🍭 OpenAI: Code Red 🚨

Good morning. Somewhere a Waymo engineer is rolling out a “please don’t body-check the school bus” hotfix while product calls it “safety improvements.”

Let’s dig in. 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Google hits code red as Gemini 3 laps ChatGPT

• Waymo patches robotaxis around school buses

• Meta buys Limitless and shelves its AI pendant

• OpenAI walks back app suggestions that looked like ads

• 5 Fresh AI launches

_ToolBox™
🧰 5 BRAND NEW AI LAUNCHES

🖼️ Google Nano Banana Pro
→ Gemini 3 Pro image generator that lets you crank out hyper-accurate, studio-style visuals from prompts instead of Photoshop layers.

🤖 Google Antigravity
→ An IDE that runs and monitors multiple coding agents at once so you can orchestrate swarms of dev bots like a very lazy tech lead.

🕸️ Browser Use
→ Record yourself doing a task on any site, then turn it into a reusable agent-friendly API so bots can click around the web for you.

🛡️ MCPTotal
→ Fully managed, secure MCP servers so you can ship tools to AI agents without babysitting infra, tokens, and TLS drama.

🔍 Vector
→ Intelligent search for macOS that lets you vector-search files, notes, and snippets like you’ve been living in an embedding space all along.

OpenAI
🚨 Google Just Lapped OpenAI — And Sam Hit Code Red

The Bite: Three years after ChatGPT sent Google into “code red,” Gemini 3 Pro just flipped the script.

Google’s shipping a stronger model, a legit AI IDE (Antigravity), and a hit image model (Nano Banana), while OpenAI reportedly slammed its own code red and paused ad / consumer pushes to fix core performance.

They’re not dead, but they’re no longer setting the pace.

Snacks:

• Code Red 2.0. Altman’s telling the team to drop side quests and make ChatGPT faster, smarter, and less flaky.

• Gemini 3 on Top. Google’s latest model is beating old front-runners on reasoning, multimodal, and coding — and already showing up inside real products.

• Antigravity > Hype Apps. Google’s going straight for dev workflows with an AI-first IDE while OpenAI’s Atlas and friends still feel more experimental.

• Nano Banana Wins the Visuals. Clean images, decent text, plugged into Google’s giant ad and AI stack — not just a toy demo.

• Cramer, As Usual, Misses. TV’s favorite finance boomer says it’s a funding problem; people who actually use these tools daily know this is about model performance and infrastructure.

Why it Bites: On the scoreboard today, Google has clearly lapped OpenAI: better benchmarks, deeper infra, and more serious tools for builders.

But this game moves fast.

If OpenAI’s “stop everything and fix the model” era works, they can close the gap.

If it doesn’t, Google quietly becomes the default operating system of AI and OpenAI turns into a very successful, very loud plugin.

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Design hyper-aesthetic wooden wall clock scenes in the signature @azed_ai style for product shots, posters, or fake Etsy listings your friends will assume are real.

Perfect for dressing your feed like a Scandi design catalog or mocking up “$400 artisan clocks” that only exist in your imagination.

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_{Everything Else}
🧠 You Need to Know

🤝 Meta Buys AI Wearable Startup Limitless
→ Meta acquired AI device maker Limitless (formerly Rewind), will stop selling its AI pendant, support existing customers for a year, and allow them to export or delete their recorded data.

☁️ AWS Pushes Hard Into AI Agents
→ An AWS-focused Equity episode unpacks Amazon’s new AI agent tools, custom chips, and cloud discounts, and asks whether the company can compete with current AI leaders beyond infrastructure.

🗣️ Yoodli Triples Valuation With “Assistive” AI Coach
→ Communication training startup Yoodli raised a $40 million Series B, tripling its valuation to over $300 million as it builds AI tools that simulate conversations and help users practice speaking rather than replace human workers.

🤖 IShowSpeed Sued Over Alleged Attack on Rizzbot
→ Humanoid influencer Rizzbot’s creators sued streamer IShowSpeed, alleging he punched, choked, and threw the robot during a livestream, causing “irreparable damage” and complete loss of functionality.

📲 OpenAI Halts App Suggestions That Looked Like Ads
→ OpenAI said it has turned off recent ChatGPT app suggestions that resembled ads after user backlash, insisting there are no paid ads live while acknowledging it “fell short” in how the promotions appeared.

_Waymo
🚌 Waymo’s New Patch: ,‘Please Don’t Hit the School Bus’

The Bite: Waymo just pushed a software recall because its robotaxis kept doing the one thing literally everyone agrees you should never do:

Roll past stopped school buses.

Federal safety folks saw videos, counted nearly 20 illegal passes in one school year, and Waymo went “ok fine, we’ll patch the ‘don’t terrify parents’ module.”

No kids were hurt, but when your release notes basically read “fixed an issue where the car sometimes forgets what a giant yellow bus means,” the jokes write themselves.

Snacks:

• Patch Notes From Hell. Imagine reading: “Resolved rare bug where robotaxi treats flashing red lights and a stop arm as a suggestion.”

• Atlanta Tutorial Level. One car literally threaded around a stopped bus unloading kids like it was finding the racing line.

• Austin Speedrun. School district logs ~19 illegal passes, goes “can you not,” Waymo goes “we updated it, trust us.”

• Safer Than Humans (Mostly). Waymo keeps saying it crashes less than people, which is cool, but humans at least know what a school bus is.

• Still Shipping. Even while fixing this, they’re rolling out to more cities, like a live beta test with kindergarten DLC.

Why it bites: Self-driving cars were supposed to end drunk driving, road rage, and “my Uber driver won’t stop talking about crypto” — not speed-run traffic laws around children.

This recall is a reminder that “just let the AI drive” still means “we’re writing code that decides who gets home safe.”

And to the humans who used to drive cabs and Ubers:
Deepest regards to the jobless cab drivers of the future, replaced by a car that needed a hotfix to notice a school bus.