Top stories in AI today: – OpenAI, Disney lock in $1B deal – OpenAI drops GPT-5.2, hits back at Google
– Deploy voice agents for your business
– Google opens upgraded Deep Research agent to devs
– 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more Read more: https://
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OpenAI Disney partnership, GPT-5.2 launch, voice agents
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Generative and Agentic AI Transforming Financial Services Infrastructure
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Great discussion from the @Cisco and NVIDIA teams on how generative and agentic AI are reshaping financial services. Exciting to see secure and scalable AI infrastructure helping organizations move faster in this space.
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Anthropic Expands Fellows Program with Strong Research Outcomes
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40% of fellows in our first cohort have since joined Anthropic full-time, and 80% published their work as a paper. Next year, we’re expanding the program to more fellows and more research areas. To learn more about what our fellows work on: https://
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 Family Advanced Model Professional
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The GPT 5.2 family is now on Poe! The GPT‑5.2 family is OpenAI’s most advanced model for professional work and long‑running agents. It comes with big gains in reasoning, long‑context, tool use, vision, and coding. (1/2)
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MCP Joins Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Initiative
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MCP is now a part of the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation.
— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) 11 décembre 2025
Co-creator David Soria Parra talks about how a protocol sketched in a London conference room became the open standard for connecting AI to the world—and what comes next for it. pic.twitter.com/nIYPc15b4YMCP is now a part of the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation. Co-creator David Soria Parra talks about how a protocol sketched in a London conference room became the open standard for connecting AI to the world—and what comes next for it.
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Perplexity Enterprise Adoption in Legal Services Industry
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An important vertical that Perplexity is working on for enterprise adoption is legal services. Lawyers want the most accurate AI that can pull references reliably. One of the best law firms Gunderson Dettmer has adopted Perplexity Enteprise and the results have even outstanding.
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GPT-5.2 Thinking Achieves Human-Expert Performance on GDPval
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OpenAI says GPT-5.2 Thinking is its first model to achieve human-expert performance on GDPval, an evaluation covering 44 professional occupations, including presentations and spreadsheet analysis. The company highlights major gains in long-context reasoning, coding, scientific
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 Across Multiple Subscription Plans
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OpenAI has officially launched GPT-5.2 Rolling it out across Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans, with Free and Go users gaining access tomorrow. The new system comes in tiers
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GPT-5.2 Now Available for Perplexity Pro and Max
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GPT-5.2 is now available for all Perplexity Pro and Max subscribers.
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Copilot launches GPT-5.2 model for Microsoft 365 Premium users
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Copilot just got smarter! Starting today, we're rolling out the latest GPT-5.2 model from our partners at OpenAI to consumer @Copilot
, coming first to Microsoft 365 Premium users. Can't wait to see what you do with it.