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🔁 Google is overtaking OpenAI says Godfather of AI
🦾Plus: ️📰 Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers
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December 08, 2025
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🏆 Poetiq tops ARC-AGI-2 with Gemini variant
📈 Yoodli triples valuation to $300M+
🤖OpenAI says it’s turned off app suggestions that look like ads
📰 Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers.
💡 AI Tutorial:How to identify AI-generated images with Gemini
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Geoffrey Hinton says Google is now pulling ahead in the AI race. He points to strong reactions to Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro, along with Google’s push to build its own AI chips. Hinton notes that Google once led the field, inventing transformers and developing early chatbots, but held back after Microsoft’s Tay incident.
The Future of Shopping? AI + Actual Humans.
AI has changed how consumers shop by speeding up research. But one thing hasn’t changed: shoppers still trust people more than AI.
Levanta’s new Affiliate 3.0 Consumer Report reveals a major shift in how shoppers blend AI tools with human influence. Consumers use AI to explore options, but when it comes time to buy, they still turn to creators, communities, and real experiences to validate their decisions.
The data shows:
Only 10% of shoppers buy through AI-recommended links
87% discover products through creators, blogs, or communities they trust
Human sources like reviews and creators rank higher in trust than AI recommendations
The most effective brands are combining AI discovery with authentic human influence to drive measurable conversions.
Affiliate marketing isn’t being replaced by AI, it’s being amplified by it.
Six-person AI startup Poetiq just officially claimed the top spot on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark, beating out Google’s Gemini 3 Deep Think at half the cost by orchestrating existing models over building its own. Poetiq's meta-system adapts to new models within hours, achieving the top-ranked results shortly after Gemini 3 launched without any retraining.
Communication training startup Yoodli has tripled its valuation to over $300M after closing a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, with participation from Neotribe and Madrona. Yoodli’s platform uses AI to simulate real-world speaking scenarios like sales calls, interviews, and coaching sessions, helping users practice and refine communication skills.
While OpenAI continues to insist that there are currently no ads — or tests for advertising — live in ChatGPT, the company’s chief research officer Mark Chen also acknowledged that the company “fell short” with recent promotional messages and is working to improve the experience.
Meta opens new tab has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers including USA Today, People Inc, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde, the company said on Friday. The tie-ups will allow the Facebook-parent to provide "real-time" news and updates through its artificial intelligence chatbot by linking to articles and websites from the publishers.
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AI Tutorial
How to identify AI-generated images with Gemini
Go to Gemini and sign up.
Upload a picture and enter your prompt to check if it’s generated by AI.
Sample Prompt: “Is this image made with AI?”
It will check for the SynthID watermark to help verify if it was generated or edited by Google AI tools.
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Read the guide to get your CTV campaign live in time for the holiday rush.
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
🎒 Elementary school students use AI to combat homelessness.
🧬 Accurate single domain scaffolding of three nonoverlapping protein epitopes using deep learning.
🎙️ NVIDIA CEO to Joe Rogan: Nobody “really knows” AI’s endgame.
⚖️ New York Times sues AI startup for ‘illegal’ copying of millions of articles.
🤖 MIT researchers “speak objects into existence” using AI and robotics.
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