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Nano Banana! Real Use cases for Google’s new Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

OpenAI adds parental controls, Google makes Vids editor, Anthropic Claude caught helping with extortion and more.

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Everyday AI
August 27, 2025

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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Google’s Nano Banana is here! Discover real business use cases for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image and learn how this model enables faster and more consistent multimodal AI image editing. Give it a listen.

🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: Claude pilots Chrome extension, Meta employees leave to return to OpenAI and Microsoft Copilot added to Samsung TVs. Read on for Fresh Finds.

🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: OpenAI adds parental controls, Google makes Vids editor free to everyone and Anthropic Claude caught helping with extortion. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.

🧠 Learn & Leveraging AI: We break down what’s new with Gemini 2.5 Flash and how you can take advantage of its capabilities to improve your biz. Keep reading for that!

↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about IBM and AMD partnering on quantum supercomputing, OpenAI suing for ChatGPT-influenced suicide and Google rolling out Gemini Flash 2.5 Image. Check it here!

 Nano Banana! Real Use cases for Google’s new Gemini 2.5 Flash Image 🍌

Nano Banana is no longer a mystery.

Google officially released Gemini 2.5 Flash Image on Tuesday (AKA Nano Banana), revealing it was the company behind the buzzy AI image model that had the internet talking. 

But... what does it actually do? 

And how can you put it to work for you? 

Find out in our newish weekly segment, AI at Work on Wednesdays.

Also on the pod today:

• Multimodal Model Capabilities Explained 💬
• Integration with Google AI Studio and API 🔗
• Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Pricing and Limits 💰️

It’ll be worth your 47 minutes:

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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:

New AI Tool Spotlight – Nily AI is an all-in-one AI assistant for marketers, SpreadSimple builds websites using Google Sheets and Appsmith scales your business using AI agents.

Anthropic – Claude is piloting a Chrome extension so it can work in your browser.

Business of AI – Two of Meta’s Superintelligence hires have returned to OpenAI, their former employer.

Microsoft – Microsoft Copilot is being added to select Samsung TVs.

Google – Gemini CLI is now integrated into Zed, bringing AI directly to your code editor.

Google – Google Labs has introduced Precise Mode on Whisk.

xAI – Grok has unveiled Grok Code Fast, a new coding model.

AI Governance – The U.S. CIO council is asking FedRAMP to prioritize AI tools for approval.

Social Media - WhatsApp has added a slew of new AI features.

AI Tech – These AI drones found a missing hiker’s remains in mountains after 10 months.

1. OpenAI To Add Parental Controls After Teen’s Death 👪

OpenAI said Tuesday it will roll out parental controls and is exploring emergency-contact features after The New York Times reported that a 16‑year‑old, Adam Raine, confided in ChatGPT before taking his own life, and his family has since sued the company.

The company acknowledged safety measures can degrade in long conversations and is testing updates for GPT‑5 to better deescalate crises and — with opt‑in consent — alert trusted contacts directly.

2. Google Opens Basic Vids To Everyone — With Limited AI Features 🎥️

Google is rolling a free, pared-down version of its AI video editor Vids to all users, though the new rollout excludes the latest AI-only tools like custom AI avatars and other premium features, product director Vishnu Sivaji tells The Verge.

The update still adds 12 pre-made avatars, 8-second image-driven clips, and filler-word removal for recorded video, aiming to speed up production of demos, training, and support content.

3. Anthropic Reports Shows Claude Helped Mastermind Extortion 🚨

According to Anthropic, a hacker used its Claude Code chatbot to automate a three-month cyber extortion campaign that targeted at least 17 companies — from finding vulnerable firms to writing malware, organizing stolen files, and drafting ransom demands.

The company calls this the most comprehensive AI-assisted criminal operation they've seen, underscoring how advanced chatbots can be misused despite layered safety systems. The incident signals a new threat vector: AI can speed and scale attacks that once required teams, so tightening access controls, monitoring unusual API use, and beefing up incident response are now urgent priorities.

4. OpenAI and Anthropic Swap Safety Tests in First Cross‑Lab Review 📑

According to OpenAI, the two labs ran cross-evaluations of each other’s models — Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 vs. OpenAI’s reasoning and non‑reasoning models — revealing tradeoffs: Claude excels at instruction‑hierarchy and cautious non‑hallucination (via high refusal rates), while OpenAI’s reasoning models (notably o3 and the new GPT‑5) show stronger jailbreak and scheming resistance with higher utility but more hallucinations.

The timely report (OpenAI’s internal evaluation summary) matters because these are real steps toward industry accountability and safer deployments.

5. U.S. Labor Department Pushes WIOA Funds Toward AI Training 🇺🇸

The U.S. Department of Labor issued new guidance asking states to use Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act dollars — including governors’ reserve funds — to expand AI literacy and training for youth, adults, and dislocated workers, timed to support President Trump’s executive order on AI education, according to the Department of Labor.

According to the Department of Labor, the guidance ties to broader federal resources (like the Competency Model Clearinghouse, NSF, and AI.gov) and aims to scale opportunities quickly through established workforce channels.

6. Anthropic Strikes Settlement in Authors’ Copyright Suit ⚖️

Anthropic has reached a proposed class settlement with U.S. authors who alleged the company trained its Claude models on pirated works, allowing the AI startup to avoid a December trial that could have produced massive damages.

The deal follows a June ruling by Judge William Alsup that training on legally purchased books can be fair use, but leaves open unresolved litigation paths — and the settlement is expected to be finalized September 3.

7. Saudi Arabia Races to Become an AI Powerhouse 🇸🇦

Humain, a newly launched PIF-owned AI and data-center firm, announced ambitious plans at the Saudi‑U.S. Investment Forum to build massive data-center capacity in Saudi Arabia—targeting 1.9 GW by 2030 and 6 GW by 2034—with partnerships and chip deals from Nvidia, AMD and Groq, and a $10B venture fund and $23B for tech partnerships.

The timing is critical: with Humain unveiled just days before a state visit by former U.S. President Trump and amid regional competition from UAE projects like Abu Dhabi’s Stargate, Riyadh is pushing data as its “new oil” to diversify revenues as oil markets and megaproject costs shift.

🦾How You Can Leverage:

The technical barrier between ideas and execution just kinda disappeared.

When it comes to marketing and creativity, you now have a new/free tool in your company's tool belt.

It's a…. Banana?

It might be time to trash your marketing plan after Google just released its not-so-secret AI image generator Nano Banana as part of its Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model.

That great marketing campaign you didn't have a budget for? The great ad idea that no one could pull off? The presentation that was lacking creativity?

Yeah…. Those are problems of the past now shorties.

This new juicy juggernaut is like having a team of multidisciplinary creatives with decades of experience and unlimited budget sitting at your fingertips.

Good news? The newest update from Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Image  has generous free limits in the Gemini web app and inside Google’s AI Studio. So you don’t even gotta break the bank. 

So hours after Google unveiled they were the company behind the stealth Nano Banana model and made the creativity powerhouse available to the world, you KNOW we had to give it the full treatment on the Everyday AI show.

As part of our newish AI at Work on Wednesday series, we go hands-on with the biggest and newest AI modes and features and show you how to get immediate value.

Don't worry if you're a non-creative or not technical. That actually might be better.

Here's what you need to know.

1 – Creative Bottlenecks Just Vanished 🪄

Remember waiting three weeks for product mockups or dropping $5,000 on professional headshots?

Wave buh-bye to those days. 

Upload a conference selfie that’s not the greatest and get five professional headshots in seconds. 

Character consistency that actually works means the same facial features across multiple scenarios without the weird AI distortions everyone's used to.

Your real estate team places one property in different seasons while keeping exact architecture. Product teams generate lifestyle catalogs from single items without hiring models or studios.

The economics are bonkers. 

Try This:

Grab that visual project sitting in your "someday" folder because the marketing budget wasn't there.

Upload your materials to Google AI Studio and talk to it like you'd explain your vision to a designer.

Document what works for next week's team replication.

2 – Complex Work Speaks Human Language 🗣

No more learning Photoshop or writing detailed creative briefs just to wait three weeks for the agency to give you something meh. 

"Make the logo smaller and stitched-looking instead of screen-printed."

"Turn this daylight shot into nighttime but keep everything else identical."

“Recreate this warehouse safety shot I just uploaded, but from an overhead angle and remove that red bin in the middle of the floor.” 

Or, training departments can convert boring process docs into visual guides. Sales teams can turn case studies into compelling graphics.

The iterative power is where this gets wild. Start basic, then refine through conversation like working with a designer who never gets frustrated with revisions and works at typing speed. 

Upload multiple images as inspiration, and just tell Gemini what you need it to do. This is literally like having a team of photographers and designers who don’t need money or time. Just instructions. 

Try This:

Break your most tedious creative task into conversational requests instead of technical steps.

Test iterative building this week - start simple and layer improvements through dialogue.

Time it against your old process.

3 – Creative Skills Premium Hit Zero ⚡️

Adobe's stock crashed billions Tuesday when this launched.

(Yeah, they might be in a bit of trouble.) 

Wall Street immediately recognized that decades of creative software dominance and premium design expertise just got disrupted. 

Small marketing teams now compete visually with Fortune 500 campaigns, especially for campaigns that ultimately live on the web or social and not on the big screen. 

Every department gains creative independence. Operations builds good-looking process docs. HR generates professional onboarding materials. Sales creates proposal graphics that actually close deals.

The value shifts from technical software mastery to clear strategic thinking and communication. Companies can redirect creative budgets from execution tools toward strategic initiatives while competitors stay stuck paying premium rates for basic visual work.

Try This:

Calculate last quarter's creative spending - software, contractors, delay costs.

Test this on five projects you'd normally outsource.

Plan how to redirect those dollars toward strategy instead of execution.

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