OpenAI launched GPT-5.2, its latest AI model with enhanced capabilities for professional tasks like spreadsheet creation and image decoding, available in Instant, Thinking, and Pro versions.
Key AI Developments
Oracle shares dropped 11% amid gloomy forecasts and high AI spending, impacting stocks like Nvidia and Microsoft. Microsoft partners with Indian firms like Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, and Wipro to boost agentic AI adoption. Meta teams up with ElevenLabs for AI audio features on Instagram and Horizon.
Hardware and Market News
Rivian unveiled new AI tech, an in-house chip, and robotaxi plans, with Autonomy+ subscription launching next year. TCS plans to acquire Coastal Cloud for $700 million to expand cloud services. Poco M8 Pro specs leaked via FCC, revealing battery and connectivity details.
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Apple opened a new retail store in Noida, India, offering full product lineup and trade-ins. Nvidia introduced software to track AI chip locations amid export restrictions to China. Google faces potential EU fine for favoring its services.
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OpenAI released GPT-5.2, a pro-grade AI model excelling in enterprise tasks with 71% human-level performance across 44 occupations, measured by new GDPval benchmarks, and 11x faster output than experts.
Model Architecture Advances
Google unveiled Titans, a memory architecture enabling continuous long-context learning via test-time memorization and surprise metrics, outperforming GPT-4 on benchmarks like BABILong with linear efficiency. Mistral launched Devstral 2, an open-source coding model scoring 72.2% on SWE-bench Verified, paired with Vibe CLI for local terminal-based development.
Research and Safety Breakthroughs
Anthropic introduced Selective Gradient Masking (SGTM), isolating dangerous knowledge in specific neurons for removal, boosting jailbreak resistance 7x over prior methods. Microsoft and Providence debuted GigaTIME, simulating tumor microenvironments from standard slides to unlock archived samples for cancer research, revealing 1,000+ new immune-survival links.
Enterprise and Standards
Google released Gemini Deep Research Agent on a new API for multi-step investigations, scoring state-of-the-art 66.1% on DeepSearchQA. OpenAI, Anthropic, and others formed the Agentic AI Foundation under Linux Foundation, standardizing protocols like AGENTS.md and Model Context Protocol for interoperable agents.