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New York’s new law forces advertisers to say when they’re using AI avatars

Mia Sato / theverge - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill Thursday that will require advertisers to identify if an ad includes AI-generated people. Hochul's announcement said the bill, S.8420-A/A.8887-B, was the first of its kind in the US, describing it as a "common sens…

#ai #techpolicy #digitalmarketing #aiethics #government #privacy #technology #ads #advertising #regulation

New York’s new law forces advertisers to say when they’re using AI avatars

2 months / theverge / Mia Sato

New York passes law requiring ads to disclose the use of AI performers

2 months / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

New York Becomes First State To Require Disclosure of AI Performers in Ads

2 months / slashdot / msmash

Back to Top / Thursday, December 11, 2025, 4:20 pm / permalink 16854 / 3 stories in 2 months


Apple Wins Ability to Charge Fees on External Payment Links as Appeals Court Modifies Epic Injunction

Juli Clover / macrumors - Apple should be able to collect a reasonable commission on purchases made using external links included in iOS apps, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled today (via Reuters). The U.S. Court of Appeals partially reversed sanctions imposed on Apple after Apple w…

#techpolicy #apple #antitrust #business #judiciary #payments #law #technology #litigation #regulation

Epic Games signals it won't agree to percentage App Store fees

2 months / appleinsider

Court affirms Apple violated injunction while allowing outside commissions

2 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Apple Wins Ability to Charge Fees on External Payment Links as Appeals Court Modifies Epic Injunction

2 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Appeals Court Says Judge Must Consider Allowing Apple to Collect Commission

2 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Apple (mostly) loses its appeal in Epic Games case

2 months / engadget / Anna Washenko

Apple loses contempt appeal in Epic case

2 months / theverge / Jay Peters

Appeals court amends order to let Apple resume third-party commissions

2 months / appleinsider

Appeals Court Confirms Apple Contempt in Epic Antitrust Case

2 months / thurrott / Paul Thurrott

Appeals Court Reverses 'Zero Commission' Ban on Apple, Says 27% Fee Is Too High

2 months / iclarified

Apple Wins Ability to Charge Fees on External Payment Links as Appeals Court Modifies Epic Injunction

2 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Apple Loses Appeals Court Ruling in App Store Fight With Epic

2 months / bloomberg / Leah NylenJosh Sisco

Back to Top / Thursday, December 11, 2025, 4:20 pm / permalink 16852 / 11 stories in 2 months


Epic Games’s Fortnite is back in US Google Play Store, as court partially reverses restrictions it won on iOS

Sarah Perez / techcrunch - The game is back on the Google Play Store, but another court decision is rolling back some of the developer-friendly changes on iOS.

#software #gaming #techpolicy #mobile #google #android #apps #litigation

Fortnite returns to Google Play Store after 5-year antitrust battle

2 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Tim Sweeney on the future of Fortnite after another win over Apple

2 months / theverge / Jay Peters

Fortnite is Back in the Google Play Store in the U.S.

2 months / thurrott / Paul Thurrott

Fortnite is back in Google’s Android app store

2 months / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Fortnite is back on the Google Play Store

2 months / engadget / Anna Washenko

Epic Games’s Fortnite is back in US Google Play Store, as court partially reverses restrictions it won on iOS

2 months / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

Back to Top / Thursday, December 11, 2025, 3:21 pm / permalink 16850 / 6 stories in 2 months


OpenAI Releases GPT-5.2 With Major Upgrades in Reasoning, Coding, and Reliability

iclarified - OpenAI has officially launched GPT-5.2, describing it as its most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work and complex problem-solving. The update arrives just weeks after the release of GPT-5.1 and is aimed at raising the bar for coding, …


Firing back amid fierce competitor pressure

GPT-5.2 vs Gemini 3 — How the two heavyweight models compare on benchmarks, price, and feature set

2 months / mashable

OpenAI is clapping back at Google’s Gemini 3 with a new GPT-5.2

2 months / fastcompany / Mark Sullivan

GPT-5.2

2 months / simonwillison / Simon Willison

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 for ChatGPT Users a Week After Declaring 'Code Red'

2 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert

2 months / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

OpenAI strikes back in the chatbot race against Google

2 months / x / @MarketWatch

Can OpenAI Respond After Google Closes the A.I. Technology Gap?

2 months / nytimes / Cade Metz and Mike Isaac

Can OpenAI Respond After Google Closes the A.I. Technology Gap?

2 months / nytimes / nytimes.com

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 to Counter Google Gemini 3 Pro and Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5

2 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

OpenAI Releases Flagship GPT-5.2 Model Following “Code Red” Alert

2 months / thurrott / Laurent Giret

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’

2 months / reddit / /u/wiredmagazine

OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 to take on Google and Anthropic

2 months / engadget / Igor Bonifacic

Sam Altman expects OpenAI to exit 'code red' by January after launch of GPT-5.2 model

2 months / cnbc

OpenAI fires back at Google with GPT-5.2 after ‘code red’ memo

2 months / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battle

2 months / theverge / Hayden Field

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’

2 months / wired / Maxwell Zeff


In-depth benchmarks and feature upgrades

Deceptive marketing from OAI. Benchmarks were run with extra tokens, possibly at least doubling that of Gemini 3.0’s Pro

2 months / reddit / /u/Hello_moneyyy

OpenAI launches GPT-5.2 with cutting-edge math capabilities

2 months / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

OpenAI Says New AI Model GPT-5.2 Unlocks ‘Even More Economic Value’

2 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

ChatGPT-5.2 Arrives: Here's What It Means for Everyday and Work Users

2 months / cnet / Blake Stimac

GPT-5.2: All 20 Benchmarks, Rankings and Pricing Specs (Internal & External).The Ultimate Comparison Gallery.

2 months / reddit / /u/BuildwithVignesh

GPT-5.2 Thinking actually feels like a context window upgrade

2 months / reddit / /u/98Saman

GPT-5.2 Pro directly solved an open problem in statistical learning theory. It was not given strategies or outlines of how to do so, just some prompting/verification.

2 months / reddit / /u/socoolandawesome

OpenAI says GPT-5.2 is safer for mental health. What does that mean?

2 months / mashable

How to try GPT-5.2, the new ChatGPT model series from OpenAI

2 months / mashable

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.2 With Major Upgrades in Reasoning, Coding, and Reliability

2 months / iclarified

GPT-5.2 Pro is SOTA on ARC-AGI, with two orders of magnitude efficiency improvement over the past year:

2 months / x / @gdb

GPT-5.2 is here — the most advanced frontier model for professional work and long-running agents. It's a big step forward on enterprise tasks including spreadsheets and slides. Now rolling out to everyone.

2 months / x / @gdb

Very strong on the benchmarks, read more details here:

2 months / x / @gdb

OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 (Instant, Thinking, Pro). Achieves 100% on AIME 2025 and beats human experts on knowledge work (74.1% win rate) with Benchmarks

2 months / reddit / /u/BuildwithVignesh

GPT-5.2 Launch: OpenAI Unveils Most Advanced AI Model

2 months / parameter / Trader Edge

GPT-5.2 Thinking evals

2 months / reddit / /u/Gab1024

GPT-5.2 benchmarks are out

2 months / reddit / /u/ShreckAndDonkey123

GPT 5.2 and gpt-5.2-pro are out!

2 months / reddit / /u/pawofdoom


Industry alliances and upcoming model hints

"Garlic" model confirmed via new OpenAI Supply Store Easter egg. Sam Altman tweets "Christmas presents next week"— Seemingly confirming a separate model launch(GPT Image 2)

2 months / reddit / /u/BuildwithVignesh

The GPT 5.2 Release, Disney, and How Somehow These Two Are Related

2 months / substack / John Hwang

GPT-5.2 is the first iteration of new models from the new data centers

2 months / reddit / /u/imadade

(PR) Just Launched OpenAI GPT-5.2 Trained & Deployed on NVIDIA Infrastructure

2 months / techpowerup


User feedback and casual analysis remarks

Normies are so behind on AI, man, it’s crazy. I talked to a coworker and she didn’t even know the difference between GPT 5.2-mini-pro-turbo with search and GPT o1-enhanced-4o operator 5.2

2 months / reddit / /u/M3MacbookAir

More to come from OpenAI next week

2 months / reddit / /u/socoolandawesome

Is anyone else noticing that GPT-5.2 is a lot worse lately?

2 months / reddit / /u/DemonicRedditor

Like it or not, believe it or not, things are still moving very fast.

2 months / reddit / /u/ObiWanCanownme

GPT-5.2 Thinking unparalleled accuracy in Long-Context!

2 months / reddit / /u/Independent-Ruin-376

GPT-5.2

2 months / ycombinator

GPT-5.2

2 months / ycombinator


All Other Stories

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2 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

What the hell are people actually doing with this? Basic programming tasks? arstechnica.com/information-...

2 months / bsky / @werwolfram.bsky.social / werwolfram.bsky.social

OpenAI just launched GPT-5.2, a frontier model aimed at developers and professionals, pushing reasoning and coding benchmarks as it races Google’s Gemini 3 while grappling with compute costs and no generator.

2 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

The ChatGPT-maker is releasing its “best model yet” as it faces new pressures from Google and other AI competitors. www.wired.com/story/openai...

2 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

GPT-5.2 is here. OpenAI calls GPT-5.2 the best model yet for professionals, and says it “hallucinates less” and is more accurate than GPT-5.1 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

2 months / bsky / @tomwarren.co.uk / tomwarren.co.uk

GPT-5.2 is here. With it, OpenAI wants “to unlock even more economic value for people,” Fidji Simo told reporters in a briefing. It’s been in the works for “many, many months.” OpenAI calls GPT-5.2 its “best model yet for everyday professional use."

2 months / bsky / @haydenfield.bsky.social / haydenfield.bsky.social

Back to Top / Thursday, December 11, 2025, 1:20 pm / permalink 16843 / 51 stories in 2 months


Time Magazine names ‘Architects of AI’ as its person of the year for 2025

news.com.au - The issue features a cover story exploring how AI has changed the world over the past year, in “sometimes frightening ways”.


Cover visuals and key AI profiles

These are the key AI players on the cover of Time's 'Architects of AI' magazine

2 months / techxplore

These are the key AI players on the cover of Time's 'Architects of AI' magazine

2 months / go


Market impacts and gambling fallout

Investors fear Time just jinxed the AI stock-market rally with its 2025 Person of the Year

2 months / x / @MarketWatch

Did Time just jinx the AI stock-market rally with its 2025 Person of the Year? trib.al/0FAtl6r

2 months / x / @MarketWatch

‘Architects of AI’ Wins Time Person of the Year, Sends Gambling Markets Into a Meltdown

2 months / 404media / Matthew Gault


Official announcements, straight from Time

Time magazine names ‘Architects of AI’ as its person of the year for 2025

2 months / news.com.au

Time Magazine names ‘Architects of AI’ as its person of the year for 2025

2 months / news.com.au

Time magazine names 'Architects of AI' as Person of the Year

2 months / techxplore

Why Time Dubbed 'AI Builders' Person of the Year: 'Whatever the Question, AI Was the Answer'

2 months / cnet / Omar Gallaga

TIME names ‘Architects of AI’ its Person of the Year

2 months / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

'Architects of AI' named Time Magazine's Person of the Year

2 months / bbc


Online critiques and reaction voices

Internet reacts to architects of AI being named Times 2025 Person of the Year

2 months / mashable

TIME magazine is owned by Marc Benioff, owner of Salesforce, who literally ran an AI agents puff piece about his ow company in the magazine. I’m unsurprised he thinks a bunch of grifters are person of the year, he thinks they’re cool [contains quote post

2 months / bsky / @edzitron.com

AI Fails to Win Time’s Person of the Year… This Time

2 months / gizmodo / Bruce Gil


All Other Stories

People who bet on "AI" did not win and are incredibly mad.

2 months / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

another day another meltdown on Polymarket over the exact wording of a bet

2 months / bsky / @mjgault.bsky.social / mjgault.bsky.social

i love most of all the person advising his fellow degenerate online gamblers to contact support www.404media.co/architects-o...

2 months / bsky / @christhompson.bsky.social / christhompson.bsky.social

Back to Top / Thursday, December 11, 2025, 10:20 am / permalink 16835 / 17 stories in 2 months


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