Google's Gemini 3 Breaking Records

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Happy Thursday! A friend recently joked that tracking AI updates is basically like watching a soap opera — nonstop twists, surprise characters, and weekly cliffhangers. This week proved the point: Google went ahead and dropped both a season finale and a spin-off all at once.

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Gemini 3 Raises the Bar Again

Google has unveiled Gemini 3, its most advanced foundation model yet, arriving just eight months after Gemini 2.5 and days after OpenAI’s GPT 5.1. The model posted a record-breaking 37.5 on the Humanity’s Last Exam benchmark, surpassing GPT-5 Pro’s previous high of 31.6. A research-intensive variant, Gemini 3 Deep Think, will roll out to Google AI Ultra subscribers after additional safety testing. The launch also introduced Antigravity, a new coding interface blending chat, terminal, and browser views for agentic development (see announcement).

Bezos is Stepping Back Into the Arena

Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, is partly backing a new AI startup called Project Prometheus, which has raised $6.2 billion in funding. He will serve as co-chief executive alongside Vik Bajaj, who previously co-founded and served as chief scientific officer of Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences). The startup aims to build AI products for engineering and manufacturing across sectors like aerospace, computers, and automobiles. Project Prometheus already has nearly 200 staff, including researchers from Meta, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind (read more).

OpenAI’s Revenue vs. Compute Costs Heat Up

OpenAI’s financials reveal a striking and widening gap between revenue and spending. In 2024, the company reportedly generated at least $2.5 billion, yet its inference compute costs alone may have reached $3.8 billion. The trend continued into 2025: through the first nine months, revenue is estimated at around $4.33 billion, while compute expenses surged to roughly $8.65 billion. Taken together, these figures suggest that OpenAI may be spending far more on running its models than it brings in — a dynamic that raises questions about long-term sustainability and scale (read more).

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🤖 U.S. Risks Falling Behind in AI, Warns Databricks Co-Founder: Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and AI firm Laude, warns the U.S. may be losing its AI edge to China — an “existential” threat, he says. Top AI PhD students now see more breakthrough ideas coming from Chinese companies, helped by China’s strong support for open-source AI research (read more).

📱 Intuit Brings Its Financial Tools into ChatGPT: Intuit has signed a multi-year contract worth more than $100 million with OpenAI, allowing products like TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp to operate directly inside ChatGPT. Users will be able to complete tasks such as estimating tax refunds, reviewing credit options or managing business finances using their own authorized data (see announcement).

🧩 Stack Overflow Turns Its Q&A Engine Into Enterprise AI Fuel: Stack Overflow has launched new products for its enterprise platform, Stack Overflow Internal, designed to turn human expertise into AI-ready knowledge. It now exports enriched metadata such as tags, contributor info, and reliability scores to help internal AI agents better evaluate and use company knowledge (see announcement).

☀️ Data Centers Are Outspending Oil Exploration: This year, global spending on data centers is set to hit $580 billion, $40 billion more than what’s being spent on finding new oil. The surge is largely driven by AI giants like OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic investing in massive new facilities. Many of these centers are looking to tap renewable energy, including solar and microgrids built from repurposed EV batteries (read more).

🛫 Global AI Travel Boost: Google is rolling out major AI-powered upgrades to travel planning in Search. Its Flight Deals tool is now available in over 200 countries and territories and supports more than 60 languages. Users can also build full trip itineraries using the Canvas tool in AI Mode, pulling in real-time data for flights, hotels, and activities (see announcement).

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