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🚀 Mistral’s Devstral 2 and new coding assistant
🦾Plus: ️🤝 OpenAI, Anthropic, Block team up on agent standards
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December 10, 2025
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🤖 Meta AI internal confusion
🎄 McDonald’s pulls AI holiday ad
🕵️ EU probes Google AI content use
🤝 OpenAI, Anthropic, Block team up on agent standards
💡 AI Tutorial:How to restore old photos with NanoBanana
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Meta is currently pursuing a Llama successor codenamed Avocado. The model is expected to be released before the end of this year. Meta seems to have shifted from its open source stance - Avocado could be a proprietary model. Some people at Meta were reportedly upset that DeepSeek used pieces of Llama's architecture in its R1 model, so the company decided to overhaul its strategy.
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McDonald’s Netherlands quietly pulled a 45-second AI-generated Christmas ad after it sparked widespread mockery online. The spot leaned into fast cuts and surreal visuals common in AI video. Viewers called it unpleasant and cheap, leading McDonald’s to disable comments and remove the video.
The European Commission has opened a competition investigation into Google’s use of online content for AI training. Regulators are assessing whether web publishers and YouTube creators are forced to allow their content to train models like Gemini, without fair payment or opt-out options.
French AI startup Mistral just launched Devstral 2, the next-gen version of its coding-focused model family — alongside Vibe CLI, the company’s first move into autonomous coding agents. Mistral’s 123B Devstral 2 scores a 72.2% on the SWE-bench Verified, nearly matching the top open-weight model (Deepseek V3.2) while being 5x smaller.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block just co-founded the Agentic AI Foundation, a neutral entity governed under the Linux Foundation — with each company pooling open-source tools to build standards across the AI agent ecosystem. Each founding company is donating a core project — Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, OAI's AGENTS.md, and Block's Goose agent framework.
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Microsoft just released and open-sourced GigaTIME, a new AI model that can extract thousands of dollars worth of tumor insights from a basic $10 tissue slide — analysis that previously required expensive lab work and days of processing.
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
⚡Accenture and Anthropic launch multi-year partnership
🇺🇸 Pentagon taps Google Gemini, launches new site to boost AI use.
💰 Microsoft invests US$17.5 billion in India to drive AI diffusion at population scale.
✅ Trump approves Nvidia H200 sales, but China may not bite.
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