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Week of December 08, 2025 - AI News Roundup

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BBVA and OpenAI Redefine Banking with AI

📰 BBVA | 📅 December 12, 2025

BBVA and OpenAI have entered into a strategic alliance aimed at redefining the future of financial services through the use of artificial intelligence. The agreement marks a unique and unprecedented level of collaboration in the financial industry to build a radically customer-centric proposition and to drive a more productive and efficient operating model.

Introducing GPT-5.2

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 December 11, 2025

GPT-5.2 is our most advanced frontier model for everyday professional work, with state-of-the-art reasoning, long-context understanding, coding, and vision. Use it in ChatGPT and the OpenAI API to power faster, more reliable agentic workflows.

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI bring beloved characters to Sora

📰 Disney | 📅 December 11, 2025

As part of this three-year licensing agreement, Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that can be viewed and shared by fans, drawing on more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters.

Google launched its deepest AI research agent yet

📰 Google | 📅 December 11, 2025

Google releasing a significantly more powerful Gemini Deep Research agent, available via the Interactions API. For the first time, developers can embed Google’s most advanced autonomous research capabilities directly into their own applications.

Disney hits Google with massive copyright infringement

📰 TechCrunch AI | 📅 December 11, 2025

Disney is accusing the tech giant of unauthorized distribution of its copyrighted characters without permission via Gemini AI.

The Architects of AI are TIME’s 2025 person of the year

📰 TIME | 📅 December 11, 2025

TIME Magazine has named the 'Architects of AI' its Person of the Year, who include Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Lisa Su, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and Fei-Fei Li

OpenAI's certifications courses

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 December 09, 2025

Learn how OpenAI’s new certifications and AI Foundations courses help people build real-world AI skills, boost career opportunities, and prepare for the future of work.

Instacart and OpenAI partner on AI shopping experiences

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 December 08, 2025

OpenAI and Instacart are deepening their longstanding partnership by bringing the first fully integrated grocery shopping and Instant Checkout payment app to ChatGPT.