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.

  1. 16h ago

    Fable 5 Got Caged. Why That Should Scare You.

    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

    29 min

  2. 5d ago

    Claude Fable 5 Broke The AI Industry. Here's What Happens Next.

    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   /// CONNECT WITH US /// Subscribe to the AI For Humans Newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us on X https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/nhqn8YUG87 Gavin Purcell on X https://x.com/gavinpurcell Kevin Pereira on X https://x.com/Attack

    21 min

  3. Jun 10

    Claude Fable 5 Is Incredible. And A Little Scary.

    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

    22 min

  4. Jun 5

    Microsoft Is Now An AI Agents Company. Seriously.

    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. SHOW LINKS 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

    30 min

  5. Jun 3

    Martin Scorsese Is Now An AI Filmmaker.

    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? Come to our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/   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/

    30 min

  6. May 29

    Claude Opus 4.8 Just Landed. But Mythos Is Coming For Everyone.

    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. Come to our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ 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=20 Kojima 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/

    21 min

  7. May 26

    Pope Leo Wants to Disarm AI. Explained.

    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

    10 min

  8. May 22

    Spotify Goes AI. People Will Be Furious. Plus, OpenAI Cracks An 80-Year Math Problem.

    Thanks to HP & Intel for sponsoring us! More on the Zbook Fury https://bit.ly/4uapNHs 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. // Show Links // 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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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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