Monday 01 December 2025 | Join Free | Upgrade

Together with

Hi there, this is your daily ☕️ Techpresso.

In today's Techpresso:

🤖 DeepSeek launches two new AI models to rival OpenAI

🆔 US wants laws to force App Store age checks

🎥 Runway's new AI beats Google and OpenAI in video benchmarks

📺 Netflix ends casting from phones to modern TVs

📱 India demands Apple preinstall government security app onto iPhones

🤝 OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal

🎁 + 13 other news & articles you might like

🧰 + 6 trending tools

📚 + 2 trending papers

FROM OUR PARTNER


Going global isn't just about translating your website — and that's why we created a set of practical, structured AI prompts to help you take the next steps.

From researching new markets and understanding local personas to adapting content and analyzing competitors, these prompts give you a clearer picture of where and how to expand.

Use them alongside Weglot's translation and localization capabilities to build a more informed, confident international strategy without the complexity of traditional research tools.

Get access
🤖 DeepSeek launches two new AI models to rival OpenAI LINK
  • The Chinese startup released DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2 Speciale to challenge western supremacy, and the standard version has already replaced the V3.2-Experimental model as the default choice on its website and app.
  • DeepSeek-V3.2 Speciale beat GPT-5 High on pure math benchmarks like AIME and achieved gold-medal performance in the International Mathematical Olympiad, while also defeating every other AI model listed on CodeForces.
  • This new model scored higher than GPT-5 High on Humanity's Last Exam but fell behind Gemini 3 Pro, and it is currently restricted to API use rather than regular users.
🆔 US wants laws to force App Store age checks LINK
  • The App Store Accountability Act requires app storefronts like the App Store and Google Play to verify the age of all users while linking minor accounts to a guardian for parental consent on purchases.
  • Social networks like Pinterest endorsed the bill because centralized age checks effectively shift the blame for moderation lapses onto Apple and Google rather than the creator apps and services actually hosting the content.
  • Although Apple already provides Family Sharing tools to limit mature content, the bill ignores that strict storefront verification cannot stop a child from accessing explicit material through an account registered to an adult.
🎥 Runway's new AI beats Google and OpenAI in video benchmarks LINK
  • Runway released Gen-4.5 to claim the top spot on the Video Arena leaderboard, displacing Google’s Veo 3 and pushing OpenAI’s Sora 2 Pro to seventh place with a score derived from blind A/B testing.
  • The startup optimized inference for NVIDIA’s new Blackwell architecture to build world models that understand physics, allowing objects to move with realistic weight and momentum while surface details maintain coherence during rapid camera movements.
  • CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela says his team of 100 people out-competed trillion-dollar generalist AI labs by focusing exclusively on video dynamics rather than spreading resources across text, code, and multimodal research.
📺 Netflix ends casting from phones to modern TVs LINK
  • Netflix updated its help page to say it no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs, forcing subscribers to navigate the app using the remote that came with their hardware.
  • While casting support remains for older Chromecast devices and TVs with Google Cast natively, this feature is now restricted to pricier ad-free plans starting at $17.99 per month, locking out ad-supported subscribers entirely.
  • Users report the casting option disappeared around November 10th without warning after the app was updated, a move that follows the company removing AirPlay support in 2019 to ensure their standard of quality.
📱 India demands Apple preinstall government security app onto iPhones LINK
  • India’s telecoms ministry has directed smartphone makers to preload the Sanchar Saathi cybersecurity application on all new devices within 90 days while also deploying it to existing handsets via software updates.
  • The mandate poses a specific challenge for Apple because the company strictly blocks third-party tools on iPhones before sale and has fought a previous request to develop a specific anti-spam app.
  • Officials say the tool prevents IMEI tampering and helps recover lost phones, yet privacy advocates warn that forcing a system-level installation with no deletion options effectively eliminates meaningful consumer choice.
🤝 OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal LINK
  • OpenAI is taking an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings, creating a circular relationship because the target firm’s parent company, Thrive Capital, is already one of the largest financial backers supporting the AI giant.
  • The deal involves embedding engineering, research, and product teams into portfolio companies to accelerate AI adoption in sectors like accounting and IT services, allowing the tech firm to earn more equity through success.
  • This partnership follows a pattern of circular dealmaking for the startup, which recently took stakes in infrastructure partners like Advanced Micro Devices and CoreWeave, leading analysts to watch for signs of pumped-up valuations.

FROM OUR PARTNER

Get Your Time Back - Let AI Run Your Marketing

You didn't start a business to become a part-time marketer. Why not automate those marketing chores?

Omada gives you an entire marketing team for less than one employee:

  • Social posts created and published automatically
  • Professional videos
  • Customer messages answered 24/7
  • Campaigns optimized while you sleep

Setup takes 5 minutes. Then watch your marketing run itself.

Start your 14-day free trial today.

Other news & articles you might like

  • Korea’s Coupang says data breach exposed nearly 34M customers’ personal information LINK
  • AWS, Google Cloud unveil service to simplify multicloud networking LINK
  • ChatGPT turns 3 LINK
  • James Cameron says AI actors are ‘horrifying to me’ LINK
  • At least 80 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far LINK
  • MKBHD’s Panels wallpaper app is shutting down, here’s what’s next LINK
  • Google deletes X post after getting caught using a ‘stolen’ AI recipe infographic LINK
  • An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls LINK
  • TikTok’s next conquest LINK
  • Supreme Court to hear lawsuit that could force millions of Americans offline LINK

🧰 Trending tools

Taskade Genesis: a no-code platform that builds AI-powered business apps with memory, chat agents, and workflow automation through a single prompt. LINK
TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0: a multimodal embedding model that indexes video, audio, and text together to enable accurate search and retrieval across large video libraries. LINK
NeuralAgent: an AI automation tool that controls your mouse and keyboard to perform tasks across applications, now with background mode and specialized agents for coding, research, and growth tasks. LINK
Kodey.ai: a platform for deploying AI agents that can automate business tasks like sending emails and managing data across integrated tools. LINK
The ∞ Bar: a chat interface where AI personas with defined relationships debate and interact with each other and you, creating dynamic multi-character conversations. LINK
Tinyfocus: a minimal productivity tool for solo founders to track tasks and maintain focus on priority work. LINK

📚 Trending papers

Program-of-thought prompting boosts math accuracy: researchers taught AI to write small programs instead of text explanations, improving math problem accuracy by 15% over standard methods. LINK
AMD platform trains billion-parameter AI models: researchers successfully trained large language models using AMD chips instead of Nvidia, achieving comparable performance at scale. LINK

Want to get the latest news differently?

X / Twitter Threads Bluesky Instagram Spotify Apple Podcasts

Not subscribed to ☕️ Techpresso yet?Subscribe for free

Advertise Feedback Read Online