#182: Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, GPT-5.1 Pro, Nvidia Earnings, Karen Hao Book Controversy & Entry-Level Unemployment

Google released Gemini 3, its most advanced model yet, along with Nano Banana Pro, a leading image generation and editing model.

On this week's episode, Paul and Mike go deeper on those topics and other top news this week, including GPT-5.1 Pro, controversy around a popular AI book, Nvidia earnings, and more.

Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here (podcast.smarterx.ai/shownotes/182)

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Timestamps:

— Intro

— AI Pulse Survey

— Gemini 3

— Nano Banana Pro

— GPT-5.1 Pro

— Nvidia Earnings

— Nvidia, Microsoft Invest in Anthropic

— OpenAI Board Member Controversy

— AI Gets More Political Over State-Level Regulations

— AI Super Pac Flexes Its Muscles

— Karen Hao Book Controversy

— New Jeff Bezos AI Startup

— Amazon Gives Rufus Rave Reviews

— AI Gets Further Embedded Into Education

— Entry Level Unemployment

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