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Based on a transcript excerpt: AI Explained analyzes recent statements from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei suggesting they may release models whose behavior they cannot fully verify or control, alongside Google's Gemini 4 Carbon release. The video also covers an Anthropic staff survey and offers a mental model for why models keep demonstrating unforeseen capabilities.

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ChatGPT has reached 1.2 billion weekly active users, adding 200 million over the past two months, according to consumer product lead Adam Fry. Fry also said ChatGPT's search volume is now about 20% of Google's, a figure attributed to the company executive.

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Google is entirely disabling Search in schools that reject its AI features, according to The New York Times. Google said access to Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search will be entirely off for K-12 student accounts in those institutions.

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Google announced Genie 4, its new world model for generating interactive experiences. The company says the model produces more realistic worlds, allows real-time updates via natural language prompts, generates audio, and runs on Gemini 3.8 Flash.

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