Brad Carson on AI ethics caveats from tech companies being toothless against DoD use.

“The fig leaves people are putting in front of themselves are no protection at all. You like OpenAI and Gemini both said like, well, we're going to do these things. Well, then there's like a caveat at the bottom where the DoD says we're going to use it for all lawful uses. And all the things I said I don't really love personally. They're all lawful, right? That's the problem.”

Brad Carson explains why DoD 'lawful use' clauses neutralize ethical restrictions that AI companies embed in their government contracts, making those restrictions functionally meaningless.

“The fig leaves people are putting in front of themselves are no protection at all. You like OpenAI and Gemini both said like, well, we're going to do these things. Well, then there's like a caveat at the bottom where the DoD says we're going to use it for all lawful uses. And all the things I said I don't really love personally. They're all lawful, right? That's the problem.”

600 Google employees signed a protest letter after the US Department of War's use of Gemini was disclosed.

“The Gemini use by Department of War this week has got 600 Google employees to write a letter.”

Shinka Evolve uses an adaptive prioritization scheme to dynamically route across all frontier model providers (Gemini, GPT, and others) depending on which parent program is being evolved.

“We're not using just Gemini but we're using basically all frontier model providers and figuring out a smart way how to use each model for a given parent, if you have a certain program in some situations it might be better to use a sort of GPT model in other settings it might be better to use Gemini model. And we sort of introduce a sort of adaptive prioritization scheme that can adapt sort of the evolutionary algorithm on the fly.”

David Hooker on the realism of AI-generated product imagery, noting the end of common generative artifacts.

“We use Nano Banana. I think if you've tried the Gemini model at all, you'll know that the level of photograph that it is able to create is stunning and ultra realistic. Gone of the days of seven fingers and, you know, web toes and all of all of these things.”

Claude's enterprise market share nearly doubled from 21% to 48% in the last 9 months, while Gemini grew from 27% to 40% over the same period.

“Gemini went from 27 to 40% market share, I think, in the last 9 months and Claude went from 21 to 48.”

Nano Banana is being used to generate photorealistic AI product mockups in print-on-demand workflows, powered by the Gemini model.

“We use Nano Banana. I think if you've tried the Gemini model at all, you'll know that the level of photograph that it is able to create is stunning and ultra realistic.”

Gemini voice is being used to convert newsletter subscriptions into personalized daily audio briefings, an emerging personal-AI-media workflow worth tracking.

“Makes a custom podcast using Gemini voice and I just listen to that every day in the shower.”

Stefano Ermon on why startups can outmaneuver large labs on alternative architectures.

“My sense is that, you know, there is a big switching cost. Like they're very focused on Gemini and then their you know, it could be a that's kind of like the issue with these big labs is that, you know, they're only in one direction and then it's hard for them to really focus on an alternative direction. As a startup, we're much better positioned to do that because we, you know, we're laser-focused on one thing.”

Replit's Gemini-powered products outperform Google's own design-focused products, suggesting third-party integrators can beat the model creator at applied tasks.

“Our products are better at design using Gemini than Google's products.”