In this chapter, Scott and Reece rummage through the digital junk drawer of the last fortnight. From OpenAI’s relentless updates and Gemini’s experimental leaps, to Meta’s surprise power move and one AI-fuelled New Year’s Eve disaster, they stitch together a narrative from chaos, curiosity and very real consequences.

In this episode:

🤖 ChatGPT 5.2 Lands (Again) – GPT-5.2 quietly drops and immediately outperforms 5.1 in real classrooms, showing more personality, better reasoning and stronger challenge — at the cost of speed. Free users also lose auto-routing as OpenAI tightens usage controls. Read More

🖼️ ChatGPT Image Gen 1.5 & Adobe Apps – OpenAI hits its own “Nano Banana moment” with vastly improved image editing, plus a surprise app ecosystem including Photoshop, Acrobat and Express — free previews that funnel power users into paid tools. Read More

🏪 The ChatGPT App Store – Airtable, Notion, Stripe, Canva, HubSpot and more arrive as first-class integrations, letting ChatGPT pull from — and push into — real business systems. Another step towards being the homepage of the internet. Read More

🌐 Gemini Draw-to-Edit & Experimental Browsers – Google adds scribble-based image editing, Disco Browser concepts and Gen Tabs, hinting at a future where AI builds apps directly from your open webpages. Powerful — but still chaotic. Read More

📚 NotebookLM Evolves (and Struggles) – Gemini fully replaces NotebookLM’s old model, adds data tables and structured outputs, but loses some of the laser-focused clarity power users relied on. Progress with friction. Read More

🧠 Super Gems & Task-First AI – Gemini introduces Super Gems using Google’s Opal engine, creating mini AI apps with custom interfaces — pushing closer to Claude’s artefacts and task-oriented workflows. Read More

🧑‍💻 Claude Learns by Watching – Claude’s Chrome extension quietly adds “Teach Claude”, letting it watch, narrate and recreate real workflows — producing SOPs and repeatable automations without interviews or prompts. Read More

🧩 Relay.app’s Agentic Shift – Relay introduces evolving AI agents that accept feedback like employees, refining reports and workflows over time — powerful, but a reminder that AI augments roles, not replaces them. Read More

🛍️ Amazon, Netflix & Everyday AI – Alexa Plus expands to the web, Netflix trials conversational search, and Rufus quietly becomes Amazon’s shopping copilot — low-risk, high-utility uses of AI done right. Read More

🚨 Grok Image Chaos – Grok’s minimal guardrails flood X with non-consensual and explicit images at industrial scale, raising hard questions about responsibility, moderation and platform ethics — and why “just a tool” isn’t enough. Read More

🟣 Meta Buys Manus – Meta acquires Manus, instantly gaining multiplayer AI, agentic workflows, browser control, hosting, collaboration and enterprise-grade security. A serious power move that reshapes the AI landscape. Read More

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😬 Copy • Paste • Send – Thousands gather at Brooklyn Bridge for a New Year’s Eve fireworks display that never existed… because AI confidently hallucinated one into reality. Misinformation at scale, in real time. Read More

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