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1. 12 days of OpenAI: The Ars Technica recap

   Did OpenAI's big holiday event live up to the billing?

2. OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, its next simulated reasoning models

   o3 matches human levels on ARC-AGI benchmark, and o3-mini exceeds o1 at some tasks.

3. The AI war between Google and OpenAI has never been more heated

   Potentially groundbreaking AI releases have been coming in fast, sending experts' heads spinning.

4. Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model

   Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is Google's take on so-called AI reasoning models.

5. As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank

   Ingram Micro the latest to ditch VMware, but VMware's still making money.

6. New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality

   "Genesis" can compress training times from decades into hours using 3D worlds conjured from text.

7. A new, uncensored AI video model may spark a new AI hobbyist movement

   Will Tencent's "open source" HunyuanVideo launch an at-home "Stable Diffusion" moment for uncensored AI video?

8. Arm says it’s losing $50M a year in revenue from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite SoCs

   At issue: Arm SoC designs that Qualcomm acquired when it bought Nuvia in 2021.

9. Call ChatGPT from any phone with OpenAI’s new 1-800 voice service

   1-800-CHATGPT telephone number lets any US caller talk to OpenAI's assistant—no smartphone required.

10. T-Mobile users can try Starlink-enabled phone service for free during beta

    Beta registration opened today, will enable texting in dead zones in early 2025.