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Welcome to episode 364 (“The Rise of Gemini AI”) of the EdTech Situation Room from December 3, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffer ( aicentrist.com ) and Dr. Wesley Fryer ( wesfryer.com ) discuss the “rise of Gemini” following the release of Google’s Gemini 3.0 and reports of OpenAI declaring a “Code Red.” The hosts debate Australia’s move to enforce a social media age limit of 16 and the potential banning of VPNs. Conversation also turns to academic integrity, featuring a breakdown of The Simpsons’ take on AI cheating, the risks of adversarial detection, and the changing nature of software engineering with “vibe coding.” Our show was live-streamed and archived on YouTube Live via StreamYard.com and auto-archived to YouTube. We are now publishing from Substack too ! Subscribe to us with your favorite podcast listening app, or directly on youtube.com/@edtechSR . Follow our EdTechSR page on Facebook , mastodon.education/@edtechsr on Mastodon for updates, and join LIVE on Wednesday nights if you can. All show notes are available at edtechSR.com/links . 🔗 Links We Discussed * Google Gemini 3: A New Era of Intelligence (Google Blog, 18 Nov 2025) * OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Declares “Code Red” As Gemini Gains 200 Million Users In 3 Months (Ars Technica, 02 Dec 2025) * Marc Benioff’s response to Gemini 3 * Black Students Are More Likely to Be Falsely Accused of Using AI to Cheat (Education Week, 18 Sep 2024) * AI may be scoring your college essay. Welcome to the new era of admissions (AP, 2 Dec 2025) * Our Response to AI Cannot be Adversarial (Marc Watkins Substack, 1 Dec 2025) * I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. (Huffpost, 29 Nov 2025) * “The Simpsons” season 37 episode tackles AI cheating and Chalmers’ slime craze (The Express Tribune, 7 Oct 2025) * VIDEO: Bart Gets Caught Using CheatGPT On His Homework | The Simpsons * Simpson’s Fandom Wiki: Keep Chalm and Gary On * Anthropic Studied Its Own Engineers to Assess How AI is Changing Work (Times of India / Anthropic, 3 Dec 2025) * Republicans drop Trump-ordered block on state AI laws from defense bill (ArsTechnica, 3 Dec 2025) * Australia to enforce social media age limit of 16 with fines up to $33 million (AP News, 3 Dec 2025) * Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing (EFF; 13 November 2025) * How institutions worldwide used Google for Education tools in 2025 (Google Blog, 3 Dec 2025) * AI Literacy from Google * Commodore 64 Available Again * Jason’s Geeks of the Week: GooseAI - https://antigravity.google/ * Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Gemini AI GEM replacements for my CustomGPTs: Social Media Post Formatter - Design - Create - Share Lesson Builder and Podcast: “Michael Burry Speaks” - Holiday Tech Gadget Wish Lists 🧭 Links We Did NOT Discuss * Anthropic Accidentally Gives the World a Peek Into Its Model’s Soul (Gizmodo, 01 Dec 2025) * Why Academics (and Educators) Are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky (Impact of Social Sciences, May 2025) * ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants (Brennan Center for Justice, 21 Nov 2025) * “Digital Citizenship in the Surveillance State” from 2016 * Solar’s Growth in US Almost Enough to Offset Rising Energy Use (Ars Technica, 26 Nov 2025) Episode 364 is also available on YouTube in two formats: Portrait mode optimized for mobile phones , and Landscape mode optimized for laptop / desktop computers ! Get full access to EdTech Situation Room Podcast at edtechsr.substack.com/subscribe