AI Daily Brief — 27 November 2025
US Thanksgiving — quietest day in two weeks. No major US lab (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, xAI) shipped a model, paper, or partnership. Week’s frontier news had already landed earlier: Claude Opus 4.5 on Nov 24 ($5/$25 per Mtoken, 80.9% SWE-bench Verified) + Gemini 3 / Google Antigravity in mid-November. arXiv “Irresponsible AI” position paper from Alex Hernandez-Garcia + Alexandra Volokhova + Ezekiel Williams + Dounia Shaaban Kabakibo submitted on Thanksgiving — argues big tech’s scaling-driven, general-purpose agenda is at odds with responsible AI development; traces environmental + societal harms to underlying economic incentives. OpenAI ChatGPT-logs discovery order finalized — Magistrate Wang rejected OpenAI’s keyword-search proposal in NYT/news-plaintiffs copyright litigation; District Judge Stein affirmed in full; OpenAI required to hand over 20M de-identified ChatGPT logs to both news + class plaintiffs. Cohere motion to dismiss publisher copyright suit denied — SDNY rejected motion on direct + secondary copyright infringement + trademark + false designation of origin; case proceeds to discovery. Black Friday retail AI inference spike: Adobe + partners projected AI-driven traffic to US retail sites would rise ~5× YoY for 2025 holiday season, concentrated on Thanksgiving Day as shoppers used OpenAI’s mid-Nov shopping research + Target-in-ChatGPT app instead of browsing stores.
Top stories
- “Irresponsible AI” position paper on arXiv. Hernandez-Garcia + Volokhova + Williams + Kabakibo on Thanksgiving — big tech’s scaling/general-purpose agenda at odds with responsible AI; environmental + societal harms traced to economic incentives. via arXiv
- US AI desk dark for Thanksgiving. No frontier-lab launches. Week’s news had landed earlier (Opus 4.5 Nov 24, Gemini 3 + Antigravity mid-Nov). via Anthropic
- OpenAI 20M ChatGPT logs order finalized. Wang rejected keyword-search proposal; Stein affirmed in full. Both news + class plaintiffs get de-identified logs. via National Law Review
- Cohere motion to dismiss publisher copyright suit denied. SDNY rejected on direct + secondary copyright + trademark + false designation. Case proceeds to discovery. via Copyright Alliance
- Black Friday retail AI inference spike. Adobe: AI-driven traffic ~5× YoY for 2025 holidays — Thanksgiving concentrated as shoppers used OpenAI shopping research + Target-in-ChatGPT. via Adobe
- Chinese open-weight share climbing to ~15% global. TrendForce: led by DeepSeek + Qwen. No Nov 27-specific Chinese release. via TrendForce
Who shipped
Nobody Thursday — US holiday. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, DeepSeek, Alibaba all dark on launches.
Open-source pulse
No new Chinese drops. Olmo 3 + HunyuanVideo-1.5 + Fara-7B continued community uptake from prior week.
Money, infra & hardware
No new rounds. Black Friday AI shopping inference is the day’s quiet structural story — first holiday with full agentic-shopping stack deployed.
Quiet corners
Copyright docket activity (OpenAI 20M logs + Cohere motion denied) is the substantive policy moment of the day.
By the numbers
- 0 — frontier-lab launches Thursday
- 20M — ChatGPT logs OpenAI must produce
- 5× — Adobe’s projected AI-driven retail traffic YoY
- ~15% — Chinese model share global usage November
- Most-mentioned topic: AI copyright + holiday inference
- Quietest segment: everything
Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 27 November 2025.