Microsoft AI and Implicator.ai
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Stanford researchers develop AI hacking bot Artemis and say it surpassed nine out of 10 penetration testers by rapidly finding bugs in the university's network — A recent Stanford experiment shows what happens when an artificial-intelligence hacking bot is unleashed on a network
More: arXiv.org, Implicator.ai, and Metacurity
| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI faces a wrongful death lawsuit from the estate of an 83-year-old woman killed by her son, who had engaged in delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT — The estate of victim Suzanne Eberson Adams is suing OpenAI for wrongful death, and her grandson is speaking out for the first time
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Bluesky: @nitasha, @judah-grunstein, @kashhill, @metacurity.com, and @justinhendrix
| TechCrunch: |
Runway launches GWM-1, its first world model, which uses frame-by-frame prediction to simulate physics, and updates Gen 4.5 to add native audio and more — The race to release world models is on as AI image and video generation company Runway joins an increasing number of startups and big tech companies by launching its first one.| Wall Street Journal: |
China's power grid, the world's largest, gives it an edge in the global AI contest, helping Chinese companies develop AI models more cheaply than US competitors — Push for power supremacy transforms Inner Mongolia; tech leaders worry about U.S.-China ‘electron gap’| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind plans to open its first “automated science laboratory” in the UK in 2026, focused on using AI tools to develop new materials for chips and more — Big Tech group will work with Sir Keir Starmer's government to enhance AI use across public sector
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X: @discoplomacy and @rohinmshah
Bluesky: @dncampbell and @prietschka
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify's open-source Backstage, raised a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation — Spotify may be synonymous with music streaming, but it's also got a wildly popular developer-tool side-hustle called “Backstage.”
More: SiliconANGLE and Accel
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