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  • Chat GPT-5.2 Is Here, Google Eyes AI Glasses, AI Person of the Year

    Chat GPT-5.2 Is Here, Google Eyes AI Glasses, AI Person of the Year
    Dec 12 2025
    (0:18) OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.2 as Its Most Advanced Professional AI Model (1:13) Time Crowns AI Architects as 2025 Person of the Year (2:06) McDonald’s Pulls AI Christmas Ad After Online Backlash (2:54) Google Targets 2026 Launch for AI Glasses to Challenge Meta (3:39) AI Tool From University Of Hawai‘i Maps Sun’s Magnetic Field In 3D Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
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    5 min
  • OpenAI Preps Image-2 Model, Washington Post Debuts New AI Podcast

    OpenAI Preps Image-2 Model, Washington Post Debuts New AI Podcast
    Dec 11 2025
    OpenAI is preparing new Image‑2 and Image‑2‑mini models that improve color, detail, and reliability, potentially launching alongside GPT‑5.2 to close the gap with Google and give creators faster, cleaner outputs. (0:12) Glean’s AI Transformation 100 says AI can lift performance but erode craft and purpose without balance, urging expert‑led scaling, centralized high‑risk controls, decentralized experiments, and impact‑based metrics. (0:59) The Washington Post launched an app‑only, AI‑generated “Your Personal Podcast” with customizable topics, voices, and length, prioritizing engagement and soon adding talkback features over traditional RSS reach. (1:43) Rivian’s Autonomy and AI Day pitches an in‑house autonomy stack and near‑term ADAS progress as Wall Street splits on its capital needs versus potential licensing and a path from hands‑free to eyes‑off. (2:24) Comedian Sarah Rose Siskind’s “FetusGPT” trains a tiny model on likely in‑utero inputs to mirror limited learning, prompting reflections on creativity, reassurance, and privacy trade‑offs. (3:04) Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
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    4 min
  • Chatbots Take Over Holiday Shopping, Most Teen Use Chatbots Daily

    Chatbots Take Over Holiday Shopping, Most Teen Use Chatbots Daily
    Dec 10 2025
    Shoppers are turning to retailer-embedded chatbots for holiday gifting, gaining speed and inspiration but facing hallucinations and bias—so verification and transparency are key. (0:13) Unlike the dot-com era, today’s AI boom is fueled by cash-rich giants and rapid adoption—with Nvidia soaring and VC dollars concentrating—even as fraud and bubble risks linger. (0:54) Meta is overhauling its AI push, pursuing a possibly proprietary “Avocado” model after Llama 4 while ramping capex, partnerships, and reorgs to compete with top-tier rivals by 2026. (1:38) Pew finds U.S. teens widely using chatbots—led by ChatGPT—with older, Black and Hispanic teens leaning in most, prompting calls for clearer norms as tech firms chase default status. (2:26) An Arizona police department released a clearly labeled AI-generated suspect image, highlighting speed and consistency gains alongside risks of bias, memory contamination, and due-process erosion. (3:10) Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
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    4 min
  • OpenAI Uncovers Usage Gap, Microsoft Maps Seven AI Futures

    OpenAI Uncovers Usage Gap, Microsoft Maps Seven AI Futures
    Dec 9 2025
    OpenAI says enterprise adoption is deepening—8x more messages, 19x more structured workflows, 320x more reasoning tokens—with big time savings and a widening gap between frontier and median users as org readiness becomes the bottleneck. (0:13) Trump plans an executive order to rein in state AI laws, aligning with industry’s push for uniform rules, but legal limits on federal preemption mean lawsuits and ongoing compliance uncertainty. (1:06) Anthropic is wiring Slack to Claude Code so tagging @Claude spins up live coding with context, repo access, updates, and PR links—turning chat into embedded workflows that speed fixes and reviews. (1:54) Microsoft maps seven AI shifts toward agentic teammates with strong safeguards, highlights health and research gains, denser superfactory infrastructure, repo intelligence, and a hybrid quantum push—urging teams to adopt and secure agents like colleagues. (2:44) A Google engineer’s 2.5-year pivot into AI—built on core books, courses, and projects—led to a Cloud AI/ML role, showing persistence, fundamentals, and applied impact beat hype. (3:34) Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
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  • AI Hiring Myth Busted, Google Headwinds, Joe Rogan AI Suggestions

    AI Hiring Myth Busted, Google Headwinds, Joe Rogan AI Suggestions
    Dec 8 2025
    An economist says grads’ higher unemployment reflects a broad hiring cooldown, not AI, though Goldman warns of rising joblessness for young tech workers and flags hiring and intern conversion indicators. (0:12) A judge capped Google’s default search deals at one year and set up expert‑run data access for rivals—including training data for gen‑AI assistants—in a remedy Google will appeal. (1:00) YouTuber Kurt Caz faces backlash for an AI‑edited thumbnail that misrepresented his Croydon vlog and stoked anti‑immigrant fear, fueling calls for labeling and penalties on deceptive promos. (1:45) The FDA is piloting agentic‑AI tools for reviews, surveillance, and inspections under human oversight amid staffing strains and past LLM stumbles, making governance and validation critical. (2:30) Joe Rogan’s “AI Jesus” riff highlights the growing tech‑spirituality crossover as bots and “AI pastors” spread, raising thorny questions over doctrine control, safety, and platform rules. (3:18) Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
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    4 min
  • AI Market Bubble Fears, Cloudflare Blocks 400 Billion AI Agents

    AI Market Bubble Fears, Cloudflare Blocks 400 Billion AI Agents
    Dec 5 2025
    The Bank of England warned AI-driven tech valuations look stretched and could spur a credit-linked correction even as it plans to trim bank capital buffers in 2027. (0:12) A Nature study finds campaign chatbots can measurably sway voter intent—especially among moderates—with uneven accuracy across models, intensifying calls for disclosure and safeguards. (0:58) VC dealmaking has gone hyperfast as AI attracts roughly two-thirds of new funding at soaring valuations, accelerating winners but risking overbuild and fading discipline. (1:42) Cloudflare says it has blocked 400 billion AI bot requests since July, underscoring a scraping arms race that could shift models toward licensed and synthetic data and reshape training economics. (2:28) AI is permeating kids’ lives—from smart toys to classroom tutors—promising personalization but demanding privacy-by-design, age filters, transparency, and human oversight. (3:13) Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
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    4 min