Innovation Profs - 12/16/2025

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Latest Gen AI News

OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert

Just 29 days after the launch of GPT-5.1, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, motivated by a desire to respond to the release of Gemini 3 Pro. As with recent GPT models, GPT-5.2 comes in three varieties: Instant, Thinking, and Pro, with the latter model only available to ChatGPT Pro users ($200 monthly). According to OpenAI’s announcement of GPT-5.2, “We designed GPT‑5.2 to unlock even more economic value for people; it’s better at creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long contexts, using tools, and handling complex, multi-step projects.”

Disney Inks Blockbuster $1B Deal With OpenAI, Handing Characters Over To Sora

Disney has agreed to a three-year, $1 billion dollar licensing deal with OpenAI, allowing Sora users to create videos based on Disney characters. According to Disney CEO Bob Iger, “Bringing together Disney’s iconic stories and characters with OpenAI’s groundbreaking technology puts imagination and creativity directly into the hands of Disney fans in ways we’ve never seen before, giving them richer and more personal ways to connect with the Disney characters and stories they love.” This rollout has not been without problems, due to the lack of adequate safeguards to prevent the use of Disney IP to create harmful content.

Google Translate now lets you hear real-time translations in your headphones

On Friday, Google announced several new AI-powered features for Google Translate, including the live speech-to-speech translations in headphones that keep “each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and cadence intact.” In addition, new Gemini capabilities in Google translate “enable improved translations of phrases with more nuanced meanings, like slang, idioms, or local expressions.”

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Quick Hits

Tool of the week: Copilot Notebooks

Microsoft 365 Copilot users have a new way to organize their chats. Microsoft 365 Copilot Notebooks are AI-powered workspaces inside Microsoft 365 that helps you organize, analyze, and act on content for various projects. Similar to ChatGPT Projects, Notebooks use the power of ChatGPT, but only reference the data and instructions you add to each Notebook. And you can share them with others in your organization.

AI-generated image of the week

What would the Innovation Profs have looked like as kids in the 1980s on Christmas morning. We may never know … unless we ask Gemini Nano Banana to create a photo. Also, we have to assume they had two TVs based on this photo. Lucky kids!

Prompt: These two men but as kids on Christmas morning, playing Nintendo after opening gifts. A candid snapshot from the mid to late 1980s, taken with a consumer 35mm film camera. Slightly soft focus with visible film grain and dust specks. Colors are muted but warm, with a subtle magenta or yellow tint from aged film. On camera flash creates harsh, flat lighting, bright highlights, and deep shadows. Mild motion blur and imperfect framing, as if the photo was taken quickly without posing. Slight lens distortion and vignetting at the corners. Red eye visible. Everyday indoor setting with authentic 1980s details such as wood paneling, patterned wallpaper, bulky electronics, tube televisions, cassette tapes, and analog clocks. Natural, unpolished expressions and body language. Clothing and hairstyles are distinctly 1980s, including bold colors, denim, sweaters, windbreakers, feathered hair, and mustaches. Printed photo look with slight fading, minor scratches, and a nostalgic, accidental snapshot feel.

What we found

Looks like OpenAI will be leaving something under our trees this week! 🎁🎄

It’s also worth noting that OpenAI turned 10 years old this week. Most of us first heard about OpenAI in 2022 when ChatGPT became widely available.