HEADLINES: Gemini Goes Supernova, Airbus Blames the Sun, and Solar Saves the Grid

(0:00) Pre-Show


(1:05) Open


(1:46) World Wildlife Conservation Day


(2:13) cj's week: Formula 1, Friendsgiving, & Salt Lake City


(8:03) Jeff's Week: Japanese Nyquil to College Football


(19:07) Headline: Gemini Leapfrogs, Well, Everybody


(23:25) Headline: Software Glitch Grounds 6,000 Planes Worldwide


(32:15) Headline: How Solar is Working to Keep Pace with America's Growing Energy Thirst


(34:20) Headline: OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race


(42:23) The Black & Decker Air Sweep






This week on the show: Google drops Gemini 3 Pro—a shockwave of a model that leapfrogs the field with unified multimodality, record-breaking reasoning benchmarks, and a “Deep Think” mode that pushes us closer to AGI territory. This isn’t just an upgrade—it’s a whole new architecture that changes what AI agents can actually do.


Over the break Airbus grounded 6,000 planes worldwide in an urgent aerospace crisis - only for Airbus to reveal the emergency fix was essentially a software rollback after a (supposed) cosmic-ray-induced bit flip. Yes, the Sun caused an airplane to nose-dive. Yes, the previous version of the software didn’t do that.  Sure, that’s all that happened. 


Rounding out our headlines, U.S. solar deployment is exploding, nearly offsetting the entire country’s rising electricity demand - an underreported energy milestone hiding in plain sight.  And OpenAI declares a “code red” internally as Google’s AI surge closes the gap.


We’ve moved on from turkey to Japanese Nyquil - let’s go!






Google Gemini 3 Benchmarks (https://www.vellum.ai/blog/google-gem...)






Airbus Emergency Work For Airbus A320 Aircraft Was Actually a Software Rollback (https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/20...)






Airbus Stock Nosedives As Planemaker Shares Update On Major A320 Glitch (https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladity...)






r/aviation on Reddit: A320 pilot explains what features were rolled back with the update (  / a320_pilot_explains_what_features_were_rolled  )






Solar’s growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use - Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/...)






Chart: Solar and wind are meeting — and exceeding — new power demand (https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/...)






OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race | The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/news/836212/...)






OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...)






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