🎙️ Exclusive interview with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Google’s Gemini 3 is finally here, and it looks like a release that lives up to the massive hype with new leaderboard-topping capabilities across the board.

We got a chance to sit down with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis for an exclusive interview on Google’s big day of releases — read an excerpt from the conversation below and listen to the full interview on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

In today’s AI rundown:

Google’s Gemini 3 climbs the leaderboards
Exclusive: Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3.0
How to create n8n workflows directly from Claude
Microsoft, Nvidia team up with Anthropic
4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more

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GOOGLE

🏆 Google’s Gemini 3 climbs the leaderboards

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The Rundown: Google released Gemini 3, the company’s new SOTA model that it says brings a ‘new era of intelligence’, topping a series of leaderboards and benchmarks, coming alongside a new agent-first development platform called Antigravity.

The details:

Gemini 3 and Deep Think achieve new highs on reasoning benchmarks like Humanity’s Last Exam and ARC-AGI-2, smashing GPT-5’s previous marks.
The model also takes the top spot on scientific knowledge, math, multimodal reasoning, and tool use, while lagging behind just Claude Sonnet 4.5 in coding.
Gemini 3 excels in creating generative UI and visual layouts on the fly, showcasing the ability with its integration in AI Mode in Search.
Google also launched Antigravity, a free agentic coding platform with browser control, asynchronous workflows, and multi-agent orchestration.

Why it matters: With long-awaited Gemini 3, Google has unseated OpenAI for the first time in a while — your move, Sama. With endless resources and integrations across its sprawling product ecosystem, the tech giant is definitely flexing some serious muscle as the industry transitions into the next generation of frontier models.

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GOOGLE

🎙️ Exclusive: Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3.0

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The Rundown: Before the launch of Google’s highly anticipated Gemini 3 release, we sat down with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis for an exclusive interview to discuss the importance of the release around Google’s AI ecosystem.

Rowan: If you had to explain in one sentence, why is the launch of Gemini 3 important?

Demis: It continues the progression we’ve been on with Gemini over the last couple of years, and we’re really happy with the overall performance. You can see that from all the benchmarks — from reasoning to tool calling, reliability, and creativity.

Rowan: What happens when an AI assistant can combine everything it knows about you from Gmail, Calendar, Maps, and beyond?

Rowan: Could Gemini 3 be the cornerstone for AI-driven healthcare, given your background?

Demis: We have systems like AMIE for medical diagnostics and want to bring those capabilities into Gemini. Gemini 3 is a strong foundation for that. It’s so good multimodally, and a lot of health and education questions are multimodal.

The Gemini app isn’t a medical‑grade tool, but it could be useful in places without good primary healthcare, and with Google’s reach and Android, we can deliver a basic level of care and knowledge more widely.

Check out the full interview with Rowan and Demis on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

AI TRAINING

🤩 Create n8n workflows directly from Claude

The Rundown: In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to generate complete n8n workflow automations by describing what you want in plain English — using Claude Sonnet 4.5 via MCP to build workflows without manually connecting nodes.

Step-by-step:

Install Claude Desktop and Node.js, then open your terminal and run npx n8n-mcp to start the MCP server
In Claude Desktop, go to Settings > Developer > Edit Config and paste the configuration code, adding your n8n URL (from your workflow dashboard) and API key (Settings > n8n API > Create API Key)
Restart Claude Desktop, click the n8n MCP icon in the bottom right, and click "Enable all tools"
Simply describe your automation to Claude: (Eg. "Build an n8n workflow that monitors my Gmail for emails with 'invoice' in the subject, extracts the invoice amount using AI, and logs it to a Google Sheet")

Pro tip: Claude works best with specific requests. Instead of "automate my emails," try "when I get a Slack message with 'urgent,' create a task in Notion.”

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MICROSOFT, NVIDIA & ANTHROPIC

🤝 Microsoft, Nvidia team up with Anthropic

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The Rundown: Microsoft and Nvidia announced a major new strategic partnership with Anthropic, with investments reaching a combined $15B — with the AI startup also pledging $30B in Azure cloud commitments as part of the deal.

The details:

Nvidia will invest up to $10B in Anthropic, with Microsoft adding up to $5B, pushing the Claude-maker’s valuation near $350B.
Claude will now be available through Azure AI Foundry, making Anthropic’s models the only frontier options accessible across all three major clouds.
Nvidia and Anthropic are also designing new AI chips optimized for Claude, with Anthropic also committing to $30B in Azure compute and 1GW of capacity.
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella said the AI industry needs to move beyond “any type of zero-sum narrative or winner-take-all hype,” echoing his recent post.

Why it matters: The circular economics of AI deals continue, with Microsoft quickly embracing Nadella’s ‘positive-sum future’ vision for valuable partnerships with a major deal with one of its main partner’s biggest competitors. The deal also seems to bury the hatchet between Dario Amodei and Jensen Huang after this summer’s critiques.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

🏆 Gemini 3 - Google’s new top-ranked AI model
⚙️ Antigravity - Google’s new agentic development platform
🚀 Grok 4.1 - xAI’s new model with upgraded creativity & emotional intelligence
🌎 Marble - Create persistent 3D worlds from images, videos, and text prompts

📰 Everything else in AI today

Microsoft launched Agent 365, a platform for managing, securing, and governing AI agents, with capabilities like agent registry, performance analytics, and more.

AI datacenter provider Lambda raised $1.5B in new funding, coming on the heels of a multibillion-dollar deal with Microsoft to deploy tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs.

Poe introduced new group chat functionality, allowing up to 200 users to collaborate in shared conversations with any of the platform’s 200+ AI models.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in an interview that there is some “irrationality” in the AI boom, saying “no company is going to be immune, including us” if the bubble bursts.

Replit launched Design, a new AI UI experience for creating beautiful website designs within the platform, powered by Google’s new Gemini 3 model.

COMMUNITY

🤝 Community AI workflows

Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.

Today’s workflow comes from reader Kimberlee D. in Boca Raton, FL:

"I used ChatGPT to design and print the items needed for a bulletin board for my child's 2nd-grade classroom... I input the theme and dimensions and asked for some ideas for the layout and materials that I could easily source. I was able to piece together the final message from a few options given, and the shortcuts saved me a lot of time eyeballing it and re-sizing."

How do you use AI? Tell us here.