– GPTZero identified 50+ verified hallucinations in 300 ICLR 2026 conference submissions, including fabricated authors and false citations, despite average peer review ratings as high as 8/10.
– Berkeley AI Research deployed 100 reinforcement learning-controlled autonomous vehicles on a highway to smooth stop-and-go traffic waves, reducing fuel consumption and improving flow using local sensor data and fast simulations.
– PLAID, a multimodal generative model from Berkeley AI Research, generates valid protein sequences and 3D structures by leveraging the latent space of ESMFold, using only sequence data for training.
– LinkBERT, developed by Stanford AI Lab, improves language model pretraining by incorporating document-level links, enhancing contextual understanding in models like BERT and GPT series.

– Netflix won a $72 billion cash and stock deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, beating competitors including Paramount Skydance Corp. and Comcast.
– Google launched Gemini 3 in November 2025, now available in Google Search and the Gemini app, with the introduction of Nano Banana Pro for high-fidelity image generation and editing.
– Google announced a $40 billion investment in AI and cloud infrastructure in Texas, set to expand its AI capabilities and data center capacity.
– Jeremy Carrasco, a former producer and director, gained over 300,000 followers on both TikTok and Instagram by sharing AI literacy content focused on identifying AI-generated videos.

# AI Daily Roundup: December 5, 2025

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## TL;DR

– [The New York Times sued Perplexity for copyright infringement](https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/the-new-york-times-is-suing-perplexity-for-copyright-infringement/) over alleged “verbatim copies” of its content.
– [Meta announced commercial dat…

– Today brought several significant AI developments across the industry
– Multiple companies announced updates to their AI products
– The community continues to push boundaries in research and applications