Here are the current technology news, most significant AI news, and trending tools on December 12, 2025:
Tech News and AI Developments
- Disney has signed a landmark deal with OpenAI to license over 200 characters for the Sora video generation platform, allowing fans to create short videos featuring iconic figures from Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars.
- Cohere has released Rerank 4, its most advanced reranker model, designed to improve the accuracy and speed of enterprise search by refining initial retrieval results.
- Oracle has launched its Oracle Database@Google Cloud service in Canada, allowing customers to run mission-critical database workloads directly on Google Cloud infrastructure in Montreal and Toronto.
- USDOT partnered with Salesforce to use AI agents for modernizing transportation systems.
- OpenAI has launched GPT-5.2, its most advanced AI model series to date. Designed for professional knowledge work, it outperforms previous models in reasoning, coding, and executing complex tasks.
- IBM and Pearson have announced a global partnership to develop AI-powered learning tools designed to help businesses and individuals close the skills gap and improve workforce productivity.
Trending AI Tools
- Question AI – a versatile AI homework helper that solves academic problems from text, images, or documents across various subjects instantly.
- Celestial AI – a technology company developing the Photonic Fabric platform, which uses optical interconnects to separate compute and memory, boosting data center efficiency for AI workloads.
- Originality AI – a content detection tool designed for publishers and agencies to identify AI-generated text and plagiarism with high accuracy.
- GPTZero – a leading AI detection platform for educators and students that checks text for AI patterns and plagiarism to ensure academic integrity.
- Grubby AI – an AI writing tool that rewrites and “humanizes” AI-generated content to bypass detection systems like Turnitin and GPTZero while maintaining the original message.
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