NVIDIA launches DRIVE Alpamayo-R1, the world's first open reasoning AI model for autonomous driving that combines chain-of-thought reasoning with path planning for level 4 autonomy, while also releasing new digital AI tools including speech recognition and content safety models.
Amazon launches Nova 2 Sonic AI model that enables real-time voice conversations in multiple languages including Portuguese and Hindi, featuring polyglot voices that can switch languages mid-conversation and integration with major telephony providers like Twilio and Vonage.
ChatGPT drives 28% more Black Friday shopping referrals as AI traffic to retail sites explodes 805%, with Amazon dominating at 54% of referrals while Walmart surges from 2.7% to 14.9% share, and AI-driven shoppers show 38% higher purchase rates than traditional visitors.
Apple's AI chief John Giannandrea steps down and transitions to advisor role before retiring in spring 2026, while tech giant hires Microsoft and Google veteran Amar Subramanya to lead critical AI initiatives including Foundation Models and ML research.
OpenAI prepares to introduce advertising to ChatGPT despite CEO Sam Altman previously calling AI ads 'uniquely unsettling,' with code discovered in the Android beta version revealing features for targeted ads potentially based on user chat history and memory.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek releases free, open-source models DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale that reportedly outperform OpenAI's GPT-5 and Google's Gemini-3.0-Pro, achieving gold medals in international competitions while cutting computing costs by 70% through innovative Sparse Attention technology.
Nvidia launches Alpamayo-R1, an open AI model that gives self-driving cars human-like reasoning abilities to process visual and text data for better driving decisions, marking a major step toward fully autonomous vehicles.
Apple AI chief John Giannandrea retires in spring 2026 following major Siri delays that force the company to postpone Apple Intelligence features until 2026, with former Microsoft researcher Amar Subramanya taking over as Apple partners with Google for advanced capabilities amid an AI team exodus.
DeepSeek's breakthrough AI models crush GPT-5 performance while slashing costs by 70% through revolutionary sparse attention technology, as former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever declares the era of simply building bigger AI models dead and US power grids buckle under exploding data center demands projected to double by 2035.
AWS AI Agent Marketplace explodes to over 2,100 agents, crushing initial targets by 40x since July, while introducing new Agent mode for natural language discovery and automated custom pricing for enterprise customers.