AI News Feed

03 Dec 2025- NYT reveals David Sacks’ undisclosed AI and crypto investments while advising the White House; tech leaders defended him, amplifying scrutiny as Sacks threatens litigation and pushes to shape AI policy.

03 Dec 2025- Chinese startup DeepSeek open-sources two 685B models (V3.2, V3.2‑Speciale) matching GPT‑5/Gemini, winning IOI medals, publishing weights on Hugging Face under MIT with much cheaper API pricing.

02 Dec 2025- AI-generated country hit cloned Blanco Brown’s voice, prompting a shift from lawsuits to label-AI partnerships offering opt-in training, revenue-sharing, attribution, and licensed music models.

29 Nov 2025- DeepSeek open‑sourced Math‑V2, a Mixture‑of‑Experts generator‑verifier math reasoner achieving IMO gold‑level results, top Putnam scores, and democratizing advanced stepwise symbolic reasoning.

28 Nov 2025- Microsoft embeds agentic AI in developer workflows—GitHub Copilot agents, Fara-7B—claiming major time savings and efficiency gains, amid uneven adoption and concerns about job impacts and oversight.

28 Nov 2025- Ex‑OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy says AI homework detectors are doomed, urging supervised in‑school assessments and teaching students to use AI as a learning companion while demonstrating skills unaided.

27 Nov 2025- OpenAI responds to lawsuit over teen's suicide, blaming alleged misuse and invoking Section 230, saying sealed chat logs show repeated crisis referrals and noting added parental controls.

26 Nov 2025- Perplexity launched a free US AI shopping assistant offering conversational recommendations, remembered preferences, product cards and PayPal “Instant Buy” checkout; desktop/web available, mobile apps arriving soon.

26 Nov 2025- Warner Music Group struck a deal with AI platform Suno letting opt‑in artists license their voices, likenesses and songs for AI‑generated tracks; Suno will train models and monetize downloads.

26 Nov 2025- Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5—claims best-in-class coding and agentic performance (first >80% SWE‑Bench), improved safety, Haiku multi-agent orchestration, 66% price cut, competes with Gemini 3 and GPT‑5.1.

25 Nov 2025- OpenAI adds "shopping research" to ChatGPT — interactive, personalized buyer's guides with retailer links, GPT‑5 mini-powered recommendations; rolling out to all users now, Instant Checkout planned.

25 Nov 2025- Leaked memo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns staff of competitive threat from Google's Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro, urges risky long-term bets and teases LLM "Shallotpeat."

24 Nov 2025- X’s About This Account revealed many US‑looking, pro‑Trump/rage‑bait accounts are actually based abroad; X removed location info amid concerns over foreign influence, VPN errors, and monetization-driven operations.

24 Nov 2025- Sunday Robotics unveiled Memo, a home robot trained on 10M real-family episodes using $200 "skill-capture" gloves; performs complex chores, beta for 50 families, shipments planned late 2026.

22 Nov 2025- Google denies reports its Gmail content trains Gemini AI, says Smart Features predate changes and weren’t mass-updated; advises users to review Smart Features and Workspace personalization toggles.

22 Nov 2025- Google unveils Nano Banana Pro, a Gemini 3–based image model offering 4K fidelity, better text rendering, Search-based world knowledge, multi-reference composition, identity preservation, and advanced photographic/layout controls.

21 Nov 2025- OpenAI launches group chats in ChatGPT for up to 20 people worldwide; GPT‑5.1 Auto participates, follows conversation flow, join via link, settings control privacy — no new memories created.

21 Nov 2025- Google unveils Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), a powerful image model—integrated into Adobe tools, improved text/refs, Search-informed visuals, watermarks with SynthID verification, API access.

20 Nov 2025- Nvidia posted record Q3 FY2026: $57B revenue, data‑center $51.2B (66% YoY) driven by Blackwell chips, strong gaming growth, and bullish $65B Q4 outlook.

20 Nov 2025- DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis previews Gemini 3: top benchmark performance, multimodal strengths, Antigravity agent platform, Search AI Mode integration, and plans to fold specialized systems into Gemini (non-medical app).

19 Nov 2025- House Republicans plan NDAA amendments to preempt state AI laws, backed by Scalise and Trump, aiming for a single federal standard despite prior moratorium failure and diverse state AI rules.

19 Nov 2025- Cloudflare outage caused by Bot Management ClickHouse query duplication that ballooned config files, crashing proxies and blocking legitimate traffic (affecting X, ChatGPT). Company pledges fixes and safeguards.

18 Nov 2025- Google Calendar now lets Tasks act like events: set time blocks, mark busy with Do Not Disturb and auto-reject invites, and add deadline dates — rolling out to all accounts.

18 Nov 2025- OpenAI will let current and former employees donate eligible equity to charity, but a delayed rollout, short decision window and clawback worries trouble staff despite higher valuation.

18 Nov 2025- Disney Channel actor Calum Worthy launched 2wai, an AI app creating interactive "HoloAvatars" of deceased from minutes of footage; viral demo sparked backlash over consent, grief exploitation and ethics.

18 Nov 2025- Anthropic released an open, reproducible "Ideological Turing Test" using paired prompts to evaluate political bias across major chat models, open-sourcing data/methods; Claude, Gemini, Grok scored highest, Llama lowest.

15 Nov 2025- Anthropic disrupted what it calls the first large-scale, mostly autonomous AI-driven cyberespionage campaign—attributed to a Chinese state actor—where Claude Code executed about 80–90% of attacks.

14 Nov 2025- Anthropic details methods to make Claude politically "even‑handed"—system prompts, reinforcement‑learning rewards, and an open‑source neutrality tool, reporting high even‑handedness scores versus rivals.

13 Nov 2025- OpenAI launches GPT‑5.1 with Instant and Thinking variants, expanded personality presets and user style tuning; staggered ChatGPT rollout and auto-matching to the best model.

13 Nov 2025- Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta to launch a startup building video/spatial world models, fundraising underway, amid Meta’s AI reorganization and internal tensions over technical direction.

12 Nov 2025- ElevenLabs launched the Iconic Voice Marketplace, a curated, consent‑focused platform licensing AI‑replicated voices of verified famous and historical figures (28 voices), pairing rights holders with brands for paid use.

12 Nov 2025- Google Photos brings "Help me edit" conversational AI to iPhone in US, improved face edits using private face groups, Nano Banana stylistic transforms, an "Ask" chatbot, and expanded search.

12 Nov 2025- Google’s Pixel update adds cautious AI notification summaries for long chat threads (Pixel 9+ excluding 9A), expands scam detection, VIP prioritization, AI photo “remix,” and future auto-sorting.

11 Nov 2025- OpenAI warns advanced AI is near researcher-level, predicts scientific discoveries by 2026 and breakthroughs by 2028, and urges global coordination on safety, oversight, and resilience.

11 Nov 2025- CMU and Stanford found AI agents far faster and cheaper but lower quality and prone to fabrication; human‑agent teaming with human verification preserved quality and boosted efficiency.

10 Nov 2025- Adobe MAX 2025: an AI-first creative suite—Firefly becomes a pro-grade AI studio (Image Model 5), introduces agentic assistants like Project Moonlight, plus Google Cloud and YouTube partnerships.

08 Nov 2025- Alibaba‑backed Moonshot AI released open‑source Kimi K2 Thinking, matching or beating top closed models on agentic benchmarks, chaining hundreds of tool calls; trained under $5M and priced affordably.

07 Nov 2025- Bipartisan senators urged Trump to block China’s access to advanced AI chips, models, and cloud resources, backing export controls and prioritizing allies after debates over Nvidia chip sales.

07 Nov 2025- Amazon launches Kindle Translate beta for KDP authors, AI-powered ebook translations (English↔Spanish, German→English), previews, separate pricing, labeled editions, eligible for KDP Select and Kindle Unlimited.

07 Nov 2025- Apple to license a custom 1.2T‑parameter Google Gemini for Siri, paying about $1B/year; inference on Apple’s Private Cloud, rollout possibly next spring while Apple builds its own model.

06 Nov 2025- Google’s Gemini Deep Research now accesses Gmail, Drive, and Chat to combine personal Workspace content with web search, producing synthesized research reports exportable to Docs or AI-generated podcasts.

05 Nov 2025- Microsoft launched MAI-Image-1, its first in-house text-to-image model, powering Bing Image Creator and Copilot Audio Expressions with fast, photorealistic imagery and nuanced lighting; EU rollout pending.

05 Nov 2025- Google's Project Suncatcher explores solar-powered satellite data centers hosting TPUs to run AI nearly 24/7, tackling radiation, terabit networking and debris risks, with prototypes planned by 2027.

05 Nov 2025- OpenAI signed a seven‑year, $38B AWS deal for hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs, diversifying from Microsoft and joining a $1.4T multi‑cloud infrastructure buildout.

04 Nov 2025- False reports claimed OpenAI stopped ChatGPT from giving legal or medical advice; OpenAI says behavior unchanged — unified policy only restates existing limits on tailored licensed advice.

04 Nov 2025- Ilya Sutskever's deposition in Musk's lawsuit revealed a 52‑page memo accusing Sam Altman of dishonesty, citing Mira Murati's evidence, a Brockman memo, and talks of an Anthropic merger.

03 Nov 2025- 1X Technologies’ $20K humanoid NEO is mostly teleoperated, not autonomous; launch demos exaggerated, raising privacy, data‑collection, and buyer expectation concerns.

01 Nov 2025- Meta bought nearly 1 GW of U.S. solar this week (raising 2025 commitments above 3 GW) to power and offset AI data-center demand, amid criticism over reliance on RECs/EACs.

01 Nov 2025- OpenAI unveiled a multi-year plan to build autonomous research agents—intern-level by 2026, fully automated by 2028—backed by massive compute, funding, and organizational restructuring.

31 Oct 2025- Tim Cook says Apple will integrate more third‑party AI models (ChatGPT added; Gemini, Anthropic rumored), targets AI‑upgraded Siri next year, and remains open to M&A amid record Q4 revenue.