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🤖 Google’s New AI-Based Image Editing Is Bananas
PLUS: NVIDIA Gives Humanoid Robots an AI-Powered Brain
James Roesser
August 27, 2025
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In today’s Daily Report:
🍌Google’s New AI-Based Image Editing Is Bananas
🧠NVIDIA Gives Humanoid Robots an AI-Powered Brain
🛠Trending Tools
🥪Brief Bites
💰Funding Frontlines
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
🍌Google’s New AI-Based Image Editing Is Bananas
Image Source: Canva’s AI Image Generators/Magic Media
Google just introduced “Gemini 2.5 Flash Image or Nano Banana,” a new image generator and photo editor that converts brief text descriptions or simple voice depictions into high-quality images.
Key Details:
Costume or Location Change: Upload a photo of a person, and “Nano Banana” will preserve their appearance perfectly while placing them in new settings with different outfits.
Blend Photos Together: Upload multiple images and seamlessly blend them together into a completely new photo. For example, combining a picture of yourself with an image of the Eiffel Tower to place yourself right in front of it.
Multi-Turn Editing: Continuously refine the AI-generated images Gemini creates, making fine-tuned edits one step at a time. For example, adjusting a pose, playing with lighting, or swapping backgrounds.
Design Mixing: Apply the style of one image to an object in another. For example, taking the color and texture of flower petals and applying them to a pair of rain boots.
Why It’s Important:
Combining photorealism with creative flexibility signals a HUGE upgrade for AI-generated images. Anyone can now craft vivid, lifelike pictures with real-world accuracy and artistic freedom.
This lowers the barrier to creativity through visual storytelling, empowering artists, marketers, or educators to produce high-quality images in seconds.
🚨Watch “Nano Banana” in action here.
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NVIDIA
🧠NVIDIA Gives Humanoid Robots an AI-Powered Brain
Image Source: YouTube/Level1Techs/“More Spark than Spark?? Jetson Thor T5000:”/Screenshot
NVIDIA introduced “Jetson AGX Thor,” a new robotics computer that equips humanoid robots with an AI-powered brain to seamlessly see, think, react, and adapt in real time.
Key Details:
It delivers 2,070 teraflops (TFLOPS) of computing power. In simpler terms, it performs trillions of mathematical calculations per second. So, why does this matter?!
Math is what humanoid robots use to “think” and “act.” The more math they can perform and the faster they can perform it, the smarter and more capable they become at calculating distances, trajectories, and speeds.
It does all of this using only 130 watts (W) of power. That means it uses about as much electricity as a high-end gaming laptop, but delivers the processing power of a data center rack.
It can also simultaneously process sensors, cameras, LiDAR, and RADAR to make split-second decisions with real-world awareness. In other words, it makes humanoid robots less robotic, helping them to understand the world like we do with our eyes and perform actions like we do with our bodies.
This AI-powered brain boost doesn’t come cheap. The “Jetson AGX Thor” starts at $3,499, while the “Jetson T5000 Modules” are available starting at $2,999 for 1,000 units.
Why It’s Important:
The biggest challenge in robotics is generalization: the ability of humanoid robots to execute actions with new objects in new environments. It’s not enough for an industrial humanoid robot to pick up a specific box, crate, or pallet in a specific warehouse. It must understand the general concept of a box, crate, or pallet so it can operate in countless warehouses.
We’re reaching the point where humanoid robots can actually handle complex, unpredictable real-world situations instead of just following pre-programmed routines.
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🥪BRIEF BITES
Google announced “Gemini for Government,” an initiative that provides a suite of AI-powered tools to U.S. government agencies for only $0.47.
Silicon Valley is pouring millions into “Pro-AI Super PACs,” which will advocate against strict AI regulations in next year’s midterm elections.
Anthropic unveiled “Claude for Chrome,” an extension for Google Chrome that allows Claude to take actions on your behalf within the browser on any tab.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk took legal action against Apple and OpenAI, accusing them of “anticompetitive schemes” in the GenAI smartphone market.
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