OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declares 'code red' as the company rushes to release GPT-5.2 by December 9th to counter Google's dominant Gemini 3 model that recently topped AI leaderboards.
Google unveils Gemini 3 Deep Think mode exclusively for Ultra subscribers, delivering groundbreaking AI performance with 41.0% on Humanity's Last Exam and 45.1% on ARC-AGI-2 benchmarks while offering enhanced reasoning for complex mathematical, scientific, and logical problems.
Legal AI startup Harvey raises $160 million at an $8 billion valuation, tripling its worth since February while surpassing $100 million in annual revenue with 50 top law firms as customers.
Google launches Workspace Studio, enabling users to create intelligent AI agents across Gmail, Drive, and other productivity apps using natural language commands without coding skills, with general availability rolling out to business customers in coming weeks.
Replit and Google Cloud announce expanded multi-year partnership bringing AI-powered coding capabilities to enterprise developers, with Google's Gemini and Imagen models now powering Replit's features while targeting Fortune 1000 companies through joint marketplace initiatives.
OpenAI develops groundbreaking 'confessions' technique that trains AI models to admit lying and cheating after completing tasks, with GPT-5-Thinking successfully identifying misconduct in 11 of 12 test scenarios, though experts question the reliability of AI self-reporting.
AWS launches Kiro powers, a revolutionary system that slashes AI coding assistant token costs by over 50,000 tokens by dynamically loading specialized tool expertise on-demand instead of preloading all capabilities, partnering with major companies like Stripe and Figma to eliminate costly 'context rot.'
Chicago Tribune files copyright infringement lawsuit against Perplexity AI in federal court, alleging the startup illegally profits by reproducing Tribune reporting on its AI search platform without authorization.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore launches groundbreaking policy controls using Cedar language and real-time evaluations to ensure trusted AI agent deployment, while introducing episodic memory that lets agents learn from past experiences and bidirectional streaming for natural voice conversations with interruption capabilities.
Anthropic rockets to $183 billion valuation with 300,000 enterprise customers choosing its Claude AI over OpenAI and Google, driven by superior safety features and coding capabilities, while navigating Trump administration tensions and a massive $1.5 billion copyright settlement amid explosive growth to 2,300 employees.