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Week of December 15, 2025 - AI News Roundup

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Hardware’s brutal week: iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power go bankrupt

📰 TechCrunch AI | 📅 December 19, 2025

Three major hardware companies filed for bankruptcy this week, highlighting how tariffs, supply chain strain, and cheap foreign competition are squeezing makers of physical products.

Luma releases a new AI model that lets users generate a video from a start and end frame

📰 TechCrunch AI | 📅 December 18, 2025

Luma AI's new model is available through the company's Dream Machine platform.

Introducing GPT-5.2-Codex

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 December 18, 2025

GPT-5.2-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced coding model, offering long-horizon reasoning, large-scale code transformations, and enhanced cybersecurity capabilities.

Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 December 17, 2025

Developers can now submit apps for review and publication in ChatGPT, with approved apps appearing in a new in-product directory for easy discovery. Updated tools, guidelines, and the Apps SDK help developers build powerful chat-native experiences that bring real-world actions into ChatGPT.

Evaluating AI’s ability to perform scientific research tasks

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 December 16, 2025

OpenAI introduces FrontierScience, a benchmark testing AI reasoning in physics, chemistry, and biology to measure progress toward real scientific research.

The new ChatGPT Images is here

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 December 16, 2025

The new ChatGPT Images is powered by our flagship image generation model, delivering more precise edits, consistent details, and image generation up to 4× faster. The upgraded model is rolling out to all ChatGPT users today and is also available in the API as GPT-Image-1.5.

Updates to Meta AI glasses: conversation focus, Spotify integration, and more

📰 Meta | 📅 December 16, 2025

Meta is rolling out a software update for their AI glasses that lets you hear people talking more easily in a noisy environment.

Meta's new SAM audio model

📰 Meta | 📅 December 16, 2025

Meta: SAM Audio is the first unified AI model that can segment sound from complex audio mixtures using text, visual, and time span prompts. This technology has the potential to transform audio and video editing and drive innovation in areas like music, podcasting, television, film, scientific research, accessibility, and more.