Welcome back folks!

December closed the year with major AI momentum. OpenAI released GPT-5.2, Perplexity introduced its 2025 Review with bold updates, and Google unveiled Gemini 3 Flash alongside new email and research tools.

As 2025 comes to an end, these launches signal a much bigger shift, AI is moving faster, becoming more personal, and scaling deeper into real-world workflows.

Wishing you an advance Happy New Year and an exciting, AI-powered 2026 ahead.

LATEST AI BREAKTHROUGHS

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.2 for ChatGPT

OpenAI’s most important ChatGPT update was the launch of GPT-5.2, which significantly improved reasoning, accuracy, long-context understanding and enterprise reliability. The release strengthened ChatGPT’s competitive position while focusing on performance, safety and real-world scalability.

Other Key ChatGPT Updates to know :

• Your Year With ChatGPT – A Spotify-style annual recap showing user activity, themes and AI-generated visuals.

• Personality & Tone Controls – Users can now customize ChatGPT’s response style, warmth and expressiveness.

• Atlas Security Upgrade – OpenAI strengthened protections against prompt-injection and agent misuse.

• Internal “Code Red” Initiative – OpenAI accelerated ChatGPT improvements to respond faster to competitors.

• Seasonal Multimodal Features – Festive AI tools, including Santa-style messages generated from selfies, were introduced.
  

Perplexity Launches 2025 Review Feature

Perplexity launched its 2025 Review Tool, a new feature designed to help users summarize and reflect on their year with AI. This tool offers preset prompts and personalized summaries that condense users’ interactions and key insights throughout the year, enhancing long-term productivity and retrospective understanding.

Other key Perplexity updates to know:

• NYT Files Copyright Suit Against Perplexity – The New York Times sued Perplexity for allegedly copying and distributing its articles without authorization.

• Chicago Tribune Launches Copyright Lawsuit – The Tribune separately filed a similar federal lawsuit over alleged content misuse.

• Perplexity Introduces Personalized Memory Feature – Perplexity expanded memory across models to remember context and preferences for smarter, customized answers.

• Cristiano Ronaldo Takes Perplexity Stake – Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo invested in Perplexity, increasing global attention and celebrity endorsement.

• Perplexity Pro Trial Now Requires Cards – The platform updated its free-trial policy, now requiring users to enter payment card details for the Pro trial.

Google Unveils Gemini 3 Flash Model

Google launched Gemini 3 Flash, its fastest and most cost-efficient AI model, offering advanced multimodal reasoning, real-time responses and improved performance across text, images, audio and video. It’s now the default for Gemini users.

Google introduced a Gemini-powered email assistant (CC) that delivers personalized daily briefings from Gmail, Calendar and Drive. At the same time, Gemini Deep Research was expanded to support complex investigative and analytical AI workflows.

CEO Sundar Pichai shared a Gemini-generated holiday image, sparking wide engagement and Google announced the Gemini AI student contest winners, highlighting creative AI projects and reinforcing Google’s growing ecosystem and community impact.

TOP 5 AI INSIGHTS YOU SHOULD KNOW

• Anthropic, Accenture launch AI partnership 
  Accenture and Anthropic formed a new business group to train 30,000 staff and integrate Claude tools, helping enterprises scale secure, responsible AI across finance, healthcare, government and other regulated sectors.

• Meta inks US news-publisher AI deals
  Meta Platforms (owner of Facebook/Instagram) signed AI-data licensing deals with major U.S. publishers, enabling chatbots to deliver “real-time” news streams, reinforcing reliance on structured content for generative models.

• Amazon Reshapes AI Leadership Unit

  Amazon reorganized its AI division, replacing AI head Rohit Prasad with AWS veteran Peter DeSantis overseeing models, custom silicon, quantum integration to boost innovation and competitiveness.

• Vietnam Smart Cities Powered by AI

  At the Hanoi Smart City Summit, officials highlighted AI’s role in optimizing traffic flow, environmental monitoring, public services delivery and disaster response systems across Vietnam’s rapidly expanding smart city initiatives.

• Microsoft Expands Canadian AI Infrastructure

  Microsoft announced plans to invest over C$7.5 billion in Canada, part of a broader long-term commitment toward AI infrastructure and cybersecurity development through 2027.

TRENDING AI TOOLS YOU CANNOT MISS

SnapPod AI - Instantly create, edit and publish professional-quality podcasts with AI voices in 20+ languages.

Mem AI – AI-powered note-taking tool that automatically organizes your thoughts and knowledge for easy recall and productivity.

Consensus AI – AI research search engine that answers questions by analyzing and summarizing peer-reviewed research papers.

Writesonic AI  – AI content generator for SEO blogs, ads, landing pages and chatbot responses that saves time and boosts reach.

Pomelli AI – AI tool that helps teams quickly analyze documents, extract insights and collaborate efficiently.

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