Episode Details

Jack King on the day's AI go-to-market news. The theme is leverage — and who pays for it. Google collapsed the price of creative, launching Nano Banana 2 Lite (images for about three cents) and Gemini Omni Flash video, one day after making personalized image generation free for all eligible U.S. users. Then the bill arrived: Goldman Sachs projects AI agents will drive enterprise token consumption up roughly 24x in four years as GitHub Copilot's metered billing sends power-user costs soaring. Meanwhile the money moved to the plumbing (GenerativeX's Salesforce-Ventures-backed raise), Meta got caught covertly red-teaming rivals, and Sergey Brin told Google the models must become the “primary developers of final code.”

Today's stories:

• Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite (image, ~$0.034) and Gemini Omni Flash (video, $0.10/sec) — source
• Gemini's personalized image generation goes free for U.S. users — TechCrunch
• Goldman: AI agents to drive token consumption ~24x; enterprise cost-control era begins — Tech Startups
• GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based, metered billing — GitHub Blog
• GenerativeX raises $4M (Salesforce Ventures participating) for enterprise agentic deployment — Tech Startups
• Meta deployed contractors posing as minors to red-team rival AI chatbots — Tech Startups
• Sergey Brin: turn Google's models into “primary developers of final code” — Build Fast with AI

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AI disclosure: this episode is AI-written and voiced by an AI host (Jack King), produced with Varosity.ai.