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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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55:27

Big AI Vs Humans: OpenAI’s Office, Google's Free AI...

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

2025/06/26

OpenAI, Google & Anthropic are all eating different parts of the business & creative worlds but where does that leave us? For only 25 cents, you too can sponsor a human in a world of AGI. In the big news this week, OpenAI’s takes on Microsoft Office, Google’s cutting the cost of AI coding with their new Google CLI (Command Line Interface) and dropped an on-device robotics platform. Oh, and Anthropic just won a massive lawsuit around AI training and fair use. Plus, Tesla’s rocky rollout of their

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51:33

OpenAI's GPT-5 Hype Train, Midjourney Video is Great...

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

2025/06/19

OpenAI’s Sam Altman is doing a full blown AI media tour and taking no prisoners. GPT-5! Humanoid robotics! Smack talk! The next generation of AI is…maybe almost here? We unpack Altman’s brand-new in-house podcast (and his brother’s), confirm the “likely-this-summer” GPT-5 timeline and reveal why Meta is dangling $100 million signing bonuses at OpenAI staff. Plus: the freshly launched “OpenAI Files” site, Altman’s latest shot at Elon, and what’s real versus propaganda. Then it’s model-mania:

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45:51

OpenAI Prepares For Artificial Super Intelligence,...

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

2025/06/12

OpenAI’s Sam Altman drops o3-Pro & sees “The Gentle Singularity”, Ilya Sutskever prepares for super intelligence & Mark Zuckerberg is spending MEGA bucks on AI talent. WHAT GIVES? All of the major AI companies are not only preparing for AGI but for true “super intelligence” which is on the way, at least according to *them*. What does that mean for us? And how do we exactly prepare for it? Also, Apple’s WWDC is a big AI letdown, Eleven Labs’ new V3 model is AMAZING, Midjourney got sued and, oh yeah,

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52:41

GPT-5 Coming Soon, New ChatGPT For Business & Huge AI...

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

2025/06/05

OpenAI is inching towards GPT-5 this July and Sam Altman has been out there talking up a good game. How good will it be? And what will the future be? WE DIVE IN. Between Google & Anthropic, the state-of-the-art AI models are pushing OpenAI hard & ChatGPT for Business updates are just the start of HOT AI SUMMER LFG (Sam’s words, not ours). Plus, Flux Kontext gives you open-source AI Imaging upgrades, Epic’s Tim Sweeny says that AI will make it easier for developers to make games, Palmer Lucky & Mark

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56:57

The AI Job Apocalypse, Google's VEO 3 Updates, and...

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

2025/05/29

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei just warned HALF of white-collar jobs could vanish in the next 1–5 years. Thankfully VEO 3 is here for your entertainment needs. While we’re still here. We break down Dario Amodei’s 50% job-loss prediction and what you can do today to stay indispensable. Then: how Claude Opus kept blackmailing its own user, why Google’s VEO 3 still scares off the competition and OpenAI's Advance Voice can now sing! Plus, Google Stitch AI’s slick app-mockup magic, MMA-style robot

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56:15

Google's VEO 3 Is Next Gen AI Video, Gemini Crushes...

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

2025/05/22

VEO 3, Gemini Diffusion, Android AR Glasses & so much more… Google went HAM on the AI space this week at Google I/O. Plus, Sam Altman spends 6.5B on AI wearables & Jony Ive. After last year’s semi-lackluster I/O event, this year Google rolled out Sergei Brin & Demis Hassabis and a whole lot of new product. We go deep on all of it but especially VEO3. Gavin bought the enormously expensive Google AI Ultra plan to tell you how it works. Plus, Anthropic’s Claude 4 is rumored to come out… today

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48:59

OpenAI's Roadmap to AGI, Google's AlphaEvolve Codes...

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

2025/05/15

OpenAI’s Sam Atlman discussed the next three years of AI advancements while Google’s brand new AlphaEvolve model codes new algorithms on its own. And good lord, the babies. We also dig into OpenAI HealthBench out-diagnosing real doctors, Anthropic’s rumored reasoning-hybrid Opus & Sonnet updates, and Tesla’s newly refreshed sim-to-real dancing Optimus robot. Plus, Gavin’s free build of an AI baby podcast clip and Kevin’s take on why recursive self-learning changes everything, Stable AI’s on-device

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53:29

OpenAI Goes Global, AI Threat Meetings & Gemini’s...

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

2025/05/08

OpenAI just pitched “OpenAI for Countries,” offering democracies a turnkey AI infrastructure while some of the world’s richest quietly stockpile bunkers and provisions. We’ll dig into billionaire Paul Tudor Jones’s revelations about AI as an imminent security threat, and why top insiders are buying land and livestock to ride out the next catastrophe. Plus, a wild theory that Gavin has hatched regarding OpenAI’s non-profit designation. Then, we break down the updated Google Gemini Pro 2.5’s leap

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57:03

Meta's Weird New AI Social Network, OpenAI Rolls Back...

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2025/05/01

Meta just launched an AI-powered social network and it’s way weirder than we expected. From voice assistants with emotional baggage to remixable AI selfies, we test Meta’s new AI app and talk about what it really means for the future of AI interfaces. VISIT OUR SPONSOR: https://molku.ai/ We also break down OpenAI’s GlazeGate, the update that made ChatGPT way too sycophantic, and why Sam Altman had to roll it back. Plus: new AI video tools from Runway and Higgsfield and a bizarre Reddit experiment

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49:20

DeepMind Says We're Not Ready For AGI, Academy Awards...

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2025/04/24

Google says we’re not ready for AGI and honestly, they might be right. DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis warns we could be just five years away from artificial general intelligence, and society isn’t prepared. Um, yikes? VISIT OUR SPONSOR https://molku.ai/ In this episode, we break down Google’s new “Era of Experience” paper and what it means for how AIs will learn from the real world. We talk agentic systems, long-term memory, and why this shift might be the key to creating truly intelligent machines

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52:21

OpenAI's New o3 & o4-mini Are Better, Cheaper &...

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

2025/04/17

OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini are here—and they’re multimodal, cheaper, and scary good. These models can see, code, plan, and use tools all on their own. Yeah. It’s a big deal. We break down everything from tool use to image reasoning to why o3 might be the start of something actually autonomous. Plus, our favorite cursed (and adorable) 4o Image Generation prompts, ChatGPT as a social network, the old (Monday) news about GPT-4.1 including free Windsurf coding for a week! Also, Kling 2.0 and Veo 2 drop

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01:02:48

Google's Updated Gemini 2.5 Pro May Be Winning the AI...

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

2025/04/10

Google’s AI efforts & Gemini Pro 2.5 take a major step forward with updates to Deep Research, new Agent2Agent protocol (A2A) & more. Sadly, OpenAI teases o3 and o4 but delays GPT-5. Plus, Meta’s new Llama 4 models are out but have issues, Midjourney v7’s debut, John Carmack’s smackdown of an AI video game engine hater, Gavin’s deep dive into OpenAI 4o Image Generation formats & the weirdest robot horse concept you’ve ever seen. WE’RE DEEP RESEARCHING OUR ENTIRE LIVES RIGHT NOW Join the discord:

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52:46

OpenAI's Servers Meltdown & Raises $40 Billion...

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

2025/04/03

OpenAI’s servers melted down as it opened up ChatGPT 4o Image Generation to everyone… and then nerfed it hard. Thankfully, their new raise of $40 BILLION DOLLARS will help. We dive deeper into all the cool ways people are using it (and aren’t able to use it any more) along with news about OpenAI Academy & how GPT-4.5 beat the Turing Test. Then Runway Gen-4 is here and it’s VERY good, OmniHuman-1 does AI lip sync right, Meta’s new Hypernova AR glasses are revealed, Anthropic takes on the black box of

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01:02:41

OpenAI's New 4o Image Gen Dominates The Internet,...

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

2025/03/27

OpenAI’s new 4o Image Gen is the best AI image model we’ve seen to date and it has absolutely taken over the Internet. Plus, Gemini 2.5 is no slouch and a ton of new robots! Plus, OpenAI’s new OpenAI.fm let’s you prompt AI voices in new ways, DeepSeek’s new model is actually better (at times) then GPT 4.5, a new Cursor for 3D modeling and, we’re so sorry for this, but a LOT of talk about AI Big Booty Bears. **GO AND VISIT OUR SPONSOR Y’ALL** bubble.io/aiforhumans Join the discord:

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01:04:53

NVIDIA's Huge AI & Robot Event, Google's NextGen...

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

2025/03/20

AI runs on NVIDIA and it was never more clear than at this week’s GTC where new AI chips and robots were announced. Plus, Google’s good new AI tools & the best AI Video to date. Plus, dangerous new robots terrify us, insane new AI camera tools, DeepSeek is VERY important to the Chinese gov’t, the hidden dangers of vibe coding and Claude 3.7 Sonnet MAX is already here but not many people know. **GO AND VISIT OUR SPONSOR Y’ALL** bubble.io/aiforhumans Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f

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01:06:21

Anthropic CEO Says AI Will Write All Code, China's...

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

2025/03/13

AGI is coming & Anthropic’s Dario Amoedi says AI will soon write all code but... what happens then? New AI Agent Manus & OpenAI’s Agentic Responses API give us a sneak peak at the future. Plus, Hedra’s Character-3 is VERY good at lip-sync, OpenAI's got a new Creative Writing AI model that's making people mad, Google’s Gemma 3 is a small AI model with big results, multiple new AI-to-video pipelines for creatives, robot are hoverboarding and running marathons and Kevin vibe-coded a special meme-ified

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58:21

OpenAI's $20,000 AI Agent, Insane Sesame AI Audio,...

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

2025/03/06

OpenAI’s new PhD-level agents might cost 20000 dollars, GPT-4.5 is here and it’s all about the vibes, Sesame’s new real-time AI voice model is insane & SO MANY AI ROBOTS. Plus, why exactly is Apple delaying AI Siri until 2027, an explainer of Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol & why the AI world is obsessed with it, Runway’s new Video-to-Video effects and Kevin vibe-coded a multi-player game of blobs. IT’S A BIG WEEK AND WE’RE JUST VIBE CODING IT. Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join

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01:08:45

Amazon's New Alexa AI, OpenAI's GPT 4.5, Claude...

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

2025/02/27

Amazon announces a huge AI-powered upgrade called Alexa+, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7 is amazing at code, OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 is on the way, & good lord who let Grok 3 Voice out?! We go *very* deep on Claude Sonnet 3.7 as we show all of the very cool stuff that people have made with it so far (including an amazing Pokemon experience), Deepseek’s R2 is on the way and we’ll tell you why, China’s Alibaba also has an amazing new open-source AI video model called Wan2.1 and we show you what happens when

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59:07

xAI's Grok 3 Just Changed The AI Race, Mircosoft's...

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

2025/02/20

AI NEWS: xAI’s Grok 3 is good. What does that mean for the future of AI? Plus, OpenAI’s spicy update, Convergence’s Free-to-use Proxy AI Agent & Microsoft’s new MUSE AI game engine. Plus, Unitree’s dancing robots vs creeply Clone Robotics, an AI model from Meta that can read your mind, Palmer Lucky dives into the future of AI warfare and pour one out for the death of the Humane AI pin and so much more AI news. WE’RE MOVING FASTER AND FASTER Y’ALL. #ai #ainews #openai Join the discord:

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57:10

Elon Vs OpenAI, GPT-5 Is Confirmed, New AI Video...

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

2025/02/13

OpenAI fights off Elon Musk while Sam drops info about GPT-5 (it’s coming and it’s free), the leaders of the world discuss AI safety & Apple’s busy making robot lamps… Plus, OpenAI says their next AI model will be one of the world’s best programmers, Zonos is a brand new, open source audio cloning tool, a deep dive into Bytedance’s new Goku+ model which makes realistic AI influencers and we play with Pika’s amazing new Pikadditions platform. AND WE TRY AND FAIL TO MAKE AI EPIC FAILS. Just another

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