Fortnite returns to the Google Play Store in the US following a US District Court injunction; Google and Epic announced a settlement last week (Kritika Lamba/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/fortnite-returns-google-play-us-after-court-order-2025-12-11/
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Fortnite returns to Google Play in the US following a US District Court injunction; Google and Epic settled last week, after a years-long antitrust dispute
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Bob Iger says the OpenAI deal "does not in any way represent a threat to the creators at all" because it doesn't include name, likeness, or character voices (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
Bob Iger Favors Paramount Bid for Warner Bros., Defends OpenAI Deal
Bob Iger favors Paramount bid for Warner Bros. defends OpenAI Sora deal as about respecting creativity.
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Bob Iger says Disney
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[Thread] GPT-5.2 is now available in the API, priced at $1.75/1M input and $14/1M output tokens; GPT-5.2 Pro is priced at $21/1M input and $168/1M output tokens (@openaidevs)
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GPT-5.2 is now available in the API—our most advanced frontier model for long-running agents. https://t.co/J5i4czpKsL
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[Thread] GPT-5.2 is now available in the API, priced at $1.75/1M input and $14/1M output tokens; GPT-5.2 Pro is priced at $21/1M input and $168/1M output tokens
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NY governor signs bills requiring ads to disclose AI-generated performers and mandating consent of heirs to use a deceased person's likeness commercially (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
New York Enacts Landmark AI Law Requiring Ads To Disclose Use Of Synthetic Performers
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed the nation's first AI bill designed to both protect consumers and increase transparency in the f...
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OpenAI says GPT‑5.2 Thinking beats or ties industry professionals on 70.9% of GDPval knowledge work tasks, delivering outputs at >11x the speed and <1% the cost (OpenAI) https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2
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OpenAI says GPT&#8209;5.2 Thinking beats or ties industry professionals on 70.9% of GDPval knowledge work tasks, delivering outputs at >11x the speed and <1% the cost
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Time names "the Architects of AI" as its 2025 Person of the Year and takes a look at AI's effect on the economy, geopolitics, and how we interact with the world (Time)
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The Architects of AI Are TIME's 2025 Person of the Year
The Architects of AI drove the economy, shaped geopolitics, and changed the way we interact with the world
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Time names &ldquo;the Architects of AI&rdquo; as its 2025 Person of the Year and examines AI
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OpenAI's Fidji Simo says ChatGPT's "adult mode" is expected to launch in Q1 2026, says OpenAI wants to get better at age prediction before launching the feature (The Verge)
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ChatGPT’s ‘adult mode’ is expected to debut in Q1 2026
Sam Altman said earlier this year that the mode was on the way.
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Google launches Disco, a Gemini 3-powered experiment that suggests and creates GenTabs, web apps based on the user's open browser tabs and Gemini chat history (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Google debuts &#039;Disco,&#039; a Gemini-powered tool for making web apps from browser tabs | TechCrunch
Google Labs is testing a product that will work with your browser tabs to make web apps for you.
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Google launches Disco, a Gemini 3-powered experiment that suggests and creates GenTabs, web apps based on the user
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OpenAI says GPT-5.2 Thinking hallucinates less than GPT-5.1 and has improved reliability for agentic AI needs; pre-release testers include Notion, Box, Shopify (Hayden Field/The Verge)
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GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battle
Ready to make a spreadsheet.
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OpenAI says GPT-5.2 Thinking hallucinates less than GPT-5.1 and is more reliable for agentic AI needs; prerelease testers include Notion, Box, Shopify, and Zoom
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OpenAI launches GPT-5.2, its "best model yet," in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants, with significant improvements in writing, coding, and reasoning (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’
The ChatGPT-maker is releasing its “best model yet” as it faces new pressures from Google and other AI competitors.
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OpenAI debuts GPT-5.2, its &ldquo;best model yet&rdquo;, in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants, with significant improvements in writing, coding, and reasoning benchmarks
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