Meta is eyeing early 2026 for «Avocado» model, and it might be proprietary

The billion dollar crew at the Superintelligence Labs at Meta are readying their first release.
Meta’s next frontier model might not be open source, rumours say. (Picture: generated)
CNBC reports today that Meta is coming closer to a release of their next frontier model — four months after forming their Superintelligence Labs.

The model is rumored to not be in the Llama family of open source models, as The Zuck himself opined in July that «We’ll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source.»

Therefore, the «Avacado» family of models might well be proprietary, also after Meta saw lots of components of its Open Source models getting incorporated in other advanced models.

Little is known about the upcoming model, apart from the fact that it will be «frontier,» and there has apparently been discussions on releasing it this year — but the official plan is that is scheduled for Q1 2026, according to CNBC.

Read more: Full scoop at CNBC.

OpenAI’s new enterprise report shows more adoption — and higher use

Power users of AI report more than ten hours of saved time per week.
Professionals are adopting AI at a fast clip, and getting more efficient, OpenAI finds. (Picture: Adobe)
The company evaluated real-world use from their Enterprise accounts and a survey of some 9,000 workers across 100 enterprises to come to this conclusion: AI at work seems to be rapidly taking off:

«The history of general purpose technologies» shows that the real value starts flowing once firms start adopting their capabilities at scale, explains OpenAI, and — Enterprise AI now appears to be entering this phase.

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OpenAI aims for another model in January, in addition to one this week

OpenAI will stay in Code Red for the better part of a month -- until a new model arrives in January
We can expect not one, but two models from OpenAI in the near future. (Picture: generated)
According to The Wall Street Journal, Code Red at OpenAI will extend well into next month.

The force behind it was the release of competent models from Google and Anthropic, making it look like OpenAI was losing the edge in the AI race.

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Google demos smart glasses with Android XR, set to debut in 2026

The glasses without a screen will arrive first, as of "next year."
Google’s in-specs screen is impressing reviewers, but it’s the screenless glasses getting released first. (Picture: Google)
Google has officially taken the lid off «Project Aura,» inviting a whole host of websites to demo it — and doing their own bit in The Android Show, XR Edition on Youtube.

They are mostly concerned with the glasses with internal screens, that can run bog standard Android apps as well as Android XR apps — and provides you with information right inside the glasses.

These spectacles, while impressive, connect via wire to a puck in your pocket that serves as a battery and trackpad in one, and use a phone or laptop for computing power, but they don’t have a release date as of yet.

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Nvidia gets all clear from Trump Commerce to sell H200 chip in China

Nvidia gets approval to ship powerful H200 chips to China.
Nvidia’s more powerful H200 chips can now be sold in China. (Picture: Nvidia)
The powerful chip can be sold to vetted partners with a tax of 25% to the U.S. government, Trump said in a statement.

Nvidia’s H200 is a much more advanced chip than the custom H20 that the company was allowed to export to China earlier, with the newer Blackwell chips being only about 1.5 times faster, Reuters notes.

The H20 chips were recently banned in China, where the authorities instead opted for Huawei chips for data center supplies.

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NYT sues Perplexity for copying content, after cease and desist order

Copyrights might well trump AIs retrieval practices, bets the NYT.
The Times says Perplexity is copying their journalism and delivering it without permission. (Picture: Adobe)
The New York Times sent a cease and desist order to Perplexity in 2024, but the company has persisted with copying NYT content in their responses, the lawsuit alleges.

Perplexity still generates outputs that are «identical or substantially similar to» content from the Times, writes CNBC, and sometimes even hallucinates responses that get attributed to them, writes Reuters.

— While we believe in the ethical and responsible use and development of AI, we firmly object to Perplexity’s unlicensed use of our content, says NYT spokesperson Graham James.

Perplexity seems unfazed by the lawsuit, saying in a statement that:

— Publishers have been suing new tech companies for a hundred years, starting with radio, TV, the internet, social media and now AI. Fortunately it’s never worked, or we’d all be talking about this by telegraph.

The NYT has previously also previously sued OpenAI for infringement.

Read more: The actual complaint, NYT announcement, writeups on Reuters and CNBC

Head of ChatGPT says not doing ad tests, despite a Target notice this week

These were not ads, OpenAI says, and anyway, they have been shut off.
Many users were confronted with this graphic at the end of ChatGPT’s responses this week. OpenAI says they are now stopped, and that they weren’t ads. (Picture: screenshot)
People have been complaining about ads being sneakily inserted in their ChatGPT responses late this week, with a «Shop for home…» Target link showing up in their responses.

This comes hot on the heels of an engineer discovering ad code in the Android app — which left a lot of people cautious of such inserts.

It happened to enough people to notice, along with this writer, but it has since been turned off, says Mark Chen, Chief Research Officer at OpenAI:

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OpenAI loses privacy fight for ChatGPT message logs in NYT lawsuit

OpenAI is on the verge of losing its fight to keep their users' chat logs private, instead of turning them over to the NYT.
Your logs belongs belong to us, the NYT lawyers say, and the court agrees. (Picture: Adobe)
OpenAI has been fighting tooth and nail to preserve the privacy of their users’ messages in the lawsuit brought by The New York Times in 2023.

A new judgement could now mean they have to turn over more than 20 million chat logs, and many more messages, from the chatbot, reports Reuters.

The logs themselves should be anonymized by OpenAI in a way that pleases the court, but their content could be easy to pin down, and OpenAI has promised to appeal to the presiding Judge.

This is merely the discovery phase of the ongoing trial, where lawyers for the NYT have said the messages are necessary to discover whether ChatGPT did indeed copy verbatim text from them.

OpenAI must now first anonymize the logs, and then submit them to the court, and NYT’s attorneys, seven days later.

Read more: Reuters has the scoop.

Google partners with Replit to bring «vibe coding» to the enterprise

Replit tightens its integration with Google models and Cloud.
Vibe Coding is comping for the enterprise. (Picture: Google, modified)
Decade old Replit has a valuation of $3 billion dollars and is a «leader» in the AI Vibe coding space, writes CNBC, and they are now tightening their integration with Google Cloud and the Gemini models.

—The goal for us, and Google, is to make enterprise vibe-coding a thing, Replit founder and CEO Amjad Masad said; — We want to show the world that these tools are actually going to transform businesses and how people work.

Under the new agreement, Replit will expand its Google Cloud use and «further integrate Google’s models into its platform,» Google writes on the deal.

Replit will gain access to all of the Gemini models, and the deal will «help enterprise customers embrace vibe coding.»

— Our mission is to enable the next billion software creators — from hobbyists to entrepreneurs to enterprises, Masad said.

Read more: Google’s announcement, writeup on CNBC.

Google’s Gemini 3 Deep Think debuts for Ultra users

Deep Think incorporates the code that won the math olympiad, and is reserved for heavy lifting.
Gemini 3 Deep Think brings some serious AI muscles to tackle the toughest problems. (Picture: Google)
Google just launched it’s most capable model to it highest paid tier, ready to take on the most confounding probblems.

It incorporates the solutions that won gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad and beat the ICPC coding contest, and carries on its duties doing parallel reasoning, letting it try several approaches to a problem at once.

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Apple’s interface chief leaves for new Meta AI design studio

Alan Dye, the Liquid Glass chief is leaving Apple for greener pastures at Meta.
Alan Dye introducing the Liquid Glass design he oversaw at Apple, in June, 2025. (Picture: Apple)
Alan Dye, who has been heading up user interface design for Apple for the last ten years, is officially leaving to lead AI design for Meta, reports Bloomberg.

He brings with him his deputy at Apple, Billy Sorrentino, and will oversee a new studio that encompasses hardware, software and AI integration across all of Meta’s products — including future AI devices.

— Our idea is to treat intelligence as a new design material and imagine what becomes possible when it is abundant, capable, and human-centered, writes Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, not being short of ambition.

He goes on to say that Meta will «elevate design,» and put together people with talents in «craft, creative vision, systems thinking, and deep experience building iconic products that bridge hardware and software»

The potential is «enormous,» Zuck says, for AI glasses and «other devices» to change how we connect with «technology and each other.»

Read more: Scoop by Bloomberg, writeups by The Verge and 9to5Mac.

Micron is pivoting to AI chips, will kill off Crucial consumer brand in 2026

Micron is pitching towards the higher margin AI memory business, and is killing off the beloved Crucial consumer brand.
AI chips are much more profitable than consumer grade products, so Micron is changing turf. (Picture: Micron)
Micron has decided that selling consumer memory chips isn’t profitable enough, in an AI world screaming for as many HBM-chips as at all possible.

— The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage, says Sumit Sadana, EVP and Chief Business Officer at Micron Technology in a press release.

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Google linking AI Overviews with AI Mode, further worrying web publishers

Transitioning seamlessly from Overviews to AI Mode instead of websites, Google is keeping more users on its own pages.
Google will send you to AI Mode instead of to websites. (Picture: Screenshot)
Rolling out globally on mobile as of Monday, Google is giving its AI Overviews a little extra depth.

The idea is that sometimes the user is satisfied with a quick overview as an answer to a query, but sometimes it brings up more questions and requires a little more digging.

Therefore, the AI Overview now sometimes comes with an input field for AI Mode at the bottom of the screen, which will be able to give more comprehensive answers – rather than sending you to a website.

— It’s one seamless experience: a quick snapshot when you need it, and deeper conversation when you want it, says Vice President of Product for Google Search, Robby Stein, on x.com:

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