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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 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 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...
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 XIV's groundbreaking encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," calls for the ethical "disarming" of AI, emphasizing human control over technology rather than outright rejection. The document, launched with Anthropic's co-founder Chris Olah, draws historical parallels to Pope Leo XIII's response to the Industrial Revolution, advocating for human dignity against unchecked technological advancement. This encyclical is poised to influence Catholic education, inspire similar stances from other religious leaders, and shape the global discourse on AI's future, particularly regarding its spiritual and societal implications.
Spotify's new deal with Universal Music Group brings AI-enhanced music and fan-remix features to its platform, sparking controversy among artists and paralleling a lawsuit against AI music generator Suno over copyright infringement. The episode also explores the rise of AI-generated films, like Higgsfield's "Hellgrind" at Cannes, and Google Omni's advanced video editing. A major highlight is OpenAI's general LLM disproving an 80-year-old math conjecture, signaling a profound leap in AI's problem-solving potential, alongside humorous examples of AI "slop" and a robot dancing fail.
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...
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,...
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...
This episode delves into a New York Times report suggesting the White House may require government approval for new AI models, with Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model cited as a key catalyst due to its perceived dangers. The hosts explore the complex interplay of government regulation, public perception, and the AI industry's struggle to craft positive narratives, drawing parallels with YouTube's evolution. They also highlight AI's practical applications, like outperforming doctors in emergency triage, and discuss the burgeoning trend of AI-generated microdramas and the challenge of balancing content novelty with long-term value.
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 R...
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...
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 fo...
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...
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...
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 wheth...
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....
Anthropic revealed Mythos, a new AI model so powerful they won't let the public use it. Instead, they're deploying it to defend against cyberattacks with Project Glasswing. This week on AI For Humans, we dive deep into Anthropic's Mythos, the most powerful AI model they've ever built and one they've decided is too dangerous to release to the public. Instead, Anthropic is deploying Mythos through Project Glasswing, a AI cybersecurity initiative giving access to major corporations and trusted part...
Can you vibe code a $1.8 billion company with AI? Sam Altman predicted the one-person billion-dollar startup, and with MedVi, it might've just happened. Today on AI For Humans, we break down the story everyone in AI is talking about: two brothers vibe coded a $1.8 billion company called MedVi, running on GLP-1 supplements with $70 million in profit and a $1 million donation to an animal shelter. Sam Altman predicted the one-person billion-dollar startup two years ago and now it's real. Greg Broc...
Claude Code's source code just leaked. Frrom always-on autonomous agents to AI dream modes and a tamagotchi pet, Anthropic accidentally showed us the AI future. . This week on AI For Humans, we break down the massive Claude Code source code leak and what it tells us about where AI is heading. The leaked repo reveals Kairos (an always-on autonomous agent mode), a dream mode for nightly memory consolidation, shared project memory across teams, and a tamagotchi-like AI pet called Buddy. Then the le...
This episode delves into OpenAI's major strategic shift, including the cancellation of their Sora video project and "Spicy Chat" feature, as they refocus entirely on enterprise solutions and the pursuit of AGI with their upcoming "Spud" model. The hosts also explore Google's new agentic AI audio models, real-time web rendering, and AI music capabilities, alongside Mistral's open-source voice model, Runway's multi-shot video app, Meta's brain-scanning AI, and a fully autonomous ping-pong robot.
AI NEWS: Anthropic's Claude is slowly boiling OpenClaw & OpenAI one feature at a time. They just shipped automode, computer control, phone access, and a ton more. This week, we breakdown all the biggest news on AI agents like how. Claude can now operate your entire computer from your phone, Claude Code automode can runs fully autonomous, and it's now accessible via Telegram and Discord. We dig into why this matters for OpenClaw, the open vs closed AI debate heating up, Karpathy using OpenCla...
Kevin and Gavin delve into Google AI Studio's significant upgrade, featuring multiplayer, integrated databases, and Next.js support, questioning its impact on the "vibecoding" landscape. They analyze OpenAI's strategic shift to prioritize core business and fend off Anthropic's rapid enterprise growth. The episode also touches on Google Stitch for AI design, the controversy surrounding NVIDIA's DLSS 5 in the gaming community, and a rapid-fire news segment covering Midjourney V8, real-time video generation, AI in film, Meta's rogue agents, and Kagi's LinkedIn translator. Kevin also introduces his open-source Generative DOOM project, showcasing real-time AI content generation.
This episode dives into NVIDIA's ambitious GTC keynote, highlighting CEO Jensen Huang's massive $1 trillion business projection and the significant inference inflection point reshaping AI. The hosts explore DLSS 5's AI-powered neural rendering and its controversial impact on gaming, alongside NVIDIA's deep integration with OpenClaw for enterprise agents. They also discuss advancements in robotics through simulated environments and the often-overlooked bottlenecks in chip manufacturing.
AI just learned how to make itself smarter. That's not a hypothetical anymore. Recursive self-learning is here, and it's changing everything about how AI develops. This week on AI For Humans, we break down Andrej Karpathy's new AutoResearch project and what recursive self-improvement actually means for the rest of us. Plus, Anthropic's massive Time magazine profile reveals just how fast Claude is writing its own code, Meta quietly acquired an AI agent social network called MoltBook, Replit drops...
This episode covers OpenAI's GPT-5.4, highlighting its computer use capabilities and reduced hallucinations, alongside the ethical controversy surrounding Anthropic's military contracts. The hosts also explore new AI video tools like Kling Motion Control and Grok Imagine Extend, discuss Google's NotebookLM cinematic overviews, and analyze Netflix's acquisition of Ben Affleck's AI startup. Privacy concerns with anti-recording devices and diverse community AI projects round out the week's biggest AI news.
Kevin and Gavin explore the latest in AI, from Google's cheaper and smarter Nano Banana 2 image model to the controversial 15-minute AI movie by Logan Paul and the Door Brothers, showcasing both progress and pitfalls in generative video. They also delve into Anthropic's rapidly growing influence, its ethical standoff with the Secretary of War, and the profound economic shifts predicted by AI automation. The episode culminates with a demonstration of Sonauto, a music AI generating perfect celebrity-voiced tracks, leading to a debate on artist compensation and the future of the music industry.
This episode delves into the rapid advancements in AI, highlighted by Sam Altman's prediction of superintelligence by 2028 and Google's powerful Gemini 3.1. It covers the release of Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 and rumors about GPT-5.3, alongside discussions on the public's perception of AI and the "AI bubble." The hosts also explore the controversy surrounding China's Sea Dance 2.0 and Hollywood's reactions, Google's new Lyria 3 music model (with a McNuggets rap test), and the impact of AI on creative industries, including the OpenClaw founder joining OpenAI. The episode concludes with a look at advanced robotics and the future of AI-driven content creation.
This episode dives into Seedance 2.0, ByteDance's groundbreaking AI video model capable of cinematic, multi-shot clips featuring realistic celebrity voices, stirring significant debate over copyright and the future of Hollywood. The hosts also explore new, powerful Chinese LLMs, Google and OpenAI's latest advancements, and the societal impact of AI on jobs, highlighted by a viral post, concluding with a fascinating account of orchestrating personal AI agents.
This episode delves into the rapid advancements in AI with the release of Anthropic's Opus 4.6 and OpenAI's GPT-5.3 Codex, highlighting their enhanced agentic coding capabilities and self-improvement features. It also explores the competitive landscape between major AI companies, discussing the economic implications and emerging trends like open-source AI bots, advanced AI video generation with Kling 3.0, and AI's integration into gaming and scientific research.
