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AI Journal 189th Edition
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December 05, 2025
TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS
Chicago Tribune Takes Perplexity to Court The Chicago Tribune has sued AI search engine Perplexity, accusing it of copyright infringement and paywall bypassing. The lawsuit claims Perplexity delivers Tribune content verbatim and uses scraped articles in its RAG system. This adds to a growing wave of legal challenges against AI firms from major publishers. Open AI’s Garlic’ LLM: Strategic Move Amid Intensifying AI Competition OpenAI is developing a new LLM, codenamed ‘Garlic,’ targeting specialized industries like biomedicine and healthcare. Outperforming rivals in coding and reasoning, it may launch as GPT-5.2/5.5 by early 2026. CEO Sam Altman declared a “Code Red” to enhance ChatGPT amid competition from Google’s Gemini 3 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5. AI Safety Gap: Major Tech Firms Lag Behind Global Standards A new AI safety index by the Future of Life Institute finds major AI companies—including Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Meta—falling short of global safety standards. Amid rising societal concerns, including AI-linked self-harm, experts warn US AI firms lack robust controls and continue lobbying against binding regulations. |  Anthropic Bets on Enterprise AI, Sidesteps Consumer race Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the company avoids the consumer AI “Code Red” race, focusing instead on enterprise clients across finance, biomedicine, retail, energy, and manufacturing. Optimizing Claude 4.5 Opus for business use, Amodei warns of AI economic risks despite solid technological growth, projecting $8–10B revenue this year. DeepSeek Unveils V3.2 Models Challenging GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro Chinese AI startup DeepSeek launched V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale, rivaling GPT-5, Gemini 3 Pro, and Claude Sonnet 4.5 in coding, tool use, and reasoning. Leveraging Sparse Attention, Mixture-of-Experts architecture, and agentic task synthesis, the models reduce costs, excel in long-context tasks, and remain open-source, with Speciale excelling in global math competitions. |
AI FUNDING
CoreOps AI secured $3.5 million in pre-Series A funding to enhance its AI modernization platform. The funds will drive product innovation and help enterprises improve AI operations and governance, supporting efficient and scalable AI deployment across organizations.
Verkada hit a $5.8 billion valuation after a $100 million CapitalG-led round to expand its AI-powered physical security platform. The company now exceeds $1 billion in annualized bookings, serving 30,000 customers with cloud-connected cameras, sensors, and new AI features.
Legal AI startup Harvey raised $160 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, hitting an $8 billion valuation. Founded in 2022, it now exceeds $100 million ARR, serves 50 top AmLaw firms, and has rapidly scaled through major VC backing and strong market traction.
INTERESTED POSTS
 McKinsey's report reveals AI as transformative as the steam engine, amplifying human creativity via reasoning and agents. Employees are ready; leaders must boldly invest in skills to unlock $4.4T productivity |  Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo-R1, an open vision-language AI model for autonomous driving, enhancing nuanced decision-making. Alongside, it released Cosmos Cookbook tools to aid developers in physical AI research and robotics. |
 At re:Invent, AWS unveiled Nova 2 Omni, Nova Forge, Bedrock AgentCore upgrades, 18 new models, Trn3 UltraServers, Trainium4, autonomous AI agents, and AI Factories for scalable, secure, and customizable enterprise AI. |  Syllable AI’s agentic platform is now available in Microsoft Marketplace, enabling secure Azure-based deployment of conversational agents with faster setup, seamless integration, and enterprise-ready performance for organizations seeking scalable, high-quality AI solutions. |
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That’s a wrap for this week’s AI insights! Stay curious, stay informed, and don’t forget next Friday brings more breakthrough’s your way
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