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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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Latest episodes

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

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 great at.

Sep 9
42 min

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

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 Infinite Slop,

Sep 2
44 min

We Tested The Mystery AI That Showed Up Out Of Nowhere

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. So obvio

Aug 26
43 min

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

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 service.

Aug 21
27 min

Zuck Wants Superintelligence. Do People Even Want AI?

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 to AI data

Aug 12
35 min

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

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 local hardware

Aug 7
53 min

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

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 dig into

Jul 29
27 min

Is Google Gemini In Trouble?

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 slowly getting

Jul 22
35 min

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

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 5 SCOOP!!

Jul 17
34 min

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

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. On AI For

Jul 10
29 min

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

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 For Human

Jul 8
20 min

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

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 throws it a

Jul 1
24 min

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

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 stealing Clau

Jun 26
26 min

Seedance 2.5 Just Crushed AI Video. America Is Stalling.

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 down. This

Jun 24
28 min

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

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 science era ha

Jun 19
29 min

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

Jun 17
29 min

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

Jun 12
20 min

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.

Jun 10
22 min

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 f

Jun 5
29 min

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

Jun 3
30 min

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What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

I listen to a number of podcasts on AI, AI For Humans is the best for useful and interesting AI news, as well as being entertaining. Highly recommended!

rogerms42 · May 2025

This show is so good I usually consume it twice. Audio while walking the dog, YouTube version on the couch for the great visuals they add.

Beertinted · Apr 2025

This podcast will make you feel like an expert in AI. I have discovered and used many AI tools for coding, image generation, and lots of other fun things I didn’t know were possible. Kevin and Gavin present the AI landscape in an informative and entertaining way. Highly recommend!

Chunt-tastic · Apr 2025

I really like this show, either on YouTube or as an audio podcast. I appreciate their thorough testing of AI models and reporting the good, the bad and the ugly of new beta features behind closed doors. I would love to see more focus on AI use cases, rather than just generative art/audio/video, and maybe more time on novel uses for AI for productivity and efficiency. But for the love of god stop the long AI voice segments. French Brad Pitt was *brutal*. It adds nothing to the show, it’s an immediate fast forward or straight up episode skip, and it’s such a waste. How that doesn’t end up on the cutting room floor is beyond me. That aside, I thoroughly enjoy the rest of it and appreciate the thoroughness and research of each topic they explore.

Griz84 · Jan 2025

Funny, and it’ll keep you updated with AI news. Great for any level of familiarity with AI. I’m obsessed with AI, and I don’t miss an episode.

Tom_Pagnozzi · Feb 2025

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