Video 48 News in AI for the Humanities-Sept-Mid Oct 2025

AI systems are shifting from reactive tools to proactive organizers of attention, work, and learning. This episode examines the transformation: OpenAI's Pulse predicts your needs before you ask, Anthropic's Claude 4.5 synthesizes entire libraries, Google embeds Gemini into Chrome's infrastructure, and Perplexity's Comet browser can complete assignments in your course management system.
Key Topics: • OpenAI's Pulse: Proactive scheduling and privacy concerns • Claude 4.5: Multi-document reasoning and interpretive judgment • Sora 2: Photorealistic video generation and visual epistemology • Gemini in Chrome: Browser-level AI and invisible mediation • Nano Banana: Image manipulation and authenticity threats • Anthropic's $1.5B author settlement and RSL licensing standard • Microsoft-OpenAI partnership restructuring • OpenAI's certification platform challenging liberal arts credentials • Perplexity Comet and Gemini homework tools: The agent problem • Hallucination research and intellectual humility
For Humanities Educators: Assignment designs that foreground process over product, critical frameworks for algorithmic mediation, strategies for teaching when AI is ambient rather than optional, and why human understanding remains irreplaceable.

Timestamps
00:00 Welcome
0:10 Intro
2:48 OpenAI's "Pulse"— From Reactive Tool to Proactive Assistant
6:22 Anthropic's Claude 4.5 — Massive Context and Multi-Document Reasoning
9:55 OpenAI's Sora 2 — Text-to-Video Crosses the Uncanny Valley
12:18 Google Rolls Out Gemini in Chrome
14:54 Google's Gemini "Nano Banana" Multimodal Model
16:46 Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Settlement with Authors
18:48 RSL Licensing Standard (Really Simple Licensing)
20:36 Microsoft Integrates Anthropic's Claude into Office 365
22:19 User Studies: ChatGPT vs. Claude
23:53 White House AI Leaders Dinner
25:40 OpenAI Tackles Hallucinations
26:59 Rise of AI Agents: Perplexity's "Comet" Browser and Gemini's Short-Lived Homework Tools
30:08 Conclusion
32:48 Outro

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