Holiday Glasses UX Failures and Limitations

The team recapped the show’s long streak and promised live holiday episodes no matter the date. The conversation then shifted into lawsuits against Perplexity, paywalled content scraping, global copyright patchwork, wearable AI acquisitions, and early consumer hardware failures. The second half explored Poetic’s breakthrough on the ARC AGI 2 test, Gemini’s meta reasoning improvements, ChatGPT’s slowing growth, expected 5.2 releases, and growing pressure on OpenAI as December model season arrives.

Key Points Discussed

New York Times sues Perplexity for copyright infringement

Paywalled content leakage and global loopholes make enforcement difficult

Acquisition of Limitless leads Meta to kill the pendant, refund buyers, and absorb the team

Holiday AR glasses reviewed as nearly useless for real world tasks

Lack of user testing and poor UX plague early AI wearable devices

Amazon delivery glasses raise safety concerns and visual distraction issues

Poetic’s recursive reasoning system beats Gemini on ARC AGI 2 for only 37 dollars per solution

ARC AGI 2 scores jump from 5 percent months ago to 50 plus percent today

Gemini’s multimodal training diet gives it an edge in reasoning tasks

Debate over LLM glass ceilings and the need for neurosymbolic approaches

ChatGPT’s user growth slows while Gemini leads in downloads, MAUs, and time in app

OpenAI expected to ship 5.2, but concerns rise about rushing a release

OpenAI pauses ads to focus on improving model quality

Netflix acquires Warner Brothers for 83B, expanding its IP catalog

IP libraries increase in value as AI accelerates character based content

Perplexity Comet browser gets BrowseSafe, blocking 91 percent of prompt injections

Google Workspace gems can now run inside Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Gemini powered follow up workflows, transcript processing, and structured docs become trivial

Gems enable faithful extraction of slide content from PDFs for internal knowledge building

Timestamps and Topics

00:00:00 👋 StreamYard return, layout issues, chin cam chaos

00:02:40 🎄 Holiday schedule, 611 episode streak

00:05:45 ⚖️ NYT sues Perplexity, copyright debate

00:08:20 🔒 Paywalls, global republication, Times of India loophole

00:14:23 🏷️ Gift links, scraping, and attribution confusion

00:17:10 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Limitless pendant killed after Meta acquisition

00:20:14 🤓 Andy reviews the Holiday AR glasses

00:24:39 😬 Massive UX failures and eye strain issues

00:28:42 🥽 Amazon driver AR glasses concerns

00:32:10 🔍 Poetic beats Gemini and DeepThink on ARC AGI 2

00:34:51 📈 Reasoning leaps from 5 percent to 54 percent

00:40:15 🧠 LLM limits, multimodal breakthroughs, neurosymbolic debates

00:43:10 📉 ChatGPT growth slows, Gemini rises

00:46:50 🧪 OpenAI 5.2 speculation and Code Red context

00:51:12 🎬 Netflix buys Warner Brothers for 83B

00:53:06 📦 IP libraries and AI enabled content expansion

00:54:50 🛡️ Perplexity Comet adds BrowseSafe

00:57:30 🧩 Gems in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

01:02:27 📄 Knowledge conversion from PDFs into outlines

01:04:35 🧮 Asana, transcripts, and automated workflows

01:08:10 🏁 Closing and troubleshooting tomorrow’s layout

The Daily AI Show Co Hosts: Brian Maucere, Beth Lyons, and Andy Halliday