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Daily AI News Update: OpenAI kicks off its "12 Days of Shipping" with the full release of the o1 reasoning model featuring vision capabilities. Plus, Apple debuts Ferret-UI 2 for mobile agents, and Elon Musk teases xAI's Grok 3.

Confluent (CFLT) Skyrockets as IBM Strikes $11 Billion Acquisition Deal

SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) snapped its blistering year-to-date rally early Friday, with shares tumbling approximately 7% in pre-market trading. The catalyst was a surprise announcement of a $1.5 billion underwritten public offering of common stock, priced at $27.50 per share—a steep discount to Thursday’s closing price of $29.60.

AI News Today (Dec 5, 2025): OpenAI Day 1 delivers the full "o1" model with vision capabilities, Apple reveals Ferret-UI 2 for mobile agents, and Grok 3 rumors heat up.

In the last 24 hours, Meta recruited Apple’s longtime design lead Alan Dye to spearhead AI-first consumer devices, saw Prudential increase its stake, and was reported to be testing Alphabet TPUs over Nvidia GPUs in select data centers—signaling strategic momentum across product, capital flows, and infrastructure.

AI News Today (Dec 4, 2025): OpenAI announces a "12 Days" release event to counter Google, Meta debuts the AudioBox 2 voice model, and NVIDIA crosses the $4 Trillion mark.