Pierce and Richard cover the news that dropped over the holiday break. Getting breaking news incorporated within chatbots, OpenAI's "code red" over Google's Gemini 3, benchmarking the reliability of chain of thought to introspect model behavior, and a review of Claude Skills.

Further reading:
- https://www.wired.com/story/us-invaded-venezuela-and-captured-nicolas-maduro-chatgpt-disagrees
- https://fortune.com/2025/12/02/sam-altman-declares-code-red-google-gemini-ceo-sundar-pichai/
- https://openai.com/index/evaluating-chain-of-thought-monitorability/
- https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/overview