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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OpenAI Surprise Drops GPT-5.1 But Google Is Coming…

Nov 14, 2025 · 45m

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 lea…

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

Nov 7, 2025 · 55m

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…

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OpenAI's New 2028 Plan is Bonkers. Plus, Big Sora 2 Update & 1x Robot Controversy

Oct 31, 2025 · 1h 2m

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 it…

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Can OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas AI Browser Beat Google in 2025?

Oct 24, 2025 · 52m

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 Altm…

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

Oct 17, 2025 · 48m

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 pro…

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OpenAI Restricts Sora 2 As Hollywood Fights Back Against AI Video

Oct 10, 2025 · 53m

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 s…

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

Oct 3, 2025 · 57m

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 ov…

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AI Creates New Drugs As OpenAI & NVIDIA Shuffle Billions

Sep 26, 2025 · 38m

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…

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Meta's New $800 AI Glasses Show Us The Future… Sometimes Breaks

Sep 19, 2025 · 49m

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…

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OpenAI Is Spending A Fortune To Get To AGI. Will They Make It?

Sep 12, 2025 · 50m

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 makin…

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

Sep 5, 2025 · 44m

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…

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Google's Nano Banana Brings Next Gen AI To The Mainstream

Aug 29, 2025 · 53m

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 i…

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

Aug 22, 2025 · 53m

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…

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

Aug 15, 2025 · 44m

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…

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

Aug 8, 2025 · 53m

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…

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

Aug 1, 2025 · 40m

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 fut…

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

Jul 25, 2025 · 1h 4m

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 N…

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

Jul 18, 2025 · 51m

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? Bi…

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

Jul 11, 2025 · 1h 0m

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 M…

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Meta's Poaches OpenAI Brains, Google's AI Gaming Engine & More AI HUGE News

Jul 3, 2025 · 56m

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…