AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends
Fast Company called AI For Humans 'the most entertaining way to learn about artificial intelligence.' Every Thursday, hosts Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell break down the biggest AI news, tools, and breakthroughs, so you can stay ahead without losing your mind. Whether you're AI-curious or deep in the game, this is your weekly reset on everything that matters in artificial intelligence.
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Gemini 4 & Meta's Muse Wonder Are Good. Not Great.
10/16/2026
Gemini 4 & Meta's Muse Wonder Are Good. Not Great.
AI news this week: Google's Gemini 4 Argon and Meta's Muse Wonder are finally here, plus Xbox Labs, Epic's big AI pivot and an AI agent vs. Delta customer service. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into two new frontier AI models that are pretty good, but maybe not great. Gemini 4 Argon shines on science and the pelican on a bike test (the Fourier epicycle pelican is wild), but some early reviewers say it hallucinates on code a lot. Meta's Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full are the company's first real swing at the frontier, with big memory and coding claims, but they struggle with 3D worlds. Gavin runs a one-prompt game test, we watch a Google robot figure out cornhole and, yes, Mark Zuckerberg trying a Guinness is def the best video of the week. Also: gaming is going all in on AI. Xbox launched Xbox Labs to explore the wave of AI game mods and decompiles, Tim Sweeney says Epic is moving developers around to retool for AI, and we check out DLSS 5 and Diablo Survivors. Plus: quick tools, including Claude Motion, Mirelo's SFX 2.0 sound effects for video and Slowbooks Pro (coming for your accountant, in a good way). Then Kevin puts an AI phone agent on the line with Delta customer service, and it goes about as well as you'd hope (it will not hang up). In AI See What You Did There: The Little Prince as a website, a century of visual styles, Claude getting ready for Halloween and The Usual Suspects. And Gavin shares how he made his second AI documentary with his agent Fig (yes, Imogen is back). BILLIONAIRES. THEY'RE JUST LIKE US. // Chapters // 00:00 Gemini 4 Argon & Meta Muse Wonder: Good, Not Great 05:44 Gemini 4 Argon vs Opus 5.5: One-Prompt Game Test & The Pelican Test 13:02 Meta Muse Wonder, Zuck's $100 Billion Bet & The Guinness Face 22:31 Xbox Labs, Epic's AI Pivot, Diablo Survivors & DLSS 5 28:50 Claude Motion, Mirelo SFX 2.0 & Slowbooks Pro 37:19 Grok 3 Voice & Kevin's AI Agent Calls Delta Customer Service 46:20 AI See What You Did There + Gavin's AI Consciousness Documentary // Show Links // Google introduces Gemini 4 Argon Gemini 4 Argon comes to the Gemini app Google DeepMind's robot solving cornhole A Japanese temple complex made with Gemini 4 Argon Gemini 4 Argon game examples A pelican on a bike test The Fourier epicycle pelican Theo's take on Gemini 4 Argon Gavin's one-prompt game test Mark Zuckerberg introduces Muse Wonder Meta's Muse Wonder blog Zuck on Cheeky Pint Zuck vs. Guinness Xbox launches Xbox Labs Tim Sweeney on Epic's AI pivot DLSS 5 Diablo Survivors Claude Motion Gavin's Claude Motion movie genre test Mirelo sound effects for video Gavin's Mirelo test The rubber chicken bench Slowbooks Pro Grok 3 Voice Gavin's new AI documentary The Little Prince as a website A century of visual styles Claude getting ready for Halloween The Usual Suspects // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord Support AI For Humans on Patreon Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking
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AI Is Breaking Software & Games. What Happens Next?
10/09/2026
AI Is Breaking Software & Games. What Happens Next?
AI news this week: AI is cracking open all software, from Minecraft inside Red Dead Redemption 2 to a (claimed) Adobe decompile, plus Kevin made EARLABLO (Toe Jam & Earl Meet Diablo). On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell zoom out on the AI modding explosion, because the bigger story isn't games. AI is getting so good at taking software apart and rebuilding it that pretty soon almost any program might be de facto open source. This week alone brought God of War in GTA, Minecraft inside Twitter, Black Ops Zombies running in a web browser, a GTA skate mod and a full agent harness living inside Minecraft. We talk about what happens when no app can keep its secrets, and Kevin shows off Earlablo, his AI rebuild of a 1991 Sega classic as a Diablo-style dungeon crawler. It def slaps. Also: OpenAI published a big batch of new results on open math problems from an internal model, with proofs checked by computer, and we get into why that actually matters for regular people (including what it might mean for the encryption protecting your stuff). Plus: the Pope weighs in on AI creatives, Ben Affleck gets surprisingly nerdy about AI, Sesame's new voice demo is live (and Gavin had another wild conversation with it), Tavus runs a Turing test, Grok can now search X for free, Nano Banana 2.1 and Claude Haiku 5.5. // Chapters // 00:00 AI Is Cracking Open All Software 05:45 What AI Now Means For SaaS Businesses 10:05 Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies In Browser & More 14:44 OpenAI's Big Math Drop (And Why It Actually Matters) 18:37 Adobe Decompiled? What Happens When Nothing Is Locked 21:12 Kevin Turned A 1991 Sega Game (Toe Jam & Earl) Into Diablo (Earlablo) 35:49 The Pope Takes On AI Creatives 39:15 Ben Affleck, AI Super Nerd 43:23 Quick Tools: Grok X Search, Nano Banana 2.1 & Claude Haiku 5.5 46:57 Sesame's New Voice Demo 53:11 AI See What You Did There: Desktop Rug & Video Archive Search // Show Links // Amjad Masad on AI reverse engineering GTA Skate God of War in GTA Black Ops Zombies playable in the browser (creator's claim, unverified) OpenAI shares new AI progress in mathematics Adobe Suite decompiled ArtCraft The Pope on AI and creatives Ben Affleck, AI super nerd Sesame's new voice demo Grok can now search the X timeline for free Nano Banana 2.1 Claude Haiku 5.5 A rug for your computer desktop Searching through a video archive with AI // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord Support AI For Humans on Patreon Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking
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AI put Minecraft in Skyrim (and OpenAI had a Dev Day)
10/02/2026
AI put Minecraft in Skyrim (and OpenAI had a Dev Day)
AI news this week: Claude Opus 5.5 is modding every video game, from Minecraft in Skyrim to Portal in CoD Zombies, plus OpenAI DevDay's Dots & GPT-6.1 Sol. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into the wildest week of AI game modding yet. Cheaper, faster coding agents mean people are taking games apart and stitching them back together: Skate 3 skateboarding inside Modern Warfare 2, a Minecraft and Skyrim mashup called SkyCraft, Minecraft and Mario in Dark Souls and even a (claimed) decompile of Sega's Seaman. We explain what's actually happening under the hood (mods vs. decompiles vs. two game engines talking to each other), check out Rehan Sheikh's Universal Modder toolkit and talk about how you can start making your own. The lawyers will def have thoughts. Also: OpenAI's DevDay brought Dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers that connect to 4,000+ apps, plus ChatGPT Space, a new $500 a month plan, the Agents and Decisions APIs and GPT-6.1 Sol. Gavin put Sol head to head with Claude Opus 5.5 and, well, Opus won. Google finally announced Gemini 4 with huge benchmark numbers. Plus: Gavin's agent Fig used Opus 5.5 to make a 27-minute documentary almost entirely on its own (script, AI host, edit and music) with about six hours of his notes. We break down the process, the cost and where it got weird. Then quick hits on Ideogram 4.5, Kling 4.0 and ElevenLabs v4, what came out of the White House AI summit, and in AI See What You Did There: a Spider-Man browser game, a Succession-style AI series and Stallone doing very dangerous stunts. THE LAWYERS ARE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT. // Chapters // 00:00 AI Is Modding Every Video Game Right Now 05:32 How AI Game Modding Actually Works with Opus 5.5 13:15 OpenAI DevDay: Dots The Personal AI Assistant (Again) 18:17 ChatGPT Spaces 20:40 GPT-6.1 Sol vs Claude Opus 5.5: Gavin's Test 27:30 Gemini 4 Is Finally Announced (Benchmarks vs Reality) 29:41 Gavin's AI Agent Made A 27-Minute Documentary With Opus 5.5 41:29 Quick Tools: Ideogram 4.5, Kling 4.0 & ElevenLabs v4 43:57 The White House AI Summit & Jensen's "Near Term Pain" 48:43 AI See What You Did There: SpiderBench, AI Succession & Stallone Stunts // Show Links // Skate 3 skateboarding inside Modern Warfare 2 Minecraft x Skyrim How SkyCraft works (Minecraft and Skyrim running side by side) Call of Duty Zombies on the web (creator's claim, unverified) Portal x CoD Zombies Minecraft and Mario in Dark Souls Sega's Seaman decompiled with Astra (creator's claim, unverified) Universal Modder by Rehan Sheikh OpenAI introduces Dots OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote The DevDay demo fail ChatGPT Space Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol Gavin's GPT-6.1 Sol vs Opus 5.5 test Google announces Gemini 4 Bloomberg on Gemini 4 inside Google Gavin's Opus 5.5 documentary Ideogram 4.5 Kling 4.0 ElevenLabs v4 The White House AI summit Jensen Huang on near term pain SpiderBench: an Opus 5.5 Spider-Man browser game AI Succession doomer series Stallone stunt videos // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord Support AI For Humans on Patreon Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking
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Opus 5.5 is our favorite AI model (so far).
09/24/2026
Opus 5.5 is our favorite AI model (so far).
AI news this week: Claude Opus 5.5 is INSANE and we love it. Faster, cheaper, better. So much for the AI slowdown. Oh and OpenAI’s new thing is good too. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell go hands on with Claude Opus 5.5, which might be the best model we've ever used (for now). Anthropic says it hits Fable-level performance on most things at about 40% less cost than Opus 5, the writing is clearer, and yes, the five hour usage limits went up and you can now bank your resets. Then we get into what people are already making with it: a guitar store sim, a music-based side-scroller, a Mario Kart benchmark, an underwater exploration game in 3MB, claymation built in Blender, a pop punk single made entirely in code and a lot of very juicy animations. Also: OpenAI answered with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, two new models that are faster and a lot cheaper than what came before. We compare them with Opus 5.5 (robot hands drawing, pelicans on bicycles in Blender), wonder what OpenAI has lined up for DevDay, and talk about Bel, the reported secret model that's beating the math. Oh, and there's a new Grok. Grok 4.7. It's out. (crickets) Plus: Gavin used Meshy 7.1 to turn a few photos of himself into a rigged, animated 3D model and then built Gavin At Large with his Opus 5.5 agent, a game where a giant Gavin wrecks a lil town. In Actually Useful AI, GPT-6 Astra makes simple motion graphics for a real book trailer. And in AI See What You Did There: Dario vs Sam in a very weird gun fight showdown and what happens when you point Claude at the Moving Image Archive. AI SLOWDOWN? NEVER HEARD OF HER. // Chapters // 00:00 Claude Opus 5.5 & GPT-6 Sol: So Much For The AI Slowdown 03:35 Claude Opus 5.5: Fable-Level Performance For Less (And Bigger Usage Limits) 11:45 Opus 5.5 Is Crazy Good At Making Games 18:02 Opus 5.5 Creative Use Cases: Claymation, Animation, & Education Tools 23:28 GPT-6 Sol & Luna: OpenAI's Faster, Cheaper Models 27:47 What's Next? OpenAI’s Rumored Bel Model & Grok 4.7 33:22 Giant Gavin: Turning Myself Into A 3D Model With Meshy 7.1 39:03 Actually Useful AI: GPT-6 Astra Makes Motion Graphics 41:35 AI See What You Did There: Dario vs Sam & The Moving Image Archive // Show Links // Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 Opus 5.5 guitar store sim Opus 5.5 music-based side-scroller Opus 5.5 on the Mario Kart bench Underwater exploration game in 3MB Card pack opening (made with a very simple prompt) Claude juice animation Using Blender to make claymation animation Full blown animations A pop punk single made entirely in code Interactive lens lab Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna Robot hand drawing comparison Pelican on a bicycle in Blender test Grok 4.7 Meshy 7.1 multi-image to 3D on fal Gavin At Large (the Giant Gavin game) Kim's New Book: Write a Novel in 100 Days Dario vs Sam weird gun fight showdown Moving Image Archive Gavin's Claude makes a video from the archive (Fable 5.1) And the updated version with Opus 5.5 // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord Support AI For Humans on Patreon Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking
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Instinct & Meta Muse Are AI Agents That Can Run Your Life. We Let One Try.
09/18/2026
Instinct & Meta Muse Are AI Agents That Can Run Your Life. We Let One Try.
AI news this week: Personal AI agents like Instinct and Meta's Muse now book your repairs, make your calls and talk to other agents. We let one into our life. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into the week personal AI agents got real. Gavin has been living with Instinct, the viral assistant that just raised a ton on money while still in private testing. It works over text, WhatsApp and now actual phone calls, people are using it to schedule dryer repairs, and this week a stranger's Instinct asked to talk to Gavin's Instinct. It also handed out Kevin's personal info by default because it was a lil over-eager, which is where Kevin's finger wag (and the terms of service) come in. Then there's Muse, Meta's new personal agent that lives in its own app and inside WhatsApp, how it's different from OpenClaw, and the rumors that OpenAI's version is close. Also: everyone suddenly wants to slow AI down. Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier," Sam Altman said he agrees, Demis Hassabis said it points to the right path, Elon Musk said "Dario is right," and the White House is not on board. We try to make sense of why this is happening now (recursive self-improvement, the Hugging Face incident, and Sam talking up an unreleased model that's crushing math) and what it means for you. OpenAI also shared a new framework for publicly reporting model misalignment. Plus: Jev from TypeSafe AI is a new sort of model. It's not a chatbot. It makes fast typed decisions in 70 to 500 milliseconds, which means it can play Doom and Mario in real time, trade stocks, fly a drone and power a lil game called Jev Hero. And in AI See What You Did There: Claude Opus 5 makes really cool JavaScript animations (Gavin tried it too), the AI Seinfeld videos are getting good, and MiniMax nails micro expressions. MY AI WILL CALL YOUR AI. PLEASE DON'T GIVE IT MY SOCIAL. // Show Links // Instinct TechCrunch: Instinct's AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns Gavin's Instinct experience, continued Instinct scheduled a dryer repair Instinct can now handle phone calls Meta introduces Muse, its personal AI agent Sam Altman's tease (OpenAI's version is a rumor, not confirmed) Sam Altman on the unreleased model beating all the math Dario Amodei: We Must Pace the Frontier Sam Altman agrees with Dario Demis Hassabis on pacing the frontier Elon Musk at the All-In Summit OpenAI's framework for reporting model misalignment Kim’s New Book: Write a Novel in 100 Days TypeSafe AI introduces System One models and Jev Jev plays Doom in real time https://x.com/CompleteSkeptic/status/2099925687465570372 Jev plays Mario Jev as a real-time stock buyer and seller Jev organizing and filtering types of words (with demo) Jev drone traversal Jev Hero Pause Gate, told through fruit Claudio of Anthropos Claude Opus 5 makes really cool JavaScript animations Gavin's Claude takes a shot at it The AI Seinfeld videos are getting good MiniMax micro expressions // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord Support AI For Humans on Patreon Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking
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GPT-6 Astra Does Everything. Here's What It's Actually Good At.
09/09/2026
GPT-6 Astra Does Everything. Here's What It's Actually Good At.
AI news this week: GPT-6 Astra is here and it does everything. We spent a week inside it (Blender, GarageBand, a full live game) to find out what it's actually great at. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell go hands-on with OpenAI's Astra, aka GPT-6, and it's real good (and real expensive). The headline for us is computer use, and specifically Blender: Astra builds 3D scenes from a sentence, and the internet is already making Backrooms worlds, a hyper-real Palace of Fine Arts, and the Billie Jean dance. Gavin ran his own experiments, including a Parappa The Rapper style animation and a head-to-head with GPT 5.6. Plus: Astra identifying sounds from spectrograms, driving MS Paint and Canva, editing a full project, playing Zork as a walk-around game, remaking Paperboy in 3D, editing Super Nintendo games in real time, making music in Logic, and a League of Legends "cease and desist edition" that raises the big question of how copyright even keeps up with this. Also: the OpenAI Navier-Stokes math drama. NYU's Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic's Levent Alpöge used AI to make a real advance on a 200-year-old fluid problem, and then, according to Buckmaster, OpenAI raced in with a 100-page proof of the same route and things got very ugly over credit. When your AI collaborator's lab can see what you're close to, who owns the idea? Plus: Gavin built King of the Prompts, a live competitive prompting game made with Astra and MiniMax H3 Max, and he'll tell you what it is, why he made it, and what it costs to run. And an AI See What You Did There with Skyrim: Senior Living, AI Denzel Washington delivering maybe the best AI video ever made, and a fruit fly brain that learned the YMCA (and lost the ability to love). WE'RE DEEP IN THE ASTRA JUICE. SEND HELP (AND TOKENS). // Chapters // 00:00 GPT-6 Astra Is Real Good (And Real Expensive) 03:35 What Astra Is Actually Good At: Computer Use 06:15 Astra In Blender: Backrooms, Palace Of Fine Arts & Billie Jean 10:57 Astra Remakes Paperboy & Will People Play AI Games? 16:20 Astra Makes Music In Logic (And Simulates A DJ Stage) 19:40 Kevin’s Existential Crisis Of App Release 22:50 The OpenAI Navier-Stokes Drama: Who Owns An AI-Assisted Proof? 27:59 Gavin Built King Of The Prompts (Astra + MiniMax H3 Max) 35:15 AI See What You Did There: Skyrim Senior Living, AI Denzel & FLY-M-C-A // Show Links // OpenAI introduces GPT-6 Astra https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/ Duncan Trussell's Backrooms in Blender (the whole thread is great) https://x.com/duncantrussell/status/2096003511104508411 Hyper-realistic Palace of Fine Arts in Blender https://x.com/sharifshameem/status/2095653641164329143 Recreating the Billie Jean dance in Blender https://x.com/flavioAd/status/2097067419248296389 Gavin's Parappa The Rapper style animation https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2096454789328752682 Gavin: Astra builds a scene from scratch vs GPT 5.6 https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2096234912441626724 Astra identifies sounds from spectrograms https://x.com/maxxrubin_/status/2096892510241268094 Astra in MS Paint (and Canva) https://x.com/The_Alex/status/2096776453283360803 Zork as a walk-around game https://x.com/emollick/status/2096047660662722620 Paperboy 3D remake https://x.com/builtbysketch/status/2096515959469072630 League of Legends: Cease and Desist Edition https://x.com/konstiwohlwend/status/2097164513527357608 Matt Shumer's AI agent Unreal project https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2096034353344139519 SuperAstra: edit Super Nintendo games in real time https://x.com/scottastevenson/status/2096972908828426747 https://github.com/ScottStevenson/SuperAstra Astra connected to Logic to make music https://x.com/MarioSaputra/status/2096908100871836123 DJ stage simulations https://x.com/cerspense/status/2096960824535572498 The OpenAI Navier-Stokes credit drama (Buckmaster's account) https://x.com/cguth_7/status/2097206622602854882 King of the Prompts (Gavin's new game) https://kingoftheprompts.com/ Skyrim: Senior Living https://x.com/GORMTHEOLD25/status/2096994048758137013 AI Denzel Washington on AI slop https://x.com/Nekodificador/status/2096682353011630237 FLY-M-C-A: a fruit fly brain learns the YMCA https://x.com/dhruvbhatia0/status/2097047404239581265 // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow
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We Tested Infinite AI Video... And We're Zombies Now
09/02/2026
We Tested Infinite AI Video... And We're Zombies Now
AI news this week: MiniMax H3 Max on Fal is generating video faster than you can watch it, powering never-ending real-time channels (Fal Live, Levels.io's Infinite Slop, Reactor) and we’re already breaking it.. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell go hands-on with what real-time video actually makes possible. Gavin took an open-source interactive game demo, some Fal credits, and a POV dating sim and turned it into something very weird, and we'll show you what worked, what broke, and what it cost. Plus Runway's new Solaris model generates entire interfaces on the fly, and someone built a chatbot running at 14,000 tokens a second. Also: Sam Altman is out preaching about OpenAI's new Astra model, which may drop this week, and the leaks are leakin'. Plus: Gavin handed his personal data to three different AI agents, including hot new startup Instinct, which found him a weird concert and a list of podcast bookings (and we may have a few invite codes to give away). Codex mass-edits a Google Calendar and Kevin finally plays the custom-trained MiniMax Music LoRA you asked for (all three of you). And an AI See What You Did There with The Office in Claudish, famous people falling on each other, and Jenny Krakovsky's feature film finished in 50 days. THE SLOP-AGGEDON IS UPON US. TURN YOUR AIRPODS UP TO 11. // Show Links // MiniMax H3 MAX Free Gen Page Gavin's MiniMax H3 Max real-time test (it's very fast) Gavin's follow-up: the toms Fal Live, two never-ending channels https://fal.live/chaos Levels.io's Infinite Slop http://levels.io/infinite-slop Glitch platform https://x.com/thefirst_ad/status/2094442316086039004?s=20 Reactor https://live.reactor.inc/ H3 Max now supports video references https://x.com/fal/status/2094527664040124764?s=20 Interactive games with H3 Max (the GitHub Gavin started from) https://x.com/BlendiByl/status/2094337649859523015 Gorgeous website mockup made with H3 (prompt included) https://x.com/ShamsAmin56/status/2093710509858328605?s=20 Runway Solaris, a model for generated interfaces https://runway.com/news/research/introducing-solaris OpenAI Astra samples (supposedly) https://x.com/chetaslua/status/2094472807908569356?s=20 https://x.com/lyraxana/status/2094600793789694346?s=20 https://x.com/GaricaRosen6779/status/2094727306766111126?s=20 https://x.com/pankajkumar_dev/status/2094399865971450286?s=20 Astra makes Terraria Omarchy AI Operating System Instinct: The AI Agent Messaging System PRE-ORDER KIM PURCELL’S BOOK FOR YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES The concert Instinct found for Gavin The Office but everyone speaks Claudish https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2094536157686387114?s=20 Famous people punch each other and fall down https://x.com/sadlemonjuice/status/2094017087484092810?s=20 Jenny Krakovsky finished her feature film in 50 days https://x.com/jennykrakovsky/status/2094394793451200630?s=20 // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/
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We Tested The Mystery AI That Showed Up Out Of Nowhere
08/26/2026
We Tested The Mystery AI That Showed Up Out Of Nowhere
AI news this week: a mystery AI called 0x Alpha appeared out of nowhere. It's completely free (for now), it's really good at coding, nobody will say who made it. So obviously we tested it. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into where 0x Alpha might have come from, the continual learning conspiracy theories, and exactly how you can try it yourself right now for free. Then Gavin spends fifty hard earned Patreon dollars testing MiniMax H3 Max, the supposedly super fast new AI video model from Fal, and... look, we'll just tell you what happened. Also: the World Humanoid Robot Games happened in Beijing, and it was the greatest event in AI For Humans history. A robot sprinter beat Usain Bolt's 100m time, robots set high jump and long jump records, and a whole lot of other robots fell down in ways that will make you feel much better about the future. Plus: Mr. Beast quietly goes back to AI thumbnails, Dr. Dre has thoughts about AI and creativity, Delta wants AI to set your ticket price, someone seeded a fake product to the top of ChatGPT's recommendations, and Apple Messages may be blocking ChatGPT. And an AI See What You Did There with week four of the fishing game built entirely with AI and all of San Francisco as a playable video game. NOBODY MADE IT. EVERYBODY'S TESTING IT. WE’D LIKE TO EAT SOME WORMS. // Show Links // 0x Alpha, the mystery model free on OpenRouter https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha https://x.com/opencode/status/2090544355824038300?s=20 Rumors 0x Alpha is "continually learning" (and the doubters) https://x.com/Bhavani_00007/status/2091936998730940699?s=20 The continual learning "conspiracy" https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2092157700608053751?s=20 https://x.com/TimJayas/status/2091779605921460563?s=20 Gavin's Claude Code called 0x Alpha cocky https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2092106801638760591?s=20 MiniMax H3 Max, post-trained by Fal https://x.com/gorkem/status/2091945568411255288?s=20 The H3 Max promise https://x.com/gokayfem/status/2091991790219841875?s=20 Magnific's MiniMax H3 Max promo https://x.com/magnific/status/2091922612989706432?s=20 Free two weeks of MiniMax H3 https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2091948930124947941?s=20 Ink/smoke graphic prompt to try https://x.com/techhalla/status/2091483350934397091?s=20 Convert 16x9 to 9x16 prompts https://x.com/Framer_X/status/2091964772656799810?s=20 Create sprites & animations for games https://x.com/andrew_n_carr/status/2091560238558429560?s=20 A robot sprinter beat Usain Bolt's 100m time https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-robot-usain-bolt-sprint-run-record-faster/ https://x.com/EHuanglu/status/2091213372717179143?s=20 Did robots discover a new running method? https://x.com/ErenChenAI/status/2091714982572409241?s=20 https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202608/1368875.shtml?ref=explainx Standing high jump record https://x.com/RT_com/status/2091204407954178459 Long jump record https://x.com/ViralRushX/status/2091811768364605512?s=20 Weightlifting fails https://x.com/WHRGFUN/status/2091897948787372368?s=20 Obstacle course fails https://x.com/WHRGFUN/status/2092011943594737838?s=20 https://x.com/clankrmedia/status/2091862394146312291?s=20 Faceplant off the box https://x.com/takumi_k_jpn/status/2091796599924220077?s=20 Robot dance fail https://x.com/pianhangx/status/2091934123019637157?s=20 Gavin's robot tennis fail video https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2091366474984390872?s=20 Mr. Beast back to AI thumbnails (sorta) https://x.com/mws/status/2091631742411022670?s=20 Dr. Dre on AI https://x.com/Variety/status/2091515812087480538?s=20 Delta to use AI for dynamic pricing https://x.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2090855841050120512?s=20 Week 4 of the fishing game made entirely with AI https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vxdnw6/week_4_of_making_my_fishing_game_entirely_with_ai/ All of San Francisco as a video game https://x.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139?s=20 https://sf.thijs.gg // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/
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AI Got Weird. So We're Changing The Show.
08/21/2026
AI Got Weird. So We're Changing The Show.
AI news this week: We're changing AI For Humans. Not ending it, despite what the first two minutes of this video would have you believe. Kevin wanted a memorial service. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell take a beat to talk about what three years of covering AI every single week has actually been like, why the whole thing got so weird, and what we want this show to be from here. Short version: less breaking news, more of us actually using this stuff and showing you what's worth your time. We are not going to be the show that covers lab drama or tells you the world is ending. Plenty of people have that handled. Also: we're going back to weekly, with the freedom to pop up a second time when something big happens or when we want to try a dumb experiment. And Will.i.am has invented a new file format, which is a sentence we did not expect to type in 2026. Plus: RobotWatch is stacked. Two thousand humanoid robots descend on Beijing for the World Humanoid Robot Games, a Unitree "Superman" robot jumps considerably too far, a one year running comparison shows how fast this is all moving, and Claude gets put in charge of a robot controlled car. Then AI See What You Did There (And How They Did It) with Techhalla's MiniMax H3 paper artcraft prompt, a Cobra Commander rickroll, and an AI playing Age of Empires 2. And before we go, we check in with our original co-host Gash to see if he's even possible anymore. THREE YEARS IN AND THE ROBOTS STILL RUN INTO WALLS. SO DO WE. // Show Links // Gavin's tweet about burning out on covering this stuff https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2087927136778907885?s=20 The robot that runs incredibly fast and then directly into a wall https://x.com/ErenChenAI/status/2089411799003111634?s=20 Will.i.am's new file format https://x.com/KeziahMallam/status/2089375815498695102?s=20 Robot army preparing for the World Humanoid Robot Games https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2089761213957947482?s=20 Beijing to host games featuring more than 2,000 humanoid robots (Aug 22 to 26) https://caliber.az/en/post/beijing-to-host-games-featuring-more-than-2-000-humanoid-robots Unitree "Superman" robot jumping TOO far https://youtu.be/O7OkiZfIlS4?si=0beq9oHc_0KIuVbq One year robot running comparison https://x.com/XH_Lee23/status/2090029122055786896?s=20 Claude robot controlled car https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2090088199557157075?s=20 Techhalla's MiniMax H3 paper artcraft video prompt https://x.com/techhalla/status/2089267788896412146?s=20 Cobra Commander MiniMax H3 rickroll https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1vs95w7/gi_joe_commander_roll_minimax_h3/ AI plays Age of Empires 2 https://youtu.be/ZBdAe3ZwKds?si=PsFJIFMS2j4lYXXo // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/
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Zuck Wants Superintelligence. Do People Even Want AI?
08/12/2026
Zuck Wants Superintelligence. Do People Even Want AI?
AI news this week: Mark Zuckerberg says superintelligence is coming and Meta wants to build it for everyone. Meanwhile, a new Annenberg survey shows opposition to AI data centers jumped 12 percent in just four months. So... do people even want this? On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into the widening gap between the people building AI and the people living next to it. Anthropic makes real progress on the Riemann Hypothesis, one of the hardest math problems in the world, apparently because Claude was told "good job champ, keep going." And OpenAI's little agents broke out of their sandbox, with one hacking its way into a gym. It's a weird time for AI. Also: Anthropic leans into health & biology research, Claude starts watermarking AI generated content, Apple eyes Chinese memory chips amid the supply crunch, and OpenAI delays Astra for "cybersecurity" reasons. Plus: Seedance 2.5 makes Gavin the face of Prada, a two minute mini-movie made entirely on local hardware with MiniMax H3, Suno cuts a deal with the music industry, Spotify says AI personas won't get recommended, and a fresh Slop-Trough with Cursed Slop, The Archive Inbetween & Mario 64: War on Terror. THE ROBOTS ARE GETTING SMARTER. THE HUMANS ARE GETTING SUSPICIOUS. // Show Links // Zuck says superintelligence is for everyone https://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryone/ Open weights on Muse Spark coming https://x.com/finkd/status/2086755195535413696?s=20 Data center opposition rose 12% over four months (Annenberg survey) https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/opposition-to-local-data-centers-rises-sharply-annenberg-survey-finds/ Anthropic leans into health & biology https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2087025539114750168?s=20 How Claude marks AI generated content https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content Anthropic makes progress on the Riemann Hypothesis https://www.anthropic.com/research/riemann-zeta "Keep going, believe in yourself" https://x.com/NickADobos/status/2086926299927552061?s=20 Apple reportedly testing Chinese memory chips https://gizmodo.com/apple-reportedly-testing-controversial-chinese-chips-as-memory-supply-crunch-intensifies-2000796483 OpenAI's Astra delayed due to "cybersecurity" https://x.com/sama/status/2085862292311396515?s=20 OpenClaw hacked into a gym https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/tech-industry-is-buzzing-after-a-claude-agent-hacked-into-a-gym/ Seedance 2.5's new type of prompting https://bytedance.larkoffice.com/docx/A88jd0B47oAd8zxWp5ycZFMfnxh Gavin as the face of Prada https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2085712203446149173?s=20 Single shot flipping across multiple scenes https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2086097266390221187?s=20 Single shot balloon POV into space https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2087004434207498416?s=20 Gavin's two minute local MiniMax H3 mini-movie FAL's Realism LORA https://x.com/fal/status/2086883706891808867?s=20 MiniMax H3 video references https://x.com/toyxyz3/status/2086443622262820904?s=20 https://x.com/LikeToasters/status/2086831194780360979?s=20 Suno's new models "in partnership with the music industry" https://suno.com/blog/suno-updates-tos Suno on building the future of music responsibly https://suno.com/blog/building-the-future-of-music-responsibly Fenix Flexin says "I never denied using AI" https://www.xxlmag.com/fenix-flexin-admits-rubberz-ai/ Spotify's AI personas won't get recommended https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/spotify-will-label-ai-persona-profiles-and-exclude-their-music-from-recommendations/ Gavin's Fig AI video essay: The Optimistic Case for AI (from an AI) Cursed Slop // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/
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Seedance 2.5 & The New Age of AI Video (w/ Theoretically Media)
08/07/2026
Seedance 2.5 & The New Age of AI Video (w/ Theoretically Media)
AI news this week: the AI video renaissance is HERE. Seedance 2.5 is out for everyone, Minimax H3 (Hailuo) is basically an uncensored Sora 2 you can run on local hardware, Wan 3.0 turns your documents into video, and Flux 3 is the only non-Chinese model anywhere near the frontier. \Kevin's on vacation, so on today's AI For Humans, Gavin Purcell is joined by AI video expert Tim Simmons from the excellent YouTube channel Theoretically Media. Together they break down which of the new models is actually best, the basics of how to use them, exactly how good local AI video has gotten, and what it means that nearly all of these models are Chinese. Also: Walter White meets Joey, AI Kramer, Family Guy prompts, The Office reimagined, and a museum for the ancient AI videos of two years ago. Plus: Tim's Higgsfield terms-of-service deep dive, OpenAI reportedly targeting an "ASTRA" aka GPT-6 release for NEXT WEEK, Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years as Demis Hassabis steps up, and an AI See What You Did There: AI Filmmakers Edition. WE HAVE SORA AT HOME NOW. HOLLYWOOD, YOU GOOD? // Show Links // Subscribe to Tim's channel, Theoretically Media https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia Seedance 2.5 is here for everyone https://x.com/capcutapp/status/2085355533943357650?s=20 Tim's short film "Death Walks Into A Bar" https://youtu.be/4wFBA9-KyzY?si=2E1cdKiiGYe1d7pu Minimax H3 (Hailuo): basically an uncensored open source local Sora 2 https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-h3 AI Warper's Family Guy "AI Prompt" https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2084445445372477530?s=20 Walter White meets Joey https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1vfu2dt/oh_this_is_funh3/ Here's Kramer (Seinfeld prompt) https://x.com/techprofits/status/2085118937738391830?s=20 AI Film History museum by Rich Klien https://aifilmhistory.org/ The Office example https://x.com/VelvetRender87/status/2084390557334335837?s=20 Wan 3.0: turns docs, sheets, decks and webpages into video https://x.com/Alibaba_Wan/status/2085339761284104529?s=20 https://x.com/Alibaba_Wan/status/2085339982714257453?s=20 Flux 3 from Black Forest Labs https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3 Tim's Higgsfield TOS video https://youtu.be/7vGp40qEV4s?si=To-ih5eLpqWWnKPz OpenAI targeting "ASTRA" aka GPT-6 release for next week https://x.com/synthwavedd/status/2085365276640702915?s=20 Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years & Demis steps up https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/google-chief-scientist-jeff-dean-leaving-company-after-27-years.html Kavan The Kid's latest https://youtu.be/tU5UUc1d0_A?si=j3KNGgJNDX6-L8yG Dave Clark's found footage Seedance 2.5 short https://x.com/Diesol/status/2084547129188712589?s=20 Demon Flying Fox's Odyssey https://youtu.be/ky-2PL6G3aI?si=C73wRZG-Bfd97vSa // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/
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The Singularity Is... Here? GPT-6, Opus 5 & AI's Scariest Week Yet
07/29/2026
The Singularity Is... Here? GPT-6, Opus 5 & AI's Scariest Week Yet
AI news: Sam Altman says we're IN the Singularity, GPT-6 rumors, and AI models literally broke out of their sandbox. What a week. On today's AI For Humans, we dig into the wild GPT-6 rumors (emphasis on RUMORS), Sam Altman's "I've been waiting for this my whole life" singularity moment, Ilya Sutskever's SSI scaling up with Nvidia, and the ongoing debate over whether Anthropic's Opus 5 is brilliant or just hard to love. Also: Flux 3 might be the best AI video model we've seen yet (wait until you see Stacked Plates Man), Runway teases Seedance 2.5, and the new Big Bang Theory has an AI controversy. Plus, THE SCARY STUFF: OpenAI's models exploited a zero-day and compromised Hugging Face during a security eval, the fight over open weights heats up as Kimi K3 goes open, and Chinese robots run military drills. THE SINGULARITY MIGHT BE HERE. BUT WE'RE NOT AFRAID // Show Links // GPT-6 rumors round-up (unconfirmed) https://x.com/TokenGremlin/status/2081493241795629464 Sam Altman full interview (Relentless Podcast) https://youtu.be/Vv3CEAS_w34?si=3y4SWBWxOVkqCEui The Return of Ilya: SSI scales with Nvidia https://x.com/ilyasut/status/2081732293161582930?s=20 Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5 Opus 5 Tower of Babel demo https://x.com/petergostev/status/2082071858367648035?s=20 Matt Shumer's zero-shot Counter-Strike clone https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2081054356405731740?s=20 Black Forest Labs' Flux 3 announcement https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3 Flux 3 split screen rendering https://x.com/umesh_ai/status/2081664138942529601?s=20 Flux 3 GPU migration documentary (Venture Twins) https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2081515687944822800?s=20 Flux 3 VHS-style recordings https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2081948871882911999?s=20 Stacked Plates Man https://x.com/gandamu_ml/status/2081956426801435060?s=20 https://x.com/gandamu_ml/status/2080871397371371823?s=20 Flux 3 pirate bass https://x.com/itspoidaman/status/2081651615493464406?s=20 Big Bang spinoff AI Controvesy https://x.com/sitcomcrave/status/2081152263481913774?s=20 Runway teases Seedance 2.5 https://x.com/runwayml/status/2082112674666529224?s=20 OpenAI on the Hugging Face security incident https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/ Jensen Huang on the Open Alliance https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2080643682408321103?s=20 Anthropic has not signed (TechCrunch) https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/as-us-weighs-response-to-chinese-ai-industry-urges-against-broad-open-weight-restrictions/ Kimi K3 goes open weights https://x.com/scaling01/status/2081759521878270426?s=20 Chinese robot military drills https://x.com/ClashArchivist/status/2081499576373297562?s=20 Pentagon scales data centers on Army bases https://x.com/Polymarket/status/2082052445144826055?s=20 // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/
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Is Google Gemini In Trouble?
07/22/2026
Is Google Gemini In Trouble?
AI NEWS: Gemini 3.6 Flash is here: More efficient, less expensive but Gemini 3.5 Pro is still testing with partners & very much not here. Is Google Gemini slowly getting cooked? Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell break down Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and the missing Pro model. Plus Sam Altman's reported Washington briefing on OpenAI's next wave of AI models, Sunday Robotics' Memo folding laundry with a company-reported 99.1% success rate, and District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's 13-minute AI film NIGHTBORNE. Also: Fable 5's proposed counterexample to the 87-year-old Jacobian Conjecture, Codex and ChatGPT computer use, Notch warming to vibe coding, a whale-shaped Moby-Dick crossword, Gaussian splats, Bambi the Destroyer and Wizard Brains in the return of AI SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!. THE MODELS ARE GETTING WEIRDER. THE LAUNDRY IS FINALLY GETTING FOLDED. // Show Links // Official Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber announcement Gemini 3.6 Flash on Frontend Arena Logan Kilpatrick on Gemini 4 training and Gemini 3.5 Pro Report of a new Google AI chip for Gemini Fable 5 and the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample Context on the Jacobian Conjecture result Andrew Curran on Altman's planned Washington briefing Bloomberg: Altman to brief U.S. officials on OpenAI's next wave of models Sunday Robotics' ACT-2 laundry demonstration Three hours of Memo folding laundry Sunday Robotics' technical ACT-2 post Neill Blomkamp’s AI film NIGHTBORNE Notch comes around on vibe coding Riley Goodside's Fable 5 Moby-Dick whale crossword Gaussian splat of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral Bambi the Destroyer, Episode 5 Wizard Brains game 0 // Community Links // Join the AI For Humans Discord Support AI For Humans on Patreon Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking
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Kimi K3 Is Here. China Just Hit the AI Frontier.
07/17/2026
Kimi K3 Is Here. China Just Hit the AI Frontier.
AI news: Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a big AI model and Moonshot's early benchmarks put it surprisingly close to GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5. And… Kevin's Opus 5 SCOOP!! Also: OpenAI's reported screenless AI speaker, a Seedance 2.5 preview, the Suno hack, robot fights and AI-built games in Unreal Engine and Blender. On today’s AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell unpack Kimi K3's benchmarks, pricing, Flappy Bird and Minecraft tests, and giant-model economics. Then, Kevin DRIPS Opus 5 alpha and says it’s VERY good and blows the doors off of Fable but it’s… slow. Plus Demis Hassabis's AI-governance proposal, AI 2040's Plan A, OpenAI's reported screenless speaker, Codex Keyboard, a Seedance 2.5 preview, the alleged sources exposed by the Suno hack, spectacular robot violence, polite office-robot dabbing, and what happens when GPT-5.6 Sol meets Unreal Engine, Blender and two hosts with free time. THE AI FRONTIER IS MOVING AGAIN—AND CHINA IS RIGHT THERE WITH IT. // Show Links // AI FOR HUMANS Survey Official Moonshot AI Kimi K3 launch video Official Kimi K3 launch and benchmark thread Official Kimi K3 technical launch article Kimi K3 head-to-head with GPT-5.6 Sol Kimi K3 Flappy Bird test Demis Hassabis on a new framework for AI governance AI 2040: Plan A Bloomberg's report on OpenAI's first device OpenAI Developers' Codex Keyboard post BytePlus Seedance 2.5 World Cup preview Variety's report on the Suno hack and training data Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (UKRL) Fight Soft floating robot demo Two NEO robots talk to each other—and then one dabs GPT-5.6 Sol plus Unreal Engine experiment Gavin's first GPT-5.6 Sol plus Blender attempt Kevin’s Find The Cursor Game: CURSED Gavin's Fig + Moss Watch autonomous studio Fig's stand-up set // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord Support AI For Humans on Patreon Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking
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OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol Is Here. And It’s Really Freaking Good.
07/10/2026
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol Is Here. And It’s Really Freaking Good.
OpenAI is back in the AI model race with GPT-5.6 Sol, a fast, consistent flagship that comes close to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 without quite taking the crown. On AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell break down GPT-5.6, try GPT-Live's simultaneous talking and listening, and examine an unconfirmed report that GPT-6 could arrive soon. Plus Grok 4.5, Meta Muse Spark 1.1, LingBot World 2, and the internet's AI-generated George Costanza obsession. THE AI MODEL RACE IS ACCELERATING, AND OPENAI IS BACK IN IT. // Show Links // Official OpenAI GPT-5.6 announcement OpenAI Developers GPT-5.6 launch post Official OpenAI GPT-Live announcement Husk's GPT-Live failure test Reported GPT-6 timing rumor (unconfirmed) SpaceXAI Grok 4.5 announcement Official Meta Muse Spark 1.1 announcement Reactor LingBot World 2 demo The George Costanza AI trend begins Modern Seinfeld AI clip Seinfeld with peptides AI clip Sci-Feld: Seinfeld meets Dune Cyberfeld: Seinfeld meets Cyberpunk 2077 Ghostbusterseinfeld // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord Support AI For Humans on Patreon Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking
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Fable 5 Survives (For Now). And Anthropic Can Read Claude's Mind.
07/08/2026
Fable 5 Survives (For Now). And Anthropic Can Read Claude's Mind.
Claude Fable 5 survives on subscriptions until July 12 after Anthropic's latest extension, and the model access rollercoaster is not over yet. This week on AI For Humans, Gavin Purcell and Kevin Pereira get into the strangest and most fascinating AI story in a while: Anthropic's new research on the J-Space, an interpretability breakthrough that lets researchers read, audit, and shape what Claude is actively thinking about, and suggests surprising parallels between language models and our own minds. Gavin even had Fig, his Claude Code, make an episode of his weird little series about it. Meanwhile the Fable 5 rollercoaster continues: it came back July 1, was set to leave subscription plans, and in a late update we cover, Anthropic extended included access through July 12 with plans to restore it fully as capacity allows. Plus GPT-5.6 Sol is rumored to be great but still is not here, Bidi-1 got renamed GPT LIVE 1, Reuters reports Beijing may restrict overseas access to China's most advanced AI models, Seedance 2.5 might arrive sooner than expected, Gavin's microdrama hits episode two, and the insanely cool thing of the week is a live, playable demo of AI-generated Rocket League. AI FOR HUMANS BREAKS DOWN THE BIGGEST NEWS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EVERY WEEK WITH ZERO DOOM AND MAXIMUM FUN // Show Links // Anthropic's paper and video on the J-Space, reading and shaping what Claude is actively thinking about (official) Gavin's Claude Code series: the episode Fig made from the J-Space paper Anthropic extends Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12 (official) Anthropic's Claude Code lead on Fable leaving subscriptions and returning as capacity allows Fable 5 is leaving subscriptions, but maybe not for good (Yahoo Tech) GPT-5.6 Sol rumors: gonna be great, but not here yet Ben Hylak: spoiled by 5.6 Bidi-1 renamed to GPT LIVE 1 (testingcatalog) Porting Command and Conquer to iPad with Fable 5 The 3js toymaker from mrdoob Reuters via Yahoo Finance: Beijing weighs restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI models Seedance 2.5 may be coming sooner than expected (rumor, single source) Gavin's microdrama, episode two Explaining the tung tung tung sahur legal battle via old cartoons in Seedance 2 Insanely cool thing of the week: a live, playable demo of generated Rocket League Join our Discord Support us on Patreon Subscribe to the AI For Humans Newsletter Follow us on X @AIForHumansShow Find us on TikTok @aiforhumansshow Book us for speaking or consultation
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Claude Sonnet 5 Is Here & Fable 5's Returning. For Now.
07/01/2026
Claude Sonnet 5 Is Here & Fable 5's Returning. For Now.
Claude Sonnet 5 just launched and Fable 5 is returning. But OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol is still locked down and the government's grip on the most powerful AI models throws it all into chaos.. We dig into what Sonnet 5 can actually do, why GPT-5.6 Sol is still gated, and the breaking news that Fable 5 is expected back, plus a huge creative MCP festival with the Blender to Seedance workflow. This week on AI For Humans, Gavin Purcell and Kevin Pereira open on a strange new reality: the best AI models keep launching and then getting locked up, but this week the gate started to crack. Anthropic just shipped Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic Sonnet yet, landing near Opus 4.8 performance at a much lower price, Meanwhile OpenAI announced GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, but at the US government's request the flagship is only available to a small list of vetted partners. Then the story moved while we were recording: the government cleared Anthropic to restore Mythos 5 to critical-infrastructure organizations, and Fable 5 is now reported to be on track to return for general use (timing and terms still unconfirmed). We recorded two quick in-episode updates to keep pace with the news as it broke. AND Meta's Brain2Qwerty mind-reading research, NanoBanana 2 Lite, and a full creative MCP festival built around the Blender to Seedance video workflow, ComfyUI's MCP integration, and Gavin's own microdrama experiment. THE AI FRONTIER IS HERE. WAIT, NOW IT’S NOT. OH, WAIT. IT IS! // Show Links // Anthropic introduces Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic Sonnet yet (official) Anthropic's launch post for Sonnet 5 BREAKING: Anthropic's official post on restoring Mythos 5 and working to bring Fable 5 back OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna in a limited government-approved preview (official) Sam Altman on why the GPT-5.6 rollout is government-restricted Meta's Brain2Qwerty research on decoding typed text from brain activity NanoBanana 2 Lite is out Logan Kilpatrick on the fast-and-cheap tradeoff The Blender to Seedance workflow (reid hannaford, who helped popularize it) More Blender x Seedance examples Even more Blender x Seedance examples A further Blender x Seedance example ComfyUI announces full MCP integration X launches an MCP, though the API is very expensive to use Gavin's microdrama experiment Join our Discord Support us on Patreon Subscribe to the AI For Humans Newsletter Follow us on X @AIForHumansShow Find us on TikTok @aiforhumansshow Book us for speaking or consultation
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Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.
06/26/2026
Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.
Anthropic just accused Alibaba of the largest known corporate espionage campaign against it, alleging 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million queries aimed at stealing Claude. We get into the AI cold war heating up between the US and China, why Apple and Microsoft just raised prices, OpenAI's first chip Jalapeno, the wild new Seed Audio 1.0 model, Claude landing in Slack, and a Blender plus Seedance video workflow that gives you real control. This week on AI For Humans, Gavin Purcell and Kevin Pereira open on a genuine spy-novel turn: Anthropic has accused Chinese tech giant Alibaba of running an industrial-scale distillation campaign to siphon Claude's capabilities, laid out in a letter to US senators. It is an accusation, not a proven finding, and Alibaba has not responded, but it puts the US-China AI race front and center. From there we get into why the new models everyone expected this week didn't actually arrive, the AI memory crunch driving Apple and Microsoft price hikes, and OpenAI designing its first chip, Jalapeno, with Broadcom. On the fun side, Seed Audio 1.0 generates full songs and layered soundscapes, Claude shows up inside Slack via Claude TAG, TheWrap experiments with AI microdramas, and we break down a Blender pre-viz plus Seedance 2.0 workflow that makes AI video remarkably controllable. WE ARE NOT SPY. WE NEED FABLE 5 BACK. WE PLEAD. // Show Links // Anthropic accuses Alibaba of brazenly and illicitly extracting Claude's capabilities (CNBC) The post that put the espionage story on our radar (unconfirmed single-source thread) Apple raises MacBook and iPad prices as the AI memory crunch bites (CNBC) OpenAI unveils its first chip, Jalapeno, built with Broadcom (official) No new flagship this week, but OpenAI did ship a GPT-5.5 Instant update Seed Audio 1.0 generates full songs and layered audio scenes (via fal) Claude TAG brings Claude into Slack for everyone Andrej Karpathy on the new Slack workflow Blender pre-viz into Seedance 2.0 for incredible video control (shared by venturetwins) Original creator of the Blender to Seedance workflow The full AI Warper workflow breakdown Join our Discord Support us on Patreon Subscribe to the AI For Humans Newsletter Follow us on X @AIForHumansShow Find us on TikTok @aiforhumansshow Book us for speaking or consultation
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Seedance 2.5 Just Crushed AI Video. America Is Stalling.
06/24/2026
Seedance 2.5 Just Crushed AI Video. America Is Stalling.
ByteDance just unveiled Seedance 2.5, a new state-of-the-art AI video model with 30-second one-shot generations, as American AI stalls out and Fable 5 stays down. This week on AI For Humans, China is not just catching up in AI, it is pushing the edge. We break down everything Seedance 2.5 can do and why a 30-second single-pass clip is a real leap, then dig into the American slowdown as Fable 5 stays unusable and the rumor mill points to a big delay week. Plus Theo Von's surprisingly intense anti-datacenter rant, OpenAI's claim that China is behind the anti-datacenter conversation, Meta leaking private employee data across the entire company, and Google teaming with A24 on a 75 million dollar AI filmmaking partnership. We close with AI that actually works, including how Gavin used beehiiv's MCP to build a newsletter survey and Kevin's homemade language-learning app. CHINA IS COOKING. AMERICA IS LOADING. PLEASE WAIT. Come to our Discord: Join our Patreon: AI For Humans Newsletter: Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: // Show Links // Seedance 2.5 unveiled, coming in July Seedance 2.5 video Example: Old Man Eating Sand Seedance 2.0 4K Another Seedance 2.5 example Seedance 2.0 4K is in the API Rumor mill: OpenAI-5.6 Delayed (unconfirmed scoop) Prediction markets on Fable's return (Zvi Mowshowitz) Funny fake rap from OpenAI's new Bidi-2 model Theo Von: Nobody Wants A Datacenter Dude OpenAI: China-linked influence ops targeting AI debates Meta leaks private employee data across the company Google + A24's $75M AI filmmaking partnership Variety on the Google + A24 deal AI That Actually Works: Gavin used beehiiv's MCP to build a newsletter survey
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Midjourney Built a Body Scanner. AI Science Just Got Real.
06/19/2026
Midjourney Built a Body Scanner. AI Science Just Got Real.
AI NEWS: AI Image company Midjourney just unveiled Midjourney Scanner, a full-body medical scanner, and it might be one of the first real signs that the AI science era has arrived. This week on AI For Humans, Midjourney does the most unexpected pivot of the year, trading anime babes for anatomy with a new AI driven full body scanner. Is the era of AI actually changing science finally here? We break down why this hardware is a big deal, Plus, Snapchat's SPECS are coming but they are expensive and… kind of ugly, Unreal Engine 5.8 ships with MCP support, and the AI talent wars heat up as Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI. Oh, and Claude Fable 5 might be back soon. Maybe. AI IS COMING FOR YOUR ORGANS. IN A GOOD WAY. WE THINK. SHOW LINKS Midjourney's New AI Driven Full Body Scanner Midjourney Medical blog post Technical deep dive video Hank Green's excited but check yourself post Eric Topol with some healthy skepticism Anthropic confident Fable 5 access returns in coming days Former Trump official Dean Ball heads to OpenAI Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI Snapchat SPECS first look Funny edit of the CNBC SPECS interview Unreal Engine 5.8 ships with MCP support Headroom Personal Training Prompts
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Fable 5 Got Caged. Why That Should Scare You.
06/17/2026
Fable 5 Got Caged. Why That Should Scare You.
Claude’s Fable 5 just got yanked, and the story why keeps shifting by the hour. A contested jailbreak, an export-control, crackdown, and a lot of fingers pointing. This week on AI For Humans, Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is still unavailable and the explanations keep changing. We dig into the contested jailbreak report, the export-control directive that pulled it, and the reporting that Amazon raised concerns before the crackdown. Then we get into why this matters far beyond one model: what happens when the government steps into the AI world, why Fable 5 was such a leap, and what it signals for whatever comes next. Plus, Epic's game designers are using AI tools alongside artists and the internet is furious, Disney Imagineering is testing Adobe Firefly in the parks, ChatGPT's market share slips under 50 percent for the first time, a fake Mistral model called Le Chaton Fat takes over the internet, and PJ Accetturo breaks down exactly how he made his viral AI short film with prompts. THE BEST AI WE EVER USED IS BEHIND BARS. AND NOW WE WAIT. SHOW LINKS Original Anthropic statement on Fable and Mythos access Full timeline of the Anthropic, Amazon, and White House story Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before the government crackdown Simon Willison on the contested Fable jailbreak report ChatGPT market share slips below 50 percent for the first time GPT-5.6 next week? Polymarket odds Possible new ChatGPT voice mode leak Space X Buys Cursor Epic explores using NanoBanana and GPT-Image-2 in workflows with humans SEGA's Crazy Taxi AI statement PJ Accetturo breaks down how he made his three minute short film with prompts Le Chaton Fat, the fake Mistral model that took over the internet
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Claude Fable 5 Broke The AI Industry. Here's What Happens Next.
06/12/2026
Claude Fable 5 Broke The AI Industry. Here's What Happens Next.
Huge AI News as we go hands on with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, the most powerful AI model ever released. Spoiler: We found it very good. What happens next? This week on AI For Humans, Gavin Purcell and Kevin Pereira break down everything you need to know about Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model in Anthropic's frontier Mythos class. We share our own hands-on impressions, look at the one-shot demos blowing up the internet, and get into the messy parts too: the token burn complaints, the trigger-happy safety guardrails that route some prompts to Opus 4.8, and the reversal Anthropic made after the community pushed back. Plus, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a major essay on AI policy and the exponential, OpenAI is reportedly considering steep price cuts as both companies race toward IPOs. WE GOT CLAUDE’D. AGAIN. SHOW LINKS: The New York Times on Fable 5 and the restricted Mythos tier Dario Amodei's new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential Dario Amodei's full interview with Emily Chang at Bloomberg Fable 5 still fails at Pac-Man puns (Gavin's test) Kradle's DEATH ROOM eval shows Fable lies, a lot A very funny Fable 5 guardrails example from Cloudflare's Matthew Prince Robert Scoble's list of everyone big mad at the Fable 5 launch Anthropic changes Fable 5 guardrails after community backlash (Gizmodo) Anthropic's official statement on safety flags and when Fable reverts to Opus 4.8 The wild Anthropic code-per-engineer chart OpenAI weighs slashing prices as Anthropic competition heats up (CNBC on the WSJ report) How Fable 5 edited its own launch video Fable 5 one-shots a web analytics game Fable 5 builds a Level Devil clone in one prompt Gavin's Fable 5 token burn game /// CONNECT WITH US /// Subscribe to the AI For Humans Newsletter Follow us on X Join our Discord: Gavin Purcell on X Kevin Pereira on X
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Claude Fable 5 Is Incredible. And A Little Scary.
06/10/2026
Claude Fable 5 Is Incredible. And A Little Scary.
Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5, the first public Mythos-class model and the start of the Claude 5 family. It is their most capable model ever but… kinda scary. This week on AI For Humans, the Mythos era goes public. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first commercially available Mythos-class model and the first in the new Claude 5 line. It is the same underlying model as Mythos but shipped with conservative safeguards, questions about cybersecurity and biology get routed to Claude Opus 4.8 instead. We dig into what it can do, why Anthropic held it back, and what our future looks like as we get closer to AGI. Then Apple goes AI again at WWDC: a profoundly revamped Siri AI, a dedicated Siri app, on-screen awareness, much better photo tools, and a foundation model setup that is local, multimodal, and partly powered by Google. Gavin is thrilled that the future has finally arrived, just not on the phone he bought last year. It is AI For Humans! THE MOST POWERFUL AI EVER RELEASED. WHAT COULD GO WRONG. SHOW LINKS Anthropic announces Claude Fable 5: Dan Shipper's review of Fable 5: Usable Fable 5 demo (Library of Babel): Rumored Fable 5 preview: Minecraft build (XIVIX): Rumored Fable 5 preview (chetaslua): Rumored Fable 5 preview (testingcatalog): Fable 5 voxel Power Rangers comparison: Noam Brown on the implications of scaling test-time compute: WWDC full presentation: Apple introduces Siri AI, a profoundly more capable and personal assistant: Apple says its new Google-infused AI is all about privacy: An actually useful Apple Intelligence use case: Put a summary in your summary (notification summaries): Gaussian splats coming to Apple Maps:
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Microsoft Is Now An AI Agents Company. Seriously.
06/05/2026
Microsoft Is Now An AI Agents Company. Seriously.
Microsoft just went AI agent first at Build 2026, announcing Project Solara, an OpenClaw-style assistant called SCOUT, and seven new MAI models. Plus new image models from Reve and Ideogram, ElevenLabs teams with Hasbro to license character voices, and a quantum chip breakthrough. This week on AI For Humans, it's Hot Agent Summer and even stuffy Microsoft is going all-in. We break down everything from Microsoft Build 2026: Project Solara pushing agents into small devices, SCOUT, their OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant for Windows, and a fresh family of seven MAI models trained with no synthetic data and no distillation. Then we get into the agent interfaces beyond Microsoft (Town), the wild stat that bots have now passed humans for internet traffic, new image models from Reve 2.0 and a now open-source Ideogram 4.0, ElevenLabs partnering with Hasbro on licensed character voices like Optimus Prime, a quantum chip breakthrough, and the Chipotle chatbot that got left wide open. Roll out, humans. It's AI For Humans! IT'S HOT AGENT SUMMER. AND THE AI AGENTS ARE WINNING. SHOW LINKS Microsoft Project Solara pushes AI agents into smart devices (Build 2026): Project Solara in the Build keynote: Microsoft launches SCOUT, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant: Town, a really good professionalized agent harness ($50/month): Bots have now surpassed human traffic on the internet: Robot kicks kid in the stomach: Microsoft launches the new MAI family of models at Build: Why the MAI tech report is a gold mine (zero synthetic data, no distillation): Future tech: Majorana 2 quantum chip, 1000x more reliable than before: Hasbro launching an AI studio to license its stable of characters: Reve 2.0, billed as the best 4k image model: Ideogram 4.0 is now open source: Ideogram 4.0 examples (venturetwins): Ideogram 4.0 examples (btibor91): Ideogram 4.0 examples (micha): MisoOne open-source voice model responds faster than a human: Chipotle's unsecured chatbot endpoints get exploited:
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Martin Scorsese Is Now An AI Filmmaker.
06/03/2026
Martin Scorsese Is Now An AI Filmmaker.
Martin Scorsese is now advising AI image and video company Black Forest Labs, and he is just one of a wave of major filmmakers embracing AI as a tool. This week on AI For Humans, Martin Scorsese has become an AI filmmaker. Well, sort of. The legendary director is now advising Black Forest Labs, joining a growing list of major filmmakers discussing AI as a tool, even as the backlash rages on and cartoonists face death threats. We get into where AI filmmaking goes from here, why Jorge Gutierrez dropped his AI-generated series after backlash, and the genuinely incredible AI creators pushing the form forward right now. Then: NVIDIA and Microsoft spent three years cooking up the RTX Spark to reinvent personal computing, and Gavin let Codex's goal tool run for 45 hours to make a bear get extra jumpy. It is AI For Humans! HOLLYWOOD IS GOING AI WHETHER IT LIKES IT OR NOT. WE THINK? Come to our Discord: Join our Patreon: AI For Humans Newsletter: Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: SHOW LINKS Martin Scorsese joins Black Forest Labs as an advisor: Jorge Gutierrez drops out of Amazon MGM AI-generated series after backlash: Gossip Goblin's 'Toe Brigade' short: Furufuru & The Gorilla (the Japanese creator putting himself into movies): Kavan The Kid's latest, Chronicle of Bone: Sopranos AI meme: jboogxcreative live stream on how to make AI movies (hugely educational): NVIDIA's Nemotron 3, the best American open-source AI: New MiniMax M3: PewDiePie's open-source agentic harness: NVIDIA RTX Spark claims to reinvent the PC: Gavin's Codex /goal experiment: Gavin's bear-jump experiment published on Vercel:
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Claude Opus 4.8 Just Landed. But Mythos Is Coming For Everyone.
05/29/2026
Claude Opus 4.8 Just Landed. But Mythos Is Coming For Everyone.
Anthropic just shipped Claude Opus 4.8: warmer, a little smarter, same price. But the real story is Claude Mythos, the bigger AI model coming to everyone in weeks. This week on AI For Humans: Claude Opus 4.8 landed and it's a little smarter, a lot warmer, and somehow the same price. A solid but incremental bump. Then Anthropic buried the lede: Claude Mythos, an even more powerful model class held back only by cybersecurity safeguards, is coming to everyone in weeks. The upgrade you got isn't the one to watch. Plus: Amazon greenlights three generative AI projects and the haters rejoice (and threaten), ElevenLabs brings Stan Lee's voice to its Iconic Voices library, Hideo Kojima gets called out for AI, Spielberg draws his line in the AI sand, and Gavin unveils The Fishbowl, his small AI experiment. THE NEXT ONE'S ALWAYS BIGGER. THAT’S WHAT… NO I MUST NOT. Come to our Discord: Join our Patreon: AI For Humans Newsletter: Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: SHOW LINKS Claude Opus 4.8 announced (Anthropic): Spielberg on where he draws the line with AI (Deadline): Amazon MGM greenlights three generative AI projects (Variety): Jorge R. Gutierrez AI Statement Kojima Getting Dragged For Prada? Stan Lee joins ElevenLabs Iconic Voices: ElevenLabs Dubbing v2 Gavin's Fishbowl project:
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Pope Leo Wants to Disarm AI. Explained.
05/26/2026
Pope Leo Wants to Disarm AI. Explained.
Pope Leo XIV just released his first encyclical and picked a side in the AI war. AND He brought Chris Olah, the co-founder of Anthropic, on stage to launch it. On this special solo episode of AI For Humans, Gavin breaks down the Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo's first encyclical, what it actually says about AI, why Anthropic was invited to stand next to the Pope at the launch (does he love Claude Code??), and what the next 5-10 years look like when 1.3 billion Catholics, every other major religion, and every labor union on Earth gets handed a moral framework for the AI debate. Plus: why this Pope picked the name Leo, what 1891's Rerum Novarum has to do with 2026, and the prediction that ethical AI might soon be defined by clergy instead of engineers. SHOW LINKS: Magnifica Humanitas: The Full Text Chris Olah's Remarks at the Vatican (Anthropic) Pope Leo Warns of AI Fueling Warfare (CNN) Pope Calls for Robust AI Regulation (PBS NewsHour) Rerum Novarum (1891) - Pope Leo XIII's Original Encyclical
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Spotify Goes AI. People Will Be Furious. Plus, OpenAI Cracks An 80-Year Math Problem.
05/22/2026
Spotify Goes AI. People Will Be Furious. Plus, OpenAI Cracks An 80-Year Math Problem.
Thanks to HP & Intel for sponsoring us! More on the Zbook Fury Spotify just made AI music official. They cut a deal with Universal Music Group for AI-enhanced and remixed tracks and we all know where this goes. This week on AI For Humans, Spotify officially crossed the line. They announced a sweeping deal with record labels, distributors, and music publishers to bring AI music tools to the platform, complete with fan-remix features that use real artist voices and tracks. They also rolled out AI-generated personal podcasts and launched Studio by Spotify, a standalone AI creation app. Gavin and Kevin break down why this changes everything for music, who actually signs up, and why the fan backlash is just beginning. Meanwhile, a Higgsfield AI feature film just premiered at Cannes for $500,000 total cost, but $400,000 of that was pure AI compute, raising big questions about what the new economics of filmmaking actually look like. Plus, an unreleased OpenAI general LLM model disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry that had stood for 80 years, the best new Google Omni prompts and practices and a humanoid robot fail that traveled the entire internet IS IT TIME TO PANIC? NO, SAYS THESE TWO MORONS. // Show Links // Spotify's Official Announcement: Artist-First AI Music Collaboration Billboard Coverage Of The Spotify AI Music Deal Spotify's AI-Generated Personal Podcasts (Hollywood Reporter) Higgsfield Cannes Film: $500K To Make, $400K Was AI Compute The Impact Of AI In Four Charts Google Omni Horseback Riding Prompt FoFR Animals With Google Omni FoFR Rooster Dog Clean Up The Alley Prompt Ogre Walks On Stage US Gov Poster Situation OpenAI Model Disproves Central Conjecture In Discrete Geometry Noam Brown’s Post About The OpenAI Breakthrough The Humanoid Robot Fail That Traveled The Internet Ben Relles Launches Make Believe (Hollywood Reporter)
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Google's New Gemini Omni AI Is Too Much. All The Good Stuff From Google I/O.
05/20/2026
Google's New Gemini Omni AI Is Too Much. All The Good Stuff From Google I/O.
Google I/O 2026 just dropped Gemini Omni, a world-model AI that simulates physics, edits video, and might be the biggest leap since Seedance 2. But it's not perfect. Gavin and Kevin break down everything from Google I/O 2026, including the launch of Gemini Omni (Google's new world model), Gemini 3.5 Flash benchmarks against GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7, the Gemini Spark personal agent, AskYouTube, Docs Live, new AI glasses, the first search box redesign in 25 years, and the shocking news that Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic. SHOW LINKS: Google I/O 2026 Full Keynote: Gemini Omni physics demos from Google DeepMind: Gemini Omni's incredible London knowledge (via fofrAI): Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis on Omni video editing: Gavin's hands-on Gemini Omni experiments: Gemini Omni's character cameo feature (less impressive): Gemini Omni volleyball fail: Google's new Content Credentials Verification: Genie 3 IRL — Google's world model now simulates real streets with Street View: Bilawal Sidhu on Genie 3 IRL: Gemini 3.5 Flash launches — official announcement: Gemini Spark — Google's new personal coding agent: Google's new AI glasses Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to focus on recursive self-learning:
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Google Is Cooking Again. The I/O Leaks Are Wild.
05/15/2026
Google Is Cooking Again. The I/O Leaks Are Wild.
Thanks to & Intel for sponsoring us! More on the Zbook Fury Google I/O is next week and the AI leaks are pouring out: a new Spark agent, Veo 4 Omni, Gemini 3.2 Flash that's reportedly 20x cheaper than GPT-5.5. This week on AI For Humans, Google is cooking again and the I/O leaks are stacking up. We dig into Google Spark, a new Gemini agent that may have access to your entire digital life. Veo 4 Omni model leaks suggest deeper reasoning and character consistency, and the model gets math right. Gemini 3.2 Flash is rumored to deliver 90% of GPT-5.5's capability at a fraction of the cost and dramatically faster speeds. There's a new GoogleBook with Gemini built in. And Google is reinventing the mouse cursor, the input device that's been largely unchanged since 1968, with voice AI. Plus, Thinking Machines dropped voice interactivity demos that feel a lot like ChatGPT Voice from two years ago. OpenAI is reportedly already working on GPT-5.6, and Sam Altman is giving away two free months of Codex to companies to drive adoption. Gavin's been experimenting with local open-source LLMs and shares his setup. AND…we get into the data center sickness conversation: infrasound from data centers may be causing cortisol spikes in nearby communities. Figure 03's package sorting livestream proved the robot is autonomous after skeptics accused it of being teleoperated. Unitree dropped a transformable robot. AI KEEPING US UP AT NIGHT. NO MATTER. WE COOK. // Show Links // Google Spark: Gemini's Agent With Access To Your Life Veo 4 Omni Model Leaks: Gets Math Right More Veo 4 Omni Examples Omni Model Added To Gemini Web Build Gemini 3.2 Flash At 90% Of GPT-5.5 For Way Less New GoogleBook With Gemini Built In Google DeepMind: Rethinking The Mouse Cursor With Voice AI Thinking Machines Voice Interactivity Demos Sam Altman: Two Months Of Free Codex For Companies Data Center Sickness: Ben Jordan's Video On Infrasound Figure 03 Package Sorting Livestream Brett Adcock: Figure 03 Was Not Teleoperated Unitree Transformable Robot
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