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China may have just taken another major leap in the global AI race. ZTE and ByteDance have unveiled a prototype smartphone—the Nubia M153—featuring the world’s first agentic AI smartphone system capable of operating the entire device like a human. Unlike Siri, Google Assistant, or even next-gen AI features from Apple and Samsung, this device runs an AI that sees the screen, taps buttons, fills forms, books services, makes payments, and even negotiates with other bots. 📌 Agen

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale, two frontier-level reasoning models that match or surpass GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro—while staying open-source and dramatically cheaper. The DeepSeek V3.2 launch instantly positions the company as a global contender reshaping the economics of frontier AI. 📌 DeepSeek V3.2: The Details 🧮 Frontier Performance at the Top V3.2 delivers performance on par with leading models like GPT-5, 4.5 Sonnet, and Gemini 3 Pro acro

A University of Florida researcher told state lawmakers that AI in Florida agriculture could boost production by up to 35% by 2030, calling automation the only realistic answer to a shrinking labor force and rising production challenges. UF also broke ground on a new Center for Applied AI in Agriculture to accelerate this transition. Key Points — AI in Florida Agriculture 📈 AI-driven spraying, harvesting, and monitoring systems can reduce pesticide use and increase yields th

Major retailers and tech giants — including Amazon, Walmart, Google, Target, and OpenAI — are rolling out new AI shopping assistants this holiday season, aiming to make gift buying far easier while capturing a larger share of online spending. What’s New — AI Holiday Shopping 🧠 Smarter AI assistants now give personalized recommendations, track prices, compare products, and even place or initiate orders through natural conversations. 🛒 OpenAI’s ChatGPT shopping mode generates

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.5, its new top-tier model designed to compete directly with Gemini 3 and GPT-5.1. The model delivers major jumps in coding, reasoning, and multi-agent orchestration — at a dramatically lower price point. Key Highlights — Claude Opus 4.5 🧩 According to Anthropic, Claude Opus 4.5 is the first model to break 80% on SWE-Bench Verified, setting a new high watermark for coding accuracy. 🛠️ Internal evaluations show top scores in tool use, reas

DeepSeek just released Math-V2, an open-source MoE model that delivers research-level mathematical reasoning once locked behind proprietary walls. What It Achieved — DeepSeek Math V2 Performance Benchmarks DeepSeek Math V2 has demonstrated breakthrough performance across competitive mathematics benchmarks: 🏅 Solved 5 out of 6 IMO 2025 problems — gold-medal tier 📈 Scored 118/120 on the 2024 Putnam (under scaled test-time compute), surpassing top human competitors 📚 Achieved

Former Disney Channel actor Calum Worthy has ignited major controversy after promoting 2wai, a new AI app that allows users to create digital avatars of deceased loved ones—a concept many say feels ripped straight from Black Mirror. 🧩 What Happened With 2wai 🎭 The Viral Promo: Worthy shared an ad featuring a pregnant woman video-chatting with her mother for maternity advice… only to reveal the mother is dead and the on-screen figure is a 2wai-generated AI avatar. ⏱️ “Three

Google just unveiled Nano Banana Pro, its next-generation image model built on Gemini 3, and it’s redefining what’s possible in visual creation. The model delivers professional-grade editing, 4K outputs, state-of-the-art text accuracy, and real-time world knowledge—ushering in an entirely new standard for creative workflows. 🧩 Key Nano Banana Pro Capabilities 📸 Multi-Reference Power: Handles up to 14 visual references simultaneously, preserving identity across five characte

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is stepping out of semi-retirement to co-lead Project Prometheus, a new AI startup focused on engineering and manufacturing innovation across computing, aerospace, and automotive industries. This marks Bezos’ first hands-on operational role since departing Amazon in 2021—and signals a major new frontier in “physical-world AI.” 🧩 Key Details on Project Prometheus 💰 Massive Funding Secured: The New York Times reports Prometheus has already raised $6.

An AI-generated “artist” named Breaking Rust just hit #1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart — sparking major debate across Nashville and the entire music industry. The AI country artist Breaking Rust is now at the center of a battle over what happens when synthetic voices rise to the top of human charts. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti says artists are alarmed about how their voices and likenesses are being used to train AI models — and the state is

AI legend Fei-Fei Li — co-creator of ImageNet, a pioneer of modern computer vision, and co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute — has a new company, World Labs, which just released Marble, a groundbreaking 3D world model that turns text, images, video, or 3D layouts into persistent 3D environments, leapfrogging rivals like Google’s Genie. The Marble 3D world model is designed to move AI beyond flat text into fully interactive spatial environments. 📌 Key Points

🚀 What’s New — Adobe MAX 2025 At Adobe MAX 2025, Adobe unveiled its most ambitious AI strategy yet—unifying leading creative models for image, audio, and video into a single plan, while launching conversational, agentic AI across Firefly, Photoshop, and Adobe Express. 💡 The Details Creators now have access to a unified AI subscription, integrating models from Adobe, Google, OpenAI, Runway, Luma AI, and more. Users can generate unlimited images and videos through Dec. 1, fue

🤖 What’s New — Kimi K2 Thinking Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K2 Thinking, a reasoning model that reportedly matches or surpasses top systems like GPT-5 and Claude 4.5 Sonnet—at a fraction of the cost. 📊 The Details Kimi K2 Thinking is said to outperform GPT-5 and Claude 4.5 on multiple agentic reasoning benchmarks. Achieved a reported 44.9% on Humanity’s Last Exam 🧩. Shows major progress in coding vs. its predecessor from four months ago. Can autonomously c

🧠 What’s New — Apple Licenses Google Gemini Apple is reportedly nearing a deal to license a 1.2-trillion-parameter version of Google’s Gemini—about $1B per year—to power a major Siri transformation, according to Bloomberg. 🔒 The Details Gemini will run on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute to preserve data privacy. It will drive summarization and multi-step reasoning inside Siri. Apple previously tested models from OpenAI and Anthropic, but Gemini’s scale (1.2T > 150B) represent

The Headline On its October 30 earnings call, Mastercard officially announced that autonomous AI shopping agents are already transacting on its network — a historic milestone signaling the rise of Mastercard Agentic Commerce and the dawn of machine-to-machine payments. 🤖 Agent Pay Goes Live Mastercard’s new Agent Pay platform processed its first AI-driven purchase this quarter, according to company disclosures. U.S. Bank and Citibank cardholders are among the first to partic

The Update Anthropic has launched Claude for Excel in beta, giving users an AI assistant that can read, analyze, and modify spreadsheets directly from a sidebar. It’s part of a broader enterprise rollout that includes new finance connectors and specialized Agent Skills, positioning Claude for Excel as a serious contender in data analysis and business intelligence. 🧩 What Claude for Excel Can Do Explain complex spreadsheets in plain language. Fix broken formulas or identify h

The Headline Move Universal Music Group (UMG) has officially settled its copyright lawsuit against AI music startup Udio and, in a surprise twist, announced a joint venture to build the UMG Udio AI Music Platform, launching in 2026. This marks a landmark peace treaty between a global music label and an AI-generation company — signaling collaboration over confrontation. 💰 The Deal Behind the UMG Udio AI Music Platform Includes a financial settlement plus full catalog licensin

The Big Reveal Extropic has introduced a completely new class of hardware called Thermodynamic Sampling Units (TSUs) — chips that calculate probabilities instead of instructions. The startup claims this architecture could, in theory, run AI models using up to 10,000× less energy than today’s GPUs, based on early simulations and prototype testing. This milestone in Extropic thermodynamic chips signals a radical rethink of how computation and physics might converge. 🔬 How Extr

🧠 Meet Mico — The AI With a Personality At its Fall Release event, Microsoft introduced Microsoft Mico Copilot, a playful animated blob that gives its AI assistant a literal face — or at least, a mood. The colorful orb reacts to tone, shifts hues mid-conversation, and hides an Easter egg: tap it repeatedly, and it morphs into the nostalgic legend itself — Clippy. ⚙️ The Major Upgrades in Microsoft Mico Copilot 🧩 Memory & Personalization: Copilot can now recall details from

🧠 Context-Aware Intelligence for the Real World In a world drowning in data, Dropbox Dash emerges as the AI teammate that actually gets it. Dash isn’t just another chatbot bolted onto your workflow — it’s a context-aware intelligence layer that understands how you and your team work across dozens of tools, documents, and conversations. 💬 Inside the Conversation Cheung: Teams deal with massive volumes of data from different apps. How does Dash understand how users work acros