Dec 12, 2025 5 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ GPT 5.2 Back on Top

Plus: Copilot 2025 Overview, Immune Intelligence Scales

Good Morning, AI Enthusiasts!

GPT-5.2 is back on top, but the signal is bigger than a single model reclaiming first place.

NEW LAUNCH

GPT-5.2 Reclaims First Place Quietly

👀 What’s happening: GPT 5.2 is OpenAI’s answer to Gemini 3’s brief moment at the top, and unsurprisingly, it takes the crown back. Traditional benchmarks tilt in OpenAI’s favor again, but the company barely celebrates. The emphasis shifts away from headline scores and toward who the model is actually being compared against.

🔥 How this hits reality: The real signal is not that GPT 5.2 beats other models, but that it competes with experts. On GDPval, a benchmark built from real tasks across top GDP industries, GPT 5.2 matches or outperforms seasoned professionals in about 70 percent of cases, compared with 39 percent for GPT 5. This is not intern level automation. It is expert grade output aimed at contracts, audits, analysis, and planning. Teams lose the excuse that AI only replaces juniors.

🛎 Our take: When the benchmark shifts from interns to experts, “productivity tool” quietly becomes “organizational rewrite.”

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OVERVIEW

Copilot Isn’t Just for Work

👀 What’s happening: Microsoft AI released its 2025 Copilot Usage Report, analyzing summaries from 37.5 million anonymized Copilot conversations across 2025. The data captures topic and intent only, trading raw content for behavioral clarity at scale.

🔥 How this hits reality: Everyone assumed Copilot was a Microsoft 365 sidekick for docs, emails, and meetings. The data says otherwise. Health, relationships, and personal advice dominate usage, especially on mobile and late at night. Users are not optimizing workflows. They are looking for reassurance, perspective, and someone to talk to.

🛎️ Our take: Microsoft built a work assistant and accidentally shipped a therapist with an enterprise license.

NEW LAUNCH

Microsoft’s GigaTIME Makes Cancer Analysis as Simple as a Blood Test

👀 What’s happening: Microsoft has open-sourced GigaTIME, a multimodal AI model that transforms routine $5 H&E pathology slides into virtual multiplex immunofluorescence maps. Trained on 40 million paired cells, it lets researchers and hospitals generate immune-cell activity data that once required expensive imaging rigs and specialized labs. The full model is now available on Foundry Labs and Hugging Face.

🔥 How this hits reality: GigaTIME gives AI a new superpower by enabling it to read the immune microenvironment directly from morphology. This collapses the cost structure of precision immunotherapy, turning niche, capital-intensive assays into software workflows. If widely adopted, tumor immune profiling could shift from a rare specialist test to something ordered as casually as a blood panel, bringing population-scale immune intelligence into day-to-day oncology.

🛎️ Our take: When immune profiling becomes a model instead of a microscope, precision oncology stops being a luxury service.

QUICK HITS

Opera launched Neon, a $19.90-per-month AI browser offering deeply integrated assistants and access to top-tier models.
Runware raised a $50M Series A to power real-time image, video, and audio generation through a unified high-speed inference API.
State attorneys general warned major AI firms to fix harmful “delusional outputs” and adopt transparent safety controls or risk violating state laws.
Spotify is testing “Prompted Playlists,” letting users create deeply personalized playlists using long, detailed prompts tied to their full listening history.
Figma added AI-powered object removal and image extension tools, enabling in-app editing without switching to external software.

TRENDING

Daily AI Launches

ClickUp has launched v4.0, a unified AI productivity platform that converges 50+ apps into a single, polished experience.
Skippr AI has launched Finesse, an AI design agent that automatically reviews UI, copy, and accessibility before you ship.
echo has launched a tool that turns email traffic into live dashboards to track invoices, contracts, and project data.
Vouch has launched Signal, a video outreach tool for recruiters to instantly create personalized videos and landing pages.

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