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AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends
30 episodes
Zuck Wants Superintelligence. Do People Even Want AI?
Ep 189 · Aug 12, 2026 · 36 min
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 worl…
Seedance 2.5 & The New Age of AI Video (w/ Theoretically Media)
Ep 188 · Aug 7, 2026 · 53 min
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 actu…
The Singularity Is... Here? GPT-6, Opus 5 & AI's Scariest Week Yet
Ep 190 · Jul 29, 2026 · 27 min
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…
Is Google Gemini In Trouble?
Ep 183 · Jul 22, 2026 · 36 min
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-min…
Kimi K3 Is Here. China Just Hit the AI Frontier.
Ep 189 · Jul 17, 2026 · 35 min
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 a…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Is Here. And It's Really Freaking Good.
Ep 188 · Jul 10, 2026 · 29 min
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 OPE…
Fable 5 Survives (For Now). And Anthropic Can Read Claude's Mind.
Ep 187 · Jul 8, 2026 · 20 min
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 min…
Claude Sonnet 5 Is Here & Fable 5's Returning. For Now.
Ep 186 · Jul 1, 2026 · 24 min
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 kee…
Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.
Ep 185 · Jun 26, 2026 · 27 min
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 Per…
Seedance 2.5 Just Crushed AI Video. America Is Stalling.
Ep 184 · Jun 24, 2026 · 28 min
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…
Midjourney Built a Body Scanner. AI Science Just Got Real.
Ep 183 · Jun 19, 2026 · 29 min
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…
Fable 5 Got Caged. Why That Should Scare You.
Ep 182 · Jun 17, 2026 · 29 min
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 happen…
Claude Fable 5 Broke The AI Industry. Here's What Happens Next.
Ep 180 · Jun 12, 2026 · 21 min
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 complaint…
Claude Fable 5 Is Incredible. And A Little Scary.
Ep 179 · Jun 10, 2026 · 22 min
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 Op…
Microsoft Is Now An AI Agents Company. Seriously.
Ep 178 · Jun 5, 2026 · 30 min
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-i…
Martin Scorsese Is Now An AI Filmmaker.
Ep 177 · Jun 3, 2026 · 30 min
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 dr…
Claude Opus 4.8 Just Landed. But Mythos Is Coming For Everyone.
Ep 176 · May 29, 2026 · 21 min
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…
Pope Leo Wants to Disarm AI. Explained.
Ep 175 · May 26, 2026 · 10 min
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…
Spotify Goes AI. People Will Be Furious. Plus, OpenAI Cracks An 80-Year Math Problem.
Ep 174 · May 22, 2026 · 28 min
Thanks to HP & Intel for sponsoring us! More on the Zbook Fury https://bit.ly/4uapNHs 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. T…
Google's New Gemini Omni AI Is Too Much. All The Good Stuff From Google I/O.
Ep 173 · May 20, 2026 · 28 min
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 Kar…
Google Is Cooking Again. The I/O Leaks Are Wild.
Ep 171 · May 15, 2026 · 31 min
Thanks to @HPInc & Intel for sponsoring us! More on the Zbook Fury https://bit.ly/4uapNHs 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…
Elon Musk Just Teamed Up With Anthropic and Claude Dropped A TON Of New Stuff.
Ep 168 · May 8, 2026 · 31 min
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 c…
The White House Wants To Approve AI Models. Blame Mythos.
Ep 169 · May 5, 2026 · 34 min
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…
Robots Are Having Their ChatGPT Moment. Here's Proof.
Ep 168 · Apr 30, 2026 · 29 min
Thanks to @HP & Intel for sponsoring us! More on the Zbook Fury https://bit.ly/4uapNHs 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 Robot…
OpenAI's Growth Is Slowing. Is The AI Bubble Popping?
Ep 163 · Apr 29, 2026 · 26 min
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 t…
GPT 5.5 Just Dropped. OpenAI Accelerated The AI Race (Again).
Ep 166 · Apr 24, 2026 · 29 min
Thanks to @HP & Intel for sponsoring us! More on the Zbook Fury https://bit.ly/4uapNHs 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 forwar…
ChatGPT Images 2.0 Is Here. It Just Killed Nano Banana.
Ep 162 · Apr 22, 2026 · 28 min
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 scr…
Claude Opus 4.7 Has Landed. The AI Acceleration Is Real.
Ep 163 · Apr 17, 2026 · 23 min
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 relia…
Claude Is Melting Down. AI's Compute Crisis Explained.
Ep 156 · Apr 15, 2026 · 29 min
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 A…
Everyone Hates AI. Now What?
Ep 160 · Apr 10, 2026 · 32 min
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.…
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