113: Today in AI: Gemini Flash 4x Cheaper, ChatGPT Atlas Launches, Lawyer Says AI Kills Legal Jobs

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First aired: 18 December 2025

Summary: Google just dropped Gemini Flash 3, and honestly, it's a bit of a game-changer for anyone building with AI. It's basically a frontier-level model that costs four times less than Gemini 3 Pro, we're talking 50 cents per million input tokens instead of $2. The wild thing is it's not just cheap, it's actually better than their premium model in certain benchmarks. If you're a developer trying to build apps without haemorrhaging money on API calls, this is the kind of release that makes you sit up and pay attention. Google's absolutely dominated the end of this year, and this cements it.

We also got ChatGPT's new Atlas image model and Bernie Sanders calling for a complete moratorium on data centres, but the story that really stuck with me was this piece from The Spectator. A senior British barrister gets drunk with a journalist mate and basically admits the legal profession is finished. He ran an experiment where AI replicated his day-and-a-half of work in 30 seconds AND it was better. His advice to his niece who wants to study law? "Please do not destroy your life." It's anecdotal, sure, but it's the kind of honest conversation people are having behind closed doors. The bottom's falling out of industries faster than most people realise, and we need to be ready for it.

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—— Time Stamps ——

00:00 Gemini 3 Flash - Google's Game-Changing Budget AI

04:42 Why Cheaper AI Models Matter for Developers

06:37 The AI Competition Heats Up

07:21 Is the UK AI Ready? DeepMind & 11 Labs

09:44 OpenAI's Code Red and GPT Image 1.5

12:53 Does Anyone But Google Have a Real Moat?

16:40 Google's Data Empire and Search's Existential Crisis

18:52 Google's "Don't Be Evil" Problem

19:13 China arXiv - $25K to Translate All Chinese Science

21:36 OpenAI App Store Launches Inside ChatGPT

25:08 How to Access Sora Outside the US

26:18 Bernie Sanders Calls for AI Moratorium

30:24 AI Will Kill All the Lawyers - A Barrister's Warning

35:27 Newsletter & Community

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