GPT-5.1 and Teachers Get Their Own AI

"My CI/CD pipeline now has more stages than my grief over deprecating code I wrote last week."

OpenAI just unleashed GPT-5.1 Pro to all Pro users with sharper reasoning, plus they're giving teachers their own secure ChatGPT workspace with admin controls. Meanwhile, Google's Gemini 3 is powering new agentic workflows that break complex tasks into bite-sized steps.

Hello Builders! 👋

Google just dropped Gemini Agent, and it's actually doing what we've been waiting for AI to do—breaking down complex tasks and actually executing them across your apps. Think Gmail, Calendar, web browsing, the whole stack.

We're past the "glorified autocomplete" phase. This is AI that can actually ship work for you while you grab coffee. The reasoning model underneath (Gemini 3) handles the messy middle—those 47 micro-tasks between "I need to organize a team offsite" and "calendar invites sent."

The catch? It needs your permission for everything, which is either reassuring or annoying depending on how much you trust AI with your inbox. But for builders drowning in admin work, this could be the first agent that actually saves you hours instead of creating new problems to debug.

GPT-5.1 Pro Rolls Out - OpenAI's latest model hits Pro users with better writing help, data science, and business task handling.

ChatGPT Gets a Classroom - Free secure workspace for verified U.S. K-12 teachers with admin controls and compliance support baked in.

Gemini 3 Hits Your Terminal - Google's CLI tool goes from prompt to live 3D app with agentic coding that actually ships working code.

Meta's SAM 3 Segments Everything - Text-prompt video segmentation that tracks objects through entire clips and applies effects that stick, which is genuinely wild.

Poly Becomes AI File Search - YC-backed cloud storage lets you search across text, images, audio, and video with AI doing the heavy lifting.

Google Scholar Gets AI Labs - New experimental search tool answers detailed research questions, though the demo raised more questions than it answered about relevance.

Build with Gemini 3 API - Google walks you through API keys, first requests, and vision token usage with their latest model.

Agentic Information Retrieval Deep-Dive - Stop brute-forcing RAG and let AI agents intelligently navigate your document corpus instead.

PyTorch Multiple Regression from Scratch - Build a 3-layer neural network the hard way so you actually understand what's happening under the hood.

Write Readable Python Functions - Simple techniques to stop writing spaghetti code that your future self will hate reviewing at 2am.

Zapier Automations for Data Scientists - Connect your tools so you can spend less time on boring glue code and more time on actual analysis.

Gemini 3's Coding Reality Check - Danny reports Gemini 3 matches Claude 3.5 Sonnet for coding, with occasional wins on design and reasoning tasks.

Better Models, Worse Agents? - Yuto's agent performs worse after upgrading from Gemini 2.5 Flash to 3 Pro, raising questions about model complexity.

Vibe Coded Apps Hit Reality - Bobby shares the classic client scenario: "I vibe coded an app, just need you to finish a few things."

Sora's Retention Problem - Olivia Moore shows Sora downloads are climbing but retention lags far behind TikTok, suggesting viral launch without staying power.

Linus on Vibe Coding - Torvalds surprisingly optimistic about AI coding tools, except for one use case he calls "horrible" according to ZDNET.

Luma Raises $900M Series C - a16z backs the multimodal AI lab's massive round to scale research and AGI deployment efforts.

Nvidia's AI Chips Sold Out - Q3 revenue hits $57B as data center business grows $10B in three months, some GPUs completely unavailable.

Standing Out in AI - January Ventures' Jennifer Neundorfer shares how founders can differentiate in the saturated AI startup landscape.

Warner Music Settles with Udio - Copyright lawsuit ends with partnership deal for AI remixes, covers, and new songs using licensed artist voices.

Target Gets ChatGPT Integration - OpenAI pushes deeper into retail with Target's ChatGPT-powered shopping app launching in beta next week.

Adobe Acquires Semrush for $1.9B - Offering $12 per share, nearly double Tuesday's closing price, to add SEO platform to its marketing suite.

Europe Relaxes GDPR and AI - EU scales back strict data protection and AI regulations in response to competitiveness concerns from tech industry.

Gemini 3 Community Creations

Gemini 3 3D Designed Games

Battle of LLMS Game

With Gemini 3's reasoning and GPT-5.1 Pro both dropping this week, we're basically in a new era of AI agents that can actually think through multi-step tasks way better than before.

What are you shipping this week with these new models?

Keep shipping,

P.S. If you haven't played with Gemini 3 in Google AI Studio yet, stop reading this and go break something interesting.