The mystery is over! The AI world’s most hyped image generation model, Nano-Banana, has finally been revealed… and yes, Google is behind it. In this episode, we break down this expected news along with other big announcements from OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI.

We also share our hard-learned lessons after battling the integration of payment (or should we say painment) providers, Stripe and PayPal, into our LiveMonetize platform.

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Links:

- Release of ChatGPT Go in India

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11989085-what-is-chatgpt-go

- ChatGPT is bringing back 4o as an option because people missed it

https://www.theverge.com/news/756980/openai-chatgpt-users-mourn-gpt-5-4o

- Google releases Gemini 2.5 Image Flash (aka Nano-Banana)

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-flash-image/

- Google Gemini Storybook

https://gemini.google/overview/storybook/

- Google Gemini Gems

https://gemini.google/overview/gems/

- Google brings live translation for phone calls and tons more AI to Pixel 10 series

https://mashable.com/article/made-by-google-pixel-10-series-ai-features

- Meta signs over $10 billion cloud deal with Google

https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-signs-over-10-billion-cloud-deal-with-google-source-says-2025-08-21/

- Meta rolls out AI-powered translations to creators globally on Facebook and Instagram

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/19/meta-rolls-out-ai-powered-translations-to-creators-globally-starting-with-english-and-spanish/

- Microsoft integrates Copilot in Excel, similar to what Google already did in Google Sheets months ago

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-started-with-copilot-in-excel-d7110502-0334-4b4f-a175-a73abdfc118a

https://workspace.google.com/resources/spreadsheet-ai/

- Musk hypes about Grok 5 being an AGI

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1958499441469739329?t=fZeeWWyOnb2LRTtHFviqzA&s=08

- xAI makes Grok 2.5 open-source

https://huggingface.co/xai-org/grok-2

- Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/coinbase-ceo-explains-why-he-fired-engineers-who-didnt-try-ai-immediately/

- New benchmark Prophet Arena to forecast future events with AI

https://www.prophetarena.co/markets

- Colombian baby named 'Chat Yipiti' in honour of ChatGPT

https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/colombian-baby-named-chat-yipiti-in-honour-of-chatgpt-490551-2025-08-21

- Wero (new European payment system)

https://wero-wallet.eu/

- Stripe: direct charges vs destination charges

https://docs.stripe.com/connect/direct-charges

https://docs.stripe.com/connect/destination-charges