Microsoft revealed GPT-5.2 available in Microsoft 365 Copilot on December 11, 2025, featuring Thinking model for strategic insights and Instant model for everyday tasks.
Nvidia could invest as much as $20 billion, Amazon $10 billion, and Microsoft several billion in OpenAI as part of massive AI funding discussions.
Google is integrating Gemini directly into Chrome as a hands-on browsing agent, advancing AI from features to core infrastructure.
Meta announces plans to significantly increase spending on AI infrastructure, boosting its stock by over 7% in pre-market trading amid a broader tech AI spending spree.
Big Tech firms including Nvidia, Microsoft, and Amazon are in talks for a potential $60 billion investment round in OpenAI, highlighting the capital-intensive nature of frontier AI development and infrastructure needs.
Zocks raised $45m in Series B funding to expand agentic AI capabilities.
Danske Bank UK appointed Fiona Browne as head of AI.
Wells Fargo hired former AWS exec Faraz Shafiq to lead AI innovation initiatives.
PayPal acquired Cymbio as the next step in its AI rollout for fintech applications.
ONE Data partners with Rockefeller Foundation and Google.org ($3M funding) to launch a Development Finance Observatory using Google’s Data Commons for AI-based data integration.
Samsung is nearing Nvidia approval for advanced HBM4 memory chips, critical for AI compute performance in training and inference.