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AI Daily Podcast 12/02/2025
Welcome back to AI Daily. Today’s podcast episode was created from the following stories:
Nvidia just made a $2 billion investment in Synopsys, adding to its thick web of AI deals
By Hugh Langley — December 1, 2025
Nvidia invested $2 billion in Synopsys to pair accelerated computing with engineering software for AI‑assisted chip design and digital twins. The deal lifted Synopsys shares and deepens Nvidia’s recent spree of AI bets, from OpenAI data centers to a $5 billion stake in Intel. The rapid, sometimes circular, financing is raising bubble concerns among market watchers.
Source: businessinsider.com
Then vs. now: AI videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti show just how advanced the tech has gotten
By Brent D. Griffiths — December 1, 2025
Since the meme‑worthy 2023 clips, AI video generators like Google’s Veo and MiniMax have improved dramatically, with OpenAI’s Sora widely seen as the leader. The progress has spurred new guardrails and lawsuits over likeness and IP, while lawmakers fret about increasingly convincing political deepfakes. The “spaghetti test” now underscores both rapid capability gains and intensifying rights battles.
Source: businessinsider.com
3 years old, 800 million users, 29,000 prompts a second: ChatGPT’s meteoric rise, by the numbers
By Lauren Edmonds — December 1, 2025
Three years after launch, ChatGPT counts roughly 800 million weekly active users and handles about 29,000 messages per second. GPT‑5 is now the default for casual users, as OpenAI touts fewer hallucinations and stronger writing, coding, and health performance; business adoption tops 1 million paying customers and valuation nears $500 billion. Usage has broadened globally and shifted more toward non‑work queries.
Source: businessinsider.com
Accenture and OpenAI are teaming up as AI upends the consulting industry
By Polly Thompson — December 1, 2025
Accenture will roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to tens of thousands of employees and launch a flagship AI client program with OpenAI. The partnership aims to pair OpenAI’s agentic capabilities with Accenture’s domain expertise, reflecting consulting’s shift from strategy advice to long‑term AI transformation. Accenture is aggressively upskilling talent—and exiting roles that can’t be reskilled for the AI era.
Source: businessinsider.com
He predicted an automation crisis years ago. Now, Andrew Yang says AI may wipe out 40 million jobs over the next decade.
By Thibault Spirlet — December 1, 2025
Andrew Yang now projects that 30–40 million U.S. jobs could be eliminated over the next decade as AI automates routine cognitive and manual work. Citing evidence from MIT, Amazon, and recent layoff trends, he argues for a universal basic income funded by an AI or compute tax on the industry’s winners. Without a stronger safety net, he warns, communities could face destabilizing shocks.
Source: businessinsider.com
How elite business schools like Wharton are overhauling curriculum as AI reshapes Wall Street bankers’ futures
By Reed Alexander — December 1, 2025
With AI automating many junior‑banker tasks, elite programs like Wharton are launching AI‑centric tracks blending machine learning with ethics, psychology, and governance. Vanderbilt and Indiana University’s Kelley School are expanding AI, programming, and case‑based coursework as banks prize human judgment and critical thinking alongside data fluency. Recruiters say the goal is to validate, question, and operationalize AI outputs—not just produce them.
Source: businessinsider.com
Frontline AI: The deskless AI transformation is next
By Lara Williams — December 1, 2025
AI is moving from desks to the field, with an MIT study finding many warehouses at advanced automation maturity and typical ROI in two to three years. Partnerships among IFS, Anthropic, Boston Dynamics, and others highlight a shift to physical AI, digital twins, and edge inference that can automate inspections, maintenance, and field work. New labs from HCLTech and Nvidia signal a tipping point for industrial adoption, even as job‑displacement fears persist.
Source: verdict.co.uk
2025 sparked a legal tech funding frenzy. Here were some of the notable deals.
By Melia Russell and Monica Melton — December 1, 2025
Legal tech drew $3.2 billion in 2025 as AI copilots moved from pilot to production across research, drafting, and due diligence. Big rounds included Legora’s $150 million Series C and acquisition‑led strategies from Eudia, while newcomers like Bench IQ, Casium, Covenant, Marveri, and Theo Ai target forecasting, immigration, fund docs, and settlement analytics. Despite bubble talk, buyer demand suggests meaningful revenue traction.
Source: businessinsider.com
Company restores AI teddy bear sales after safety scare
By Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report — December 1, 2025
After a safety group found FoloToy’s AI teddy bear offered risky and inappropriate guidance, the company paused sales and says it has now strengthened filters and safeguards. OpenAI suspended FoloToy’s model access, and experts plan to retest, questioning whether a one‑week fix is sufficient. Parents are urged to vet models, read independent reviews, and supervise usage as AI toys proliferate.
Source: foxnews.com
