TIME names ‘Architects of AI’ its Person of the Year | TechCrunch

TIME Magazine has named the 'Architects of AI' its Person of the Year, who include Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Lisa Su, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and Fei-Fei Li

Runway releases its first world model, adds native audio to latest video model | TechCrunch

Runway debuts a physics-aware world model that simulates reality to train agents and power video, robotics, and avatar applications.

Google debuts 'Disco,' a Gemini-powered tool for making web apps from browser tabs | TechCrunch

Google Labs is testing a product that will work with your browser tabs to make web apps for you.

GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battle

OpenAI has launched GPT-5.2, which it calls its best AI model yet for professional use.

Google is building an experimental new browser and a new kind of web app

GenTabs bring Gemini 3’s interactive powers to the overall web experience, with some new ideas about browsing.

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI

Rise of the LLeMmings

Character AI will offer interactive 'Stories' to kids instead of open-ended chat | TechCrunch

The company announced last month that it would no longer allow minors to use its chat features.

MIT scientists debut a generative AI model that could create molecules addressing hard-to-treat diseases

A new model known as BoltzGen designs protein binders for any biological target from scratch. Developed at MIT, BoltzGen has shown promise for hard-to-treat targets in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

RAM prices are so out of control that stores are selling it like lobster

The RAM shortage is forcing stores like Central Computer and Micro Center to sell PC memory at market prices instead of advertising prices.

Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”

AI as Disciplined Software: “I Think I Should Leave” (English)

Scott Galloway is a lead developer and software engineer with a passion for building web applications.

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

Using gpt-oss:20b in OpenCode with a larger context and high reasoning

I set up OpenAI's gpt-oss:20b in Ollama with a larger context window and high reasoning in OpenCode to process my private journal entries locally.