Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released two powerful new AI models on Sunday that the company claims match or exceed the capabilities of OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Google’s Gemini-3.0-Pro — a development that could reshape the competitive landscape between American tech giants and their Chinese challengers.
The Hangzhou-based company launched DeepSeek-V3.2, designed as an everyday reasoning assistant, alongside DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, a high-powered variant that achieved gold-medal performance in four elite international competitions: the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad, the International Olympiad in Informatics, the ICPC World Finals, and the China Mathematical Olympiad. — Read More
Daily Archives: December 2, 2025
Move over, computer science. Students are flocking to new AI majors
Artificial intelligence is the hot new college major.
This semester, more than 3,000 students enrolled in a new college of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
At the University of California, San Diego, 150 first-year students signed up for a new AI major. And the State University of New York at Buffalo created a stand-alone “department of AI and society,” which is offering new interdisciplinary degrees in fields like “AI and policy analysis.”
The fast popularisation of products such as ChatGPT, along with skyrocketing valuations of tech giants such as chipmaker Nvidia, is helping to drive the campus AI boom. — Read More
The Planning Paradox: Why your plans are useless, but planning isn’t.
Your carefully crafted roadmap is probably fiction within weeks of creating it. Priorities shift. Leadership changes direction. That feature everyone agreed on in Q1 planning feels irrelevant by April.
I learned this while launching a massive CRM overhaul at one of my previous employers. It wasn’t the plan that saved us. It was the planning.
… That’s the paradox: the plan became obsolete, but the act of planning together made us capable of executing even as everything changed. — Read More
Context plumbing
Loosely AI interfaces are about intent and context.
Intent is the user’s goal, big or small, explicit or implicit.
Uniquely for computers, AI can understand intent and respond in a really human way. This is a new capability! Like the user can type I want to buy a camera
or point at a keylight and subvocalise I’ve got a call in 20 minutes
or hit a button labeled remove clouds
and job done.
Companies care about this because computers that are closer to intent tend to win
… This is why I think the future of interfaces is Do What I Mean: it’s not just a new capability enabled by AI, there’s a whole attentional economics imperative to it. — Read More
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