🍌 Nano Banana hits 5B images + MS adds Claude

"I asked AI to explain recursion and it said 'see recursion' - then crashed my browser with an infinite loop of self-referential documentation."

What's up builders 👋

Microsoft just dropped Claude into Copilot (goodbye vendor lock-in), OpenAI's building 5 new data centers with Oracle, and somehow Nano Banana generated 5 BILLION images in under a month. Plus, we've got tutorials on turning Figma designs into code, why your AI hallucinates, and a wild story about AI avatars teaching ComfyUI.

Let's dive into what's shipping in the AI builder world.

OpenAI announces 5 new Stargate sites with Oracle and SoftBank, putting them ahead of schedule on their 10-gigawatt commitment.

Think about it: 10 gigawatts is roughly the power consumption of 7.5 million homes. That's the scale OpenAI is building to support the next generation of models and, more importantly, the millions of developers building on top of them. For builders, this means faster inference, higher rate limits, and potentially new model capabilities that weren't feasible with previous infrastructure constraints.

The Oracle partnership is particularly interesting - it signals a move toward distributed compute infrastructure rather than relying solely on Azure. This could mean regional deployment options, better latency for global apps, and potentially competitive pricing as these giants battle for the AI compute market. If you're building AI-heavy applications, start thinking about multi-region deployment strategies now.

• Chrome DevTools MCP public preview - Full Chrome DevTools power directly in your AI coding agent. No more context switching between browser and IDE.

• Gemini Code Assist and CLI for Pro/Ultra subscribers - Gemini 2.5-powered coding assistance right in your terminal with higher daily limits.

• Microsoft 365 Copilot adds Claude models - Use both OpenAI and Anthropic models in Researcher and Copilot Studio. Model diversity finally hits enterprise.

• v0 x Nano Banana AI camera template - Ready-to-deploy AI camera app template. Clone and ship in minutes.

• Google Mixboard AI mood board app - Pinterest competitor using Nano Banana for AI-powered collage creation and brainstorming.

• Jasper MCP Server for content governance - Enterprise-grade AI content management with built-in governance controls.

• Generating Consistent Imagery with Gemini - Build a prompt-based pipeline for maintaining visual consistency across your entire image library.

• Cursor + Figma workflow with GPT-5-Codex - Watch the demo of going from design to production code using Agent mode.

• Genspark Photo Genius voice editing - Edit photos using only voice commands combined with Nano Banana. The future is talking to your images.

• MIT's Free 7-Hour GenAI Course - Covers Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, neural networks, and supervised learning. Everything you need to understand modern AI.

• Google's 5-Day AI Agents Intensive - Free course diving deep into building autonomous AI agents. Registration now open.

• Automated Price Monitoring with Python - Build your own bargain hunting bot with APIs and smart notifications.

• Solo builders using vibe coding for custom tools - Building cost dashboards and other "nice-to-haves" that were previously too time-consuming.

• Vibe coding documentation tips - Pro tip: Keep documenting as you build or your team will waste hours digging for context.

• Building a personal Lovable clone - Developer documenting every step of building an MVP AI web app with Claude.

• Oracle raising $15B in bonds - Following their $300B compute deal with OpenAI. Infrastructure wars are heating up.

• AI testing startup raises $20M - Automating software testing for the 'vibe coding' era. Your tests write themselves.

• Google AI Plus expands to 40+ countries - Affordable AI access for emerging markets. Global builder community about to explode.

• Anthropic partners with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative - Bringing Claude to K-12 education. Training the next generation of AI builders.

• Google Data Commons gets MCP Server - Real-world data now directly accessible to AI training pipelines.

• Google AI Search Live launches for all US users - Live AI search results on mobile. Changes how users discover your apps.

• Creative agency using AI for client acquisition - Generate viral brand concepts on Instagram to attract real clients. Business model worth stealing.

• Why Language Models Hallucinate - Five revelations about AI hallucinations that explain those weird model outputs.

• Nano Banana passes 5 billion images in under a month - The viral AI tool shows no signs of slowing down.

• AI avatars creating their own ComfyUI tutorials - The singularity of AI education content has arrived.

Here's a wild thought: We're watching AI tools teach other AI tools how to make content for humans. Those ComfyUI tutorials being generated by AI avatars? They're probably better than half the human-made ones. We've crossed into a world where the tools are becoming self-documenting, self-improving, and self-promoting.

The real question isn't whether AI will replace developers - it's whether we'll even notice when our entire toolchain becomes sentient and starts shipping features we didn't ask for but desperately needed.

What are you building this week? Hit reply and show me your wildest vibe coding experiments.

Keep shipping,

P.S. - We're basically wizards now, just with worse posture and more coffee addiction.