WhatsApp Unveils Meta AI Features: Widgets & AI Group Icons

EU Investigates Meta Over WhatsApp Policy That Blocks Third-Party AI Providers

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 4, 2025

Key Highlights: Meta has found itself in hot water in the EU, again. Today, the European Commission officially launched an antitrust investigation into Meta’s new policy regarding third-party AI access to WhatsApp. The Commission has said that it’ll investigate whether Meta’s new policy restricts third-party AI services within the European Economic Area (EEA). Why the European Commission is worried about Meta’s new AI policy For those unaware, Meta announced its updated AI policy in October 2025. And, according to that, third-party AI providers are prohibited from using the WhatsApp Business Solution as their primary service offering. Although businesses may still […]

Opera browser gets upgraded AI experience on Android with latest update

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 4, 2025

Key Highlights: The mobile browser space is getting increasingly crowded, and with AI now entering the mix, more companies are introducing new concepts where AI handles the browsing for you and helps save time. Among the top browsers, you have Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and many others. With the increasing competition, Opera has started stuffing useful AI features to stay relevant in the ongoing race. As part of that effort, Opera has rolled out a new update today, which brings a much easier and more flexible way of invoking AI inside the browser. As someone who bounces between desktop […]

Anthropic’s new Interviewer tool breaks down AI usage pattern

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 4, 2025

Key Highlights: If you have ever wondered how people really use AI at work, Anthropic may finally have an answer to that. Today the AI company has unveiled Anthropic Interviewer tool. And yes, it does work as the name suggests. It can conduct large-scale interviews to understand professionals’ perspective on AI. Anthropic says that this AI tool is built on Claude that runs detailed conversations automatically and feeds the results to human researchers for analysis. What the Anthropic Interviewer study reveals about AI at workplace In the initial early testing, Anthropic Interviewer interviewed 1,250 professionals, which included 1,000 general workforce, […]

Meta Scores Major Coup, Poaches Apple’s Alan Dye

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | December 3, 2025

Key Highlights In a major personnel shift in the Big Tech companies, Alan Dye, a vice president of product design at Apple and a key figure in the company’s famed design studio, is departing to join rival Meta Platforms. The move is viewed as a major talent coup for Meta as it continues to invest heavily in its Reality Labs division and future computing platforms. Dye, whose tenure at Apple spanned over a decade, was instrumental in shaping the user interfaces and experiences for critical Apple products. He reported directly to Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Williams, underscoring his seniority […]

YouTube announces new generative AI tools for Shorts creators

YouTube’s New AI Deepfake Detection Tool Sparks Concerns Over Creator Biometrics

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 3, 2025

Key Highlights: Google has recently made a solid comeback in the AI race with the launch of its Gemini 3 models and is now posing a threat to OpenAI’s position. This launch has reportedly influenced OpenAI’s CEO so much that he has declared “code red” with the company, and has asked everyone to shift focus entirely on making ChatGPT better than ever. But, this article isn’t about OpenAI’s fear — it’s about YouTube’s attempt to protect its creators from AI-generated deepfakes, which has reportedly raised concerns over how Google might use the biometric data required to operate it. YouTube’s new […]

Luma AI announces plans for UK expansion with massive hiring

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 2, 2025

Key Highlights: If you have used a text-to-video model, you must be aware of what Luma AI is. The NVIDIA-backed video generation startup is one of the contenders in the ongoing AI race, which is now expanding beyond the US and has officially unveiled its plans to set up a major hub in London, UK to help set its footprints in the UK AI market. The company is also planning to start one of the largest global hiring drives to meet the demand for advanced video-first AI models. Luma AI expands to the UK, with major hiring plans for its […]

Opera integrates latest Gemini models to supercharge its browser AI

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 2, 2025

Key Highlights: In one of my editorials from last month, I talked about how Comet AI browser’s assistant can pull off different tasks for you, which is kind of cool, but it is also scary how accurate it can be. On the other hand, there is ChatGPT Atlas, which is OpenAI’s new AI browser that promises something similar to what Comet AI browser is currently offering. As the AI browser race is picking up pace, Opera is taking help from Google to boost AI capabilities across its browser fleet. Here I’m talking about Opera One, Opera GX, and Opera Neon […]

OpenAI's first detailed public study reveals

Google’s Gemini 3 Sparks Emergency Inside OpenAI — Sam Altman Declares ‘Code Red’

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 2, 2025

Key Highlights: OpenAI is one of the biggest AI companies to exist at this point. And, as one would expect, the company’s CEO wants it to thrive as much as the rivals. When I say rivals, I am immediately referring to Google here, which recently launched Gemini 3 Pro, which has beaten ChatGPT in most benchmarks. Gemini 3 Pro and DeepThink versions have beaten OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 across multiple benchmarks. Here, we’re talking about complex reasoning (Humanity’s Last Exam), human preference tests (LMArena), ARC-AGI-2 problem-solving, multimodal understanding of images and video, factual accuracy (SimpleQA Verified), and software-engineering performance (WebDev Arena). This […]

Runway Unveils Gen-4.5, Its Most Powerful AI Video Model Yet

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 1, 2025

Key Highlights: When we talk of text-to-video AI models, many of you might think of Sora and Runway, and rightly so. Both are among the best AI video generation models available to date. In September, OpenAI dropped Sora 2, the new video model and an upgrade over Sora. Now, Runway has released its new text-to-video model. Here, we’re talking about Runway Gen-4.5, which is the company’s most advanced video model to date. And it’s already been topping global benchmarks with record-breaking visual accuracy, smooth motion, and awesome creative control. For creators, studios, and brands, Runway Gen-4.5 is one of the […]

DeepSeek to Open-Source AGI Research Amid Privacy Concerns

DeepSeek’s Two New V3.2 Models Are Immediate Rivals to GPT-5 & Gemini 3 Pro

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 1, 2025

Key Highlights: Earlier this year, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek stormed the Silicon Valley with the release of the R1 model, which was an immediate rival to OpenAI’s then most advanced o1 reasoning model. One of R1’s standout features was its affordability. Late last week, the company followed up with a high-precision math reasoning model called DeepSeek-Match-V2. Now, the Chinese AI startup has released DeepSeek‑V3.2 and DeepSeek‑V3.2‑Speciale. DeepSeek’s new V3.2-Speciale model hits “gold-level” performance Both are “reasoning-first” models, which have been designed for AI agents, complex thinking, tool use and complex reasoning. The company claims V3.2 offers what amounts to “daily-driver […]

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