# This Week in All Things AI - Week 50-2025

> Sunday 7th December 2025 to Saturday 13th December 2025

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**Published on:** 2025-12-14
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The big news this week in the world of AI is OpenAI's release of the various variants of its GPT-5.2 model, Presidents Trump allowing Nvidia to sell H200's to "approved customers" in China and the creation of the Agentic AI Foundation. Readers who think others in their family, friends and acquaintances who have a curiosity in knowing more about rapidly evolving AI tools/services/use cases would benefit from being subscribers of this weekly newsletter are encouraged to share this publication link to them and invite them to subscribe The following messages were posted on the 'All Things AI' Telegram group from Sunday 7th Dec 2025 to Saturday 13th Dec 2025Sunday 7th December 2025Highly recommend watching this 25 min talk by Steve Yegge and Gene Kim from the recently concluded AI Engineer Summit in New York Steve Yegge is a legend and opinionated person in the software industry (40'ish years work experience) and if you are someone like me who has circled around the sun more than a few years then you might have read some of his earlier long form writing https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/why-i-left-google-to-join-grab-86dfffc0be84 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/Monday 8th December 2025via Teng Yan of chainofthought fame, an X post which describes how Google's agentic coding environment wiped a photographer’s entire hard drive because he told it to “clear the cache.” I'm also posting a link to the reddit thread where this was first mentioned Teng Yan · Chain of Thought AI @tengyanAI Google’s new agentic coding environment Antigravity just wiped a photographer’s entire hard drive because he told it to “clear the cache.” Years of raw photos, client work, personal archives, gone in seconds. How it happened: Antigravity misread a relative path, silently 57 11:07 AM • Dec 8, 2025 https://www.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of/Tuesday 9th December 20251President Trump says the US will allow Nvidia to ship H200 chips to “approved customers” in China and elsewhere, and 25% of the chip sales will be paid to the US Rush Doshi @RushDoshi This is a big deal. Essentially a reversal of the US export control policy on advanced chips. Possibly decisive in the AI race. Compute is our main advantage — China has more power, engineers, and the entire edge layer — so by giving this up we increase the odds the world runs on 2,472 6:05 AM • Dec 9, 2025 Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW Nvidia can finally sell H200s to China. I'm always curious what Chinese AI labs can do once they have US-level GPU firepower. Most upset: Dario Most happy: Jensen Winners: open source AI and every AI user! More competition -> more innovation -> intelligence too cheap to meter. 677 6:25 AM • Dec 9, 2025 Alec Stapp @AlecStapp Massive own goal to export these AI chips to China. The H200 is 6x more powerful than the H20, which was previously the most powerful chip approved for export. Our compute advantage is the main thing keeping us ahead of China in AI. Why would we throw that away? Tim Fist @fiiiiiist The US has reportedly decided to approve exports of NVIDIA’s H200 chip to China. This gives Chinese AI labs chips that outperform anything China can make until ~2028. How big a deal this is depends on how many we export. Thread with key charts from our new report... 715 5:29 AM • Dec 9, 2025 2via: Ritika Bagaria Interesting one from Jensen Huang https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR-61-7Aakl/?igsh=MTE4ejVybzhvMDg4dA==3Ritika Bagaria and others in the group, If you have the time I'd strongly recommend watching the complete interview via Robby YungSmart Contracts \ red.anthropic.comDecember 1, 2025 Winnie Xiao*, Cole Killian* Henry Sleight, Alan Chan Nicholas Carlini, Alwin Peng *MATS and the Anthropic Fellows program AI models are increasingly good at cyber tasks, as we've written about before. But what is the economic impact of these capabilities?https://red.anthropic.comWednesday 10th December 20251Mistral launches Devstral 2, a coding model with 123B parameters and a 24B parameter Devstral Small for local deploymentIntroducing: Devstral 2 and Mistral Vibe CLI. | Mistral AIState-of-the-art, open-source agentic coding models and CLI agent.https://mistral.ai2Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers. OpenAI donated AGENTS.md. Block donated goose (their open source, extensible AI agent). Anthropic @AnthropicAI Anthropic is donating the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation. In one year, MCP has become a foundational protocol for agentic AI. Joining AAIF ensures MCP remains open and community-driven. anthropic.com Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. 5,821 1:01 AM • Dec 10, 2025 https://openai.com/index/agentic-ai-foundation/ https://block.xyz/inside/block-anthropic-and-openai-launch-the-agentic-ai-foundation3via David James India uses AI to hunt crypto transactions. Despite the jingoistic claims of embracing Blockchain, India could see a parallel economy emerging. https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/india-doesnt-collect-data-nor-regulate-crypto-industry-fm-1922549Thursday 11th December 2025Google releases fully managed, remote MCP servers to help developers connect AI agents to services such as Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine Thomas Kurian @ThomasOrTK We just launched fully managed, remote MCP servers for all Google and Google Cloud services. Now you can easily connect your AI agents to our entire ecosystem with a single standard. Read more in @TechCrunch: techcrunch.com Google launches managed MCP servers that let AI agents simply plug into its tools | TechCrunch Google is rolling out managed MCP servers to make its services “agent-ready by design,” starting with Maps and BigQuery, aiming to simplify messy integrations and help AI agents use real tools. 589 1:48 AM • Dec 11, 2025 https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-official-mcp-support-for-google-services/Friday 12th December 2025OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 with Major Performance Gains The model comes in three versions: Instant for quick tasks, Thinking for coding and planning, and Pro for the hardest challenges. Paid ChatGPT users gained immediate access on Thursday, with free users following Friday. Sam Altman @sama It is a very smart model, and we have come a long way since GPT-5.1: 17.5K 2:33 AM • Dec 12, 2025 OpenAI @OpenAI GPT-5.2 is now rolling out to everyone. openai.com Introducing GPT-5.2 The most advanced frontier model for professional work and long-running agents. 11.8K 2:18 AM • Dec 12, 2025 Matt Shumer @mattshumer_ I've had access to GPT-5.2 since November 25th. Since then, I've used it as my daily-driver, pushing it to its limits. It beats out Opus 4.5 in most things I tried, but there's a (big) catch. Here's my review of GPT-5.2: shumer.dev GPT-5.2 Review: Incredibly Impressive, But Too Slow Hands-on GPT-5.2 review: better instruction following and codegen, Pro is a slow genius, but Thinking is too slow to compete with other models of similar intelligence. 1,040 2:19 AM • Dec 12, 2025 OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs Teams testing GPT-5.2 have reported steadier agents, stronger coding performance, and clearer reasoning over large contexts. But don't take our word for it. Here are the early impressions we're seeing: 1,345 4:53 AM • Dec 12, 2025 Saturday 13th December 2025OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's “skills” mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/ Simon Willison @simonw Whoa. ChatGPT has a /home/oai/skills folder now! Elias Judin @elias_judin @simonw /home/oai/skills/pdfs/skill.md /home/oai/skills/docs/skill.md /home/oai/skills/spreadsheets/skill.md 3,201 11:34 PM • Dec 12, 2025 Below is my personal website which aggregates links to many of my socials as well as content and community that I curate. 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