Last week OpenAI answered “code red” with GPT-5.2. This week Google said “that’s cute” and released Gemini 3 Flash — frontier-grade reasoning at Flash pricing. We’re talking $0.50 per million input tokens.

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EDIT: Or you know, they could be doing this in production, but that raises questions on why other frontier labs aren’t.

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Google’s safety systems trigger on “Vox Day” immediately. The corporate office probably has literal alarms. Sometimes even “Socio-Sexual Hierarchy” alone trips the wire.

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Google AI has been all over the news lately.

Nvidia’s biggest threat is not another GPU vendor. It is the one company on Earth that can plausibly win the AI race while buying fewer and fewer Nvidia chips over time.

GSoC for this year has just been announced and applications open in March:

Not all or even most sites “list” their domains with Google in the sense of a manual submission process. Google is a fully automated search engine that primarily discovers websites by “crawling” the web and following links from pages it already knows about.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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