NY governor signs bills requiring ads to disclose AI-generated performers and mandating consent of heirs to use a deceased person's likeness commercially (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
New York Enacts Landmark AI Law Requiring Ads To Disclose Use Of Synthetic Performers
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed the nation's first AI bill designed to both protect consumers and increase transparency in the f...
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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 (OpenAI)
Introducing GPT-5.2
The most advanced frontier model for professional work and long-running agents.
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OpenAI says GPT&#8209;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
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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 (Time)
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The Architects of AI Are TIME's 2025 Person of the Year
The Architects of AI drove the economy, shaped geopolitics, and changed the way we interact with the world
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Time names &ldquo;the Architects of AI&rdquo; as its 2025 Person of the Year and examines AI
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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 (The Verge)
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ChatGPT’s ‘adult mode’ is expected to debut in Q1 2026
Sam Altman said earlier this year that the mode was on the way.
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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 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Google debuts &#039;Disco,&#039; a Gemini-powered tool for making web apps from browser tabs | TechCrunch
Google Labs is testing a product that will work with your browser tabs to make web apps for you.
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Google launches Disco, a Gemini 3-powered experiment that suggests and creates GenTabs, web apps based on the user
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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 (Hayden Field/The Verge)
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GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battle
Ready to make a spreadsheet.
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OpenAI says GPT-5.2 Thinking hallucinates less than GPT-5.1 and is more reliable for agentic AI needs; prerelease testers include Notion, Box, Shopify, and Zoom
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OpenAI launches GPT-5.2, its "best model yet," in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants, with significant improvements in writing, coding, and reasoning (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’
The ChatGPT-maker is releasing its “best model yet” as it faces new pressures from Google and other AI competitors.
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OpenAI debuts GPT-5.2, its &ldquo;best model yet&rdquo;, in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants, with significant improvements in writing, coding, and reasoning benchmarks
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Google DeepMind launches an enhanced Gemini Deep Research agent accessible to developers via its new Interactions API, along with a new DeepSearchQA benchmark (The Keyword)
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Build with Gemini Deep Research
We have reimagined Gemini Deep Research to be more powerful than ever, now accessible to developers via the new Interactions API.
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Google DeepMind debuts an enhanced Gemini Deep Research agent, available to developers via its new Interactions API, along with agent benchmark DeepSearchQA
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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 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
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Rivian is designing its own powerful AI chips for autonomous driving
Rivian’s AI chips can perform 1,600 trillion operations a second.
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Rivian says it is building its own 5nm AI chip, the Rivian Autonomy Processor, and will launch a foundation &ldquo;Large Driving Model&rdquo;, for fully autonomous driving
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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 (TechCrunch)
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Runway releases its first world model, adds native audio to latest video model | TechCrunch
Runway debuts a physics-aware world model that simulates reality to train agents and power video, robotics, and avatar applications.
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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
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