🔥 The Week in AI News - December 1 -5

This week in AI news: Seedream 4.5, Meta - Facebook - Instagram, Apple, Kling Video 2.6, ChatGPT, WordPress vibe coding, Amazon AWS, Google, Perplexity and more.

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▪️ AI Image platform released Seedream 4.5Seedream 4.5 has sharper detail, smarter lighting, richer textures, cleaner geometry. And no “plastic skin” look.

▪️ Meta turned account recovery into an AI concierge for Facebook and InstagramMeta is rolling out a centralized support hub with an AI assistant that walks you through hacks, lockouts, and security checks from one place instead of a maze of help pages.

▪️ Apple’s “apps of the year” confirmed that AI is now a default feature, not a flexFrom planners to games, Apple’s top App Store picks this year are stacked with AI-powered personalization and automation, even if none of them are marketed as pure AI apps.

▪️ Kling Video 2.6 launched full audio-visual, creating clips with built-in voices and soundThe new Kling model lets you generate up to 10-second videos with synced speech, sound effects, and ambience straight from text or images so you skip the silent-footage-then-audio-editing workflow.

▪️ ChatGPT is starting to matter in e-commerce, even if it’s still a tiny slice of the referral pieA new report says ChatGPT’s referrals to retail apps jumped 28 percent year over year on Black Friday, sending more traffic to giants like Amazon and Walmart while still accounting for under 1 percent of total sessions.

▪️ Meta signed big-name news deals so Meta AI can answer questions with fresher receiptsNew licensing agreements with CNN, Fox News, USA Today and others let Meta pull verified news into its chatbot responses instead of skating on thin fair-use ice.

▪️ OpenAI hit code red as Google closed the gap in the model raceReporting says Sam Altman has flagged an internal code red to push major ChatGPT upgrades, signaling the easy lead from 2022 is gone and the next round will be won on quality, speed, and real-world application.

▪️ WordPress’s Telex showed what vibe coding looks like when it hits productionThe experimental AI dev tool is already powering live pricing tables and interactive components, making describe-the-vibe, get-the-widget feel less like a demo and more like the early future of no-code.

▪️ AWS upgraded its agent builder so enterprises can treat AI agents like long-term teammatesNew Bedrock AgentCore features for memory, evaluation, and monitoring make it easier for companies to spin up agents that persist context, stay on rail, and remain auditable when things get messy.

▪️ AWS leaned into custom LLMs for companies that want their own brain, not just a rented oneFresh capabilities in Bedrock and SageMaker aim to simplify training and fine-tuning bespoke models so teams can embed their own data and workflows instead of relying on generic chatbots.

▪️ Data center energy use is on track to nearly triple by 2035, with AI as the main driverNew forecasts show data centers could hit around 106 gigawatts of demand by 2035, pushing buildouts into rural grids and turning AI infrastructure into an energy story as much as a compute story.

▪️ Google is testing a merged AI Overviews and AI Mode that turns search into one continuous chat surfaceThe experiment shows users an AI Overview and then drops them directly into conversational follow-ups in AI Mode, blurring the line between traditional search results and agent-style interaction.

▪️ Amazon previewed three frontier agents, including Kiro, that can code for days without a breakAWS’s new agents for coding, security, and DevOps are pitched as autonomous workers that learn your stack and run long stretches of work while humans steer from a higher altitude.

▪️ The Chicago Tribune sued Perplexity over AI training and unauthorized reuse of its journalismThe lawsuit accuses Perplexity of copying, repackaging, and monetizing Tribune reporting without permission, adding even more legal pressure to the ongoing AI-training copyright battles.

The pace isn’t slowing down, and next week’s moves could be even bigger.

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