Google and OpenAI escalated their rivalry at the forefront of artificial intelligence on the same day, with Google unveiling its most advanced AI research agent yet just as OpenAI released GPT 5.2, codenamed Garlic.  Google’s announcement centered on a major upgrade to Gemini Deep Research, which it described as a reimagined agent capable of long form reasoning, complex analysis, and enterprise grade investigation rather than simply generating research reports. The closely t

OpenAI appears poised to accelerate the release of its next major ChatGPT model as the competition in generative AI tightens.  According to reporting cited by multiple outlets, OpenAI plans to unveil GPT 5.2 this week, earlier than its original late December target, after CEO Sam Altman reportedly declared a “code red” internally in response to Google’s Gemini 3 launch last month (TechBuzz). While OpenAI has not publicly confirmed unreleased product timelines, the company ty

Opera is rolling out a major expansion of its browser-based artificial intelligence, introducing a new generation of AI tools across Opera One, Opera GX and Opera Neon that will now be freely available to more than 80 million users worldwide.  This upgrade is the result of Opera’s deepened partnership with Google, which brings the latest Gemini models directly into the browser environment. By integrating AI at the browser level rather than relying on standalone chat interfac

OpenAI’s viral chatbot is approaching a major shift, as new leaks strongly suggest that ChatGPT will soon include advertising across its platform.  The discovery arrives just after ChatGPT’s third anniversary, a milestone that highlights the chatbot’s extraordinary rise since late 2022, when it went mainstream and rapidly accumulated hundreds of millions of users (Yahoo). With an estimated 800 million people using ChatGPT today, most of them on the free tier, the introductio

Apple is preparing a major overhaul of its Siri voice assistant, and to get there, it’s turning to an unexpected ally, Google. According to Bloomberg and Reuters, Apple plans to use Google’s 1.2 trillion-parameter Gemini artificial intelligence model to power a reimagined version of Siri, marking one of the tech giant’s most significant partnerships in recent years (Reuters; Bloomberg; Financial Post). The deal, which is expected to cost Apple about $1 billion per year, is de

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