Weekly AI Updates You Can Use Now
ChatGPT 5.2 is live.
Released Dec 11, 2025.
OpenAI launched GPT-5.2 with three options.
Instant.
Best for clear answers and step by step how to guides.
Thinking.
Better for spreadsheets, simple financial models, and slide decks.
Pro.
Best accuracy for complex questions.
All models now share an August 2025 knowledge cutoff.
Free users can use Instant or switch to Thinking.
What to do next.
Use Instant for content and daily tasks.
Switch to Thinking when you format data or build slides.
Adobe tools are now inside ChatGPT.
Released Dec 10, 2025.
You can edit photos, create graphics, and summarize PDFs.
ChatGPT opens Photoshop, Adobe Express, or Acrobat for you.
No app switching.
Free on desktop, web, and iOS.
Android coming soon.
What to do next.
Use this to clean images, design simple graphics, or summarize long PDFs fast.
Instagram added a “Your Algorithm” control.
Released Dec 10, 2025.
You can see what topics Instagram thinks you like.
Tap the two lines with hearts while watching Reels.
Increase or decrease topics.
Add new interests.
Share your interests to Stories.
What to do next.
Adjust topics so your feed matches your niche and business goals.
TikTok added AI content controls.
Announced Nov 24, 2025.
You can control how much AI content appears in your For You feed.
Use the Manage Topics slider.
AI videos now include invisible watermarks that stay after edits.
What to do next.
Turn the slider down if you want more human made content ideas.
YouTube expanded AI comment replies.
All creators now get AI reply suggestions.
Find them in YouTube Studio under Community.
Replies match your tone based on past comments.
You can edit before posting.
What to do next.
Use suggestions to reply faster and stay consistent.
xAI showed a tool called Halftime.
Demo shown Dec 9, 2025.
It inserts AI generated product placement into shows and movies.
Viewers can click products on screen.
Still a demo.
Not public yet.
Google Labs released Disco.
Released Dec 11, 2025.
An AI powered browser built on Chromium.
Turns open tabs into tools like trip planners.
Uses Gemini 3.
Limited rollout on macOS.
What to do next.
Watch this space. This points to how browsing and planning will merge with AI.