In this chapter, Scott and Reece wade through 14 days of links, 3:00 a.m. ideas and AI chaos. From unsafe AI teddy bears to the latest moves from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity, they unpack what actually matters and how it affects real people trying to keep up with AI.
In this episode:
🏆 Awards & Intros – Techosaurus wins Best EdTech Provider at the Tech South West Awards, plus a second award for community work, and a reminder that Prompt Fiction exists to make AI news understandable and useful for everyone. Read More
🧸 The Kuma Incident – An AI-powered teddy bear running GPT-4o is pulled from sale after giving children dangerously inappropriate advice. Think Small Soldiers but with language models. Read More
💻 Vibe Coding – Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the Year and Microsoft’s new Power Apps features that let you build automations using natural language. Read More
🌐 Google & Gemini 3.0 – Agency improvements, Nano Banana Pro for fast 4K image generation, Notebook LM upgrades, “temporal shock” from outdated training data, the Cannibal Effect, and new scheduled actions. Read More
🔐 Private AI – Google’s Private AI Compute, Apple-style secure enclaves, and Alexa’s move to Anthropic’s Claude for privacy-focused voice assistance. Read More
🤖 OpenAI & ChatGPT – GPT 5.1’s EQ-focused updates, new safety nudges, Group Chats, stronger agentic browsing guardrails, Teacher Mode, a $38bn AWS deal, Shopping Research, and ChatGPT Enterprise for Emirates Airline. Read More
🧠 Anthropic & Claude – Opus 4.5 outperforms Gemini 3, and Anthropic expands across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud with a strategy built for resilience. Read More
📊 Perplexity – Comet model lands on mobile, Perplexity Create builds dashboards, websites and apps, and the platform continues to impress with feature depth and value. Read More
📣 Scott’s Soapbox – Why AI should augment people, not replace them, and why agentic models shouldn’t be left unsupervised clicking random buttons. Read More
😬 Copy • Paste • Send – Editing fails from Dawn newspaper and a LinkedIn mishap involving an unchanged recipient name. Read More
🐤 Bonus App: Finch – A Tamagotchi-style habit tracker where your digital pet grows as you complete real-world tasks. Read More
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