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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: PCMag, Ars Technica, Livemint, SiliconANGLE, Washington Examiner, Channel NewsAsia, CNBC, OpenAI, and Dow Jones Newswires
X: @sama, @eliebakouch, @openai, @miles_brundage, @natolambert, @scaling01, @cursor_ai, @openai, @openai, @scaling01, @beker_09, @bindureddy, @fidjissimo, @nickaturley, @openai, @scaling01, @sama, @satyanadella, @miles_brundage, @shakeelhashim, @scaling01, @arena, @sama, @satyanadella, @satyanadella, @satyanadella, @scaling01, @scaling01, @sama, @openai, @sama, @openai, and @scaling01
Forums: Hacker News and r/ChatGPTcomplaints
| 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‑ …
More: New York Times, Simon Willison's Weblog, CNET, PYMNTS.com, MacRumors, ZDNET, Gizmodo, Fast Company, Tom's Guide, Windows Report, eWeek, OpenAI, Engadget, Thurrott, The Decoder, Implicator.ai, Superintelligence, iPhone in Canada, Mashable, and Techstrong.ai
X: @openai, @sama, @signulll, @zephyr_z9, @scaling01, @mattshumer_, @gdb, @deredleritt3r, @lechmazur, @emollick, @dorialexander, @rohanpaul_ai, @zephyr_z9, @scaling01, @teortaxestex, @grx_xce, @benitoz, @chehendriksen, @rohanpaul_ai, @vikhyatk, @zephyr_z9, @stefanfschubert, @scaling01, @artemr, and @dratchcap
LinkedIn: Marc Manara, Xuedong D. Huang, Olivier Godement, Christopher Berry, Adam Hede, Mac Huffman, and Jeff Wang
Bluesky: @cameron.pfiffer.org and @kashhill
Forums: Hacker News, r/GithubCopilot, r/NVDA_Stock, r/OpenAI, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
More: Gizmodo. Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @thinkyparts, and @haydenfield. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: r/ChatGPTcomplaints and r/ChatGPT
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
| OpenAI: |
Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney will make a $1B investment in OpenAI and become a major OpenAI customer — Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.
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LinkedIn: Brock Koller, Jeff Jenkins, Tobias Peyerl, and Hans Ku
Bluesky: @chimeracoder, @ivanthek, @matthewdowsmith, @markriedl, @khguides.com, @chrisyogerst.com, @ketanjoshi.co, @hunterwalk.com, @jbirken, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @keithkurson, @jackcarterbenjamin, @kevinschaul, @mantzarlis.com, @damonberes.com, @mergesort.me, @dankim.com, @mollytempleton.com, and @tyleraking.com. Threads: @joshpetersel
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @cwebber@social.coop, and @savetheAI@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/SoraAi, r/Fauxmoi, r/TheBigPicture, r/technology, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/ChatGPT, r/disneyprincess, r/movies, r/boxoffice, r/blankies, r/nottheonion, r/entertainment, r/animation, r/StockMarket, r/aiwars, r/MarvelStudiosSpoilers, r/technology, r/StarWars, r/PoliticalOptimism, r/vfx, r/singularity, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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 …
More: The Guardian, Ars Technica, Engadget, The Information, 9to5Google, Interesting Engineering, The Hollywood Reporter, Mashable, Axios, Deadline, /Film, Michael Tsai, TechCrunch, The Verge, Inc, Thurrott, CNET, Cartoon Brew, Kotaku, BBC, and WinBuzzer
X: @loudmouthjulia. Bluesky: @dlthings, @nitishpahwa.com, @ryougasaotome, @davelee.me, @gigawattconduit, @rwmead, and @wavesblog
Forums: r/popculturechat, Slashdot, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Bob Iger says the OpenAI deal “does not in any way represent a threat to the creators at all” because it doesn't include name, likeness, or character voices — The CEO suggested that Disney would prefer Paramount to prevail in the battle for Warner Bros. Discovery … | Reuters: |
President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval” — U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order on artificial intelligence that will attempt to preempt …
More: The White House, CNBC, NBC News, Axios, Politico, Joe.My.God., Route Fifty, and Washington Examiner
X: @davidsacks47, @chamath, @sriramk, and @rapidresponse47
| 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, TechCrunch, The Keyword, VentureBeat, Google AI for Developers, Google AI for Developers, The Decoder, and Implicator.ai
| Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: |
A US judge sentences Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to 15 years in prison; Kwon pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud charges in August — The Terraform Labs co-founder pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud in August. — NEW YORK — Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon … | 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: The Keyword, Decrypt, 9to5Google, The Verge, CNET, Tom's Guide, and Android Police. 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, CNET, The Verge, and MacRumors
| 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.
More: The Atlantic, 404 Media, BBC, USA Today, HuffPost, One America News Network, Futurism, Time, TODAY.com, Fox News, Bloomberg, eWeek, Le Monde, Breitbart, Proactive, Mirror US, Deseret News, KARE-TV, CNN, Washington Examiner, Kotaku, Newser, Us Weekly, and CNET
X: @agoldmund, @amd, @moreperfectus, @amitisinvesting, @mattxiv, @frosen, @time, @drfeifei, @nvidia, @sasamarinkovic, @time, and @joshuatopolsky. LinkedIn: Billy Perrigo. Bluesky: @rbreich
| Bloomberg: |
A US appeals court upholds a contempt ruling in Epic v. Apple but says Apple can charge commissions on external links, with the rate to be set by a lower court — Apple Inc. lost its challenge to a judge's rebuke for disobedience but won a new chance to argue for charging developers …
More: The Verge, Reuters, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Information, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Courthouse News Service, Bloomberg Law, and MLex
X: @neilcybart, @appleinsider, @iclarified, and @florian4gamers
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Broadcom reports Q4 revenue up 28% YoY to $18.02B, vs. $17.49B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, with AI chip sales doubling to $8.2B — - CNBC Councils — Join the CNBC Panel — News Tips — Got a confidential news tip? We want to hear from you. — CNBC Newsletters
More: SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, The Information, Bloomberg, Benzinga, Constellation Research, Proactive, and Yahoo Finance. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| 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: 9to5Google, Thurrott, Android Police, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, Android Headlines, and Android Central
| Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: |
Sources: the NY governor proposes a rewrite of the RAISE Act, the AI bill that recently passed NY legislature, with text copied verbatim from California's SB 53 — EXCLUSIVE: Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing to strike the entire text of the RAISE Act, replacing it with verbatim language from SB 53, sources tell Transformer.| Maria Curi / Axios: |
New US OMB guidance states that LLMs procured by federal agencies must comply with two “unbiased AI principles”: “truth-seeking” and “ideological neutrality” — The Trump administration on Thursday released guidance for federal agencies to try to ensure … | 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.
More: The Register. X: @boazbaraktcs, @deanwball, @yonashav, @scaling01, @sriramk, @tim_dettmers, and @tim_dettmers
LinkedIn: Ryan Iyengar and Ali Minai
Bluesky: @alexcampolo and @sungkim
Forums: Hacker News, r/BetterOffline, r/singularity, and r/artificial
| 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.| 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 …
More: Twitter.new, The Verge, Social Media Today, Android Headlines, Gizmodo, San Francisco Business Times, PCMag, TechRadar, Reuters, and Decrypt
X: @wongmjane, @risefallnickbck, @canteverdie, and @morningbrew
Forums: r/Twitter, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/Fauxmoi, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.
More: TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, MotorTrend, InsideEVs, Barron's Online, Carscoops, GearJunkie, TechEBlog, Forbes Middle East, Fox Business, Motley Fool, and Rivian
X: @benbajarin, @mweinbach, @theaustinlyons, @edludlow, @mweinbach, and @theaustinlyons. LinkedIn: Javier Varela. Forums: r/RIVN
| 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 … | 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 …
More: a16z crypto, The Crypto Times, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, Blockhead, BeInCrypto, The Information, and Bloomberg
| 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: Techstrong.ai, Fierce Network, and Blocks and Files
Bluesky: @eean.dev, @cjkarr, @linuxfoundation.org, and @reckless
| 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
More: Washington Post, Reuters, The Verge, Blaze Media, Techstrong.ai, The American Bazaar, The Post Millennial, and Courthouse News Service
Bluesky: @kashhill, @nitasha, @metacurity.com, @justinhendrix, and @judah-grunstein. Forums: r/BlackboxAI_
| 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.| 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 and Implicator.ai
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