This AI daily roundup covers December 14-16, 2025: NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 launch and SchedMD acquisition, iRobot’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, the Trump administration’s Tech Force initiative, Disney-OpenAI exclusivity details, and why MIT Technology Review says 95% of businesses found zero value in AI pilots. A 10-minute read for tech-savvy audiences.

– OpenAI released GPT-5.2, achieving 93.2% on GPQA Diamond and 40.3% on FrontierMath, and resolved an open problem in statistical learning theory with a verified proof.
– NVIDIA’s Hopper and GB200 NVL72 systems, along with the Blackwell platform, are used to train and deploy GPT-5.2, highlighting NVIDIA’s central role in large-scale AI development.
– BBVA and OpenAI expanded their partnership to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise to all 120,000 BBVA employees across 25 countries as part of a multi-year AI transformation.
– The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reached a three-year licensing agreement allowing Sora and ChatGPT Images to generate content featuring over 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters, with Disney investing $1 billion in OpenAI.

– Google is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio to Search Live on Android and iOS in the US, featuring more natural speech, better context retention, and real-time speech-to-speech translation across 70+ languages and 2,000 language pairs.
– OpenAI announced GPT-5.2 with a 400,000-token context window, knowledge cutoff of August 31, 2025, and three tiers: Instant, Thinking, and Pro, optimized for professional knowledge work.
– Disney signed a $1 billion deal with OpenAI to allow use of its characters in OpenAI’s Sora video model, with promised ‘guardrails’ to prevent unauthorized use of character voices and faces.
– Elon Musk’s xAI filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI, alleging anticompetitive practices including Apple’s exclusive partnership with OpenAI that blocks access to competing chatbots like xAI’s Grok.

– State attorneys general demanded Google, Meta, and OpenAI submit compliance plans by January 16, 2026, citing potential violations of state laws due to harmful chatbot outputs and inappropriate interactions with minors.
– Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google over alleged copyright infringement, claiming its Gemini, Veo, Imagen, and Nano Banana AI models were trained on Disney’s copyrighted works without authorization.
– Rivian unveiled the Rivian Autonomy Processor 1, its custom AI chip manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., to replace Nvidia hardware in the R2 SUV’s automated driving system.
– NVIDIA and CoreWeave achieved a record-breaking Graph500 result using 8,192 H100 GPUs, processing a graph with 2.2 trillion vertices and 35 trillion edges at 410 trillion traversed edges per second.

– Google’s TPUv7, used to train frontier models like Gemini 3 and Claude 4.5 Opus, is now sold directly to external customers, including a landmark deal with Anthropic for up to 1 million chips.
– NVIDIA’s GB200 NVL72 rack-scale system enables mixture-of-experts (MoE) AI models to run 10x faster by leveraging 72 Blackwell GPUs, high-bandwidth memory, and a unified NVLink interconnect.
– Mistral launched Devstral 2, a 123-billion parameter coding model, and Devstral Small 2 at 24B parameters, both available for free via API and Hugging Face for a limited time.
– Cursor, the AI coding assistant, reached $1 billion in annualized revenue in November 2025 and raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation.

– Mistral AI launched Devstral 2, a new coding-focused AI model, and introduced Mistral Vibe, a command-line interface for code automation, alongside a smaller version, Devstral Small.
– Nvidia received U.S. approval to sell its H200 AI chips to approved commercial customers in China, with a 25% tariff imposed on these sales.
– OpenAI announced a collaboration with Deutsche Telekom to bring advanced AI capabilities to millions across Europe, including multilingual AI experiences and the rollout of ChatGPT Enterprise to Deutsche Telekom employees.
– Google launched a new AI Quest to promote AI literacy in schools, backed by over $5 million in Google.org funding and expanded partnerships for computer science education.

– IBM will acquire Confluent in an all-cash deal valued at $11 billion, paying $31.00 per share, to enhance real-time data streaming capabilities for AI models.
– Google plans to launch its first AI-powered smart glasses with Gemini in 2026, collaborating with Samsung Electronics, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster.
– Anthropic has launched a beta integration of Claude Code with Slack, enabling agentic coding tasks like bug fixes and feature implementations directly within Slack threads.
– OpenAI and Instacart have partnered to integrate the Instacart app into ChatGPT via the Agentic Commerce Protocol, allowing users to browse, add, and securely checkout groceries within the chat interface.