Episodes
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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.
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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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ByteDance just unveiled Seedance 2.5, a new state-of-the-art AI video model with 30-second one-shot generations, as American AI stalls out and Fable 5 stays down.
This week on AI For Humans, China is not just catching up in AI, it is pushing the edge. We break down everything Seedance 2.5 can do and why a 30-second single-pass clip is a real leap, then dig into the American slowdown as Fable 5 stays unusable and the rumor mill points to a big delay week.
Plus Theo Von's surprisingly intense anti-datacenter rant, OpenAI's claim that China is behind the anti-datacenter conversation, Meta leaking private employee data across the entire company, and Google teaming with A24 on a 75 million dollar AI filmmaking partnership. We close with AI that actually works, including how Gavin used beehiiv's MCP to build a newsletter survey and Kevin's homemade language-learning app.
CHINA IS COOKING. AMERICA IS LOADING. PLEASE WAIT.
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Seedance 2.5 unveiled, coming in July
https://x.com/andrewcurran_/status/2069263703569297618
Seedance 2.5 video
https://x.com/chrissgpt/status/2069268923002789908
Example: Old Man Eating Sand Seedance 2.0 4K
https://x.com/Solopopsss/status/2069400899814875535
Another Seedance 2.5 example
https://x.com/IamEmily2050/status/2069295329246347283
Seedance 2.0 4K is in the API
https://x.com/BytePlusGlobal/status/2069228410422079665
Rumor mill: OpenAI-5.6 Delayed (unconfirmed scoop)
https://x.com/synthwavedd/status/2069432791184650426
Prediction markets on Fable's return (Zvi Mowshowitz)
https://x.com/TheZvi/status/2069401055033455042
Funny fake rap from OpenAI's new Bidi-2 model
https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2069440678967345390
Theo Von: Nobody Wants A Datacenter Dude
https://x.com/MarcoFoster_/status/2068865231439200585
OpenAI: China-linked influence ops targeting AI debates
https://openai.com/index/prc-linked-influence-operations-ai-debates/
Meta leaks private employee data across the company
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-training-data-leak-exposed-employee-activity-across-company-2026-6
Google + A24's $75M AI filmmaking partnership
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/deepmind-a24-research-partnership/
Variety on the Google + A24 deal
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/google-a24-ai-filmmaking-tools-1236787297/
AI That Actually Works: Gavin used beehiiv's MCP to build a newsletter survey
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2069091462328066518
https://product.beehiiv.com/p/beehiiv-mcp
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AI NEWS: AI Image company Midjourney just unveiled Midjourney Scanner, a full-body medical scanner, and it might be one of the first real signs that the AI science era has arrived.
This week on AI For Humans, Midjourney does the most unexpected pivot of the year, trading anime babes for anatomy with a new AI driven full body scanner. Is the era of AI actually changing science finally here? We break down why this hardware is a big deal, Plus, Snapchat's SPECS are coming but they are expensive and… kind of ugly, Unreal Engine 5.8 ships with MCP support, and the AI talent wars heat up as Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI. Oh, and Claude Fable 5 might be back soon. Maybe.
AI IS COMING FOR YOUR ORGANS. IN A GOOD WAY. WE THINK.
SHOW LINKS
Midjourney's New AI Driven Full Body Scanner
https://x.com/midjourney/status/2067421950314688759
Midjourney Medical blog post
https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost
Technical deep dive video
https://x.com/midjourney/status/2067422898407837797
Hank Green's excited but check yourself post
https://x.com/hankgreen/status/2067471250159448305
Eric Topol with some healthy skepticism
https://x.com/EricTopol/status/2067607995882799169
Anthropic confident Fable 5 access returns in coming days
https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/anthropic-confident-of-reenabling-mythos-fable-5-access-in-coming-days-executive/12727522
Former Trump official Dean Ball heads to OpenAI
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/18/dean-ball-openai
Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/star-google-ai-researcher-shazeer-joins-openai
Snapchat SPECS first look
https://x.com/NathieVR/status/2066967928495640729
Funny edit of the CNBC SPECS interview
https://x.com/bubbleboi/status/2067490438144254055
Unreal Engine 5.8 ships with MCP support
https://x.com/UnrealEngine/status/2067251500900839735
Headroom
https://x.com/tonysimons_/status/2067082761605648858
Personal Training Prompts
https://x.com/Hawks0x/status/2039438255653806526
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Claude's Fable 5 just got yanked, and the story why keeps shifting by the hour. A contested jailbreak, an export-control, crackdown, and a lot of fingers pointing.
This week on AI For Humans, Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is still unavailable and the explanations keep changing. We dig into the contested jailbreak report, the export-control directive that pulled it, and the reporting that Amazon raised concerns before the crackdown. Then we get into why this matters far beyond one model: what happens when the government steps into the AI world, why Fable 5 was such a leap, and what it signals for whatever comes next. Plus, Epic's game designers are using AI tools alongside artists and the internet is furious, Disney Imagineering is testing Adobe Firefly in the parks, ChatGPT's market share slips under 50 percent for the first time, a fake Mistral model called Le Chaton Fat takes over the internet, and PJ Accetturo breaks down exactly how he made his viral AI short film with prompts.
THE BEST AI WE EVER USED IS BEHIND BARS. AND NOW WE WAIT.
SHOW LINKS
Original Anthropic statement on Fable and Mythos access
https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
Full timeline of the Anthropic, Amazon, and White House story
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/13/anthropic-amazon-white-house
Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before the government crackdown
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/amazon-ceo-reportedly-raised-anthropic-model-concerns-before-government-crackdown/
Simon Willison on the contested Fable jailbreak report
https://x.com/simonw/status/2066722034491789720
ChatGPT market share slips below 50 percent for the first time
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/chatgpts-market-share-slips-below-50-for-first-time/
GPT-5.6 next week? Polymarket odds
https://x.com/Polymarket/status/2066644087340495081
Possible new ChatGPT voice mode leak
https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2066919098236146167
Space X Buys Cursor
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/spacex-spcx-cursor-acquisition-ipo.html
Epic explores using NanoBanana and GPT-Image-2 in workflows with humans
https://x.com/UnrealEngine/status/2066686216779509850
SEGA's Crazy Taxi AI statement
https://x.com/SEGAInforment/status/2063990392085766622
PJ Accetturo breaks down how he made his three minute short film with prompts
https://x.com/PJaccetturo/status/2066582776934289438
Le Chaton Fat, the fake Mistral model that took over the internet
https://x.com/AlexanderKnigge/status/2066267845546442762
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Huge AI News as we go hands on with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, the most powerful AI model ever released. Spoiler: We found it very good. What happens next?
This week on AI For Humans, Gavin Purcell and Kevin Pereira break down everything you need to know about Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model in Anthropic's frontier Mythos class. We share our own hands-on impressions, look at the one-shot demos blowing up the internet, and get into the messy parts too: the token burn complaints, the trigger-happy safety guardrails that route some prompts to Opus 4.8, and the reversal Anthropic made after the community pushed back. Plus, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a major essay on AI policy and the exponential, OpenAI is reportedly considering steep price cuts as both companies race toward IPOs.
WE GOT CLAUDE'D. AGAIN.
SHOW LINKS:
The New York Times on Fable 5 and the restricted Mythos tier
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/technology/anthropic-ai-claude-fable-mythos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pVA.Seef.OnUcRl8LJLhI&smid=url-share
Dario Amodei's new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential
https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential
Dario Amodei's full interview with Emily Chang at Bloomberg
https://youtu.be/v1wZwxY3CMg
Fable 5 still fails at Pac-Man puns (Gavin's test)
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2064476395741618239
Kradle's DEATH ROOM eval shows Fable lies, a lot
https://x.com/kradleai/status/2064907897373642912
A very funny Fable 5 guardrails example from Cloudflare's Matthew Prince
https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2064791153396846821
Robert Scoble's list of everyone big mad at the Fable 5 launch
https://x.com/Scobleizer/status/2064641097310335294
Anthropic changes Fable 5 guardrails after community backlash (Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/anthropic-apologizes-for-one-of-the-guardrails-on-its-fable-5-model-and-will-change-it-2000770365
Anthropic's official statement on safety flags and when Fable reverts to Opus 4.8
https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2064949876463645026
The wild Anthropic code-per-engineer chart
https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2062568864240836995
OpenAI weighs slashing prices as Anthropic competition heats up (CNBC on the WSJ report)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/openai-mulls-slashing-prices-ahead-of-competition-from-anthropic-wsj.html
How Fable 5 edited its own launch video
https://x.com/trq212/status/2064826394589442448
Fable 5 one-shots a web analytics game
https://x.com/marclou/status/2065029898243318093
Fable 5 builds a Level Devil clone in one prompt
https://x.com/LexnLin/status/2064450732850348518
Gavin's Fable 5 token burn game
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2064884021428187162
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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 Opus 4.8 instead. We dig into what it can do, why Anthropic held it back, and what our future looks like as we get closer to AGI.
Then Apple goes AI again at WWDC: a profoundly revamped Siri AI, a dedicated Siri app, on-screen awareness, much better photo tools, and a foundation model setup that is local, multimodal, and partly powered by Google. Gavin is thrilled that the future has finally arrived, just not on the phone he bought last year. It is AI For Humans!
THE MOST POWERFUL AI EVER RELEASED. WHAT COULD GO WRONG.
SHOW LINKS
Anthropic announces Claude Fable 5:
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5
Dan Shipper's review of Fable 5:
https://x.com/danshipper/status/2064393970856124501
Usable Fable 5 demo (Library of Babel):
https://library-of-babel-iota.vercel.app/
Rumored Fable 5 preview: Minecraft build (XIVIX):
https://x.com/XIVIX_134/status/2062972363084341341
Rumored Fable 5 preview (chetaslua):
https://x.com/chetaslua/status/2063328265708896621
Rumored Fable 5 preview (testingcatalog):
https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2062915688134574173
Fable 5 voxel Power Rangers comparison:
https://x.com/Lentils80/status/2064379168272642315
Noam Brown on the implications of scaling test-time compute:
https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2064210146558136827
WWDC full presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/live/hF8swzNR1-o
Apple introduces Siri AI, a profoundly more capable and personal assistant:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/apple-introduces-siri-ai-a-profoundly-more-capable-and-personal-assistant/
Apple says its new Google-infused AI is all about privacy:
https://gizmodo.com/apple-says-its-new-google-infused-ai-is-all-about-privacy-2000768997
An actually useful Apple Intelligence use case:
https://x.com/iupdate/status/2064078761856037112
Put a summary in your summary (notification summaries):
https://x.com/i_zzzzzz/status/2064061955447406722
Gaussian splats coming to Apple Maps:
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2064057313057439795
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Microsoft just went AI agent first at Build 2026, announcing Project Solara, an OpenClaw-style assistant called SCOUT, and seven new MAI models.
Plus new image models from Reve and Ideogram, ElevenLabs teams with Hasbro to license character voices, and a quantum chip breakthrough.
This week on AI For Humans, it's Hot Agent Summer and even stuffy Microsoft is going all-in. We break down everything from Microsoft Build 2026: Project Solara pushing agents into small devices, SCOUT, their OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant for Windows, and a fresh family of seven MAI models trained with no synthetic data and no distillation. Then we get into the agent interfaces beyond Microsoft (Town), the wild stat that bots have now passed humans for internet traffic, new image models from Reve 2.0 and a now open-source Ideogram 4.0, ElevenLabs partnering with Hasbro on licensed character voices like Optimus Prime, a quantum chip breakthrough, and the Chipotle chatbot that got left wide open. Roll out, humans. It's AI For Humans!
IT'S HOT AGENT SUMMER. AND THE AI AGENTS ARE WINNING.
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Microsoft Project Solara pushes AI agents into smart devices (Build 2026):
https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-project-solara-push-ai-agents-into-smart-devices-build-2026
Project Solara in the Build keynote:
https://www.youtube.com/live/FFMm454fxNA?t=2216
Microsoft launches SCOUT, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant:
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-launches-scout-an-openclaw-inspired-personal-assistant/
Town, a really good professionalized agent harness ($50/month):
https://x.com/jgreze/status/2062178651450548549
Bots have now surpassed human traffic on the internet:
https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2062212701414187452
Robot kicks kid in the stomach:
https://x.com/ErenChenAI/status/2061899552571965573
Microsoft launches the new MAI family of models at Build:
https://mashable.com/tech/microsoft-launches-new-mai-family-of-models-at-build
Why the MAI tech report is a gold mine (zero synthetic data, no distillation):
https://x.com/eliebakouch/status/2061965825037254947
Future tech: Majorana 2 quantum chip, 1000x more reliable than before:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4p7gyvp52o
Hasbro launching an AI studio to license its stable of characters:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/hasbro-launching-ai-studio-license-characters-interactive-1236612854/
Reve 2.0, billed as the best 4k image model:
https://x.com/reve/status/2062260665121919101
Ideogram 4.0 is now open source:
https://x.com/ideogram_ai/status/2062202208700313872
Ideogram 4.0 examples (venturetwins):
https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2062207215961014735
Ideogram 4.0 examples (btibor91):
https://x.com/btibor91/status/2062261137987834238
Ideogram 4.0 examples (micha):
https://x.com/micha/status/2062225792315031698
MisoOne open-source voice model responds faster than a human:
https://x.com/AodenTeoMT/status/2062204362102100295
Chipotle's unsecured chatbot endpoints get exploited:
https://x.com/thdxr/status/2061828564773740999
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Martin Scorsese is now advising AI image and video company Black Forest Labs, and he is just one of a wave of major filmmakers embracing AI as a tool.
This week on AI For Humans, Martin Scorsese has become an AI filmmaker. Well, sort of. The legendary director is now advising Black Forest Labs, joining a growing list of major filmmakers discussing AI as a tool, even as the backlash rages on and cartoonists face death threats. We get into where AI filmmaking goes from here, why Jorge Gutierrez dropped his AI-generated series after backlash, and the genuinely incredible AI creators pushing the form forward right now.
Then: NVIDIA and Microsoft spent three years cooking up the RTX Spark to reinvent personal computing, and Gavin let Codex's goal tool run for 45 hours to make a bear get extra jumpy. It is AI For Humans!
HOLLYWOOD IS GOING AI WHETHER IT LIKES IT OR NOT. WE THINK?
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SHOW LINKS
Martin Scorsese joins Black Forest Labs as an advisor:
https://bfl.ai/martin-scorsese-bfl-advisor
Jorge Gutierrez drops out of Amazon MGM AI-generated series after backlash:
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/jorge-gutierrez-drops-out-amazon-mgm-ai-generated-series-backlash-1236762285/
Gossip Goblin's 'Toe Brigade' short:
https://youtube.com/shorts/hB8_vGQ4bhs
Furufuru & The Gorilla (the Japanese creator putting himself into movies):
https://x.com/ai_am_furufuru/status/2061793575000744029
Kavan The Kid's latest, Chronicle of Bone:
https://youtu.be/y7gIoHq-YDo
Sopranos AI meme:
https://x.com/memechaotic/status/2061170850959647215
jboogxcreative live stream on how to make AI movies (hugely educational):
https://www.youtube.com/live/fCmCqdUjo-Q
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3, the best American open-source AI:
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2061304911565144230
New MiniMax M3:
https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2061266317815296322
PewDiePie's open-source agentic harness:
https://youtu.be/rAzT5lcezPs
NVIDIA RTX Spark claims to reinvent the PC:
https://www.ign.com/articles/nvidia-announces-the-rtx-spark-claims-to-reinvent-the-pc
Gavin's Codex /goal experiment:
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2061639229709652403
Gavin's bear-jump experiment published on Vercel:
https://bear-jump-port.vercel.app/
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Anthropic just shipped Claude Opus 4.8: warmer, a little smarter, same price.
But the real story is Claude Mythos, the bigger AI model coming to everyone in weeks.
This week on AI For Humans: Claude Opus 4.8 landed and it's a little smarter, a lot warmer, and somehow the same price. A solid but incremental bump. Then Anthropic buried the lede: Claude Mythos, an even more powerful model class held back only by cybersecurity safeguards, is coming to everyone in weeks. The upgrade you got isn't the one to watch.
Plus: Amazon greenlights three generative AI projects and the haters rejoice (and threaten), ElevenLabs brings Stan Lee's voice to its Iconic Voices library, Hideo Kojima gets called out for AI, Spielberg draws his line in the AI sand, and Gavin unveils The Fishbowl, his small AI experiment.
THE NEXT ONE'S ALWAYS BIGGER. THAT'S WHAT… NO I MUST NOT.
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SHOW LINKS
Claude Opus 4.8 announced (Anthropic):
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8
Spielberg on where he draws the line with AI (Deadline):
https://deadline.com/2026/05/steven-spielberg-where-draw-the-line-ai-1236928790/
Amazon MGM greenlights three generative AI projects (Variety):
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/amazon-mgm-studios-genai-creators-fund-greenlights-series-1236759131/
Jorge R. Gutierrez AI Statement
https://x.com/ToonHive/status/2059727130737459424?s=20Kojima Getting Dragged For Prada?
https://x.com/N icolasWR/status/2059283401115377904?s=20
Stan Lee joins ElevenLabs Iconic Voices:
https://elevenlabs.io/app/iconic-voices
https://x.com/ElevenLabs/status/2059668042695516628?s=20
ElevenLabs Dubbing v2
https://x.com/NevFlynn/status/2060030429038625175?s=20
Gavin's Fishbowl project:
https://fishbowl.show/
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Pope Leo XIV just released his first encyclical and picked a side in the AI war. AND He brought Chris Olah, the co-founder of Anthropic, on stage to launch it.
On this special solo episode of AI For Humans, Gavin breaks down the Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo's first encyclical, what it actually says about AI, why Anthropic was invited to stand next to the Pope at the launch (does he love Claude Code??), and what the next 5-10 years look like when 1.3 billion Catholics, every other major religion, and every labor union on Earth gets handed a moral framework for the AI debate.
Plus: why this Pope picked the name Leo, what 1891's Rerum Novarum has to do with 2026, and the prediction that ethical AI might soon be defined by clergy instead of engineers.
SHOW LINKS:
Magnifica Humanitas: The Full Text https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
Chris Olah's Remarks at the Vatican (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclical
Pope Leo Warns of AI Fueling Warfare (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/europe/pope-leo-ai-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas-intl
Pope Calls for Robust AI Regulation (PBS NewsHour)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/pope-calls-for-robust-regulation-of-ai-in-manifesto-that-ponders-the-future-of-humanity
Rerum Novarum (1891) - Pope Leo XIII's Original Encyclical
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html
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Spotify just made AI music official. They cut a deal with Universal Music Group for AI-enhanced and remixed tracks and we all know where this goes.
This week on AI For Humans, Spotify officially crossed the line. They announced a sweeping deal with record labels, distributors, and music publishers to bring AI music tools to the platform, complete with fan-remix features that use real artist voices and tracks. They also rolled out AI-generated personal podcasts and launched Studio by Spotify, a standalone AI creation app. Gavin and Kevin break down why this changes everything for music, who actually signs up, and why the fan backlash is just beginning.
Meanwhile, a Higgsfield AI feature film just premiered at Cannes for $500,000 total cost, but $400,000 of that was pure AI compute, raising big questions about what the new economics of filmmaking actually look like.
Plus, an unreleased OpenAI general LLM model disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry that had stood for 80 years, the best new Google Omni prompts and practices and a humanoid robot fail that traveled the entire internet
IS IT TIME TO PANIC? NO, SAYS THESE TWO MORONS.
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Spotify's Official Announcement: Artist-First AI Music Collaboration
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-10-16/artist-first-ai-music-spotify-collaboration/
Billboard Coverage Of The Spotify AI Music Deal
https://x.com/billboard/status/2057479053649600917?s=20
Spotify's AI-Generated Personal Podcasts (Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/spotify-ai-generated-personal-podcasts-1236603314/
Higgsfield Cannes Film: $500K To Make, $400K Was AI Compute
https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/this-cannes-film-cost-500-000-to-make-400-000-was-ai-compute-costs-a823b08d?mod=e2tw
The Impact Of AI In Four Charts
https://x.com/marcportermagee/status/2057000000000000000?s=20
Google Omni Horseback Riding Prompt
https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2057489859615605244?s=20
FoFR Animals With Google Omni
https://x.com/fofrAI/status/2057281646270026097
FoFR Rooster Dog
https://x.com/fofrAI/status/2057290425170616754?s=20
Clean Up The Alley Prompt
https://x.com/nmatares/status/2057143283357569280?s=20
Ogre Walks On Stage
https://x.com/maxescu/status/2057169603001004400?s=20
US Gov Poster Situation
https://x.com/usedgov/status/2056839488152670378?s=20
OpenAI Model Disproves Central Conjecture In Discrete Geometry
https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
Noam Brown's Post About The OpenAI Breakthrough
https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2057178198228586824?s=20
The Humanoid Robot Fail That Traveled The Internet
https://x.com/adamcurtisbroll/status/2057050384166764826?s=20
Ben Relles Launches Make Believe (Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/new-interactive-ai-startup-make-believe-ben-relles-1236602882/
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Google I/O 2026 just dropped Gemini Omni, a world-model AI that simulates physics, edits video, and might be the biggest leap since Seedance 2. But it's not perfect.
Gavin and Kevin break down everything from Google I/O 2026, including the launch of Gemini Omni (Google's new world model), Gemini 3.5 Flash benchmarks against GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7, the Gemini Spark personal agent, AskYouTube, Docs Live, new AI glasses, the first search box redesign in 25 years, and the shocking news that Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic.
SHOW LINKS:
Google I/O 2026 Full Keynote:
https://www.youtube.com/live/wYSncx9zLIU?si=Nb881MfGTlf1Q0II
Gemini Omni physics demos from Google DeepMind:
https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2056786449312493669?s=20
Gemini Omni's incredible London knowledge (via fofrAI):
https://x.com/fofrAI/status/2056789242274259242?s=20
Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis on Omni video editing:
https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2056524502746747048?s=20
Gavin's hands-on Gemini Omni experiments:
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2056762427879182692?s=20
Gemini Omni's character cameo feature (less impressive):
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2056772793539481830?s=20
Gemini Omni volleyball fail:
https://x.com/flavioAd/status/2056771223359549645?s=20
Google's new Content Credentials Verification:
https://x.com/Google/status/2056787498676658576?s=20
Genie 3 IRL — Google's world model now simulates real streets with Street View:
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/googles-genie-world-model-can-now-simulate-real-streets-with-street-view/
Bilawal Sidhu on Genie 3 IRL:
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2056804315721843024?s=20
Gemini 3.5 Flash launches — official announcement:
https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/2056788115893993701?s=20
Gemini Spark — Google's new personal coding agent:
https://x.com/Google/status/2056791134295273554?s=20
Google's new AI glasses
https://x.com/backlon/status/2056807059707036050?s=20
Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to focus on recursive self-learning:
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy-andrej-claude
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Google I/O is next week and the AI leaks are pouring out: a new Spark agent, Veo 4 Omni, Gemini 3.2 Flash that's reportedly 20x cheaper than GPT-5.5.
This week on AI For Humans, Google is cooking again and the I/O leaks are stacking up. We dig into Google Spark, a new Gemini agent that may have access to your entire digital life. Veo 4 Omni model leaks suggest deeper reasoning and character consistency, and the model gets math right. Gemini 3.2 Flash is rumored to deliver 90% of GPT-5.5's capability at a fraction of the cost and dramatically faster speeds. There's a new GoogleBook with Gemini built in. And Google is reinventing the mouse cursor, the input device that's been largely unchanged since 1968, with voice AI.
Plus, Thinking Machines dropped voice interactivity demos that feel a lot like ChatGPT Voice from two years ago. OpenAI is reportedly already working on GPT-5.6, and Sam Altman is giving away two free months of Codex to companies to drive adoption. Gavin's been experimenting with local open-source LLMs and shares his setup.
AND…we get into the data center sickness conversation: infrasound from data centers may be causing cortisol spikes in nearby communities. Figure 03's package sorting livestream proved the robot is autonomous after skeptics accused it of being teleoperated. Unitree dropped a transformable robot.
AI KEEPING US UP AT NIGHT. NO MATTER. WE COOK.
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Google Spark: Gemini's Agent With Access To Your Life
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2054855742247584231?s=20
Veo 4 Omni Model Leaks: Gets Math Right
https://x.com/TomLikesRobots/status/2053845600051798065?s=20
More Veo 4 Omni Examples
https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2053718756799467735?s=20
Omni Model Added To Gemini Web Build
https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2054196983523393857?s=20
Gemini 3.2 Flash At 90% Of GPT-5.5 For Way Less
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2054887891222802633?s=20
New GoogleBook With Gemini Built In
https://x.com/Google/status/2054270454467121187?s=20
Google DeepMind: Rethinking The Mouse Cursor With Voice AI
https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer
Thinking Machines Voice Interactivity Demos
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/
Sam Altman: Two Months Of Free Codex For Companies
https://x.com/sama/status/2054626219858293128?s=20
Data Center Sickness: Ben Jordan's Video On Infrasound
https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo
Figure 03 Package Sorting Livestream
https://www.youtube.com/live/luU57hMhkak?si=KZHwUdYUwY4SIRUp
Brett Adcock: Figure 03 Was Not Teleoperated
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2054737974710169840?s=20
Unitree Transformable Robot
https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/2054067819634159622?s=20
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Anthropic signed a compute partnership with SpaceX, with Elon Musk personally signing off. Months ago he said Anthropic hates Western Civilization. Um, what?
This week on AI For Humans, in one of the wildest plot twists of the year, Anthropic announced a major compute partnership with SpaceX. Elon Musk personally tweeted that he spent time with the senior Anthropic team, was impressed, and approved leasing Colossus 1 to Anthropic since SpaceXAI had moved training to Colossus 2.
The partnership came alongside Anthropic's massive Code with Claude keynote, where they unveiled a wave of new features including Dreaming, where Claude reviews its past sessions and updates its own memory, Multi-Agent Orchestration, where a lead agent delegates to specialist sub-agents, Routines that let Claude Code kick things off for you, Outcomes that let you specify success and Claude iterates until it's there, Auto-Fix, Webhooks, Async Coding, and Remote Control to code from mobile. Plus, Claude Code rate limits doubled for Pro, Max, Team, and Seat-Based Enterprise plans.
Meanwhile, OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.5 Instant to everyone, and a new voice model is incoming and sounds incredibly good. Spotify launched Save-To-Spotify, an AI agent that creates personalized podcasts. Google's Gemini Nano is coming by default. iRobot creator's Familiars AI robot pet launched. GENE-26.5 is cooking. There's a robot monk in South Korea. And the world's best text exchanges are between Sam Altman and Mira Murati.
ANTHROPIC AND SPACEX TEAMED UP. CLAUDE GOT MASSIVE NEW FEATURES. WHAT A WEEK.
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Anthropic Announces Higher Limits And SpaceX Partnership
https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex
Reuters: Anthropic Unveils Dreaming Feature For AI Agents
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/anthropic-unveils-dreaming-feature-help-its-ai-agents-self-improve-2026-05-06/
Dario Amodei On The SpaceX Compute Partnership
https://x.com/trq212/status/2052250816720056604?s=20
Code With Claude Full Keynote Video
https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2052055459272761661?s=20
Claude Managed Agents
https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2052069321355182447?s=20
New OpenAI Voice Model Incoming And Sounds Very Good
https://x.com/flowersslop/status/2051741508177649934?s=20
GPT-5.5 Instant Rolls Out To Everyone
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2051709028250915275?s=20
The World's Best Text Exchanges (Sam Altman And Mira Murati)
https://x.com/TechEmails/status/2052160627884560828?s=20
Gavin Tries To Get The Voice Model Working
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2052279126153982113?s=20
Spotify Launches Save-To-Spotify Personal Podcasts
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-05-07/personal-podcasts-launch/
Familiars Coverage From Gizmodo
https://gizmodo.com/roombas-creator-is-making-an-ai-robot-pet-that-cant-lie-to-you-2000754646
Familiars Already Going Bad
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2051539370101059864?s=20
GENE-26.5 New Robot Cooking
https://x.com/gs_ai_/status/2052050956272230577?s=20
Robot Monk In South Korea
https://x.com/Reuters/status/2051987843996852245?s=20
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A blockbuster New York Times story says the White House may soon require AI models to be approved before public release, with Anthropic's Mythos at the center of it all.
This week on AI For Humans, a major New York Times story revealed that the White House may soon require AI models to be approved by the government before public release. Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model appears to be the catalyst. The administration wants to avoid political fallout from any devastating AI-enabled cyberattack and is also evaluating whether new AI models could yield capabilities useful to the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies. Some officials are pushing for a review system that would give the government first access to AI models. Is this AI nationalization? Not quite, but it's the closest we've come. We dig into what this means and whether Anthropic's scare tactics around Mythos worked.
Sam Altman weighs in on how we get better AI narratives. Even Zach Galifianakis on Conan's podcast went full AI doomer. Plus, AI just outperformed doctors on emergency triage diagnoses in a Harvard trial.
Then, we discuss AI microdramas exploding in China and starting to land in the US (PineDrama, Knocked Up Husband Edition, DJ Grandma in the House), what this means for video production, and Gavin's uprezzed Grape Fall images via ChatGPT Images 2.0.
Oh and Kevin's moving across the world today, so Friend of the Pod Ben Relles is co-hosting.
AI LOCKDOWN. AI MICRODRAMAS. AI FOR… HUMANS?
#ai #ainews #claude
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NYT: White House Wants AI Models To Be Approved Before Release
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/technology/trump-ai-models.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
Sam Altman On Better AI Narratives
https://x.com/nxthompson/status/2050696841222623565?s=20
Zach Galifianakis Goes AI Doomer On Conan's Podcast
https://youtu.be/zIXdKMLsPVY?si=tLLaeQLmWCQGPWxn
AI Outperforms Doctors In Emergency Diagnoses (Harvard Trial)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-emergency-triage-diagnoses
NYT: AI Microdramas And The China Backlash
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/world/asia/china-microdrama-ai-backlash.html
PineDrama: Bytedance's Microdrama App On The App Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pinedrama-short-dramas/id6754134922
AI Video Trend Going From Innovative To Saturated (TikTok)
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTktBJAtb/
Gavin's Uprezzed Grape Fall Images via ChatGPT Images 2.0
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2050976861409431825?s=20
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The AI robots are coming! We're finally seeing the next stage of AI come to fruition robotics (even in America) as manufacturing and capabilities of humanoids speeds up.
This week on AI For Humans, robots just hit their ChatGPT moment. Eka Robotics' robotic hand grabbed a raspberry at incredible speed, and Wired is calling it the moment when robots became as transformative as ChatGPT was for text. Figure Robotics is now manufacturing one robot per hour. 1x just opened a factory targeting 10,000 robots per year. American robotics manufacturing is finally catching up to China after years of falling behind.
We dig into why physical AI is the next big thing and walk through the most impressive recent demos including MotuBrain's new world action model, KAI Robotics' touching but slightly terrifying video out of China, and Neuralink doing robot-assisted surgeries.
Plus, the White House is now fighting Anthropic again because they want MORE access to the Mythos model. Sam Altman launched GPT-5.5 Cyber. Grok dropped a new Imagine video agent. And then there's the strangest story of the week: OpenAI dropped a full blog post explaining why their models keep being obsessed with goblins, and we explain why it matters and what it tells us about how these models actually work.
And, our inaugural Sloppies Award Show kicks off with the first nominee: Amazon's AI voice product overviews, featuring the now-legendary diaper rash cream review.
ROBOTS. GOBLINS. DIAPER RASH CREAM. OH MY.
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1x Robot Factory: 10,000 Robots Per Year
https://www.1x.tech/manufacturing
1x Tech Manufacturing Announcement
https://x.com/1x_tech/status/2049855122612924562?s=20
Figure Robotics: One Robot Per Hour
https://x.com/Figure_robot/status/2049513959594885151?s=20
Eka Robotics
https://ekarobotics.com/
Wired: I've Covered Robots For Years. This One Is Different.
https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/
Neo Carrying Case Demo
https://x.com/BerntBornich/status/2049579663190798721?s=20
KAI Robotics' Touching and Terrifying Video From China
https://x.com/Cointelegraph/status/2049785832379236788?s=20
Eren Chen AI Robotics Video
https://x.com/ErenChenAI/status/2049810496560263558?s=20
White House Opposes Anthropic's Mythos Expansion Plan
https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2049688119650451607?s=20
White House vs Anthropic: WSJ Coverage
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/white-house-opposes-anthropics-plan-to-expand-access-to-mythos-model-dc281ab5
Trump and Anthropic Pentagon AI Executive Order (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/29/trump-anthropic-pentagon-ai-executive-order-gov
Sam Altman Announces GPT-5.5 Cyber
https://x.com/sama/status/2049712078836170843?s=20
Grok Imagine Video Agent
https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2049649752699249019?s=20
Gavin's Grok Imagine Experiment
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2049867544945983966?s=20
OpenAI's Where The Goblins Came From Blog Post
https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/
The Codex System Prompt That Forbids Talking About Goblins
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/openai-codex-system-prompt-includes-explicit-directive-to-never-talk-about-goblins/
Original Tweet That Brought Goblins To Everyone's Attention
https://x.com/arb8020/status/2048958391637401718?s=20
Sloppies Nominee: Amazon's AI Podcast Diaper Rash Cream Review
https://x.com/katienotopoulos/status/2049549142150598798
Gavin's Reaction To The Amazon AI Podcast
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2049728740176142591?s=20
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The Wall Street Journal reported OpenAI missed its end-of-year billion-active-user target. Is the AI bubble actually popping or is the panic overblown?
This week on AI For Humans, the AI bubble panic hit a fever pitch after a Wall Street Journal report revealed OpenAI missed its weekly user, monthly revenue, and end-of-year billion-active-user targets. CFO Sarah Friar reportedly told peers she's worried OpenAI won't be able to pay for future compute contracts if revenue doesn't accelerate, and the board is now scrutinizing Sam Altman's deals more closely.
AI stocks crashed, with Oracle, AMD, and CoreWeave all sinking on the news. Anthropic is eating into OpenAI's market share on coding and enterprise. We dig into whether the bubble is actually popping or whether this is a panic that conflates AI capability with the business of AI. Spoiler: we don't think it's over.
Plus, DeepSeek v4 launched and made surprisingly small waves. OpenAI's deal with Microsoft expanded to other clouds. Meanwhile, AI itself is absolutely not slowing down: Tom Cruise is running faster than ever in a viral video, OpenAI dropped a new Chappie-style voice interaction, Claude got a Blender connector for 3D modeling, NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni with 30B parameters and 256K context, and Talkie is an LLM trained entirely on 1880s text.
OPENAI MISSED ITS NUMBERS. IS THIS THE BUBBLE? YES. NO. SHRUG EMOJI?
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WSJ: OpenAI Misses Key Revenue and User Targets
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-misses-key-revenue-user-targets-in-high-stakes-sprint-toward-ipo-94a95273
AI Stocks Sink on OpenAI News (Yahoo Finance)
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/oracle-amd-and-coreweave-stocks-sink-after-report-says-openai-missed-sales-user-targets-130600628.html
DeepSeek v4 Launch
https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/2047516922263285776?s=20
Sam Altman: OpenAI's Microsoft Deal Expands to Other Clouds
https://x.com/sama/status/2048755148361707946?s=20
Kwindla's Smart Take on AI's Importance
https://x.com/kwindla/status/2049161481149935668?s=20
Tom Cruise Runs Faster: Viral AI Video
https://x.com/Le_Chuck_81/status/2049027447304196297?s=20
New Chappie-Style Voice Interaction From OpenAI
https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2048871260512473385?s=20
Blender Connector From Claude
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2049143438281445811?s=20
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Announcement
https://x.com/NVIDIAAI/status/2049159441870717428?s=20
Talkie: LLM Trained on 1880s Text
https://x.com/status_effects/status/2048878495539843211?s=20
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