AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

AI news this week: AI is coming faster and faster. Google dropped Gemini 4 Carbon, its second frontier model in TWO WEEKS, plus Genie 4, and OpenAI shipped GPT-6.1 Terra.

On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into a week where the new models just would not stop. Sam Altman says it's all speeding up, and Google seems to agree: Gemini 4 Carbon posts very good scores and is legit better at little graphic demos, but there's a catch. We can't use it yet. (For safety.) Google's already teasing the next one anyway. Then Genie 4, Google's newest playable worlds model, mixes real-time video gen with interactive worlds: stepping inside videos, scenes that build out as you go and a mouse serving tea while a porcupine walks by. Yes, lil' Googie has been busy.

Also: OpenAI's cheap new GPT-6.1 Terra, which Kevin used to make a Katamari knockoff that's, honestly, not bad. Plus ChatGPT Dots land in iMessage, Jack Dorsey's Block has a scary-human new voice model called Dessa, Nvidia drops Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto says AI will NOT be the end of creativity. (We're gonna prove him wrong.) And Kevin drops CivAIl, a free idea for pointing AI back at your local elected officials.

Plus: Science Corner, with three big new science results from OpenAI, Anthropic's early progress on drug discovery and long-standing physics problems getting cracked. Then AI See What You Did There: Harry Potter Balenciaga 3, Claude Opus 5.5's disembodied eye simulation and, finally, Neo doing parkour in The Office.

LIL' GOOGIE. GAVIN STANDS BY IT.

#ai #ainews #gemini

// Chapters //

00:00 AI Is Moving Faster & Faster

01:44 Sam Altman Wants A Trillion AIs

03:41 Gemini 4 Carbon: Google's Second Frontier Model In Two Weeks (That We Can't Use)

07:26 Business Corner: Is AI Search Eating Google Search?

11:34 Genie 4: Google's Playable Worlds Get A Big Upgrade

19:12 GPT-6.1 Terra, Kevin's Katamari Knockoff & ChatGPT Dots

26:34 Jack Dorsey's Dessa Voice Model & Nvidia's Free Local AI

32:01 Miyamoto Says AI Won't End Creativity

34:22 Stop Renaming AI "Superintelligence"

36:33 Kevin's CivAIl: Point AI Back At Your Local Officials

40:40 Science Corner: OpenAI Breakthroughs & AI Drug Discovery

46:41 AI See What You Did There: Harry Potter Balenciaga 3, A Creepy Eye & Matrix Parkour

// Show Links //

Sam Altman on Cheeky Pint

https://youtu.be/iMsUcCYNKqY?si=QF7B1rfhV67Vc8pn

Altman: AI is coming faster and faster

https://x.com/jaynitx/status/2115787009759625229

Google introduces Gemini 4 Carbon

https://x.com/Google/status/2115489522603466766

Gemini 4 Carbon on the Arena leaderboard

https://x.com/arena/status/2115495002998751262

Gemini 4 Carbon visual comparison

https://x.com/AI_Screening/status/2115501232634859992

A Gemini 4 Carbon horror scene

https://x.com/HarshithLucky3/status/2115510129546449289

Google is already teasing the next one

https://x.com/zacharynado/status/2115501213873516911

Google DeepMind introduces Genie 4

https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2115114028338962672

Genie 4: a new generation of world simulation (Google DeepMind)

https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/

A mouse serving tea, a porcupine walking by

https://x.com/emollick/status/2115273222061015169

Stepping into videos with Genie 4

https://x.com/holynski_/status/2115211475836899605

Genie 4 building out a scene as you go

https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2115115421611249944

OpenAI introduces GPT-6.1 Terra

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2114780711664398349

GPT-6.1 Terra (OpenAI blog)

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-terra/

Kevin's Katamari knockoff

https://katamari.cursedslop.com/

Soon you can text your Dot (ChatGPT)

https://x.com/ChatGPT/status/2115496387613786374

Dessa, the new audio model from Block

https://block.xyz/dessa

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe demo

https://x.com/nvidiaai/status/2115462300241141882

Nvidia Open-H3-Regenerate2k

https://x.com/wildmindai/status/2115396758289154403

Shigeru Miyamoto on AI (VGC)

https://x.com/VGC_News/status/2113568803216818595

Kevin's CivAIl: AI oversight for your local officials

https://civail.cursedslop.com

OpenAI: building scientific understanding with academic communities

https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/

Anthropic: early progress in drug development

https://www.anthropic.com/research/early-progress-drug-development

Long-standing physics problems, solved

https://x.com/psipbc/status/2114865747294056793

Harry Potter Balenciaga 3 (Demon Flying Fox)

https://youtu.be/5QKeYse5GF8?si=vJ6M1Rcg2ecv2gTT

Claude Opus 5.5 disembodied eye simulation

https://x.com/__rockbiter/status/2114728296034226583

Neo does parkour in The Office

https://x.com/jinwoo33x/status/2115128485547270363

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AI news this week: It's the AI Cybersecurity apocalypse. Maybe. AI-found PHP flaws pushed governments to take websites offline, Railway got hacked and US banks are finding rogue AI agents inside customer accounts.

On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into the wildest cybersecurity week in years. AI helped surface bugs that sat inside PHP (which runs a huge chunk of the web) for years, governments told everyone to patch now or pull the plug, and Cloudflare's CEO says exploit attempts hit the millions. We break down what you actually need to worry about and how to keep your vibecoded lil apps from draining your accounts. (Short version: def don't hand your agent your bank login.)

Also: the fun side of AI hacking. People are using Claude Code to vibecode their smart TVs and rip out the bloatware. In Good News / Bad News, Anthropic finds small AI models may soon copy themselves onto cheap gadgets (yes, even your smart fridge), while Claude helps with scorpion antivenom research.

Plus: Unitree's H2-X kung fu robot, Flux 3 Max, Wan 3 vs. Seedance 2.5, Claude Duet, Gavin's Higgsfield mini-rant, ASCII Mario Kart, Machine Gods (the new Kevin Roose and Casey Newton podcast) and more.

PLEASE UPDATE YOUR PHP. WHATEVER THAT IS. JK WE KNOW. REALLY.

// Chapters //

00:00 AI Is Now Powerful Enough To Hack The Planet

01:52 The PHP Vulnerability Meltdown, Explained

05:43 How AI Found The Bug & Why Exploits Hit 1M+ Attempts

10:03 Should AI Slow Down? The New Cybersecurity Arms Race

15:30 Rogue AI Agents Are Inside Bank Accounts

17:04 People Are Vibecoding Their Smart TVs With AI

25:53 Unitree H2-X Kung Fu Robot & Jensen's Tiny Robots

33:16 Good News / Bad News: Self-Replicating AI & Scorpion Antivenom

35:58 Flux 3 Max & Wan 3 vs. Seedance 2.5: AI Video Tools

40:31 Claude Duet: Anthropic's New Proactive AI Agent

43:58 Higgsfield Goes Mainstream: Gavin's Mini-Rant

47:16 AI See What You Did There: ASCII Mario Kart & New Game Ideas

// Show Links //

Critical PHP vulnerabilities: update your systems now (NBC News)

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/critical-vulnerabilities-php-update-systems-rcna604751

How the PHP flaws were found and fixed (The PHP Foundation)

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-php-security/

Railway's security disclosure

https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st

People are legitimately freaking out

https://x.com/stuhlmueller/status/2110048778942284149

Banks are finding unauthorized AI agents in customer accounts (Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agents-banks-unauthorized-accounts-access

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again (TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/people-are-using-ai-to-make-their-smart-tvs-dumb-again/

Ten good examples of vibecoded TVs

https://x.com/Azadux/status/2112392016248324286

A really good TV hack walkthrough

https://x.com/JoshDaws/status/2112300013212623079

A pocket device, hacked and improved

https://x.com/eduardfausgil/status/2112342282343223655

Wes Bos's Amazon photo frame dashboard

https://github.com/wesbos/photo-frame-dashboard

Unitree H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian

https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/2112819774573179175

Unitree H2-X on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3zb4o47yqA

Jensen telling little robots where they came from

https://x.com/NVIDIARTXSpark/status/2112952375929397595

Anthropic: AI models may be able to self-replicate without a datacenter

https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai

Claude helps design a scorpion toxin binder

https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-scorpion-toxin-binder-design

Flux 3 Max

https://x.com/fal/status/2112251022047412492

Gavin's Flux 3 Max test

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2112605551272288575

Flux 3 Max keyframes to video

https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2113107375272161405

Gavin's Wan 3 vs. Seedance 2.5 test

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2113119269160718641

Claude Duet

https://x.com/claudeai/status/2112984664256241837

The Higgsfield video behind Gavin's mini-rant

https://x.com/FamouslyGarnet/status/2112161273676804575

Mario Kart in ASCII

https://x.com/NathanWilbanks_/status/2112981736288129164

An ASCII rocket

https://x.com/kyleshannon/status/2113062871655694382

Synthetic Beef x re:Skob: new game ideas from 100,000+ Steam games

https://x.com/re_skob/status/2113043120128483349

Machine Gods, the new Kevin Roose and Casey Newton podcast

https://youtu.be/OKDai2_aZe4

Disco Elysium meets Skate 3

https://x.com/apples_jimmy/status/2112234649024139396

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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

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/

Gemini 4 Argon comes to the Gemini app

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/gemini-4-availability

Google DeepMind's robot solving cornhole

https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2110078384617464201

A Japanese temple complex made with Gemini 4 Argon

https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2110039274922131792

Gemini 4 Argon game examples

https://x.com/GoogleAIStudio/status/2110458003027894607

A pelican on a bike test

https://x.com/rubenssoto_ai/status/2110192618269221048

The Fourier epicycle pelican

https://x.com/fofrAI/status/2110043023954284889

Theo's take on Gemini 4 Argon

https://x.com/theo/status/2110461356935983257

Gavin's one-prompt game test

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2110130255835156967

Mark Zuckerberg introduces Muse Wonder

https://x.com/finkd/status/2109689305073614918

Meta's Muse Wonder blog

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder

Zuck on Cheeky Pint

https://youtu.be/XfdIhd1g6EI?si=69ZZEPQ_sh6gHA4W

Zuck vs. Guinness

https://x.com/soundmigration/status/2109749349928554884

Xbox launches Xbox Labs

https://x.com/asha_shar/status/2110083127741702241

Tim Sweeney on Epic's AI pivot

https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/2109705826688549304

DLSS 5

https://x.com/XaviGasso/status/2110638222464225550

Diablo Survivors

https://x.com/framara/status/2110406793000321224

Claude Motion

https://x.com/claudeai/status/2108271552991252810

Gavin's Claude Motion movie genre test

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2108932593911816392

Mirelo sound effects for video

https://x.com/MireloAI/status/2110360787780800611

Gavin's Mirelo test

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2110712692239720524

The rubber chicken bench

https://x.com/Attack/status/2110729931424514411

Slowbooks Pro

https://www.slowbookspro.com/

Grok 3 Voice

https://x.com/SpaceXSI/status/2110416580899168305

Gavin's new AI documentary

https://youtu.be/NE84ZYfnniU

The Little Prince as a website

https://x.com/Saccc_c/status/2109962425512734739

A century of visual styles

https://x.com/internetphysics/status/2108589478105301223

Claude getting ready for Halloween

https://x.com/alexgreensh/status/2110404428691808308

The Usual Suspects

https://x.com/riico_porto/status/2110414206566629659

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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

https://x.com/amasad/status/2107671204639465961

GTA Skate

https://x.com/TheCanadianGTR/status/2107153060984492110

God of War in GTA

https://x.com/Motion_Viz/status/2107866945764888864

Black Ops Zombies playable in the browser (creator's claim, unverified)

https://x.com/MrTLexify/status/2107937584051875909

OpenAI shares new AI progress in mathematics

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2107596713791767021

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/

Adobe Suite decompiled

https://x.com/KevinPicchi/status/2107497028494450775

ArtCraft

https://getartcraft.com/apps

The Pope on AI and creatives

https://x.com/Pontifex/status/2105983638147891490

Ben Affleck, AI super nerd

https://x.com/firesidealpha/status/2107562044824359341

Sesame's new voice demo

https://www.sesame.com/

https://x.com/brendaniribe/status/2107555979730485352

Grok can now search the X timeline for free

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2108015878013161689

Nano Banana 2.1

https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/nano-banana-2-1/

https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2107533224453058731

Claude Haiku 5.5

https://x.com/claudeai/status/2107894039626277339

A rug for your computer desktop

https://x.com/terkelg/status/2107540718461886464

Searching through a video archive with AI

https://x.com/azlenelza/status/2107995183237493183

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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

https://x.com/chasmmmmmmmmmmm/status/2104349115521888748

Minecraft x Skyrim

https://x.com/chasmmmmmmmmmmm/status/2105046595548967150

How SkyCraft works (Minecraft and Skyrim running side by side)

https://github.com/chasmlol/SkyCraft

Call of Duty Zombies on the web (creator's claim, unverified)

https://x.com/p_e_cooper/status/2104980433972703483

Portal x CoD Zombies

https://x.com/p_e_cooper/status/2105387636131024992

Minecraft and Mario in Dark Souls

https://x.com/Deltaroo3D/status/2105345162771648883

Sega's Seaman decompiled with Astra (creator's claim, unverified)

https://x.com/145k4/status/2105318135104446965

Universal Modder by Rehan Sheikh

https://x.com/rehan_shei/status/2105161487509852622

https://github.com/rehan-remade/universal-modder

OpenAI introduces Dots

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2104984504133918973

OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote

https://www.youtube.com/live/Fls_onRviPM

The DevDay demo fail

https://www.youtube.com/live/Fls_onRviPM?t=697

ChatGPT Space

https://chatgpt.com/features/space/

Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/

Gavin's GPT-6.1 Sol vs Opus 5.5 test

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2105053143000359351

Google announces Gemini 4

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/

Bloomberg on Gemini 4 inside Google

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-30/google-grapples-with-employee-skepticism-about-new-gemini-model

Gavin's Opus 5.5 documentary

https://youtu.be/cyeTIEy2qus

Ideogram 4.5

https://x.com/ideogram_ai/status/2105327223431737780

Kling 4.0

https://kling.ai/blog/kling40-kling-visual-realism-creative-control-introducing-storytelling

ElevenLabs v4

https://elevenlabs.io/docs/changelog/2026/9/28

The White House AI summit

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-host-zuckerberg-anthropics-amodei-other-ai-titans-tuesday-2026-09-29/

Jensen Huang on near term pain

https://youtu.be/HjurAWAr_nY?si=zg58A9WRpswzm10P

SpiderBench: an Opus 5.5 Spider-Man browser game

https://x.com/xikhar/status/2104001664793600012

AI Succession doomer series

https://x.com/greghunkins/status/2105071760538316916

Stallone stunt videos

https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1wqr6ac/a_dangerous_stunt_to_warn_about_the_real_danger/

https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1wquj9y/dangerous_dojo_stunt/

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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

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5

Opus 5.5 guitar store sim

https://x.com/bijanbowen/status/2102532400353829356

https://x.com/bijanbowen/status/2102647714857222312

Opus 5.5 music-based side-scroller

https://x.com/riku720720/status/2102547249834385584

Opus 5.5 on the Mario Kart bench

https://x.com/sawyerhood/status/2102550264914038834

Underwater exploration game in 3MB

https://claude.ai/artifact/ReCBQGZ4EirKSiEmT8XXfs

Card pack opening (made with a very simple prompt)

https://claude.ai/artifact/FiowCxgcuqAvjL9ANRYjQU

Claude juice animation

https://claude.ai/share/33a38af0-97cd-4d4b-a9af-ae065de70436

Using Blender to make claymation animation

https://x.com/JacobMolBio/status/2102569129026916389

Full blown animations

https://x.com/other__reality/status/2102514581684052169

A pop punk single made entirely in code

https://x.com/aj_dev_smith/status/2102575577563570450

Interactive lens lab

https://x.com/RyanSael/status/2102591147927654847

Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/

Robot hand drawing comparison

https://x.com/dimentary/status/2102539444834402314

Pelican on a bicycle in Blender test

https://x.com/atomic_chat_hq/status/2102492834485895265

Grok 4.7

https://x.com/SpaceXAI/status/2102069815225586149

Meshy 7.1 multi-image to 3D on fal

https://fal.ai/models/meshy/v7.1/multi-image-to-3d

Gavin At Large (the Giant Gavin game)

https://gavin-at-large.vercel.app

Kim's New Book: Write a Novel in 100 Days

https://kimpurcell.com/

Dario vs Sam weird gun fight showdown

https://x.com/Xanderwow_A/status/2101800791795274106

Moving Image Archive

https://x.com/covacut/status/2100990018391265297

Gavin's Claude makes a video from the archive (Fable 5.1)

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2101818839512281116

And the updated version with Opus 5.5

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2102632595792199944

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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

https://instinct.com/

TechCrunch: Instinct's AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/instincts-powerful-ai-assistant-is-raising-privacy-and-security-concerns/

Gavin's Instinct experience, continued

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2100016746631721459

Instinct scheduled a dryer repair

https://x.com/eliweisss/status/2098918455957189107

Instinct can now handle phone calls

https://x.com/noahrshinn/status/2100262985491231101

Meta introduces Muse, its personal AI agent

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/

Sam Altman's tease (OpenAI's version is a rumor, not confirmed)

https://x.com/sama/status/2100351958167220547

Sam Altman on the unreleased model beating all the math

https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2100144714251198466

Dario Amodei: We Must Pace the Frontier

https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier

Sam Altman agrees with Dario

https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910

Demis Hassabis on pacing the frontier

https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2098909516582490602

Elon Musk at the All-In Summit

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2099737765260763348

OpenAI's framework for reporting model misalignment

https://openai.com/index/model-misalignment-reporting-framework/

Kim's New Book: Write a Novel in 100 Days

https://kimpurcell.com/

TypeSafe AI introduces System One models and Jev

https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev

https://x.com/CompleteSkeptic/status/2099925682726002904

Jev plays Doom in real time

https://x.com/CompleteSkeptic/status/2099925687465570372

Jev plays Mario

https://x.com/faadilhshaik/status/2100086301894881578

Jev as a real-time stock buyer and seller

https://x.com/jarrodwatts/status/2100356151468585346

Jev organizing and filtering types of words (with demo)

https://x.com/stevekrouse/status/2100287368221659289

https://typesafe-demo.val.run/

Jev drone traversal

https://x.com/EGafni/status/2100386169100149229

Jev Hero

https://jevhero.val.run/

Pause Gate, told through fruit

https://x.com/charliebcurran/status/2099981045655556370

Claudio of Anthropos

https://x.com/arikuschnir/status/2100555376856830381

Claude Opus 5 makes really cool JavaScript animations

https://x.com/kevin_t_ngo/status/2099858454043349342

Gavin's Claude takes a shot at it

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2100404534514536955

The AI Seinfeld videos are getting good

https://x.com/rydudebro/status/2100055497751646320

MiniMax micro expressions

https://x.com/SD_Tutorial/status/2097966014239781051

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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

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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

https://fal.ai/tools/minimax-h3-max

Gavin's MiniMax H3 Max real-time test (it's very fast)

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2093098167906758734?s=20

Gavin's follow-up: the toms

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2093746610849403017?s=20

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

https://x.com/alexgetmancom/status/2094762443310272735?s=20

Omarchy AI Operating System

https://omarchy.org/

Instinct: The AI Agent Messaging System

https://app.instinct.co/login

PRE-ORDER KIM PURCELL'S BOOK FOR YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES

https://kimpurcell.com/books/write-a-novel-in-100-days

The concert Instinct found for Gavin

https://tabularasa.itm.studio/m/tabula-rasa-presents-ramonpang

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2087243349338329561?s=20

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)

https://youtu.be/efUqvbmuweU?si=AWlp5plnjJ0gVaia\

Cursed Slop

https://cursedslop.com/

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Official Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber announcement

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/

Gemini 3.6 Flash on Frontend Arena

https://x.com/arena/status/2079594271045455947

Logan Kilpatrick on Gemini 4 training and Gemini 3.5 Pro

https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2079594867161022817?s=20

Report of a new Google AI chip for Gemini

https://x.com/MTSlive/status/2079198478849413390?s=20

Fable 5 and the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample

https://x.com/__alpoge__/status/2079028340955197566?s=20

Context on the Jacobian Conjecture result

https://x.com/jdlichtman/status/2079066717762863249?s=20

Andrew Curran on Altman's planned Washington briefing

https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2079604797838397495?s=20

Bloomberg: Altman to brief U.S. officials on OpenAI's next wave of models

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-21/openai-s-altman-to-brief-us-officials-on-next-wave-of-ai-models

Sunday Robotics' ACT-2 laundry demonstration

https://youtu.be/d7I1wj0Gkik?si=8E44Kmpqa7Gazfuh

Three hours of Memo folding laundry

https://youtu.be/a2HZyURUE_o?si=dT_WiDVcVEHGj9qn

Sunday Robotics' technical ACT-2 post

https://www.sunday.ai/blog/act-2-preview

Neill Blomkamp's AI film NIGHTBORNE

https://youtu.be/8Wbtt2JxP7g?si=Q8WMwCB_cIXvxxJt

Notch comes around on vibe coding

https://x.com/notch/status/2079507573523300534?s=20

Riley Goodside's Fable 5 Moby-Dick whale crossword

https://x.com/goodside/status/2078649724710658309?s=20

Gaussian splat of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral

https://vincentwoo.com/3d/grace_cathedral/

Bambi the Destroyer, Episode 5

https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1uto3js/bambi_the_destroyer_episode_5/

Wizard Brains game

https://x.com/wizardbrainz/status/2078860897259548946?s=20

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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.

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AI FOR HUMANS Survey

https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/forms/b7c77287-2cfd-4b64-a278-eb1a2ccb5744

Official Moonshot AI Kimi K3 launch video

https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2077521842080817296

Official Kimi K3 launch and benchmark thread

https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2077830229968683203

Official Kimi K3 technical launch article

https://kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3

Kimi K3 head-to-head with GPT-5.6 Sol

https://x.com/chetaslua/status/2077701096924229744

Kimi K3 Flappy Bird test

https://x.com/jun_song/status/2077396996865003739

Demis Hassabis on a new framework for AI governance

https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2076957440109625718

AI 2040: Plan A

https://ai-2040.com/

Bloomberg's report on OpenAI's first device

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-14/openai-s-first-device-will-be-moveable-screenless-speaker-built-as-ai-companion

OpenAI Developers' Codex Keyboard post

https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2077425991790870644

BytePlus Seedance 2.5 World Cup preview

https://x.com/BytePlusGlobal/status/2077321849806234080

Variety's report on the Suno hack and training data

https://variety.com/2026/music/news/suno-hack-youtube-music-deezer-genius-data-trained-ai-music-1236811772/

Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (UKRL) Fight

https://x.com/ErenChenAI/status/2077750358302921029

Soft floating robot demo

https://x.com/clankrmedia/status/2076593164744376707

Two NEO robots talk to each other—and then one dabs

https://x.com/BerntBornich/status/2077749438630805648

GPT-5.6 Sol plus Unreal Engine experiment

https://x.com/NomadsVagabonds/status/2077577815684202960

Gavin's first GPT-5.6 Sol plus Blender attempt

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2076736788320927925

Kevin's Find The Cursor Game: CURSED

https://us-lax-8710957c.colyseus.cloud/

Gavin's Fig + Moss Watch autonomous studio

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2077155825274229122

Fig's stand-up set

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2076382092842475948

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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

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/

OpenAI Developers GPT-5.6 launch post

https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2075273992609599834

Official OpenAI GPT-Live announcement

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/

Husk's GPT-Live failure test

https://x.com/huskirl/status/2074947343858684152

Reported GPT-6 timing rumor (unconfirmed)

https://x.com/synthwavedd/status/2074886230018568582

SpaceXAI Grok 4.5 announcement

https://x.com/SpaceXAI/status/2074915721684086811

Official Meta Muse Spark 1.1 announcement

https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/

Reactor LingBot World 2 demo

https://x.com/reactorworld/status/2074935025771143626

The George Costanza AI trend begins

https://x.com/e_cdalton/status/2074157914030567916

Modern Seinfeld AI clip

https://x.com/Seanfucious/status/2074586668175159800

Seinfeld with peptides AI clip

https://x.com/charliebcurran/status/2074651334905909585

Sci-Feld: Seinfeld meets Dune

https://x.com/mom_agency_/status/2074888383050948997

Cyberfeld: Seinfeld meets Cyberpunk 2077

https://x.com/theBW7/status/2074747039473336550

Ghostbusterseinfeld

https://x.com/McKean_enjoyer/status/2075112019242479771

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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

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Anthropic's paper and video on the J-Space, reading and shaping what Claude is actively thinking about (official)

https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2074185348142280912

Gavin's Claude Code series: the episode Fig made from the J-Space paper

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2074510080477925548

Anthropic extends Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12 (official)

https://x.com/claudeai/status/2074548242386178258

Anthropic's Claude Code lead on Fable leaving subscriptions and returning as capacity allows

https://x.com/trq212/status/2072814903170408784

Fable 5 is leaving subscriptions, but maybe not for good (Yahoo Tech)

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/claude/articles/claude-fable-5-leaving-subscriptions-153244723.html

GPT-5.6 Sol rumors: gonna be great, but not here yet

https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2074525651890250017

Ben Hylak: spoiled by 5.6

https://x.com/benhylak/status/2074200425562251485

Bidi-1 renamed to GPT LIVE 1 (testingcatalog)

https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2074404297618415626

Porting Command and Conquer to iPad with Fable 5

https://x.com/ammaar/status/2073501877753323772

The 3js toymaker from mrdoob

https://x.com/mrdoob/status/2073666517783458071

Reuters via Yahoo Finance: Beijing weighs restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI models

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/exclusive-beijing-looking-curbing-overseas-101644780.html

Seedance 2.5 may be coming sooner than expected (rumor, single source)

https://x.com/capcutapp/status/2073261464065122562

Gavin's microdrama, episode two

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2073200219786019214

Explaining the tung tung tung sahur legal battle via old cartoons in Seedance 2

https://x.com/FabianMosele/status/2072799719286354363

Insanely cool thing of the week: a live, playable demo of generated Rocket League

https://x.com/gen_intuitczion/status/2074104524596457706

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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!

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Anthropic introduces Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic Sonnet yet (official)

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5

Anthropic's launch post for Sonnet 5

https://x.com/claudeai/status/2072017450611142835

BREAKING: Anthropic's official post on restoring Mythos 5 and working to bring Fable 5 back

https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5

OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna in a limited government-approved preview (official)

https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/

Sam Altman on why the GPT-5.6 rollout is government-restricted

https://x.com/sama/status/2070607488274358364

Meta's Brain2Qwerty research on decoding typed text from brain activity

https://facebookresearch.github.io/brain2qwerty/

NanoBanana 2 Lite is out

https://x.com/NanoBanana/status/2071988792970330186

Logan Kilpatrick on the fast-and-cheap tradeoff

https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2071988351083921690

The Blender to Seedance workflow (reid hannaford, who helped popularize it)

https://x.com/reidhannaford/status/2070145120658137385

More Blender x Seedance examples

https://x.com/koldo2k/status/2071307945002815967

Even more Blender x Seedance examples

https://x.com/Flagiuss/status/2071335816190902624

A further Blender x Seedance example

https://x.com/reidhannaford/status/2071595581508563168

ComfyUI announces full MCP integration

https://x.com/ComfyUI/status/2071625866912944151

X launches an MCP, though the API is very expensive to use

https://x.com/XDevelopers/status/2071752389183647758

Gavin's microdrama experiment

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2070937492858208540

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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.

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Anthropic accuses Alibaba of brazenly and illicitly extracting Claude's capabilities (CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/24/anthropic-alibaba-distillation-campaign.html

The post that put the espionage story on our radar (unconfirmed single-source thread)

https://x.com/S0N_IA/status/2069893802802745673

Apple raises MacBook and iPad prices as the AI memory crunch bites (CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/25/apple-macbook-ipad-price-hike-memory.html

OpenAI unveils its first chip, Jalapeno, built with Broadcom (official)

https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-chip/

No new flagship this week, but OpenAI did ship a GPT-5.5 Instant update

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2069843083701915755

Seed Audio 1.0 generates full songs and layered audio scenes (via fal)

https://x.com/fal/status/2070138257891791237

Claude TAG brings Claude into Slack for everyone

https://x.com/ashwingop/status/2069814177624121469

Andrej Karpathy on the new Slack workflow

https://x.com/karpathy/status/2069822834160124091

Blender pre-viz into Seedance 2.0 for incredible video control (shared by venturetwins)

https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2069809200788799582

Original creator of the Blender to Seedance workflow

https://x.com/craftcapitallab

The full AI Warper workflow breakdown

https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2069847773034488262

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