The day in AI

Monday 1 December 2025

No written reading for this day yet. Here is everything that was logged.

Everything from this day

Launches and products

1 Dec 2025DeepSeekDeepSeek-V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale Production DSA model at claimed GPT-5 level; Speciale variant claims gold at IMO, CMO, ICPC World Finals and IOI 2025. First thinking-in-tool-use release.1 Dec 2025RunwayGen-4.5 Gen-4.5 took #1 on Artificial Analysis text-to-video (1,247 Elo) at launch, ahead of Veo 3, Kling 2.5 and Sora 2 Pro.

Research

1 Dec 2025AnthropicAI agents find $4.6M in smart contract exploits (SCONE-bench) On 405 historically exploited smart contracts, Claude Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-5 built post-cutoff exploits worth $4.6 million in simulation.

People and teams

John GiannandreaApple → unknown. Apple announced he would step down and retire in spring 2026 after the delayed Siri overhaul; his remaining teams were split between Federighi, Khan and Cue.

Amar SubramanyaMicrosoft → Apple. Hired as VP of AI under Craig Federighi to run foundation models, ML and AI safety, five months after leaving Google after 16 years for Microsoft.