The AI Robot Uprising Has Begun (And It's Weirder Than You Think)
AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends
Release Date: 01/09/2026
AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends
Anthropic signed a compute partnership with SpaceX, with Elon Musk personally signing off. Months ago he said Anthropic hates Western Civilization. Um, what? This week on AI For Humans, in one of the wildest plot twists of the year, Anthropic announced a major compute partnership with SpaceX. Elon Musk personally tweeted that he spent time with the senior Anthropic team, was impressed, and approved leasing Colossus 1 to Anthropic since SpaceXAI had moved training to Colossus 2. The partnership came alongside Anthropic's massive Code with Claude keynote, where they unveiled a wave of new...
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A blockbuster New York Times story says the White House may soon require AI models to be approved before public release, with Anthropic's Mythos at the center of it all. This week on AI For Humans, a major New York Times story revealed that the White House may soon require AI models to be approved by the government before public release. Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model appears to be the catalyst. The administration wants to avoid political fallout from any devastating AI-enabled cyberattack and is also evaluating whether new AI models could yield capabilities useful to the Pentagon...
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Thanks to @HP & Intel for sponsoring us! More on the Zbook Fury The AI robots are coming! We’re finally seeing the next stage of AI come to fruition robotics (even in America) as manufacturing and capabilities of humanoids speeds up. This week on AI For Humans, robots just hit their ChatGPT moment. Eka Robotics' robotic hand grabbed a raspberry at incredible speed, and Wired is calling it the moment when robots became as transformative as ChatGPT was for text. Figure Robotics is now manufacturing one robot per hour. 1x just opened a factory targeting 10,000 robots per year. American...
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The Wall Street Journal reported OpenAI missed its end-of-year billion-active-user target. Is the AI bubble actually popping or is the panic overblown? This week on AI For Humans, the AI bubble panic hit a fever pitch after a Wall Street Journal report revealed OpenAI missed its weekly user, monthly revenue, and end-of-year billion-active-user targets. CFO Sarah Friar reportedly told peers she's worried OpenAI won't be able to pay for future compute contracts if revenue doesn't accelerate, and the board is now scrutinizing Sam Altman's deals more closely. AI stocks crashed, with...
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Thanks to @HP & Intel for sponsoring us! More on the Zbook Fury OpenAI’s flagship AI model GPT-5.5 is here. It’s smarter, faster, cheaper, better at long-running tasks and…oh boy, everything just changed again. This week on AI For Humans, OpenAI dropped state-of-the-art GPT-5.5 and it's not just another model release, it's the start of a much faster iterative rollout. Sam Altman and Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki both said to expect significantly more releases going forward, admitting the last few years have been surprisingly slow. It may not be Anthropic Mythos numbers but it’s...
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OpenAI just dropped ChatGPT Images 2.0 (GPT Image 2) and it's by far the new #1 AI image model. 2K resolution, multi-language support, incredible text rendering, and yes, it can write on individual grains of rice. This week on AI For Humans, OpenAI dropped ChatGPT Images 2.0 (GPT Images 2) and it instantly took the #1 spot on the Arena leaderboard, beating Nano Banana 2 by a significant margin. The new model generates images up to 2K resolution, handles multiple languages including non-Latin scripts like Japanese, Korean, and Hindi, and excels at image-to-image editing. There's a standard...
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Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.7 with better vision, better coding and… better everything. And, along with OpenAI’s new Codex, AI is accelerating ever faster. This week on AI For Humans, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, a major step up from Opus 4.6 with better visual reasoning, improved software coding and even makes presentations for cavemen. Benchmarks put Opus 4.7 between 4.6 and the unreleased Mythos preview, and the new default xhigh reasoning level means more token burn but more reliability on hard problems. The same day, OpenAI updated Codex with better computer use, an...
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The AI compute crisis is here. Anthropic’s Claude is getting dumber and Opus 4.7 & OpenAI’s Spud are about to make it worse. What happen’s next? This week on AI For Humans, we dig into the AI compute crunch that's quietly becoming the industry's biggest problem. The Wall Street Journal just ran a cover story about AI using so much energy that computing power is running out. Claude users are noticing the model getting worse, and an AMD Senior AI Director confirmed. AI pundits are asking whether Anthropic's reluctance to release Mythos is really about safety or about not having enough...
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Claude Mythos Preview might break the internet, Florida is suing OpenAI and datacenter protests are spreading. This is the AI backlash. This week on AI For Humans, we're having a frank conversation about the growth of anti-AI sentiment and what we (as humans) can do about it. Florida's Attorney General launched an investigation into ChatGPT and OpenAI over the dangers of AI to children. Datacenter protests are rising across the country, with xAI facing accusations of poisoning local communities. Bernie Sanders and Hank Green are calling for slowing down while Sam Altman is proposing new...
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Anthropic revealed Mythos, a new AI model so powerful they won't let the public use it. Instead, they're deploying it to defend against cyberattacks with Project Glasswing. This week on AI For Humans, we dive deep into Anthropic's Mythos, the most powerful AI model they've ever built and one they've decided is too dangerous to release to the public. Instead, Anthropic is deploying Mythos through Project Glasswing, a AI cybersecurity initiative giving access to major corporations and trusted partners to defend against AI-powered attacks. CEO Dario Amodei explains why, and the 244-page system...
info_outlineAI robots are taking over CES 2025 and we're not sure how to feel about it. Boston Dynamics Atlas is doing things with its body that no robot should be able to do.
NVIDIA's new autonomous vehicle platform Alpa Mayo is coming for Tesla FSD. And you can now buy a $100 AI-powered drone that will hunt down whatever you point it at. Cool cool cool.
Plus, Google finally put Gemini in Gmail (we tested it so you don't have to), OpenAI is building a mysterious Johnny Ive audio device, and Claude Code with Opus 4.5 has coders losing their minds over something called Ralph Wiggum. Yes, that Ralph Wiggum.
We've also got ChatGPT Health, LG's towel-folding robot Clo, Unitree's intimidating 6-foot humanoid, and a look at what the future of AI agents might actually look like. Spoiler: it involves a lot of orchestration.
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Jensen Huang’s NVIDIA CES Presentation:
https://youtu.be/uDNXjnOqJ-A?si=_h_0Fmiq788YaGZX
New ‘Alpamayo’ Self Driving Car & Software
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jv1vd571wo
Hands-on Test Of the Car
https://youtu.be/EzAVW1VgzcI?si=B9JCJmSQW6ywXV1x
Boston Dynamics New Robot Atlas
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2008293610308202508?s=20
Real Atlas footage from CES
https://x.com/IntuitMachine/status/2008324310230851697?s=20
Google DeepMind + Boston Dynamics https://bostondynamics.com/blog/boston-dynamics-google-deepmind-form-new-ai-partnership/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=&utm_content=
LG’s Cloid ‘AI-enabled’ Robot Does Laundry *Really* Slowly
https://x.com/AP/status/2008746664841146722?s=20
$100 drone with an AI powered vision system…
https://x.com/chesterzelaya/status/2008058706500759576?s=20
New Unitree Robot Jumpkicks
https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/2007746313220415717?s=20
Guy Gets Kicked In The Nuts By Unitree Robot
https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/2004977640521044335?s=20
Men’s Health Device For… You Know
https://www.tiktok.com/@verge/video/7592000373989133581
GMAIL is in its GEMINI ERA
OpenAI’s New ‘Code Audio’: Improving the audio models for the upcoming Jony Ive gadget
ChatGPT’s Move Towards Personal Assistant
https://fidjisimo.substack.com/p/closing-the-capability-gap
ChatGPT For Health
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2008987566796640575?s=20
Opus 4.5 + Claude Code’s Big Moment (maybe we just kind of chat about this)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/anthropics-claude-code-vibe-coding
Ralph Wiggum + Claude Code
GAS TOWN
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04
FoFR Shares His JSON Prompting Techniques
https://www.fofr.ai/prompting-with-json
Gavin’s Examples (What I Did With AI)
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2003148296844652662?s=20
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2007194034171982122?s=20
Star Wars: Beggar’s Canyon Is The World’s Best AI Fan Film
https://youtu.be/SGJC4Hnz3m0?si=EWZktHOnf6_cYcMh
Related: PJ’s Live Action Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer
https://x.com/PJaccetturo/status/2008559114704875888?s=20
Show Fan Eric Curts Creates Cool Way To Make Graphic Novels in Notebook LM
https://x.com/ericcurts/status/2007939089635369351?s=20
https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2026/01/graphicnovels.html
Somebod-AI that AI used to know?
https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/2007838494513906051?s=20
Egg Protein
https://x.com/Solopopsss/status/2008961579728130159?s=20