AI Daily Roundup: December 5, 2025
TL;DR
- The New York Times sued Perplexity for copyright infringement over alleged “verbatim copies” of its content.
- Meta announced commercial data agreements with publishers including CNN, Fox News, and USA Today for real-time news on Meta AI.
- NVIDIA awarded up to $60,000 in research fellowships to 10 PhD students.
- Waymo is under investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for robotaxis passing stopped school buses in Austin.
🏢 Company Announcements
OpenAI launched OpenAI for Australia to build sovereign AI infrastructure and upskill over 1.5 million workers.
NVIDIA announced $60,000 research fellowships for 10 PhD students across computing innovation fields.
OpenAI acquired Neptune to improve model behavior visibility and experiment tracking tools.
OpenAI awarded $40.5M in unrestricted grants to 208 nonprofits through the People-First AI Fund.
NVIDIA extended research fellowship program for 25 years supporting graduate student projects.
OpenAI released “confessions” research to train models to admit mistakes and improve transparency.
📰 Top Stories
The New York Times sued Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging “verbatim or substantially similar copies” of its content.
Meta signed commercial data deals with CNN, Fox News, Fox Sports, Le Monde Group, People Inc., The Daily Caller, The Washington Examiner, and USA Today.
Waymo faces NHTSA investigation over robotaxis passing stopped school buses in Austin, Texas.
OpenAI acquired Thrive Holdings to accelerate enterprise AI adoption through embedded research and engineering in accounting and IT services.
🔬 Research & Papers
Exploring Syntropic Frameworks in AI Alignment proposes reconceiving AI alignment as architecting “syntropic, reasons-responsive agents.”
Beyond the Black Box: A Cognitive Architecture for Explainable and Aligned AI introduces “Weight-Calculatism” to address explainability challenges in AI.
When Do Symbolic Solvers Enhance Reasoning in Large Language Models? examines token overhead in long Chains of Thought for reasoning tasks.
🎬 Videos Worth Watching
How to communicate with aliens | Michael Levin and Lex Fridman explores theoretical models of interspecies communication.
Creating life in the lab – Xenobots and Anthrobots | Michael Levin and Lex Fridman discusses bioengineered organisms.
Surprising emergent behavior of sorting algorithms | Michael Levin and Lex Fridman demonstrates algorithmic unpredictability.
📧 From the Experts
TIL: Subtests in pytest 9.0.0+ explains new testing functionality for Python developers.
Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig compares language trade-offs for systems programming.
Django 6.0 released includes major performance improvements and new features.