AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

by 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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Gemini 4 & Meta's Muse Wonder Are Good. Not Great.

Oct 16, 2026 · 53m

AI news this week: Google's Gemini 4 Argon and Meta's Muse Wonder are finally here, plus Xbox Labs, Epic's big AI pivot and an AI agent vs. Delta customer servi…

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AI Is Breaking Software & Games. What Happens Next?

Oct 9, 2026 · 55m

AI news this week: AI is cracking open all software, from Minecraft inside Red Dead Redemption 2 to a (claimed) Adobe decompile, plus Kevin made EARLABLO (Toe J…

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AI put Minecraft in Skyrim (and OpenAI had a Dev Day)

Oct 2, 2026 · 52m

AI news this week: Claude Opus 5.5 is modding every video game, from Minecraft in Skyrim to Portal in CoD Zombies, plus OpenAI DevDay's Dots & GPT-6.1 Sol. On t…

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Opus 5.5 is our favorite AI model (so far).

Sep 24, 2026 · 48m

AI news this week: Claude Opus 5.5 is INSANE and we love it. Faster, cheaper, better. So much for the AI slowdown. Oh and OpenAI's new thing is good too. On tod…

S1 E196

Instinct & Meta Muse Are AI Agents That Can Run Your Life. We Let One Try.

Sep 18, 2026 · 48m

AI news this week: Personal AI agents like Instinct and Meta's Muse now book your repairs, make your calls and talk to other agents. We let one into our life. O…

S1 E195

GPT-6 Astra Does Everything. Here's What It's Actually Good At.

Sep 9, 2026 · 42m

AI news this week: GPT-6 Astra is here and it does everything. We spent a week inside it (Blender, GarageBand, a full live game) to find out what it's actually…

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We Tested Infinite AI Video... And We're Zombies Now

Sep 2, 2026 · 44m

AI news this week: MiniMax H3 Max on Fal is generating video faster than you can watch it, powering never-ending real-time channels (Fal Live, Levels.io's Infin…

We Tested The Mystery AI That Showed Up Out Of Nowhere

Aug 26, 2026 · 43m

AI news this week: a mystery AI called 0x Alpha appeared out of nowhere. It's completely free (for now), it's really good at coding, nobody will say who made it…

S1 E190

AI Got Weird. So We're Changing The Show.

Aug 21, 2026 · 27m

AI news this week: We're changing AI For Humans. Not ending it, despite what the first two minutes of this video would have you believe. Kevin wanted a memorial…

S1 E189

Zuck Wants Superintelligence. Do People Even Want AI?

Aug 12, 2026 · 35m

AI news this week: Mark Zuckerberg says superintelligence is coming and Meta wants to build it for everyone. Meanwhile, a new Annenberg survey shows opposition…

S1 E188

Seedance 2.5 & The New Age of AI Video (w/ Theoretically Media)

Aug 7, 2026 · 53m

AI news this week: the AI video renaissance is HERE. Seedance 2.5 is out for everyone, Minimax H3 (Hailuo) is basically an uncensored Sora 2 you can run on loca…

S1 E190

The Singularity Is... Here? GPT-6, Opus 5 & AI's Scariest Week Yet

Jul 29, 2026 · 27m

AI news: Sam Altman says we're IN the Singularity, GPT-6 rumors, and AI models literally broke out of their sandbox. What a week. On today's AI For Humans, we d…

S1 E183

Is Google Gemini In Trouble?

Jul 22, 2026 · 35m

AI NEWS: Gemini 3.6 Flash is here: More efficient, less expensive but Gemini 3.5 Pro is still testing with partners & very much not here. Is Google Gemini slowl…

S1 E189

Kimi K3 Is Here. China Just Hit the AI Frontier.

Jul 17, 2026 · 34m

AI news: Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a big AI model and Moonshot's early benchmarks put it surprisingly close to GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5. And… Kevin's Opus…

S1 E188

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Is Here. And It's Really Freaking Good.

Jul 10, 2026 · 29m

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…

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Fable 5 Survives (For Now). And Anthropic Can Read Claude's Mind.

Jul 8, 2026 · 20m

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 F…

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Claude Sonnet 5 Is Here & Fable 5's Returning. For Now.

Jul 1, 2026 · 24m

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 t…

S1 E185

Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.

Jun 26, 2026 · 26m

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 ste…

S1 E184

Seedance 2.5 Just Crushed AI Video. America Is Stalling.

Jun 24, 2026 · 28m

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 dow…

S1 E183

Midjourney Built a Body Scanner. AI Science Just Got Real.

Jun 19, 2026 · 29m

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 scie…