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Thursday, 18 December 2025

Google Research 2025: Bolder breakthroughs, bigger impact

Google Research 7 months ago 14

Google Research announced advances in generative AI models including improvements to efficiency, factuality, and multilingual capabilities, alongside breakthroughs in quantum computing, scientific discovery tools, and climate/Earth monitoring systems. The company's Willow quantum chip runs a specific algorithm 13,000 times faster than classical supercomputers, and AI co-scientist tools helped researchers at Stanford and Imperial College identify drug candidates in significantly reduced timeframes. These developments integrate across Google products and enable broader applications in drug discovery, cancer research, disaster response, and climate resilience.

Evaluating chain-of-thought monitorability

OpenAI 7 months ago 38

OpenAI developed a framework and evaluation suite to assess whether a model's internal reasoning can be effectively monitored during chain-of-thought processes. The framework includes 13 evaluations across 24 different environments to test monitoring capabilities. Monitoring a model's intermediate reasoning steps proved substantially more effective than checking only final outputs, suggesting a potential approach for controlling increasingly capable AI systems.

Deepening our collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy

OpenAI 7 months ago 21

OpenAI and the U.S. Department of Energy signed a memorandum of understanding to expand their work on AI and advanced computing for scientific research. The agreement formalizes collaboration with DOE's national laboratories on applying AI to high-impact research projects. The framework will enable faster development of AI tools tailored to DOE's scientific discovery initiatives.

AI literacy resources for teens and parents

OpenAI 7 months ago 35 2 sources

OpenAI released AI literacy guides designed for teenagers and their parents to promote responsible use of ChatGPT. The resources include expert-reviewed recommendations covering critical thinking, healthy usage boundaries, and guidance for discussing emotional or sensitive subjects. Parents and teens now have structured materials to help them understand and safely navigate AI tools in their daily lives.

Updating our Model Spec with teen protections

OpenAI 7 months ago 25 2 sources

OpenAI added new Under-18 Principles to its Model Spec that define how ChatGPT should provide age-appropriate guidance to teenagers based on developmental science. The update covers higher-risk situations and strengthens existing safety guardrails for teen users. This changes ChatGPT's expected behavior when interacting with users under 18 across the platform.

Rime voice models now available on Together AI

Together AI 7 months ago 1

Rime text-to-speech models Arcana v2 and Mist v2 are now available on Together AI's platform, offering enterprise-grade voice synthesis with deterministic pronunciation control and production-grade latency. Mist v2 achieves approximately 225ms time-to-first-audio latency on dedicated endpoints and serves tens of millions of production calls monthly, while Arcana v2 provides 40+ voices across multiple languages trained on real customer service conversations. The integration allows voice agents to run STT, LLM, and TTS workloads on a single unified platform with consistent observability, reducing multi-vendor complexity and improving end-to-end conversational latency.

Introducing GPT-5.2-Codex

OpenAI 7 months ago 10

OpenAI released GPT-5.2-Codex, a coding model featuring long-horizon reasoning and large-scale code transformation abilities alongside improved cybersecurity features. The model supports extended reasoning chains for complex programming tasks and can handle transformations across entire codebases rather than isolated functions. Organizations can now automate larger portions of code refactoring and security vulnerability detection workflows.

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