This week I covered GPT 5.2, which I concluded is a frontier model only for the frontier.

OpenAI also gave us Image 1.5 and a new image generation mode inside ChatGPT. Image 1.5 looks comparable to Nana Banana Pro, it's hard to know which is better. They also inked a deal for Disney's characters, then sued Google for copyright infringement on the basis of Google doing all the copyright infringement.

As a probable coda to the year's model releases we also got Gemini 3 Flash, which I cover in this post. It is a good model given its speed and price, and likely has a niche. It captures the bulk of Gemini 3 Pro's intelligence quickly, at a low price.

The Trump Administration issued a modestly softened version Executive Order on AI, attempting to impose as much of a moratorium banning state AI laws as they can. We may see them in court, on various fronts, or it may amount to little. Their offer, in terms of a ‘federal framework,’ continues to be nothing. a16z issued their ‘federal framework’ proposal, which is also nothing, except also that you should pay them.

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Outline:

(01:41) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(03:44) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(04:38) Huh, Upgrades

(08:21) On Your Marks

(10:22) Choose Your Fighter

(13:56) Get My Agent On The Line

(18:25) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(21:21) Fun With Media Generation

(24:12) Copyright Confrontation

(24:39) Overcoming Bias

(26:29) Unprompted Attention

(27:25) They Took Our Jobs

(30:06) Feeling the AGI Take Our Jobs

(35:48) The Art of the Jailbreak

(36:08) Get Involved

(38:08) Introducing

(38:57) Gemini Flash 3

(40:58) In Other AI News

(41:36) Going Too Meta

(46:14) Show Me the Money

(46:51) Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

(48:38) Quiet Speculations

(50:42) Timelines

(51:45) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(54:47) My Offer Is Nothing

(01:03:03) My Offer Is Nothing, Except Also Pay Me

(01:07:26) Chip City

(01:14:09) The Week in Audio

(01:15:23) Rhetorical Lack Of Innovation

(01:25:51) People Really Do Not Like AI

(01:29:58) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:33:11) Bad Guy With An AI

(01:35:33) Misaligned!

(01:37:07) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:40:00) Mom, Owain Evans Is Turning The AIs Evil Again

(01:46:50) Messages From Janusworld

(01:49:55) The Lighter Side

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