🧠 What’s Happening OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise up to $100 billion in new funding, potentially valuing the company at $750–$830 billion, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal and The Information . If completed, this would rank among the largest private funding rounds in history. 💰 Key Details at a Glance 📊 Target valuation: Up to $830B 🌍 Potential investors: Sovereign wealth funds & global partners ⚙️ Funds aimed at: AI infrastructure, compute, an

🏛️ What’s Happening The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced collaboration agreements with 24 leading organizations to advance the DOE Genesis Mission—a historic national initiative using artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery, strengthen national security, and drive energy innovation. The announcement follows a White House convening with senior leaders from government, industry, and academia and builds on the Administration’s America’s AI Action

Palm Beach County has delayed approval of a massive AI data center project as residents raise alarms about pollution, water consumption, noise, and rising electric rates — concerns that reflect broader unease about rapid AI infrastructure expansion across Florida. What’s Happening 📍 “Project Tango” Proposed Near Wellington County officials are reviewing a proposal for a 202-acre AI data center complex near Wellington, an area roughly equivalent to 150 football fields. Plans

GPT-5.2 is officially here, and OpenAI is positioning it as its strongest model series to date for everyday professional use and agentic systems — a direct response to accelerating competition among frontier AI models. What GPT-5.2 Agentic AI Delivers ⚙️ Built for Agentic Workflows OpenAI says GPT-5.2 Agentic AI significantly improves how ChatGPT handles multi-step, tool-using, and planning-heavy tasks, strengthening the foundation for autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents

A move that reshapes entertainment, streaming, and the future of AI-powered content creation. The Headline Disney announces a three-year licensing and investment partnership with OpenAI, granting Sora users access to 200+ iconic characters across Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars—alongside a $1B equity investment in OpenAI. This Disney Sora deal marks one of the most consequential collaborations yet between Hollywood and generative AI. Inside the Disney Sora Deal 🧸 200+ B

Nous Research has released Nomos 1, a large-scale open reasoning model designed to push the boundaries of mathematical problem-solving and transparent AI evaluation. The release includes both the model and its supporting orchestration framework, positioning Nomos 1 as a significant contribution to open research on advanced reasoning systems. Key Details 🧠 Nomos 1 Reasoning Model Overview The Nomos 1 reasoning model is built at the 30B-parameter scale and is optimized for com

OpenAI has released its first-ever State of Enterprise AI report, drawing from insights across more than one million workplace accounts and a global survey of enterprise adopters. The findings reinforce what high-performing organizations are already seeing: AI is fundamentally reshaping how work happens. Key Insights from the OpenAI Enterprise AI Report 💨 Productivity Gains According to the OpenAI enterprise AI report, 75% of workers say AI has improved both the speed and qu

A federal move aimed at centralizing artificial intelligence oversight by asserting national authority over a growing patchwork of state-level AI regulations. What Happened 📜 Trump AI Executive Order Signed The Trump AI executive order is intended to halt state laws regulating artificial intelligence, with the administration arguing that AI developers and users benefit from a single national framework rather than dozens of different state standards. 🛡️ Federal AI Litigation

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

A Guardian investigation highlights growing concern in the academic AI community after a single researcher, Kevin Zhu, claimed authorship on 113 AI papers this year, with 89 accepted at the prestigious NeurIPS conference. The episode has sparked debate about quality, integrity, and overload in modern AI research—fueling what many now call an emerging AI research slop crisis. 📌 AI Research Slop Crisis: The Details 👤 One Author, 113 Papers Kevin Zhu, a recent Berkeley graduat

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

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has told employees the company is entering an internal OpenAI code red surge, rapidly accelerating improvements to ChatGPT after Google’s newest upgrades. The company is shifting priorities and fast-tracking a new model internally codenamed Garlic. 🧠 OpenAI Code Red: Key Details 📌 Major Feature Push Altman called this “a critical time for ChatGPT,” directing teams to upgrade personalization, image generation, and overall capability. 🚀 New Model Next W

Anthropic is reportedly positioning itself to go public as early as 2026, according to the Financial Times. The Claude maker has hired the same law firm behind Google’s and LinkedIn’s IPOs as investors push for a listing before OpenAI. The Anthropic IPO is quickly becoming one of the most closely watched moves in the AI race. 📌 Anthropic IPO: The Details 🏛️ Elite Legal Team Secured Anthropic has tapped Wilson Sonsini, the powerhouse firm behind Google’s and LinkedIn’s IPOs,

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

In a new interview promoting the next Avatar installment (widely reported as Fire and Ash), director James Cameron warned that generative AI replacing human actors is “horrifying,” even as he continues to support AI tools that lower VFX costs and improve filmmaking workflows. Cameron says motion capture celebrates the authenticity of real performers — while gen-AI systems that fabricate actors or performances from text prompts do the opposite. What He Said — James Cameron on

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

Former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy is urging educators to abandon efforts to catch AI-generated homework, arguing that today’s detection tools are fundamentally broken — and that grading needs to shift back into the classroom. What He Said — AI Homework Detection ❌ AI detectors “don’t work” and are “doomed to fail.” ✍️ He warned that modern AI systems can mimic student style closely enough that detection is unreliable. 🏫 He recommends moving graded work back into in-sc

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

A statewide deep dive into the future of artificial intelligence Florida lawmakers are preparing for a comprehensive review of artificial intelligence as the technology continues reshaping education, business, and public safety. House Speaker Daniel Perez has officially designated the week of December 8 as “Artificial Intelligence Week” in the Florida House, where committees will explore AI’s benefits, risks, and long-term implications ahead of the 2026 legislative session. �