12.29.25: Gordon’s Weekly Recommendations

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Generative Imagery Battle: same prompt to ChatGPT & Gemini’s Banana Nano. Here’s the ChatGPT image:

And here’s Gemini’s Nano Banana Image:

The winner: ChatGPT!

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• Did ChatGPT Just Kill Nano Banana? Matt Wolfe

• New Gemini + NotebookLM Update is INSANE! Julian Goldie SEO

• 12 ChatGPT Tricks Most People Still Don’t Know About: Skill Leap AI

• These ChatGPT Hacks Will Make You SO Productive It Feels Illegal: Dan Martel (note some overlap with these last two but worth watching both)

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• 2026 Biggest Hair Trends Bring the Drama: Allure.

• 5 hair and beauty salon consumer trends you can’t ignore in 2026: Zenoti

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• Winners, Losers & WTF Moments: A Look Back at 2025’s Top Tech Stories: ON with Kara Swisher

My latest:

• 135. The Final Social Beauty Makers Episode (stay tuned for what’s next!)

“My Year with ChatGPT”

If you are using ChatGPT, be sure to check out this recently added fun ‘feature’ (very similar to Spotify’s annual, personalized recap). Here are a few images that showed up in the recap created for me based on my usage:

Wishing you a most beautiful week,

gordon

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