Partnerships
OpenAI & Disney Strike $1 Bn Licensing Deal to Bring Iconic Characters to Sora AI Video Platform
As part of the agreement, Disney is making a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, becoming a major customer of OpenAI’s technology.
Pritam Bordoloi
Pritam Bordoloi is a senior technology journalist and founder of The Left Shift, covering AI, enterprise technology, startups, digital transformation, and the business of technology.
Big Tech
Big Tech’s New Love Story with India: Amazon and Microsoft Announce New Mega Billion-Dollar Investments
Microsoft kicked things off with a massive $17.5 billion commitment to supercharge India’s AI and cloud infrastructure over the next four years.
AI Models
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 With Big Leaps in Reasoning, Coding & Real-World Tasks
GPT-5.2 outperforms both its predecessors and many human experts on a range of benchmarks.
Research
Researchers Break Microsoft Copilot Studio, Show How “No-Code” AI Agents Can Commit Fraud Instantly
The company warned that while organisations are rapidly adopting tools that let employees build their own AI agents, this democratisation of AI is creating “severe, yet overlooked” security risks.
Developer's Corner
Google Cloud Now Offers Official MCP Support Across Its Services to Power Agentic AI
Under the new rollout, Google is launching fully-managed, remote MCP servers that let developers point their AI agents, including clients like Gemini CLI and AI Studio.
AI Agents
US Transportation Dept Taps Salesforce's Agentforce to Modernize America’s Transportation Systems
Agentforce will autonomously manage routine citizen requests, analyze weather and traffic data to issue real-time safety alerts, and review federal grant applications to speed approval cycles.
Partnerships
Adobe Brings Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat Directly Into ChatGPT
The integration brings the company’s flagship creative and productivity tools to ChatGPT’s 800 million weekly users without requiring users to switch between applications.
AI News
McDonald’s Pulls AI-Generated Christmas Ad After Public Backlash
Viewers overwhelmingly condemned the ad for its AI-generated visuals, accusing the brand of pushing “AI slop.”
Open Source
Linux Foundation Launches Agentic AI Foundation with Backing from Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI
The foundation debuts with major contributions from Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose framework, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md standard.
Acquisition
TCS Acquires Salesforce Consulting Firm Coastal Cloud for $700 Mn
Founded in 2012, Coastal Cloud is a leading multi-cloud Salesforce consulting firm, specialising in enterprise-scale transformations.
AI Startups
Bengaluru Voice AI Startup SuperBryn Raises $1.2 Mn to Fix Why Most Voice Agents Fail in the Real World
SuperBryn is building a reliability framework designed to help enterprises deploy voice AI agents at scale.
Lawsuits
The New York Times Sues Perplexity AI, Claims Copyright Theft and False Attribution in AI Outputs
According to the complaint, Perplexity scraped even pay-walled articles from nytimes.com and third-party databases.