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Thursday’s top story: OpenAI will be launching or demoing a product or feature every day, from December 5th, for 12 days, in its ‘Shipmas’ initiative: “12 Days of OpenAI.”

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🌤️ This Morning on AI Tool Report

1. 🎁 Sora ‘Shipmas’ present from OpenAI?

2. 📈 How to invest in a game-changing, smart home company with Ryse

3. 🚁 OpenAI tackles drone threats

4. 📸 How to get professional headshots in minutes with Headshot Generator 

5. ⏳ How to improve customer response times using ChatGPT

6. 📌 Big pivot for AI Pin startup, Humane

7. ☺️ Altman “not worried” about Musk?

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FACT OF THE DAY

🤔 According to studies, just 52% of companies that use AI give their employees training on how to use it, leaving 37% of employees feeling underconfident with their AI skills and unsure how to leverage AI to help with their work tasks.

STOCK MARKETS

💥 NVIDIA outperformed the broader market during Thursday’s trading. The chip maker bounced back from the earnings selloff. Price is currently 5% off the all-time highs made on the 21st of November. With this impressive performance, NVIDIA could break to fresh all-time highs before the new year. Learn more.

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LAUNCHES

🎁 Sora ‘Shipmas’ present from OpenAI?

Our Report: OpenAI has announced it's starting a “12 Days of OpenAI” initiative, on December 5th, which will see them ship or demo a new product or feature every day, via livestream, for 12 days, leading up to Christmas (or “Shipmas”, as OpenAI is calling it).

🔑 Key Points:

• Over the last few weeks, OpenAI employees have been fueling speculation and teasing the ‘Shipmas’ initiative, posting things like “What’s on your Christmas list?” and “Just put up the Shipmas tree,” on social media.

• OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, confirmed the initiative at the The New York Times’ DealBook conference, but remained tightlipped on what to expect throughout the 12 days, telling people to “tune in daily."

• Despite Altman’s elusiveness, it’s expected that text-to-video tool, Sora, and a new reasoning model will launch, along with smaller “stocking stuffers” like a Santa-themed voice for Advanced Voice Mode.

🤔 Why you should care: Although the ‘Shipmas’ initiative will drum up a lot of publicity, OpenAI is under immense pressure to release Sora after it was leaked to the public by a group of angry Sora testers last week, faces criticism over the use of human-created YouTube content for training, and rivals Google and Amazon recently launching similar text-to-video models (Veo and Olympus, respectively).

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MILITARY

🚁 OpenAI tackles drone threats

Our Report: OpenAI has partnered with Anduril—a US defense startup that makes missiles, drones, and software for the US military—to integrate its technology into Anduril’s systems that assess and track unmanned aircraft, to help counter drone attacks.

🔑 Key Points:

• OpenAI’s tech will help assess drone threats quickly and accurately “enabling intelligence operators to make faster, more accurate decisions in high-pressure situations,” reducing collateral damage.

• Although it will help the US military counter drone attacks, Anduril CEO and co-founder, Brian Schimpf, has confirmed that OpenAI’s technology will not be used in any other Anduril weapon system, as part of the deal.

• OpenAI has expressed its commitment to making sure its technology protects the US military, and “helps the national security community understand and responsibly use the technology to keep citizens safe.”

🤔 Why you should care: This partnership further represents a change in OpenAI’s original stance towards working with the military: Having previously banned its technology from “military and warfare use” in its terms of service, it removed this statement, in January, then signed cybersecurity deals with the Pentagon, and brought several ex-defense leaders into its ranks, including ex-Defense Department official Sasha Baker and NSA chief Paul Nakasone.

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Thursday’s Prompt: How to improve customer response times using ChatGPT

Type this prompt into ChatGPT:

Results: After typing this prompt, you will get ideas about how to improve the time it takes to respond to customer inquiries.

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HARDWARE

📌 Big pivot for AI Pin startup, Humane

• AI startup, Humane—behind the famously disappointing AI Pin—has changed tack and is now promoting CosmOS (the AI Pins operating system) to companies looking for an operating system to power AI devices.

• In a promo video, Humane uses “working prototypes” to simulate scenarios and demonstrate how CosmOS could power devices—like cars, smart speakers, TVs, and mobiles—to alter heating, read emails, and retrieve recipes.

• Humane’s pivot comes after reports that the daily returns of the AI Pin (which launched in April) were outpacing sales, which prompted a price drop and a search for a potential buyer.

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POLITICS

☺️ Altman “not worried” about Musk? 

• Despite being embroiled in a legal battle with him, OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, is “not that worried” about Elon Musk’s potential influence over the development of AI, when the Trump administration comes in.

• He thinks that Musk will do the right thing, believing “it would be profoundly un-American to use political power to hurt competitors and advantage your own business…I don’t think Elon would do it.”

• This comes as Musk is set to head up Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is designed to recommend efficiencies, including heavy budget cuts, to federal agencies.

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