AI Accelerates: New Gemini Model + AI Unemployment Stories Analysed

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There’s a new best language model, so let’s go through the up and downs of Gemini 2.5 Pro 06-05. Record-breaking common-sense, but dumb mistakes remain. And it’s not even their best model, which remains behind the scenes - Gemini 2.5 Ultra. Plus Sundar Pichai’s AGI date and an analysis of whether the current AI unemployment headlines are justified, and Elevenlabs v3. https://emergentmind.com AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 02:04 - Gemini 2.5 Ultra 03:34 - Benchmarks 07:41 - AGI Date and Meaning Pichai 09:13 - Jobs and AI Unemployment Fears 15:28 - Elevenlabs v3 Sundar Pichai Fridman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V6tWC4CdFQ Pichai More Jobs (until 2026 at least): https://www.techradar.com/pro/alphabet-ceo-sundar-pichai-says-ai-wont-lead-to-job-cuts-will-be-an-accelerator Gemini Comparison: https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-pro-latest-preview/ https://x.com/viathebrink/status/1930733154203292121 https://simple-bench.com/ White Collar Bloodbath: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic https://fortune.com/2025/05/25/ai-entry-level-jobs-gen-z-careers-young-workers-linkedin/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/opinion/linkedin-ai-entry-level-jobs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/business/economy/white-collar-layoffs.html College Unemployment: https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market/#--:explore:unemployment New Scientist AI Hallucinaitons: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2479545-ai-hallucinations-are-getting-worse-and-theyre-here-to-stay/ Duolingo: https://fortune.com/2025/05/24/duolingo-ai-first-employees-ceo-luis-von-ahn/ Klarna: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2025/05/18/business-tech-news-klarna-reverses-on-ai-says-customers-like-talking-to-people/ Sholto Douglas: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ktt1rb/anthropics_sholto_douglas_says_by_202728_its/ Figure 02: https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1930693311771332853 Elevenlabs v3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv_IoWIO5Ek Gemini Speech Generation: https://aistudio.google.com/generate-speech Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/