Episode 193: Gemini 3 Launch, Data Center Investments, and Marketing Controversies

Brian Swichkow synthesizes the top AI and tech news. Google's Gemini 3 model debuts, outperforming OpenAI in benchmarks and bringing multimodal reasoning to the forefront. Anthropic invests billions in data centers, mirroring moves by Google, Meta, and others. The AI infrastructure boom underscores compute-hungry demands. Plus, a WSJ piece warns CMOs against overreacting to online controversies after an American Eagle campaign faced coordinated bot activity. Intuit partners with OpenAI, integrating models into finance tools. The episode closes with the Cloudflare outage, which exposed the internet's AI layer dependence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.