Google's Updated Gemini 2.5 Pro May Be Winning the AI Race, OpenAI Delays GPT-5 & More AI News

Google's AI efforts & Gemini Pro 2.5 take a major step forward with updates to Deep Research, new Agent2Agent protocol (A2A) & more. Sadly, OpenAI teases o3 and o4 but delays GPT-5.
Plus, Meta's new Llama 4 models are out but have issues, Midjourney v7's debut, John Carmack's smackdown of an AI video game engine hater, Gavin's deep dive into OpenAI 4o Image Generation formats & the weirdest robot horse concept you've ever seen.
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Google Cloud 25 Live Stream "A New Way To Cloud!"
youtu.be/Md4Fs-Zc3tg
Google Cloud Blog Post
blog.google/products/google-cloud/next-2025
Upgraded Deep Research Out Preforms OpenAI Deep Research
x.com/GeminiApp/status/1909721519724339226
Google's Deep Research Vs OpenAI Deep Research
x.com/testingcatalog/status/1909727195402027183
New Ironwood TPUs
blog.google/products/google-cloud/ironwood-tpu…
Gavin's Experiences Google Gemini Deep Research:
Baltro Test: x.com/AIForHumansShow/status/1909813850817675424
KP Biography: g.co/gemini/share/7b7bdb2c400e
Agent2Agent Protocol
developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-…
Google Paying Some AI Stuff To Do Nothing Rather Than Work For Rivals
x.com/TechCrunch/status/1909368948862181584
Solar Glow Meditations on AI
tiktok.com/@solarglowmeditations/video/7491038…
o4-mini & o3 coming before GPT-5 in shift from Sam Altman
x.com/sama/status/1908167621624856998
OpenAI Strategic Deployment Team (new role to prep for AGI)
x.com/aleks_madry/status/1909686225658695897
AI 2027 Paper
ai-2027.com
Llama 4 is here… but how good is it?
ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence
Controversy Around Benchmarks: gizmodo.com/meta-cheated-on-ai-benchmarks-and-…
Deep dive on issues from The Information
theinformation.com/articles/llama-4s-rocky-deb…
Midjourney v7 Is Here and it's… just ok?
midjourney.com/updates/v7-alpha
John Carmack Defends AI Video Games
x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1909311174845329874
Tim Sweeney Weighs In
x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1909314230391902611
New Test-time-training = 1 Min AI Video From a Single Prompt
x.com/karansdalal/status/1909312851795411093
Kawasaki's Robot Horse Concept
futurism.com/the-byte/kawasaki-rideable-horse-…
VIDEO: youtu.be/vQDhzbTz-9k?si=2aWMtZVLnMONEjBe
Engine AI + iShowSpeed
x.com/engineairobot/status/1908570512906740037
Gemini 2.5 Pro Plays Pokemon
x.com/kiranvodrahalli/status/1909699142265557208
Prompt-To-Anything Minecraft Looking Game
x.com/NicolasZu/status/1908882267453239323
An Image That Will Never Go Viral
reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1jth5yf/asked_fo…
How Toothpaste Is Made
reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1jujzh2/how_toot…
90s Video Game 4o Image Gen Prompt
x.com/AIForHumansShow/status/1908985288116101553 1980s Japanese Posters
x.com/AIForHumansShow/status/1909824824677192140
Buff Superbad
x.com/AIForHumansShow/status/1909402225488937065