Google released Gemini 3, its most advanced model yet, along with Nano Banana Pro, a leading image generation and editing model.

On this week's episode, Paul and Mike go deeper on those topics and other top news this week, including GPT-5.1 Pro, controversy around a popular AI book, Nvidia earnings, and more.

Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here

Click here to take this week's AI Pulse.

Timestamps:

00:00:00 — Intro

00:03:32 — AI Pulse Survey

00:08:42 — Gemini 3

00:18:11 — Nano Banana Pro

00:26:06 — GPT-5.1 Pro

00:28:54 — Nvidia Earnings

00:36:14 — Nvidia, Microsoft Invest in Anthropic

00:40:28 — OpenAI Board Member Controversy

00:42:43 — AI Gets More Political Over State-Level Regulations

00:47:22 — AI Super Pac Flexes Its Muscles

00:49:40 — Karen Hao Book Controversy

00:54:19 — New Jeff Bezos AI Startup

00:56:38 — Amazon Gives Rufus Rave Reviews

00:59:18 — AI Gets Further Embedded Into Education

01:01:34 — Entry Level Unemployment

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