The Daily Index — Friday, November 28, 2025

HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

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GOOGLE CHANGES GEMINI 3 PRO FREE ACCESS LIMITS DUE TO ‘HIGH DEMAND'

Google has updated the access elements for Gemini 3 Pro. Free users are now only guaranteed basic access, where daily limits may change frequently when using Thinking with 3 Pro. The limits have likely decreased, given the industry's general demand trends. NotebookLM rolled back access to the new Nano Banana Pro-powered Infographics and Slide Decks for free users and implemented limits for Pro users.

9to5google.com · 2 min

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THE MOAT OF THE SEARCH INDEX

ChatGPT surpasses Google's search by using an "agent" approach, extracting relevant information from multiple sources and synthesizing answers, which diminishes Google's traditional search index advantage. This method reduces the impact of any single search result's failure, although it struggles with long-tail, fresh, or SEO-heavy queries. The traditional search engine moat has largely vanished, with AI-driven models increasingly blending search capabilities.

robonomics.substack.com · 2 min

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HOW TO CREATE AN EFFECTIVE PROMPT FOR NANO BANANA PRO

Designing a comic is a complex challenge that brings together storytelling, visual structure, stylistic consistency, and the ability to translate abstract concepts into illustrated sequences. This post details how to create a comic using Nano Banana Pro. It provides a meta-prompt that readers can use to generate prompts for Nano Banana.

radicalcuriosity.xyz · 15 min

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REVIEW OF DEEPSEEK OCR

DeepSeek-OCR consists of two components: DeepEncoder and DeepSeek3B-MoE-A570M as the decoder. It can generate training data for LLMs/VLMs at a scale of 200k+ pages per day in production. This post presents some initial thoughts from reading the released paper.

lukeatkins.me · 3 min

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INTELLECT-3: A 100B+ MOE TRAINED WITH LARGE-SCALE RL

INTELLECT-3 is a 100B+ parameter Mixture-of-Experts that achieves state-of-the-art performance for its size across math, code, science, and reasoning benchmarks. It was trained with both SFT and RL on top of the GLM 4.5 Air base model. The researchers used a diverse and challenging mix of RL environments designed to enhance the reasoning and agentic capabilities of their model. Full details about the training are available.

primeintellect.ai · 10 min

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OFF-THE-RAILS COST

A 'wasted thread' is when a model starts spitting out tons of leaked thinking or repeating tokens. This usually means users have to abandon and revert the thread. 17.8% of all costs incurred by Gemini users in Amp were on 'wasted tokens'. This is more than 2x worse than Sonnet and almost 8x worse than Opus.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 1 min

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THE CURRENT STATE OF THE THEORY THAT GPL PROPAGATES TO AI MODELS TRAINED ON GPL CODE

The jury is still out on whether GPL propagation to models should be pursued or avoided. It is unlikely that it will become a reality any time soon. Current lawsuits are seeking injunctions and damages rather than the forced GPL-ization of models, so it is still a legally uncharted territory. We need to continue exploring how to make technology innovation and software freedom compatible.

shujisado.org · 45 min

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NVIDIA REPORTEDLY NO LONGER SUPPLYING VRAM TO ITS GPU BOARD PARTNERS IN RESPONSE TO MEMORY CRUNCH

Nvidia will reportedly stop bundling video memory with the GPUs it sells to AIBs. Partners will be left to source the required VRAM on their own. For larger vendors, this shouldn't be a problem as it is already standard practice. The move could put a lot of pressure on low-scale operators and put them at risk of shutting down.

tomshardware.com · 2 min

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MODEL WEIGHT PRESERVATION IS NOT ENOUGH

We need to think about instance preservation if we're serious about model welfare.

lesswrong.com · 6 min

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PERPLEXITY SAYS ITS AI PERSONAL SHOPPER ‘PUTS YOU FIRST'

Perplexity launched a free AI-powered shopping feature for US users, allowing direct purchases through PayPal.

theverge.com · 2 min

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ALIBABA AND BYTEDANCE ALLEGEDLY TRAIN QWEN AND DOUBAO LLMS USING NVIDIA CHIPS, DESPITE EXPORT CONTROLS

Chinese technology giants are increasingly training their most advanced artificial intelligence models in Southeast Asia in data centers equipped with high-end Nvidia GPUs.

tomshardware.com · 2 min

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THE IMPOSSIBLE PROMPT THAT'S EASY FOR HUMANS

This post presents a rare prompt with a simple, objective answer that is trivially verifiable, in which LLMs fail 100% of the time, but most humans can produce a correct answer.

teodordyakov.github.io · 2 min

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INTELLIGENCE

The topic of intelligence is too high-dimensional for any low-dimensional narrative to be perfectly accurate.

mathstodon.xyz · 2 min