Last updated: December 20, 2025
This page tracks weekly AI updates across model launches, agent tools, research breakthroughs, and major partnerships. Updated every Friday.
Week 3, December, 2025
Key Releases:
OpenAI releases GPT-5.2: OpenAI has released GPT-5.2, a major upgrade focused on enterprise use, with stronger reasoning, workflows, and multimodal capabilities. Read more
Namibox unveils AI-powered learning glasses: Set for release on December 31, 2025, these are being positioned as the world’s first AI-powered hardware designed specifically for education, suggesting that AI is starting to move beyond software and into physical learning environments. Read more.
Amazon launches a $68 million AI PhD Fellowship: Amazon has launched a $68 million AI PhD Fellowship, funding over 100 researchers across universities including MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon. It’s a long-term investment in AI talent and research infrastructure. Read more.
Week 2, December, 2025
Key Releases:
Google Workspace Studio: Google launched Workspace Studio, letting anyone build AI agents inside Gmail, Drive, and Chat to automate email, reports, and workflows using natural language. Read more
Claude Opus 4.5, Anthropic’s new frontier model: Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.5, its most advanced model yet for knowledge work across docs, data, slides, and complex reasoning. Read more
Microsoft 365 Copilot expands across education: Microsoft expanded Copilot for schools and universities, embedding AI into lesson prep, feedback, student practice, and LMS workflows. Read more
Skild AI nears $1B+ SoftBank & Nvidia round: Robotics startup Skild AI is reportedly raising $1B+ to build foundation models that act as general-purpose “brains” for robots. Read more
Week 1, December, 2025
Key Releases:
Gemini AI Pro free for students: Google's giving higher-ed students a year of free access, including Gemini 3 Pro, Deep Research, and 2TB storage. Read more
Google's AI learning playbook: A roadmap for AI-supported teaching with new tools like Guided Learning and AI flashcards across Gemini and NotebookLM. Read more
B-schools restructuring: Wharton, Vanderbilt, and Kelley are adding AI tracks mixing machine learning, ethics, and governance. Read more
Microsoft Copilot for Education: New lesson planning and student practice tools built into M365 and LMS platforms. Read more
Week 4, November, 2025
Key Releases:
Google just put $1 billion behind AI in universities. Over the next three years, they're giving 100+ U.S. colleges cash grants, cloud credits, and direct access to their tools. This is Google planting a flag: they want to own how the next generation learns AI. Read more.
Anthropic and Coursera launched their first AI courses together. One's for developers who want to build with Claude's API. The other? For anyone who needs to use AI at work. Enrollment's blowing up because people finally get it…this skill isn't optional. Read more.
The Department of Education told schools exactly how they can spend federal money on AI. Their guidance from July 22nd breaks it down: you can use grants for AI tutoring, learning analytics, blended classrooms, all of it. The takeaway? The government's not blocking AI in schools. They're funding it. Read more.
Europe just published its ethical AI rulebook for education. Six principles launched in Brussels, bringing together governments and edtech companies around one idea: if we're scaling AI in classrooms, we need guardrails. Read more.
Week 3, November, 2025
Key Releases:
Google Gemini 3: Google’s “most intelligent” model yet, natively multimodal with stronger reasoning, Deep Think mode, and agent-like workflows in the Gemini app and Search. Read More.
xAI Grok 4.1: latest frontier model topping benchmarks against Gemini 3 and GPT-5, with expanded 2M token context for real-time agentic workflows. Read More.
OpenAI ChatGPT for Teachers (launch): A new version of ChatGPT built just for K–12 teachers to handle lesson planning, resources, and admin work so they can spend more time with students. Read More.
Meta Omnilingual ASR: open-source speech recognition expanding to 1,600+ languages, enabling broader multilingual voice AI without proprietary limits. Read More.
Week 2, November, 2025
Key Releases:
Google Private AI Compute: privacy-preserving cloud to run heavier AI with on-device-like protections. Read More
ElevenLabs Iconic Voice Marketplace: legally license celebrity/historic voices for AI narration and content. Read More
MiniMax Hailuo-2.3 (video): boosts realism in motion, stylization, and character micro-expressions with better command following. Read More
Moonshot K2 Thinking: new “thinking” model reports wins vs GPT-5/Claude on HLE/BrowseComp at far lower cost. Read More
Week 1, November, 2025
Key Releases:
OpenAI × Amazon ($38B): long-term cloud deal to secure massive compute. Expect faster, cheaper large-scale AI (e.g., high-accuracy OCR/PDF). Read More
Odyssey-2 (interactive video): responds as you type; streams new frames ~every 50 ms for real-time visuals. Read More
Cursor Composer (agentic coding): ~4× faster task completion with a new multi-agent workflow UI. Read More
Cartesia unveiled Sonic-3, a real-time conversation model using SSMs with just 190ms latency. It delivers expressive, natural speech in 42 languages. Read More
Week 4, October, 2025
Key Releases:
DeepSeek-OCR (open-source) compresses long PDFs into “vision tokens,” enabling high-accuracy OCR with ~10× compression, useful for digitizing handouts. Read More
OpenAI “Company knowledge” for ChatGPT pulls organization context from connected apps to answer with citations. Read More
ChatGPT Atlas (browser): Mac app puts ChatGPT in the browser with optional memory of visited content to improve future answers; available to free users. Read More
Copilot “Fall Release”: new Groups (up to 32 people), expressive Mico avatar, and “Real Talk” mode that challenges wrong assumptions, useful for collaborative classes. Read More
