Episode 51
In this episode of AI for the Humanities, we explore the most eventful month in AI development since ChatGPT's launch. November 2025 witnessed OpenAI's surprisingly quick GPT-5.1 release with controversial "warmer" personality options, Google's record-breaking Gemini 3 model that achieved the first-ever 1501 Elo score, and the launch of Nano Banana Pro with its troubling two-tier watermark system that reserves undetectable image generation for wealthy subscribers.
We also examine a Chinese cyberattack that used Anthropic's Claude to automate hacking operations against thirty organizations, massive infrastructure investments totaling over $650 billion from Anthropic and Meta, White House policy rejecting federal AI bailouts, and critical updates to NotebookLM including the Deep Research feature. Each development carries profound implications for how we teach, research, and understand the humanities in an age of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence