“AI #131 Part 1: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is Cool” by Zvi

Once again we’ve reached the point where the weekly update needs to be split in two. Thus, the alignment and policy coverage will happen tomorrow. Today covers the rest.

The secret big announcement this week was Claude for Chrome. This is a huge deal. It will be rolling out slowly. When I have access or otherwise know more, so will you.

The obvious big announcement was Gemini Flash 2.5 Image. Everyone agrees this is now the clear best image editor available. It is solid as an image generator, but only as one among many on that front. Editing abilities, including its ability to use all its embedded world knowledge, seem super cool.

The third big story was the suicide of Adam Raine, which appears to have been enabled in great detail by ChatGPT. His parents are suing OpenAI and the initial facts very much do not [...]

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Outline:

(01:14) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(05:42) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(06:26) Huh, Upgrades

(07:11) Fun With Image Generation

(12:53) On Your Marks

(16:13) Water Water Everywhere

(20:13) Get My Agent On The Line

(25:21) Choose Your Fighter

(27:52) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(31:15) You Drive Me Crazy

(36:51) The Worst Tragedy So Far

(43:22) Unprompted Attention

(44:27) Copyright Confrontation

(45:00) The Art of the Jailbreak

(45:13) Get Involved

(45:34) Introducing

(46:23) In Other AI News

(49:10) Show Me the Money

(51:27) Quiet Speculations

(51:51) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:01:46) The Week in Audio

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First published:

August 28th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hSCDe8wJnxRmRTxfr/ai-131-part-1-gemini-2-5-flash-image-is-cool

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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