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AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical

Release Date: 06/26/2025

AI Helps Salesforce Cut 4000 Jobs. Will It Make New Ones?

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AI NEWS: Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff says AI helped cut 4000 jobs from their workforce. Is this the start of a bigger trend? FYI, Optimus 3 isn’t *really* ready to take those jobs yet. Google’s NanoBanana continues to amaze us and we show off some really fun new ways to use it. Google *also* has a new vibecoding platform, a cool AI video real-time video model & a ‘boring’ but great open source AI image model. Then, at the end of the show, we go off the rails. WE ARE SORRY. YOU ARE GREAT. #ai #ainews #openai Come to our Discord to try our Secret Project: Join our Patreon:...

Google’s Nano Banana Brings Next Gen AI To The Mainstream

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Google’s Nano Banana is the best AI image editor we’ve ever seen & it bodes well for the future of Gemini going forward. But even better, it’s actually useful in everyday life. In other AI News, OpenAI’s new Realtime API improves its voice AI systems. It’s also taking people back from Meta who is also doing a deal with Midjourney. YES, it’s the CIRCLE OF AI…. Plus Unitree’s robot carries heavy stuff, Krea’s got a new real time AI video model, NVIDIA’s cutting edge new algo that speeds up LLMS & yet another demo of our very own new start-up AndThen! WE GO...

Move Over OpenAI… Google Looks Ready To Take The AI Lead

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AI NEWS: Google’s been moving insanely fast & shipping as OpenAI & Sam Altman have been working out what went wrong with the GPT-5 launch. Will we have a new AI leader? Google’s Made By Google event introduced a new natural language photo editing software (that could be powered by Nano Banana - their secret unreleased model) and a live AI translator that feels the like future. Meanwhile, OpenAI is looking forward to GPT-6 already & Elon has Grok moving towards makin’ babies. All that and a new Robot Watch, updates from Runway and Eleven Labs & an alpha demo of our...

OpenAI’s GPT-5 Stumbles On The Rocky Road To AGI

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SECRET PROJECT IN DISCORD: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Is this the AI slow down? OpenAI’s GPT-5’s first week was kind of rough but Sam Atlman is working on it. GPT-4o is back for those who missed it but AI might not get to the Singularity as fast as people think. GPT-5 *did* crush Pokemon & a new version got a gold medal in the International Programming Competition. Plus, new Anthropic Claude updates, Sam & Elon are feuding again, Apple’s new tabletop robot, Matrix Game 2’s playable AI worlds, Meta’s AI permissions fumble and maybe… most importantly… Robots can...

OpenAI's GPT-5 Is Here. It's Very Good AI But Not AGI

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OpenAI’s GPT-5 is out & it’s the best AI model! For now. Overall, the benchmarks are good-not-great but the vibes are off-the-charts. We dive into the DEEP end. Sam Altman brought the whole team out for a long demo of GPT-5. It’s great at coding! It’s better at writing! It has new AI personalities! It will not hallucinate nearly as much! Which is more than we can say for the OpenAI graphics department. Then, Google Deepmind’s Genie 3 shows us what the next generation of AI *might* look like with its new world model. Anthropic isn’t left out with a 4.1 update to its...

OpenAI’s GPT-5 Leaks Show Us The Future (Of Next Week??)

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OpenAI’s GPT-5 is coming soon and it is…good?. Mystery models have been testing on various platforms that may show us the future of OpenAI’s newest AI & the future of the space. Sam Altman’s company has been ramping up the hype machine entering next week when most expect GPT-5’s release (as well as a new possible Google model). Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg is talking up Meta’s personal Super Intelligence plans. Also, Runway’s Aleph & Ideogram’s Character mode give us more AI video tools while new emergent behavior lets you prompt Google’s VEO 3 in amazing ways. And a...

OpenAI Teases GPT-5 as America Goes Full 'AI Action' Mode

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman dribbles out GPT-5 teases as the White House’s AI Action plan lays out exactly how all-in America is on the future of AI. Plus, SO MUCH AI NEWS. GPT-5 is (we hope?) around the corner and we’re getting small snippets like the mysterious new model that’s incredible at coding & the AI model that won gold at the International Math Olympics. Plus, Netflix & Disney are both using AI video in some of their new projects, Vine might be coming back as an AI video app & two great new AI audio models. IT’S A NEW DAY. SAME AS THE OLD DAY. BUT THIS TIME…WITH...

OpenAI's New ChatGPT Agent Might've Just Stolen Your Job

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ChatGPT Agent is OpenAI’s new combo of Deep Research and its Operator web-browser agents into one near-human level worker. Is your job on the chopping block? Big week in AI News: Sam Altman and the OpenAI team have been cooking agents for a bit but this new one feels like the next big wave of AI in 2025. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg grabs a few more OpenAI researchers, Grok reveals a pair of risque new AI companions & Runway released Act-Two for better AI video. Plus, Kimi K2 is China’s VERY good new open source AI model, Higgsfield has some killer new VFX, a new 4.5+ update from Suno...

Grok 4 is Nearing AGI But... Can Elon Get Out Of The Way?

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Grok 4 from xAI just aced “Humanity’s Last Exam” benchmarks while Grok 3 had a catastrophic public meltdown. What does this mean for the future of AI and Elon Musk’s credibility? And, in other AI news, OpenAI’s GPT-5 is rumored to land next week along with a new open-source reasoning model, Google’s DeepMind launches AI-designed drugs into human trials, and Perplexity’s new AI browser Comet sparks OpenAI’s plan to crush Chrome. PLUS YouTube cracks down on AI-generated spam while updating image-to-video in VEO 3, Moon Valley releases an “ethical” AI video platform, and why...

Meta's Poaches OpenAI Brains, Google's AI Gaming Engine & More AI HUGE News

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OpenAI, Meta & Google are fighting over who gets to control the future of superintelligence but what happens when Zuck robs Sam Altman blind? And is Apple about to onboard Anthropic? In the big AI news this week, Meta hires over 10 top OpenAI engineers (for a rumored potential $300 million in compensation), Apple considers replacing its entire AI strategy with Claude or ChatGPT, and Microsoft’s new medical model diagnoses diseases 4x better than human doctors. Plus, Google DeepMind’s gaming push, a fake band goes viral on Spotify, and OpenAI’s secret open-source model might be...

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OpenAI, Google & Anthropic are all eating different parts of the business & creative worlds but where does that leave us? For only 25 cents, you too can sponsor a human in a world of AGI.

In the big news this week, OpenAI’s takes on Microsoft Office, Google’s cutting the cost of AI coding with their new Google CLI (Command Line Interface) and dropped an on-device robotics platform. Oh, and Anthropic just won a massive lawsuit around AI training and fair use.

Plus, Tesla’s rocky rollout of their Robotaxis, Eleven Labs’ new MCP-centric 11ai voice agent, Runway’s Game Worlds, the best hacker in the world in now an AI bot AND Gavin defends AI slop.

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OpenAI Developing Microsoft Office / Google Workplace Competitor

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-quietly-designed-rival-google-workspace-microsoft-office?rc=c3oojq

OpenAI io / trademark drama:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/23/openai-jony-ive-io-amid-trademark-iyo

Sam’s receipts from Jason Rugolo (founder of iYo the headphone company)