Future of music licensing and 'essence' monetization

Nano Banana 2 is Google's best image model yet and it just dropped. It's cheaper, it's smarter, and it removed an Adidas logo from a banana in a tracksuit on the first try. But we have notes.

The Door Brothers and Logan Paul made a 15-minute AI movie with Seedance 2.0 that looks like a direct-to-video action film…KIND OF. Meanwhile Seedance 2.0 is now live in CapCut, Anthropic is in a standoff with the Secretary of War over a $200M defense contract, and a sketchy music site called Sonato is generating perfect James Brown and Nirvana tracks from text prompts.

Using that, Kevin vibe coded a custom AI Spotify mash-up that looks like an iPod. During the show. While apologizing.

Plus we built a whole new AI For Humans website from scratch with Claude Code, the stock market crashed because of an AI memo, and Deep Seek V4 might drop any minute now. Totally normal week.

KEVIN OWES US ALL AN APOLOGY AND HE KNOWS IT.

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// Show Links //

Nano Banana 2 Launch

https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2027051577899380991?s=20

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/

Nano Banana 2 Window App:

https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2027057726170509724?s=20

Complex Imagery:

https://x.com/emollick/status/2027051701258109306?s=20

Precise Editing of Adidas Tracksuit:

https://gemini.google.com/share/4d9ab1243d40

Failed at my Periodic Table test:

https: //x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2027058092824027238?s=20

Dor Brothers / Logan Paul 15 Minute Movie

https://x.com/thedorbrothers/status/2026733954942775433?s=20

Creator of Entourage Responds LOL

https://x.com/mrdougellin/status/2026801159282057666?s=20

Seedance 2.0 Updates

Now In CapCut?

https://x.com/charliebcurran/status/2026713011805946301?s=20

Lil' Hot Dog Video I Made In CapCut

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2026751216139542733?s=20

Weights Leaked? Likely Fake

https://x.com/taker_of_whizz/status/2026749425851253095?s=20

Tom Cruise/Brad Pitt Creator Second Video:

https://x.com/RuairiRobinson/status/2026164263547793787?s=20

My Chicken Run 90 Min Example:

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2025260426519609557?s=20

Energym by AI Candy

https://www.aicandy.be/giorgio-1

Citrini Piece Tanks Stock Market (Claude Code)

https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/business/citrini-ai-stock-market.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PFA.WBh9.KPcM171X5cU2&smid=url-share

Anthropic Use Growing Much Faster Than OpenAI or Gemini

https://x.com/deedydas/status/2027057965862432843?s=20

New Claude Co-Work Plugins For Many Disciplines

https://x.com/claudeai/status/2026305186671608315?s=20

Remote Control For Claude Code / Cowork

https://x.com/noahzweben/status/2026371260805271615?s=20

Scheduled Tasks in Cowork

https://x.com/claudeai/status/2026720870631354429?s=20

Fighting Vs The Pentagon Re AI Safety In War***

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-pentagon-claude-hegseth-dario

Theo Replicates & OpenSources Frame IO

https://x.com/theo/status/2026794317197849001?s=20

Sonauto: AI Music With WAY Too Many Actual Voices

https://sonauto.a

Theoretically Media on Sonauto:

https://youtu.be/fK886jyF9Hw?si=DMbV4vikeD6y_jeP

DeepSeek v4 Trained on Blackwell Chips

https://x.com/niubi/status/2026111153617727843?s=20

New AI For Humans Website! https://www.aiforhumans.show/