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AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell

Fast Company called AI For Humans "the most entertaining way to learn about artificial intelligence." Every Thursday, hosts Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell break down the biggest AI news, tools, and breakthroughs, so you can stay ahead without losing your mind. Whether you"re AI-curious or deep in the game, this is your weekly reset on everything that matters in artificial intelligence.

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45:13

OpenAI Surprise Drops GPT-5.1 But Google Is Coming…

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/11/14

OpenAI released GPT-5.1 with updates to vision, ChatGPT personalities and, most importantly, vibes while Google's Nanobanana 2 and Gemini 3 Pro gently start leaking incredible results. Plus, Disney is ok with AI content on Disney+, Grok Imagine gets a big update, a very cool new 3D world simulator from World Labs, the number one song country song right now is an AI music creation and, in China, they're cooking up Xenomorphs. WE'RE GETTING TO THE GOOD STUFF NOW BABY! ALSO, WE'RE TIRED. #ai

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55:23

AI Job Losses Are Real. Don't Panic (Yet).

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/11/07

AI is starting to take more human jobs while OpenAI and Sam Altman are thinking about GPT-6 and new science. Meanwhile, the rest of OpenAI is thinking about how they'll pay for GPT-6. Plus, Google is sending AI chips into space, Gemini will power Apple Intelligence, Kimi K2 Thinking is a great open-source AI model and the backlash to Coke's new AI ad. Get notified when AndThen launches: https://andthen.chat/ Come to our Discord to try our Secret Project: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our

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01:02:27

OpenAI's New 2028 Plan is Bonkers. Plus, Big Sora 2...

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/10/31

Sora 2's new Character Cameo update brings your pets to AI video while OpenAI settles the whole non-profit mess. Oh, and Sam Altman says in 2028 AI will make itself. WHAT? Plus, 1x Robotics's new Neo robot is causing a big AI controversy. For now, it's all remote operated but WILL be autonomous. Are you ok with people watching you? Also: new AI video & audio tools from Cartesia & Odyssey and we get Cursor 2.0. And much more AI news. WE'RE NOT REMOTE OPERATED. UNFORTUNATELY. Get notified when

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52:48

Can OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas AI Browser Beat Google in...

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/10/24

In a big week of AI news, OpenAI debuts Atlas, its new agentic AI internet browser and we talk about what they did right and… what might’ve gone wrong. Sam Altman was excited! Plus, Google has an updated AI Studio that makes vibe coding much easier, Sora 2’s Cameo feature is going to get an update for characters and pets soon & a whole lot of scary robots. IT’S A NEW BROWSER FOR YOU… TO BROWSE OUR VIDEOS BECAUSE YOU CARE! #ai #ainews #openai Get notified when AndThen launches:

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48:09

OpenAI’s Curvy Road to AGI Includes… Erotica??

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/10/17

OpenAI’s ChatGPT will soon allow *adult* AI conversations. What happens next? For now, we get Sora 2 updates and Google ussing AI for actual science, making progress towards cancer cures. Google *also* has Gemini 3 on deck for what seems like a pretty big jump in AI capabilities. Oh and they happen to be working on fusion as well. But for us, they’ve update their AI video model VEO to 3.1 and we take it for a test run. IT’S A WHOLE NEW WORLD. DON’T YOU DARE CLOSE YOUR EYES. #ai #ainews #openai

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53:01

OpenAI Restricts Sora 2 As Hollywood Fights Back...

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/10/10

OpenAI’s Sora 2 went into a state of lock-down this week as Sam Altman pulls back what can and can’t be generated on the platform. Hollywood & Influencers are still furious. Are you? We dive into the debate around what it means when everyone can generate everything at the touch of a button & talk about how Mark Cuban & Jake Paul are using the Cameo feature to their advantage. Oh, and Bob Ross is *really* putting in extra work. Plus, OpenAI’s new API lets developers create apps for ChatGPT, Grok’s

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57:36

OpenAI’s Sora 2: Future of Media or AI SLOPOCALYPSE??

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/10/03

Sora 2 is a remarkable piece of AI technology! Sora 2 is filling the world with AI slop! Both of these things might be true as Sam Altman & OpenAI have taken over yet again. We talk about what makes Sora 2 truly state-of-the-art, the new Cameo feature that lets you generate videos of your friends & some of the IP-infringing works you might see on the Sora seas. Plus, we dive into our new AI audio app AndThen & tell you how we used AI video technology to make a trailer significantly better, faster &

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38:23

AI Creates New Drugs As OpenAI & NVIDIA Shuffle Billions

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/09/26

AI science advances are FINALLY happening while OpenAI’s Sam Altman & NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang send billions back and forth. If $100 billion is a drop in the well, how much do they need? Plus, ChatGPT is causing divorces, new AI video models Kling 2.5 Turbo & Wan 2.5, Suno drops v5 & Gavin drops the fact that he’s not *loving* Kevin’s mustache. Oh & we’re getting ready for the launch of AndThen, our new start up! Sign up now in the link below. Get notified when AndThen launches:

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49:56

Meta’s New $800 AI Glasses Show Us The Future…...

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/09/19

Meta’s new AI Ray-Ban Display & Mark Zuckerberg give us a glimpse of what an augmented-reality future might look like & they’re here VERY soon. Zuck’s new $800 AR glasses will be here in two weeks for $800 but he also showed off Hyperscape, a new gaussian-splat style virtual environment. They also struggled to demo some of the new tech but, hey, live demos… we’ve all been there, right? Plus, OpenAI brings GPT-5 to Codex, wins yet another programming competition & might be bringing *spicy* talk to

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50:33

OpenAI Is Spending A Fortune To Get To AGI. Will They...

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/09/12

OpenAI just did a $300B deal with Oracle to insure that they have the compute to get to the next stage of AI. The future of AI is EXPENSIVE. Sam Altman is making deals all over the place, trying to set OpenAI up for the future. But there's a LOT of competition now, including from companies like Replit & their new Agent 3 which can work for hours at a time. Plus, Seeddance 4.0 is an incredible new AI image model, Apple's new Air Pod Pro 3s can live translate using AI, AlterEgo can *kind* of read your

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44:47

AI Helps Salesforce Cut 4000 Jobs. Will It Make New...

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/09/05

AI NEWS: Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff says AI helped cut 4000 jobs from their workforce. Is this the start of a bigger trend? FYI, Optimus 3 isn’t *really* ready to take those jobs yet. Google’s NanoBanana continues to amaze us and we show off some really fun new ways to use it. Google *also* has a new vibecoding platform, a cool AI video real-time video model & a ‘boring’ but great open source AI image model. Then, at the end of the show, we go off the rails. WE ARE SORRY. YOU ARE GREAT. #ai

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53:33

Google’s Nano Banana Brings Next Gen AI To The...

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/08/29

Google’s Nano Banana is the best AI image editor we’ve ever seen & it bodes well for the future of Gemini going forward. But even better, it’s actually useful in everyday life. In other AI News, OpenAI’s new Realtime API improves its voice AI systems. It’s also taking people back from Meta who is also doing a deal with Midjourney. YES, it’s the CIRCLE OF AI…. Plus Unitree’s robot carries heavy stuff, Krea’s got a new real time AI video model, NVIDIA’s cutting edge new algo that speeds up LLMS & yet

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53:56

Move Over OpenAI… Google Looks Ready To Take The AI Lead

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/08/22

AI NEWS: Google’s been moving insanely fast & shipping as OpenAI & Sam Altman have been working out what went wrong with the GPT-5 launch. Will we have a new AI leader? Google’s Made By Google event introduced a new natural language photo editing software (that could be powered by Nano Banana - their secret unreleased model) and a live AI translator that feels the like future. Meanwhile, OpenAI is looking forward to GPT-6 already & Elon has Grok moving towards makin’ babies. All that and a new

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44:52

OpenAI’s GPT-5 Stumbles On The Rocky Road To AGI

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/08/15

SECRET PROJECT IN DISCORD: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Is this the AI slow down? OpenAI’s GPT-5’s first week was kind of rough but Sam Atlman is working on it. GPT-4o is back for those who missed it but AI might not get to the Singularity as fast as people think. GPT-5 *did* crush Pokemon & a new version got a gold medal in the International Programming Competition. Plus, new Anthropic Claude updates, Sam & Elon are feuding again, Apple’s new tabletop robot, Matrix Game 2’s playable AI worlds,

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53:25

OpenAI's GPT-5 Is Here. It's Very Good AI But Not AGI

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/08/08

OpenAI’s GPT-5 is out & it’s the best AI model! For now. Overall, the benchmarks are good-not-great but the vibes are off-the-charts. We dive into the DEEP end. Sam Altman brought the whole team out for a long demo of GPT-5. It’s great at coding! It’s better at writing! It has new AI personalities! It will not hallucinate nearly as much! Which is more than we can say for the OpenAI graphics department. Then, Google Deepmind’s Genie 3 shows us what the next generation of AI *might* look like with

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40:15

OpenAI’s GPT-5 Leaks Show Us The Future (Of Next Week??)

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/08/01

OpenAI’s GPT-5 is coming soon and it is…good?. Mystery models have been testing on various platforms that may show us the future of OpenAI’s newest AI & the future of the space. Sam Altman’s company has been ramping up the hype machine entering next week when most expect GPT-5’s release (as well as a new possible Google model). Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg is talking up Meta’s personal Super Intelligence plans. Also, Runway’s Aleph & Ideogram’s Character mode give us more AI video tools while new

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01:04:05

OpenAI Teases GPT-5 as America Goes Full 'AI Action'...

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/07/25

OpenAI’s Sam Altman dribbles out GPT-5 teases as the White House’s AI Action plan lays out exactly how all-in America is on the future of AI. Plus, SO MUCH AI NEWS. GPT-5 is (we hope?) around the corner and we’re getting small snippets like the mysterious new model that’s incredible at coding & the AI model that won gold at the International Math Olympics. Plus, Netflix & Disney are both using AI video in some of their new projects, Vine might be coming back as an AI video app & two great new AI

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51:06

OpenAI's New ChatGPT Agent Might've Just Stolen Your Job

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/07/18

ChatGPT Agent is OpenAI’s new combo of Deep Research and its Operator web-browser agents into one near-human level worker. Is your job on the chopping block? Big week in AI News: Sam Altman and the OpenAI team have been cooking agents for a bit but this new one feels like the next big wave of AI in 2025. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg grabs a few more OpenAI researchers, Grok reveals a pair of risque new AI companions & Runway released Act-Two for better AI video. Plus, Kimi K2 is China’s VERY good new

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01:00:58

Grok 4 is Nearing AGI But... Can Elon Get Out Of The...

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/07/11

Grok 4 from xAI just aced “Humanity’s Last Exam” benchmarks while Grok 3 had a catastrophic public meltdown. What does this mean for the future of AI and Elon Musk’s credibility? And, in other AI news, OpenAI’s GPT-5 is rumored to land next week along with a new open-source reasoning model, Google’s DeepMind launches AI-designed drugs into human trials, and Perplexity’s new AI browser Comet sparks OpenAI’s plan to crush Chrome. PLUS YouTube cracks down on AI-generated spam while updating

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56:27

Meta's Poaches OpenAI Brains, Google's AI Gaming...

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends ·

2025/07/03

OpenAI, Meta & Google are fighting over who gets to control the future of superintelligence but what happens when Zuck robs Sam Altman blind? And is Apple about to onboard Anthropic? In the big AI news this week, Meta hires over 10 top OpenAI engineers (for a rumored potential $300 million in compensation), Apple considers replacing its entire AI strategy with Claude or ChatGPT, and Microsoft’s new medical model diagnoses diseases 4x better than human doctors. Plus, Google DeepMind’s gaming push, a

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