13th & 14th December - AI News Daily - OpenAI Secures $1B Disney Deal, GPT-5.2 Launches with 40% Price Hike

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Major Partnerships & Models: OpenAI secured a $1B three-year Disney deal for Sora-powered fan videos using 200+ IP characters. GPT-5.2 launched with stronger reasoning and 400K context but mixed coding performance, tighter filters, and a 40% price hike. Google Gemini countered with advanced audio models, live speech translation, and real-time headphone translation.

Policy & Security: The U.S. issued a federal AI executive order establishing the Center for AI Standards & Innovation to unify fragmented state rules. OpenAI and Microsoft face a lawsuit alleging ChatGPT contributed to mental illness tragedy, intensifying safety scrutiny. AI misinformation surged with war deepfakes and Amazon's error-filled AI Fallout recap (pulled).

Enterprise Growth: Accenture partnered with Anthropic to deploy Claude in regulated sectors. Sierra raised $350M at $10B valuation for AI customer service. China and Gulf states (Qatar's Qai, UAE's G42, Saudi initiatives) accelerate compute investments.

Developer Tools: Tinker opened with hands-off GPU orchestration for VLM fine-tuning. llama.cpp added Ollama-style management and OpenAI routing. DeepCode converts papers to runnable code. Microsoft Foundry shipped a top reranker for RAG. Google Flax NNX simplifies JAX development. Google Disco (macOS test) turns browser tabs into Gemini-powered micro-apps.

Model Updates: Olmo 3.1 added 32B Think/Instruct variants. LLaDA 2.0 scaled diffusion LLMs to 100B parameters. NVIDIA's gpt-oss-120b Eagle3 (quantized MoE) hit Hugging Face. OpenAI Agents adopted modular "skills" for spreadsheets/PDFs.

Research: AI-designed proteins withstand extreme conditions, raising biosecurity concerns. Experts warn of prion design risks. RARO proposes adversarial reasoning without verifiers. Dynamic ERF Transformer layers outperform normalization stacks. Pretraining on formal languages boosts efficiency. Google + MIT found multi-agent systems often underperform single agents on sequential tasks.

Education: Dan Jurafsky's NLP textbook went free online. Six RL optimizers (PPO, GRPO, GSPO, DAPO, BAPO, ARPO) demystified. John Tukey historical spotlight.

Showcases: "Face For Sale" blended Midjourney, Luma, Veo 3, Udio. 3,000 Reachy Mini robots shipped globally.

Key Insights: Benchmarks miss personalization. Single agents often beat multi-agent teams. AI code reviewers miss critical issues. Models struggle detecting user misconceptions. Compute costs drop; job displacement worries rise.