097: Today in AI: Opus 4.5 Beats Gemini 3, Schools Face AI Crisis, OpenAI Launches Shopping Tool

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’
First aired: 25 November 2025

Summary: Anthropic just dropped Claude Opus 4.5, and honestly, it's brilliant. I've been testing it overnight and this morning, and it's smashing through coding problems that had me stuck for ages. The benchmarks are predictably stellar—37.6 on the ARC AGI test versus Gemini 3's 31.1—but more importantly, the usage limits actually seem reasonable this time. Unlike Opus 4.1 which was basically unusable after a handful of attempts, you can now actually integrate this into your workflow without hitting walls constantly. The interesting bit is watching these labs leapfrog each other week after week. We've had three state-of-the-art models in seven days, and whilst I'm desperate to actually build things with these tools, keeping up with the releases is becoming a full-time job. Anthropic's staying laser-focused on coding and writing rather than chasing video generation or voice modes, which I respect. I also covered Andre Karpathy's thoughts on AI in education—basically, we might need to flip classrooms entirely because we can't trust homework anymore. Plus OpenAI's quietly rolling out shopping research just before Black Friday, which feels like the first move towards inevitable AI advertising.

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00:00 Introduction & Show Opening

00:30 Claude Opus 4.5 Announcement & Industry Context

01:59 Opus 4.5 Usage Limits & Pricing Concerns

02:34 Model Performance & Benchmarks

04:48 Personal Testing & Real-World Performance

06:09 Q&A - Gemini 3 Pro for Web Design

07:22 Opus 4.5 Pricing & Daily Usage

09:18 API Pricing & 66% Cost Reduction

11:29 Cursor Integration & Sonnet Pricing Promo

12:09 Unlimited Conversation Length Feature

13:55 Q&A - Claude Blackmailing Incident Explained

16:12 Claude Used in Chinese Cyber Attacks

16:45 Pliny Jailbreaks Opus 4.5 Immediately

18:20 OpenAI's Coming Response & Industry Predictions

19:34 Adam Wolf on 30-Minute Autonomous Agents

20:25 Future of Software Engineering & Coding

22:22 AI Impact on Design Jobs & Progress

23:33 Career Future-Proofing & AI Adaptation

25:56 Q&A - Are You AI? Avatar Discussion

27:37 Content Creation Strategy & Systems

29:20 Q&A - Thoughts on AI CRMs

30:16 CRM Integration & Data Strategy

33:58 AI Email Outreach & Authenticity Crisis

35:05 Andrej Karpathy on Nano Banana Pro

37:02 AI Cheating Crisis in Education

38:34 Flipped Classroom & Education Reform

42:36 Brave New Words Book Recommendation

43:16 OpenAI Shopping Research & Ad Revenue

45:56 AI with Kyle Starter Guide Promo

47:34 Closing & Outro

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