Today on Pulse on AI: Google Gemini overtakes ChatGPT in key app stores, fueled by a viral "Nano Banana" image tool and Google’s distribution advantage. Meta launches MobileLLM-R1, a sub‑1B parameter family that delivers state-of-the-art math/coding reasoning on the edge with far fewer training tokens. DeepMind’s AlphaEarth compresses global satellite and sensor data into 64‑dimensional embeddings for every 10×10m patch of Earth, enabling better climate, urban, and risk analysis. A major leak exposes Geedge Networks selling censorship tech modeled on China’s Great Firewall to multiple countries, highlighting governance risks. US states diverge on AI mental health: Illinois restricts AI in clinical decision-making; New York requires AI companions to disclose they’re not human and to route users to crisis resources. Finally, OpenAI’s GPT‑5‑Codex adds model and product safety measures, including sandboxing and anti‑prompt-injection defenses, for agentic coding. Three takeaways: distribution beats benchmarks, small specialized models are rising, and governance choices will shape AI’s real-world impact.Sources:

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