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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S1 E117

Big AI Vs Humans: OpenAI's Office, Google's Free AI Agent and more AI News

Jun 26, 2025 · 55m

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…

S1 E116

OpenAI's GPT-5 Hype Train, Midjourney Video is Great & More HUGE AI News

Jun 19, 2025 · 51m

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…

S1 E115

OpenAI Prepares For Artificial Super Intelligence, Apple's Major AI Fail & New Insane 1X Robots

Jun 12, 2025 · 45m

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…

S1 E114

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

Jun 5, 2025 · 52m

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…

S1 E113

The AI Job Apocalypse, Google's VEO 3 Updates, and OpenAI's Advanced Voice Can Now Sing

May 29, 2025 · 56m

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. Wh…

S1 E112

Google's VEO 3 Is Next Gen AI Video, Gemini Crushes at Google I/O & OpenAI's Big Bet on Jony Ive

May 22, 2025 · 56m

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 wearable…

S1 E111

OpenAI's Roadmap to AGI, Google's AlphaEvolve Codes Itself & So Many AI Babies

May 15, 2025 · 48m

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…

S1 E110

OpenAI Goes Global, AI Threat Meetings & Gemini's Code Crusher

May 8, 2025 · 53m

OpenAI just pitched "OpenAI for Countries," offering democracies a turnkey AI infrastructure while some of the world's richest quietly stockpile bunkers and pro…

S1 E109

Meta's Weird New AI Social Network, OpenAI Rolls Back ChatGPT For Sucking Up & More Crazy AI News

May 1, 2025 · 57m

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…

S1 E108

DeepMind Says We're Not Ready For AGI, Academy Awards Say AI Video is Ok, and AI Voice Models Get Weird

Apr 24, 2025 · 49m

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…

S1 E107

OpenAI's New o3 & o4-mini Are Better, Cheaper & Faster, New AI Video Models & More AI News

Apr 17, 2025 · 52m

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…

S1 E106

Google's Updated Gemini 2.5 Pro May Be Winning the AI Race, OpenAI Delays GPT-5 & More AI News

Apr 10, 2025 · 1h 2m

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…

S1 E105

OpenAI's Servers Meltdown & Raises $40 Billion Dollars, Runway's Amazing New Gen-4 AI Video & More AI News

Apr 3, 2025 · 52m

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 DOLLAR…

S1 E104

OpenAI's New 4o Image Gen Dominates The Internet, Google Gemini 2.5 & More AI News

Mar 27, 2025 · 1h 2m

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 o…

S1 E103

NVIDIA's Huge AI & Robot Event, Google's NextGen Image Model, AI Video Tools & More Insane AI News

Mar 20, 2025 · 1h 4m

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…

S1 E102

Anthropic CEO Says AI Will Write All Code, China's Manus AI, New OpenAI Models & More AI News

Mar 13, 2025 · 1h 6m

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…

S1 E101

OpenAI's $20,000 AI Agent, Insane Sesame AI Audio, GPT-4.5 Thoughts & More AI News

Mar 6, 2025 · 58m

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…

S1 E100

Amazon's New Alexa AI, OpenAI's GPT 4.5, Claude Sonnet's Coding Power & More AI News

Feb 27, 2025 · 1h 8m

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…

S1 E99

xAI's Grok 3 Just Changed The AI Race, Mircosoft's New AI Gaming Model, Spicy ChatGPT And More AI News

Feb 20, 2025 · 59m

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…

S1 E98

Elon Vs OpenAI, GPT-5 Is Confirmed, New AI Video Models & More AI News

Feb 13, 2025 · 57m

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…