Daily AI Updates: November 12, 2025

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• GPT‑5.1 feature updates: Introduces an adaptive reasoning mechanism that dynamically adjusts thinking time based on problem complexity, improving accuracy on hard queries. Enhances instruction‑following to better align with real user intent.

• GPT‑5.1 performance optimization: Thinking time is extended for complex questions and shortened for simple ones. Reduces heavy jargon in responses, making outputs clearer and easier to understand.

• GPT‑5.1 core progress: Overall chat capabilities improve, including stronger adherence to custom instructions and more accurate reasoning‑based responses—showing smarter behavior in conversation.

• ChatGPT model release: GPT‑5.1 rolls out with more intelligent and reliable interactions, gradually reaching all users this week.

• ChatGPT pricing updates: GPT‑5 remains available to paid subscribers for three months before entering a sunset period. GPT‑5 Pro will be updated to GPT‑5.1 Pro soon, with other legacy models unaffected.

• ChatGPT feature updates: Adds eight distinct style presets—Default, Professional, Blunt, Quirky, Friendly, Efficient, Nerdy, and Cynical—so users can quickly set tone and style under the Personalization tab.

• ChatGPT personalization experiments: Introduces experimental controls such as adjusting warmth and emoji frequency, currently rolling out to a small cohort for feedback.

• GitHub Copilot tool updates: Adds a one‑click “analyze entire codebase” capability that automatically generates custom instructions to help Copilot better understand and operate on project code.

• Claude industry collaboration: Partners with Project Fetch to accelerate hardware‑interaction tasks. Claude helps teams produce more code and try multiple approaches in parallel—while acknowledging potential distraction risks.

• Claude performance optimization: Enables non‑expert users to interact with unknown hardware via frontier models. Project Fetch experiments show faster progress within a limited scope.

• Anthropic AI infrastructure announcement: Invests $50B in data centers across Texas and New York to support training for Claude and future models, with thousands of jobs expected.