Google Undercuts the Field, OpenAI Builds an App OS, and China Accelerates

The conversation centered on Google’s surprise rollout of Gemini 3 Flash, its implications for model economics, and what it signals about the next phase of AI competition. From there, the discussion expanded into AI literacy and public readiness, deepfakes and misinformation, OpenAI’s emerging app marketplace vision, Fiji Simo’s push toward dynamic AI interfaces, rising valuations and compute partnerships, DeepMind’s new Mixture of Recursions research, and a long, candid debate about China’s momentum in AI versus Western resistance, regulation, and public sentiment.Key Points DiscussedGoogle makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model across its platformGemini 3 Flash matches GPT 5.2 on key benchmarks at a fraction of the costFlash dramatically outperforms on speed, shifting the cost performance equationSubtle quality differences matter mainly to power users, not most peoplePublic AI literacy lags behind real world AI capability growthDeepfakes and AI generated misinformation expected to spike in 2026OpenAI opens its app marketplace to third party developersShift from standalone AI apps to “apps inside the AI”Fiji Simo outlines ChatGPT’s future as a dynamic, generative UIAI tools should appear automatically inside workflows, not as manual integrationsAmazon rumored to invest 10B in OpenAI tied to Tranium chipsOpenAI valuation rumors rise toward 750B and possibly 1TDeepMind introduces Mixture of Recursions for adaptive token level reasoningModel efficiency and cost reduction emerge as primary research focusHuawei launches a new foundation model unit, intensifying China competitionDebate over China’s AI momentum versus Western resistance and regulationCultural tradeoffs between privacy, convenience, and AI adoption highlightedTimestamps and Topics00:00:00 👋 Opening, host setup, day’s focus00:02:10 ⚡ Gemini 3 Flash rollout and pricing breakdown00:07:40 📊 Benchmark comparisons vs GPT 5.2 and Gemini Pro00:12:30 ⏱️ Speed differences and real world usability00:18:00 🧠 Power users vs mainstream AI usage00:22:10 ⚠️ AI readiness, misinformation, and deepfake risk00:28:30 🧰 OpenAI marketplace and developer submissions00:35:20 🖼️ Photoshop and Canva inside ChatGPT discussion00:42:10 🧭 Fiji Simo and ChatGPT as a dynamic OS00:48:40 ☁️ Amazon, Tranium, and OpenAI compute economics00:54:30 💰 Valuation speculation and capital intensity01:00:10 🔬 DeepMind Mixture of Recursions explained01:08:40 🇨🇳 Huawei AI labs and China’s acceleration01:18:20 🌍 Privacy, power, and cultural adoption differences01:26:40 🏁 Closing, community plugs, and tomorrow preview

The crew opened with a round robin of daily AI news, focusing on productivity assistants, memory as a moat for AI platforms, and the growing wearables arms race. The first half centered on Google’s new CC daily briefing assistant, comparisons to OpenAI Pulse, and why selective memory will likely define competitive advantage in 2026. The second half moved into OpenAI’s new GPT Image 1.5 release, hands on testing of image editing and comics, real limitations versus Gemini Nano Banana, and broader creative implications. The episode closed with agent adoption data from Gallup, Kling’s new voice controlled video generation, creator led Star Wars fan films, and a deep dive into OpenAI’s AI and science collaboration accelerating wet lab biology.Key Points DiscussedGoogle launches CC, a Gemini powered daily briefing assistant inside GmailCC mirrors Hux’s functionality but uses email instead of voice as the interfaceOpenAI Pulse remains stickier due to deeper conversational memoryMemory quality, not raw model strength, seen as a major moat for 2026Chinese wearable Looky introduces always on recording with local first privacyMeta Glasses add conversation focus and Spotify integrationDebate over social acceptance of visible recording devicesOpenAI releases GPT Image 1.5 with faster generation and tighter edit controlsImage 1.5 improves fidelity but still struggles with logic driven visuals like chartsGemini plus Nano Banana remains stronger for reasoning heavy graphicsIterative image editing works but often discards original charactersGallup data shows AI daily usage still relatively low across the workforceMost AI use remains basic, focused on summarizing and draftingKling launches voice controlled video generation in version 2.6Creator made Star Wars scenes highlight the future of fan generated IP contentOpenAI reports GPT 5 improving molecular cloning workflows by 79xAI acts as an iterative lab partner, not a replacement for scientistsRobotics plus LLMs point toward faster, automated scientific discoveryIBM demonstrates quantum language models running on real quantum hardwareTimestamps and Topics00:00:00 👋 Opening, host lineup, round robin setup00:02:00 📧 Google CC daily briefing assistant overview00:07:30 🧠 Memory as an AI moat and Pulse comparisons00:14:20 📿 Looky wearable and privacy tradeoffs00:20:10 🥽 Meta Glasses updates and ecosystem lock in00:26:40 🖼️ OpenAI GPT Image 1.5 release overview00:32:15 🎨 Brian’s hands on image tests and comic generation00:41:10 📊 Image logic failures versus Nano Banana00:46:30 📉 Gallup study on real world AI usage00:55:20 🎙️ Kling 2.6 voice controlled video demo01:00:40 🎬 Star Wars fan film and creator future discussion01:07:30 🧬 OpenAI and Red Queen Bio wet lab breakthrough01:15:10 ⚗️ AI driven iteration and biosecurity concerns01:20:40 ⚛️ IBM quantum language model milestone01:23:30 🏁 Closing and community remindersThe Daily AI Show Co Hosts: Jyunmi, Andy Halliday, Brian Maucere, and Karl Yeh

The DAS crew focused on Nvidia’s decision to open source its Nemotron model family, what that signals in the hardware and software arms race, and new research from Perplexity and Harvard analyzing how people actually use AI agents in the wild. The second half shifted into Google’s new Disco experiment, tab overload, agent driven interfaces, and a long discussion on the newly announced US Tech Force, including historical parallels, talent incentives, and skepticism about whether large government programs can truly attract top AI builders.Key Points DiscussedNvidia open sources the Nematron model family, spanning 30B to 500B parametersNematron Nano outperforms similar sized open models with much faster inferenceNvidia positions software plus hardware co design as its long term moatChinese open models continue to dominate open source benchmarksPerplexity confirms use of Nematron models alongside proprietary systemsNew Harvard and Perplexity paper analyzes over 100,000 agentic browser sessionsProductivity, learning, and research account for 57 percent of agent usageShopping and course discovery make up a large share of remaining queriesUsers shift toward more cognitively complex tasks over timeGoogle launches Disco, turning related browser tabs into interactive agent driven appsDisco aims to reduce tab overload and create task specific interfaces on the flyDebate over whether apps are built for humans or agents going forwardCursor moves parts of its CMS toward code first, agent friendly designUS Tech Force announced as a two year federal AI talent recruitment programProgram emphasizes portfolios over degrees and offers 150K to 200K compensationHistorical programs often struggled due to bureaucracy and cultural resistancePanel debates whether elite AI talent will choose government over private sector rolesConcerns raised about branding, inclusion, and long term effectiveness of Tech ForceTimestamps and Topics00:00:00 👋 Opening, host lineup, StreamYard layout issues00:04:10 🧠 Nvidia Nematron open source announcement00:09:30 ⚙️ Hardware software co design and TPU competition00:15:40 📊 Perplexity and Harvard agent usage research00:22:10 🛒 Shopping, productivity, and learning as top AI use cases00:27:30 🌐 Open source model dominance from China00:31:10 🧩 Google Disco overview and live walkthrough00:37:20 📑 Tab overload, dynamic interfaces, and agent UX00:43:50 🤖 Designing sites for agents instead of people00:49:30 🏛️ US Tech Force program overview00:56:10 📜 Degree free hiring, portfolios, and compensation01:03:40 ⚠️ Historical failures of similar government tech programs01:09:20 🧠 Inclusion, branding, and talent attraction concerns01:16:30 🏁 Closing, community thanks, and newsletter remindersThe Daily AI Show Co Hosts: Brian Maucere, Andy Halliday, Anne Townsend, and Karl Yeh

Brian and Andy opened with holiday timing, the show’s continued weekday streak through the end of the year, and a quick laugh about a Roomba bankruptcy headline colliding with the newsletter comic. The episode moved through Google ecosystem updates, live translation, AI cost efficiency research, Rivian’s AI driven vehicle roadmap, and a sobering discussion on white collar layoffs driven by AI adoption. The second half focused on OpenAI Codex self improvement signals, major breakthroughs in AI driven drug discovery, regulatory tension around AI acceleration, Runway’s world model push, and a detailed live demo of Brian’s new Daily AI Show website built with Lovable, Gemini, Supabase, and automated clip generation.Key Points DiscussedRoomba reportedly explores bankruptcy and asset sales amid AI robotics pressureNotebook LM now integrates directly into Gemini for contextual conversationsGoogle Translate adds real time speech to speech translation with earbudsGemini research teaches agents to manage token and tool budgets autonomouslyRivian introduces in car AI conversations and adds LIDAR to future modelsRivian launches affordable autonomy subscriptions versus high priced competitorsMcKinsey cuts thousands of staff while deploying over twelve thousand AI agentsProfessional services firms see demand drop as clients use AI insteadOpenAI says Codex now builds most of itselfChai Discovery raises 130M to accelerate antibody generation with AIRunway releases Gen 4.5 and pushes toward full world modelsBrian demos a new AI powered Daily AI Show website with semantic search and clip generationTimestamps and Topics00:00:00 👋 Opening, holidays, episode 616 milestone00:03:20 🤖 Roomba bankruptcy discussion00:06:45 📓 Notebook LM integration with Gemini00:12:10 🌍 Live speech to speech translation in Google Translate00:18:40 💸 Gemini research on AI cost and token efficiency00:24:55 🚗 Rivian autonomy processor, in car AI, and LIDAR plans00:33:40 📉 McKinsey layoffs and AI driven white collar disruption00:44:30 🧠 Codex self improvement discussion00:48:20 🧬 Chai Discovery antibody breakthrough00:53:10 🎥 Runway Gen 4.5 and world models01:00:00 🛠️ Lovable powered Daily AI Show website demo01:12:30 🔍 AI generated clips, Supabase search, and future monetization01:16:40 🏁 Closing and tomorrow’s show previewThe Daily AI Show Co Hosts: Brian Maucere and Andy Halliday

If and when we make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence, the first impression we make will determine the fate of our species. We will have to send an envoy—a representative to communicate who we are. For decades, we assumed this would be a human. But humans are fragile, emotional, irrational, and slow. We are prone to fear and aggression. An AI envoy, however, would be the pinnacle of our logic. It could learn an alien language in seconds, remain perfectly calm, and represent the best of Earth's intellect without the baggage of our biology. The risk is philosophical: If we send an AI, we are not introducing ourselves. We are introducing our tools. If the aliens judge us based on the AI, they are judging a sanitized mask, not the messy biological reality of humanity. We might be safer, but we would be starting our relationship with the cosmos based on a lie about what we are.The Conundrum: In a high-stakes First Contact scenario, do we send a super-intelligent AI to ensure we don't make a fatal emotional mistake, or do we send a human to ensure that the entity meeting the universe is actually one of us, risking extinction for the sake of authenticity?

They opened energized and focused almost immediately on GPT 5.2, why the benchmarks matter less than behavior, and what actually feels different when you build with it. Brian shared that he spent four straight hours rebuilding his internal gem builder using GPT 5.2, specifically to test whether OpenAI finally moved past brittle master and router prompting. The rest of the episode mixed deep hands on prompting work, real world agent behavior, smaller but meaningful AI breakthroughs in vision restoration and open source math reasoning, and reflections on where agentic systems are clearly heading.Key Points DiscussedGPT 5.2 shows a real shift toward higher level goal driven promptingBenchmarks matter less than whether custom GPTs are easier to build and maintainGPT 5.2 Pro enables collapsing complex multi prompt systems into single meta promptsCookbook guidance is critical for understanding how 5.2 behaves differently from 5.1Brian rebuilt his gem builder using fewer documents and far less prompt scaffoldingStructured phase based prompting works reliably without master router logicStress testing and red teaming can now be handled inside a single build flowSpreadsheet reasoning and chart interpretation show meaningful improvementImage generation still lags Gemini for comics and precise text placementOpenAI hints at a smaller Shipmas style release coming next weekTopaz Labs wins an Emmy for AI powered image and video restorationScience Corp raises 260M for a grain sized retinal implant restoring visionOpen source Nomos One scores near elite human levels on the Putnam math competitionAdvanced orchestration beats raw model scale in some reasoning tasksAgentic systems now behave more like pseudocode than chat interfacesTimestamps and Topics00:00:00 👋 Opening, GPT 5.2 focus, community callout00:04:30 🧠 Initial reactions to GPT 5.2 Pro and benchmarks00:09:30 📊 Spreadsheet reasoning and financial model improvements00:14:40 ⏱️ Timeouts, latency tradeoffs, and cost considerations00:18:20 📚 GPT 5.2 prompting cookbook walkthrough00:24:00 🧩 Rebuilding the gem builder without master router prompts00:31:40 🔒 Phase locking, guided workflows, and agent like behavior00:38:20 🧪 Stress testing prompts inside the build process00:44:10 🧾 Live demo of new client research and prep GPT00:52:00 🖼️ Image generation test results versus Gemini00:56:30 🏆 Topaz Labs wins Emmy for restoration tech01:00:40 👁️ Retinal implant restores vision using AI and BCI01:05:20 🧮 Nomos One open source model dominates math benchmarks01:11:30 🤖 Agentic behavior as pseudocode and PRD driven execution01:18:30 🎄 Shipmas speculation and next week expectations01:22:40 🏁 Week wrap up and community remindersThe Daily AI Show Co Hosts: Brian Maucere, Beth Lyons, and Andy Halliday

They opened with holiday lights, late year energy, and a quick check on December model rumors like Chestnut, Hazelnut, and Meta’s Avocado. They joked about AI naming moving from space themes to food themes. The first half focused on space based data centers, heat dissipation in orbit, Shopify’s AI upgrades, and Google’s Anti Gravity builder. The second half focused on MCP adoption, connector ecosystems, developer workflow fragmentation, and a long segment on Disney’s landmark Sora licensing deal and what fan generated content means for the future of storytelling.Key Points DiscussedSpace based data centers become real after a startup trains the first LLM in orbitChina already operates a 12 satellite AI cluster with an 8B parameter modelCooling in space is counterintuitive, requiring radiative heat transferNASA derived materials and coolant systems may influence orbital data centersShopify launches AI simulated shoppers and agentic storefronts for GEO optimizationShopify Sidekick now builds apps, storefront changes, and full automations conversationallyAnti Gravity allows conversational live website edits but currently hits rate limitsMCP enters the Linux Foundation with Anthropic donating full rights to the protocolGrowing confusion between apps, connectors, and tool selection in ChatGPTAI consulting becomes harder as clients expect consistent results despite model updatesAgencies struggle with n8n versioning, OpenAI model drift, search cost spikes, and maintenancePush toward multi model training, department specific tools, and heavy workshop onboardingDisney signs a three year Sora licensing deal for Pixar, Marvel, Disney, and Star Wars charactersDisney invests 1B in OpenAI and deploys ChatGPT to all employeesDebate over canon, fan generated stories, moderation guardrails, and Disney Plus distributionMcDonald’s AI holiday ad removed after public backlash for uncanny visuals and toneOpenAI releases a study of thirty seven million chats showing health searches dominateUsers shift topics by time of day: philosophy at 2 a.m., coding on weekdays, gaming on weekendsTimestamps and Topics00:00:00 👋 Opening, holiday lights, food themed model names00:02:15 🚀 Space based data centers and first LLM trained in orbit00:05:10 ❄️ Cooling challenges, radiative heat, NASA tech spinoffs00:08:12 🛰️ China’s orbital AI systems and 2035 megawatt plans00:10:45 🛒 Shopify launches SimJammer AI shopper simulations00:12:40 ⚙️ Agentic storefronts and cross platform product sync00:14:55 🧰 Sidekick builds apps and automations conversationally00:17:30 🌐 Anti Gravity live editing and Gemini rate limits00:20:49 🔧 MCP transferred to the Linux Foundation00:25:12 🔌 Confusion between apps and connectors in ChatGPT00:27:00 🧪 Consulting strain, versioning chaos, model drift00:30:48 🏗️ Department specific multimodel adoption workflows00:33:15 🎬 Disney signs Sora licensing deal for all major IP00:35:40 📺 Disney Plus will stream select fan generated Sora videos00:38:10 ⚠️ Safeguards against misuse, IP rules, and story ethics00:41:52 🍟 McDonald’s AI ad backlash and public perception00:45:20 🔍 OpenAI analysis of 37M chats00:47:18 ⏱️ Time of day topic patterns and behavioral insights00:49:25 💬 More on tools, A to A workflows, and future coworker gems00:53:56 🏁 Closing and Friday previewThe Daily AI Show Co Hosts: Brian Maucere, Beth Lyons, Andy Halliday, and Carl Yeh

They opened by framing the day around AI headlines and how each story connects to work, government, infrastructure, and long term consequences of rapidly advancing systems. The first major story centered on a Japanese company claiming AGI, followed by detailed breakdowns of global agentic AI standards, US military adoption of Gemini, China’s DeepSeek 3.2 claims, South Korean AI labeling laws, and space based AI data centers. The episode closed with large scale cloud investments, a debate on the “labor bubble,” IBM’s major acquisition, a new smart ring, and a long segment on an MIT system that can design protein binders for “undruggable” disease targets.Key Points DiscussedJapanese company Integral.ai publicly claims it has achieved AGITheir definition centers on autonomous skill learning, safe self improvement, and human level energy efficiencyLinux Foundation launches the Agentic AI Foundation with OpenAI, Anthropic, and BlockMCP, Goose, and agents.md become early building blocks for standardized agentsUS Defense Department launches genai.mil using Gemini for government at IL5 securityDeepSeek 3.2 uses sparse attention and claims wins over Gemini 3 Pro, but not Gemini Pro ThinkingSouth Korea introduces national rules requiring AI generated ads to be labeledChina plans megawatt scale space based AI data centers and satellite model clustersMicrosoft commits 23B for sovereign AI infrastructure in India and CanadaDebate over the “labor bubble,” arguing that owners only hire when they mustIBM acquires Confluent for 11B to build real time streaming pipelines for AI agentsHalliday smart glasses disappoint, but new Index O1 “dumb ring” offers simple voice note captureMIT’s BoltzGen model generates protein binders for hard disease targets with strong lab resultsTimestamps and Topics00:00:00 👋 Opening, framing the day’s themes00:01:10 🤖 Japan’s Integral.ai claims AGI under a strict definition00:06:05 ⚡ Autonomous learning, safe mastery, and energy efficiency criteria00:07:32 🧭 Agentic AI Foundation overview00:10:45 🔧 MCP, Goose, and agents.md explained00:14:40 🛡️ genai.mil launches with Gemini for government00:18:00 🇨🇳 DeepSeek 3.2 sparse attention and benchmark claims00:22:17 ⚠️ Comparison to Gemini 3 Pro Thinking00:23:40 🇰🇷 South Korea mandates AI ad labeling00:27:09 🛰️ China’s space based AI systems and satellite arrays00:31:39 ☁️ Microsoft invests 23B in India and Canada AI infrastructure00:35:09 📉 The “labor bubble” argument and job displacement00:41:11 🔄 IBM acquires Confluent for 11B00:45:43 🥽 AI hardware segment, Halliday glasses and Index O1 ring00:56:20 🧬 MIT’s BoltzGen designs binders for “undruggable” targets01:05:30 ⚗️ Lab validation, bias issues, reproducibility concerns01:10:57 🧪 Future of scientific work and human roles01:13:25 🏁 Closing and community linksThe Daily AI Show Co Hosts: Jyunmi and Andy Halliday

The news segment kicked off with Google leaks, OpenAI’s rumored point releases, and new Google AR glasses expected in 2026. From there, the conversation turned into privacy concerns, surveillance risks, agentic browser security, Gartner warnings for enterprises, Chrome’s Gemini powered alignment critic, OpenAI’s stealth ad tests, and the ongoing tension between innovation and public trust. The second half focused on Cloud Code inside Slack, workplace safety risks, IT strain, AI time savings, and a long discussion on whether AI written news strengthens or weakens local journalism.Key Points DiscussedGoogle leak hints at Nano Banana Flash and new Google AR glasses arriving in 2026Glasses bring real time Gemini vision, memory, and in stem audio, raising privacy concernsDiscussion about surveillance risks, public backlash, and vulnerable populationsMeta’s Limitless acquisition resurfaces concerns about facial recognition and social scrapingAgentic browsers trigger Gartner warning against enterprise use due to data leakage risksPerplexity launches BrowseSafe, blocking 91 percent of indirect prompt injectionsChrome adds a Gemini alignment critic to guard sensitive actions and untrusted page elementsOpenAI briefly shows promotional content inside ChatGPT before pulling itCloud Code inside Slack introduces local system access challenges and safety debatesIT departments face growing strain as shadow AI and on device automation expandOpenAI study says AI saves workers 40 to 60 minutes a dayAnthropic study finds 80 percent reduction in task time with Claude agentsAnthropic launches Claude Code for Slack, enabling in channel app buildingDiscussion on role clarity, career pathways, and workplace identity during AI transitionLocal newspapers begin using AI to generate basic articlesDebate on whether human journalists should focus on complex local storiesCommunity trust seen as tied to hyper local reporting, personal names, and social connectionRising need for human based storytelling as AI content scalesPrediction of a live experience renaissance as AI generated content saturates feedsTimestamps and Topics00:00:00 👋 StreamYard fixes, community invite00:02:19 ⚙️ Google leaks, Nano Banana Flash, AR glasses00:05:00 🥽 Gemini powered glasses, memory use cases00:08:22 ⚠️ Surveillance concerns for women, children, public spaces00:12:40 🤳 Meta, Limitless, and facial scraping risks00:14:58 🔐 Agentic browser risks and Gartner enterprise warning00:16:51 🛡️ Chrome’s Gemini alignment critic00:18:42 📣 OpenAI ad controversy and experiments00:21:30 🔧 Cloud Code local access challenges00:24:30 🧨 Workplace risks, shadow AI, “hold on I’m trying something” chaos00:28:56 ⏱️ OpenAI and Anthropic time savings data00:32:30 🤖 Claude Code inside Slack00:36:52 🧠 Career identity and worker anxiety00:40:06 📰 AI written news and local journalism trust00:43:12 📚 Personal connections to reporters and community life00:47:40 🧩 Hyper local news as a differentiator00:52:26 🎤 Live events, human storytelling, and post AI culture shift00:54:38 📣 Festivus updates and community shoutouts00:59:50 📝 Journalism segment wrap up01:03:45 🎧 Positive feedback on the Conundrum series01:06:30 🏁 Closing and Slack inviteThe Daily AI Show Co Hosts: Brian Maucere, Beth Lyons, Andy Halliday, and Anne Townsend

The team recapped the show’s long streak and promised live holiday episodes no matter the date. The conversation then shifted into lawsuits against Perplexity, paywalled content scraping, global copyright patchwork, wearable AI acquisitions, and early consumer hardware failures. The second half explored Poetic’s breakthrough on the ARC AGI 2 test, Gemini’s meta reasoning improvements, ChatGPT’s slowing growth, expected 5.2 releases, and growing pressure on OpenAI as December model season arrives.Key Points DiscussedNew York Times sues Perplexity for copyright infringementPaywalled content leakage and global loopholes make enforcement difficultAcquisition of Limitless leads Meta to kill the pendant, refund buyers, and absorb the teamHoliday AR glasses reviewed as nearly useless for real world tasksLack of user testing and poor UX plague early AI wearable devicesAmazon delivery glasses raise safety concerns and visual distraction issuesPoetic’s recursive reasoning system beats Gemini on ARC AGI 2 for only 37 dollars per solutionARC AGI 2 scores jump from 5 percent months ago to 50 plus percent todayGemini’s multimodal training diet gives it an edge in reasoning tasksDebate over LLM glass ceilings and the need for neurosymbolic approachesChatGPT’s user growth slows while Gemini leads in downloads, MAUs, and time in appOpenAI expected to ship 5.2, but concerns rise about rushing a releaseOpenAI pauses ads to focus on improving model qualityNetflix acquires Warner Brothers for 83B, expanding its IP catalogIP libraries increase in value as AI accelerates character based contentPerplexity Comet browser gets BrowseSafe, blocking 91 percent of prompt injectionsGoogle Workspace gems can now run inside Docs, Sheets, and SlidesGemini powered follow up workflows, transcript processing, and structured docs become trivialGems enable faithful extraction of slide content from PDFs for internal knowledge buildingTimestamps and Topics00:00:00 👋 StreamYard return, layout issues, chin cam chaos00:02:40 🎄 Holiday schedule, 611 episode streak00:05:45 ⚖️ NYT sues Perplexity, copyright debate00:08:20 🔒 Paywalls, global republication, Times of India loophole00:14:23 🏷️ Gift links, scraping, and attribution confusion00:17:10 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Limitless pendant killed after Meta acquisition00:20:14 🤓 Andy reviews the Holiday AR glasses00:24:39 😬 Massive UX failures and eye strain issues00:28:42 🥽 Amazon driver AR glasses concerns00:32:10 🔍 Poetic beats Gemini and DeepThink on ARC AGI 200:34:51 📈 Reasoning leaps from 5 percent to 54 percent00:40:15 🧠 LLM limits, multimodal breakthroughs, neurosymbolic debates00:43:10 📉 ChatGPT growth slows, Gemini rises00:46:50 🧪 OpenAI 5.2 speculation and Code Red context00:51:12 🎬 Netflix buys Warner Brothers for 83B00:53:06 📦 IP libraries and AI enabled content expansion00:54:50 🛡️ Perplexity Comet adds BrowseSafe00:57:30 🧩 Gems in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides01:02:27 📄 Knowledge conversion from PDFs into outlines01:04:35 🧮 Asana, transcripts, and automated workflows01:08:10 🏁 Closing and troubleshooting tomorrow’s layoutThe Daily AI Show Co Hosts: Brian Maucere, Beth Lyons, and Andy Halliday