AI Daily Business and News Rundown: đšđł China Overtakes U.S. in Open AI đïž AI Wins Black Friday 2025: The "Agentic" Takeover đ€ DeepSeek launches two new AI models to rival OpenAI & more
Welcome back to AI Unraveled, your strategic daily briefing on the business impact of artificial intelligence. It is Monday, December 1st, 2025, and the industry has just crossed two historic thresholds.First, the balance of power in the 'Open AI Economy' has officially flippedâwith Chinese developers overtaking the US in market share for the first time. Second, Black Friday has proven that the age of 'search' is dead, replaced by the age of 'prediction,' as AI agents drove nearly $12 billion in sales.We are also covering DeepSeekâs new math-crushing model, Runwayâs victory over Google, and why memory chips are about to become the most expensive resource on earth.Letâs unravel the news.Strategic Pillars & Topicsđ Market & Strategy (Geopolitics, Finance, Regulation)đšđł China Overtakes U.S. in Open AI: An MIT/Hugging Face study confirms Chinese developers now hold 17.1% of the open AI market versus the U.S.'s 15.8%, signaling a "fundamental rebalancing" of the industry.đïž AI Wins Black Friday: AI agents drove an 805% increase in shopping traffic, generating $11.8 billion in sales and proving that shopping intent has migrated from search bars to model prompts.đŸ Memory Chip Crunch: Micron is investing $9 billion in Japan to build next-gen AI memory chips. Meanwhile, Dell and HP warn that the AI data center boom creates shortages that will drive up costs for laptops and phones by 2026.đ€ OpenAIâs Circular Deals: OpenAI is taking a stake in Thrive Holdings, creating a circular financial relationship as Thrive Capital is already a major OpenAI backer. đ Products & Development (Capability, Efficiency, Tools)đ€ DeepSeek-V3.2 Launches: The new Chinese model rivals GPT-5 High on math benchmarks and achieved Gold Medal status at the International Math Olympiad, challenging Western supremacy.đ„ Runway Beats Google: Runwayâs Gen-4.5 has claimed the top spot on the Video Arena leaderboard, displacing Googleâs Veo 3 and OpenAIâs Sora 2 Pro by optimizing for NVIDIAâs Blackwell architecture.đ§ź âAristotleâ Solves 30-Year Problem: Harmonicâs AI, "Aristotle," independently solved and formally verified ErdĆs Problem #124, ushering in the era of "vibe proving" (intuition + rigorous verification).âïž Virgin Australia x OpenAI: The airline is embedding ChatGPT tools directly into its flight planning and search systems.Host Connection & EngagementNewsletter: Sign up for FREE daily briefings at https://enoumen.substack.comLinkedIn: Connect with Etienne: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enoumen/Email:
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