⚡️ Google launches new Gemini 3 Flash

🦾Plus: 🛒 ChatGPT Gets an App Store

December 18, 2025

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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?

  • 📊 30 Popular Best Data Science Tools to use in 2025

  • 🧪OpenAI introduced FrontierScience

  • 🧩Google adds interactive Gem mini-apps to Gemini desktop

  • 🔊Meta debuts SAM Audio, an open-source unified model

  • 🐬 Skana Robotics uses AI for underwater communication

  • 🎙️ Real-Time Voice Comes to Grok’s API

  • 💡 AI Tutorial:Design better websites with Cursor’s new editor

  • 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

Google just rolled out Gemini 3 Flash, a speed-optimized version of its recently released flagship model that still maintains frontier-level intelligence, becoming the new default model across Gemini and in Google Search’s AI Mode. Gemini 3 Flash matches and even exceeds 3 Pro across a range of benchmarks, while coming in at ¼ the price and 3x the speed.

The Future of Shopping? AI + Actual Humans.

AI has changed how consumers shop, but people still drive decisions. Levanta’s research shows affiliate and creator content continues to influence conversions, plus it now shapes the product recommendations AI delivers. Affiliate marketing isn’t being replaced by AI, it’s being amplified.

Data science is a rapidly evolving field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data. As the volume, variety, and velocity of data continue to grow, data scientists need sophisticated tools to handle and analyze this data

OpenAI introducing FrontierScience: a new benchmark built to measure expert-level scientific capabilities. FrontierScience is written and verified by experts across physics, chemistry, and biology, and consists of hundreds of questions designed to be difficult, original, and meaningful..

Google introduces experimental Gems in the Gemini desktop app that turn prompts into interactive AI mini-apps. Gemini traditionally answers one prompt at a time, which makes complex, repeatable tasks brittle. This update reframes prompts as reusable tools with structure and state.

Meta introduces SAM Audio, a new foundation model that brings the Segment Anything idea to sound. Audio separation already exists, but most systems lock you into narrow domains like speech or music and force a single control method.

Q4 is the perfect window to turn this year’s numbers into a clear, actionable forecast aligned with your goals. Set your business up for a stronger 2026 with BELAY’s new guide.

👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

LazyVim
LazyVim is a Neovim setup powered by lazy.nvim to make it easy to customize and extend your config.

axe-api
The next-generation Rest API Framework.

docker-pgautoupgrade
A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database.

AI News:

OpenAI is rolling out an in-app directory where you can connect apps to conversations, and take real-world actions. Devs can submit apps for review and publication, and monetization options are coming later.

Know what works before you spend.

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Gemini, meet Opal. Google’s vibe-coding tool is being integrated into its AI model, letting users build AI-powered mini apps inside the Gemini web app, allowing users to create their own custom apps called Gems. The tool can be found in the Gems manager and has a visual editor that lays out the steps required to create an application

Skana Robotics has developed SeaSphere, a fleet management system that enables underwater autonomous vessels to communicate across long distances without surfacing. SeaSphere highlights a critical defense challenge where submarines and underwater robots traditionally had to surface to transmit data, exposing them to detection.

OpenAI has launched the OpenAI Academy for News Organizations, a learning hub built with the American Journalism Project and The Lenfest Institute to help journalists, editors, and publishers adopt AI responsibly. The Academy has on-demand training, newsroom-focused use cases, and open-source resources covering investigative research, translation, and production efficiency.

xAI opened up access to Grok’s real-time voice capabilities, letting anyone build conversational agents with streaming speech input and output. Multiple personas are available, plus toggles for web and X data search during live conversations.

AI Tutorial

🎨 Design better websites with Cursor’s new editor

Learn how to quickly set up and use Cursor’s new visual design editor to refine your frontend design without having to switch back and forth with a design tool like Figma.

Step-by-step:

  1. Open a new project in Cursor with an HTML and CSS file (latest update required) — ask Cursor agent to build a simple index.html + styles.css or use a template

  2. Install the live server extension: hit CMD+Shift+P, search "Open with Live Server," then copy the URL and paste it into Cursor browser (CMD+Shift+B)

  3. Toggle on the element selector, click any element to edit properties in the Design pane, or tell the agent what changes you want in the active chat

  4. Hit Apply for the agent to make changes — click "Keep" or "Keep All" to save (the agent updates classes automatically so changes apply to all matching elements)

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🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity: 

  1. Alice - A native app that offers fast and reliable experience with models (OpenAI, Perplexity, Claude and more)

  2. Linktopia - Community link-building for bloggers, entrepreneurs and startup brands to grow  

  3. VerifactAI is an AI fact-checking tool that allows you to fact-check your articles within a minute.

  4. Undress AI Tool is a website that offers a deepnude application, allowing users to create modified images

  5. Screenloop is the ultimate Talent Operations Platform, seamlessly integrating a next-gen ATS

  6. Postlyy - All in one platform to create, schedule, and analyze content on X and LinkedIn

  7. Auto Streamer, your digital alchemist turning ideas into engaging learning experiences

  8. BeeDone is an innovative productivity app that marries AI technology with the art of gamification

View our database of all the best AI tools for your needs: aitoolsup.com

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