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💥 OpenAI releases GPT-5.2
🚙 Rivian is building its own AI chips for autonomous driving
⚖️ Disney sends cease-and-desist to Google over AI copyright
🌐 Google reveals experimental ‘Disco’ browser
⚖️ Apple loses appeal in Epic Games contempt case
🤖 1X to deploy 10,000 humanoid robots in factories
🎁 + 14 other news you might like
🧰 + 4 trending tools
📚 + 1 trending papers
💥 OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 LINK
OpenAI just launched GPT-5.2, a new lineup of AI models for ChatGPT available in three distinct versions named Instant, Thinking, and Pro to handle everything from quick translations to complex coding.
This update features a 400,000-token context window for processing documents and costs $1.75 per million input tokens in the API, marking a 40 percent price increase over the previous GPT-5.1 model.
CEO Sam Altman issued an internal “code red” to prioritize this release after Google’s Gemini 3 gained market share, putting pressure on the company to justify its $1.4 trillion infrastructure commitments.
🚙 Rivian is building its own AI chips for autonomous driving LINK
Rivian unveiled a proprietary 5-nanometer silicon chip produced by TSMC called the Rivian Autonomy Processor that integrates processing and memory to eventually enable Level 4 autonomous vehicles for its customers.
The company also announced a foundational Large Driving Model trained on massive datasets and plans to equip upcoming R2 models with lidar sensors to help with redundancy and real-time driving.
It intends to offer these upgrades through an Autonomy Plus subscription service costing $49.99 a month or a one-time fee of $2,500 starting in early 2026 for hands-free driver assist features.
⚖️ Disney sends cease-and-desist to Google over AI copyright LINK
Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google accusing the company of massive copyright infringement by using characters from Star Wars and Frozen to train its AI models without any authorization.
The notice specifically names Gemini, Veo, Imagen, and Nano Banana, alleging that the company refused to add safeguards and is now reaping enormous profits by flooding the market with infringing works.
This warning arrived just one day before the entertainment giant announced a partnership with OpenAI that allows Sora users to create videos using over 200 characters from Marvel and Pixar.
🌐 Google reveals experimental ‘Disco’ browser LINK
Google just revealed Disco, a new experimental web browser that uses the Gemini 3 model to turn your open tabs into interactive custom applications that help you complete specific tasks.
Its first feature is GenTabs, which builds custom experiences on the fly by combining data from what you are viewing and chat history to create things like travel itineraries.
You can currently join a waitlist to download the app on macOS through Google Labs, where testers will provide feedback that might help these ideas reach larger products down the line.
⚖️ Apple loses appeal in Epic Games contempt case LINK
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that Apple violated a legal order by intentionally making it difficult for developers to link users to outside payment options.
Judges agreed that Apple discouraged developers from using external payment methods by charging a 27 percent fee, demanding plain text instead of buttons, and displaying a fullscreen warning to users.
The panel noted that the lower court went too far by banning all commissions, stating Apple can charge a reasonable fee based on the necessary costs for its coordination of external links.
🤖 1X to deploy 10,000 humanoid robots in factories LINK
Robotics startup 1X says it will ship up to 10,000 of its Neo humanoid robots to manufacturing and logistics sites owned by its investor EQT between 2026 and 2030.
This strategic partnership marks a pivot for the Neo, which 1X previously marketed as a $20,000 consumer-ready bot designed to handle chores and interact with people inside the home.
Industrial use cases are likely an easier sell than personal use, which faces hurdles like potential safety issues and a privacy element involving human operators looking through the robot’s eyes.
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- Amazon Prime Video pulls AI-powered recaps after Fallout flubLINK
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- New York passes law requiring ads to disclose the use of AI performersLINK
- ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Is Coming in 2026LINK
- Intel tests chipmaking tools from sanctioned China-focused tool maker, report claims LINK
- Broadcom reveals its mystery $10 billion customer is AnthropicLINK
- World launches its ‘super app,’ including crypto pay and encrypted chat featuresLINK
🧰 Trending tools
Gemini Deep Research Agent: autonomously plans and executes multi-step research tasks via API, synthesizing findings to save developers hours of manual information gathering and analysis.LINK
Visual Editor: a browser-based tool that lets you visually modify web app interfaces while an AI agent simultaneously updates the underlying code in real-time.LINK
Korgi: a unified workspace that consolidates multiple productivity apps into one interface, reducing context-switching between tabs and helping you find and execute tasks faster.LINK
Music Videos by Mozart: generates sixty-second music videos from AI-created songs, with conversational creation flow and studio tools for multitrack editing and stem control.LINK
📚 Trending papers & reports
Confession training makes AI models more honest: researchers trained language models to admit uncertainty, reducing false claims by teaching them to say "I don't know" more often.LINK
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