096: Today in AI: Claude Opus 4.5 Launches Soon, Nano Banana Pro Impact, Google £1M Movember Campaign

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’
First aired: 24 November 2025

Summary: I spent most of this stream dissecting the Claude Opus 4.5 rumours—apparently it's hidden in the API and might drop today or tomorrow. The thing is, Anthropic has this annoying habit of making their best models practically unusable with severe rate limits. Opus could be brilliant for coding, but if you hit your daily cap after three prompts, what's the point? Meanwhile, OpenAI's Codex 5.1 Max and Gemini 3 are chipping away at Claude's coding advantage, so it'll be interesting to see if Anthropic can actually make this one accessible.

We also touched on the UK government's AI plans—£14 billion going into infrastructure, which sounds impressive until you realize it's mostly about data centres and compute rather than anything transformative for the public sector. I ranted a bit about HMRC's labyrinthine login system (because I spent my weekend drowning in Gov UK authentication layers), discussed why Grok's Flux-based image generator is surprisingly good, and flagged Google's Movember campaign where they'll donate £11 to charity for every AI-generated moustache photo. Not a bad way to end the stream, really.

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00:00 Opening: Nano Banana Pro Fills Out Exams Like a Human
01:24 Anthropic London Popup & The $200 Hat
02:15 Claude Opus 4.5 Release Rumors & Monday Launch
05:14 Q&A: Best Practice for Building AI Apps - Planning First
09:23 Q&A: Local Models vs Cloud for Coding - Performance Reality
13:13 GPT-4.0 Officially Deprecated February 16, 2026
15:07 Grok 4.1 Claims #1 Coding Model - Reality Check
17:13 Q&A: Advanced Voice Mode & Model Deprecation Details
19:41 Google Notebook LM: AI-Generated Slide Decks & Infographics
23:51 Andrej Karpathy Impressed by Nano Banana Pro Capabilities
26:44 Nano Banana Pro Use Cases: Restaurant Menus & Career Maps
29:21 AI Images Now Undetectable - Reality vs Artificial Intelligence
31:33 Expert Jeremy Carrasco Sounds the Alarm
33:37 UK Government £25 Billion AI Investment & Growth Zones
37:29 UK AI Minister Builds Website with Cursor - Vibe Shift UK
39:52 Q&A: Will ChatGPT Images Catch Up to Nano Banana?
40:21 Market Competition: Google, Anthropic & xAI vs ChatGPT
42:11 Q&A: UK Government Needs AI for Public Sector & HMRC
43:06 Q&A: GoDaddy Air for Website Building - Not Recommended
43:42 Movember Charity: Generate Mustache Photos for £11 Donation
45:04 Closing: Newsletter, YouTube Channel & Website Resources

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