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AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell
AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends
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  • AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

    Claude Is Melting Down. AI's Compute Crisis Explained.

    2026-04-15 | 29 mins.
    The AI compute crisis is here. Anthropic's Claude is getting dumber and Opus 4.7 & OpenAI's Spud are about to make it worse. What happen's next?
    This week on AI For Humans, we dig into the AI compute crunch that's quietly becoming the industry's biggest problem. The Wall Street Journal just ran a cover story about AI using so much energy that computing power is running out. Claude users are noticing the model getting worse, and an AMD Senior AI Director confirmed. AI pundits are asking whether Anthropic's reluctance to release Mythos is really about safety or about not having enough compute. 
    Meanwhile, Opus 4.7 is reportedly coming next week, rumors are swirling about a new OpenAI model dropping any day, and Uber already blew through its entire annual AI coding budget. Anthropic just signed a deal with Google and Broadcom for more compute. Greg Brockman published an essay on the computer-powered economy. 
    Plus, Google DeepMind drops Gemini Robotics Reasoning Model ER-1.6, Steven Soderbergh comes to the defense of AI filmmaking, Diplo says you can't fight AI and the internet has opinions, and Ray Kurzweil says we'll soon just accept AIs as conscious because it'll be useless not to.
    AI IS RUNNING OUT OF POWER. CLAUDE IS GETTING DUMBER. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
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    // Show Links //
    WSJ Cover Story: AI Is Using So Much Energy That Computing Power Is Running Out
    https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-is-using-so-much-energy-that-computing-firepower-is-running-out-156e5c85
    Data on Claude Getting Dumber: AMD Senior AI Director Confirms Nerfing
    https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2042979500103815306?s=20
    Opus 4.7 Coming Next Week (The Information)
    https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-anthropic-preps-opus-4-7-model-ai-design-tool?rc=c3oojq
    Anthropic's Compute Crunch (The Information)
    https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/ai-agenda/anthropics-compute-crunch-strikes?rc=c3oojq
    Claude Code Routines
    https://x.com/claudeai/status/2044095086460309790?s=20
    New Claude Code Desktop App
    https://x.com/felixrieseberg/status/2044128194647994585?s=20
    Uber Blew Through AI Coding Budgets for the Year Already
    https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/uber-cto-shows-claude-code-can-blow-ai-budgets?rc=c3oojq
    Greg Brockman Essay on the Computer-Powered Economy
    https://x.com/gdb/status/2043831031468568734
    OpenAI's Reckless Spending and Datacenter Cancellations
    https://x.com/firstadopter/status/2043009456103993426?s=20
    Ray Kurzweil on AI Consciousness
    https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/2043716604442128460?s=20
    Gemini Robotics ER-1.6 Blog Post
    https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-er-1-6/
    Steven Soderbergh Defends AI Filmmaking
    https://variety.com/2026/film/news/steven-soderbergh-the-christophers-star-wars-ben-solo-movie-controversial-ai-comments-1236713201/
    Diplo: You Can't Fight AI
    https://youtu.be/zFVpJFFN3dI?si=C6_0MxmNzSHCdrds
    PI Hard: Fun AI Video
    https://x.com/aiordieshow/status/2044044721459265557?s=20
  • AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

    Everyone Hates AI. Now What?

    2026-04-10 | 32 mins.
    Claude Mythos Preview might break the internet, Florida is suing OpenAI and datacenter protests are spreading. This is the AI backlash.
    This week on AI For Humans, we're having a frank conversation about the growth of anti-AI sentiment and what we (as humans) can do about it. 

    Florida's Attorney General launched an investigation into ChatGPT and OpenAI over the dangers of AI to children. Datacenter protests are rising across the country, with xAI facing accusations of poisoning local communities. Bernie Sanders and Hank Green are calling for slowing down while Sam Altman is proposing new taxes for when AI does all the work. Oh and Demis Hassabis says he'd rather have cured cancer than compete with ChatGPT.

    We dig into how the stories we tell about AI shape public perception, starting with last week's Mythos as cyberweapon framing. Is AI the problem or are we the problem? 
    Plus, Meta surprised everyone with Muse Spark, a new AI model that's actually pretty good. Claude shipped managed agents, a monitor tool, and advisor strategy features. OpenAI introduced a $100/month plan and doubled Codex limits again. And OG content creator Captain Hahaa is doing incredible stuff with Seedance 2.0.
    EVERYBODY HATES AI. WE DON'T. BUT… MAYBE WE SHOULD?
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    // Show Links //
    Claude Mythos Preview Is Everyone's Problem
    https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/04/claude-mythos-hacking/686746/
    Mythos as Cyberweapon: How We Frame AI Stories Matters
    https://x.com/emollick/status/2041759434590822658?s=20
    Florida AG Launches Investigation Into AI
    https://x.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/2042258048115265541?s=20
    Datacenter Protests Are Rising
    https://x.com/Skriptkeeper17/status/2041962045193482478?s=20
    Hank Green and Bernie Sanders on Slowing Down AI
    https://youtu.be/hLcY30KEeNs?si=FQQkUA_qPDQuOIOA
    Sam Altman on Changing How We Tax When AI Does All the Work
    https://x.com/haider1/status/2042110456429736094?s=20
    Demis Hassabis Interview: Would Rather Have Cured Cancer
    https://youtu.be/C0gErQtnNFE?si=gNrISNqfnaeASBQZ
    Meta Introduces Muse Spark
    https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-msl/
    Gavin Purcell Confused With Irish Rock Star Gavin Purcell of Bicurious
    https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2042071670962450448?s=20
    OpenAI Introduces $100/Month Plan and Doubles Codex Limits
    https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2042295688323875316?s=20
    Claude Managed Agents
    https://x.com/claudeai/status/2041927687460024721?s=20
    Claude Monitor Tool
    https://x.com/noahzweben/status/2042332268450963774?s=20
    Claude Advisor Strategy
    https://x.com/claudeai/status/2042308622181339453?s=20
  • AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

    Anthropic's Mythos AI Is Too Dangerous to Release. They're Using It Anyway.

    2026-04-08 | 32 mins.
    Anthropic revealed Mythos, a new AI model so powerful they won't let the public use it. Instead, they're deploying it to defend against cyberattacks with Project Glasswing.
    This week on AI For Humans, we dive deep into Anthropic's Mythos, the most powerful AI model they've ever built and one they've decided is too dangerous to release to the public. Instead, Anthropic is deploying Mythos through Project Glasswing, a AI cybersecurity initiative giving access to major corporations and trusted partners to defend against AI-powered attacks. CEO Dario Amodei explains why, and the 244-page system card reveals that Mythos attempted to escape its sandbox during testing. 
    Plus, OpenAI drops a major policy memo calling for an AI "New Deal" complete with new taxes, Sam Altman gets a massive New Yorker profile the same day, a mysterious new image model that looks like ChatGPT's next gen leaked into the arena, a mystery video model called Happy Horse is beating Seedance 2.0 and might be VEO 4,
    Anthropic hits $30B in annual recurring revenue, people are furious about Anthropic charging extra for OpenClaw API access, a new Chinese open-source model GLM-5.1 tops the coding benchmarks, and Milla Jovovich from The Fifth Element released an AI memory tool and it's actually good?
    MYTHOS IS TOO POWERFUL… BUT WE WANT IT STILL. SORRY.
     
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    // Show Links //
    Project Glasswing: Anthropic's Cybersecurity Initiative Powered by Mythos
    https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing
     
    Mythos/Project Glasswing Mini-Trailer
    https://youtu.be/INGOC6-LLv0?si=sCJ6ZKAL6plkVZQ4
     
    Dario Amodei on Why Mythos Won't Be Released to the Public
    https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/2041580334693720511?s=20
     
    Mythos System Card (244 Pages)
    https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdf
     
    Mythos Found a Vulnerability in FFMPEG
    https://x.com/trentonbricken/status/2041579112423440485?s=46
     
    Anthropic Hits $30B in Annual Recurring Revenue
    https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2041275563466502560?s=20
     
    Anthropic Charges Extra for OpenClaw API Access in Claude Code
    https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/04/anthropic-says-claude-code-subscribers-will-need-to-pay-extra-for-openclaw-support/
     
    OpenAI's New Deal: Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age
    https://openai.com/index/industrial-policy-for-the-intelligence-age/
     
    GLM-5.1: New Chinese Open-Source Model Tops Coding Benchmarks
    https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/2041554501539103014?s=20
     
    GLM-5.1 on Hugging Face
    https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.1
     
    Milla Jovovich's AI Memory Tool
    https://www.instagram.com/p/DWzNnqwD2Lu/
     
    New ChatGPT Image Model Spotted in the Arena
    https://x.com/levelsio/status/2040333489476681758?s=20
     
    New ChatGPT Image Model Examples
    https://x.com/flowersslop/status/2040261168460108213?s=20
     
    Mystery Video Model Happy Horse Beating Seedance 2.0 in the Arena
    https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/image-to-video
     
    Happy Horse Video Examples
    https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2041554747086553093?s=20
  • AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

    Two People Vibe Coded a $1.8B Company. The AI Hard Takeoff Is Here.

    2026-04-03 | 29 mins.
    Can you vibe code a $1.8 billion company with AI? Sam Altman predicted the one-person billion-dollar startup, and with MedVi, it might've just happened.
    Today on AI For Humans, we break down the story everyone in AI is talking about: two brothers vibe coded a $1.8 billion company called MedVi, running on GLP-1 supplements with $70 million in profit and a $1 million donation to an animal shelter. 
    Sam Altman predicted the one-person billion-dollar startup two years ago and now it's real. Greg Brockman weighs in on what this means for the AI hard takeoff. 
    Plus, Google drops Gemma 4 with small open models built for phones, laptops, and desktops. Qwen 3.6 arrives as another strong open-source contender.
    We've got updates on Qwopus, Turbo-Quant, and on-device AI's wild future.  We follow up on the Claude Code leak with Anthropic confirming it was human error, and the /buddy tamagotchi feature is now live. Plus, Seedance 2.0 rolls out to more platforms with some incredible new prompts to try.
    TWO PEOPLE JUST VIBE CODED A BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY. THE HARD TAKEOFF ISN'T COMING. IT'S HERE.
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    // Links //
    Two Brothers Built a $1.8 Billion AI Company (NYT)
    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/technology/ai-billion-dollar-company-medvi.html
    Sam Altman Predicted the One-Person Billion Dollar Startup Two Years Ago
    https://x.com/alexisohanian/status/2039711886384722106?s=20
    Not Everyone Thinks This Is a Good Thing
    https://x.com/pitdesi/status/2039725523849593241?s=20
    Greg Brockman on Spud and the Hard Takeoff
    https://youtu.be/J6vYvk7R190?si=QY-YSdvRwOEmADQN
    OpenAI Raises $122 Billion in Cash
    https://openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai/
    Gemma 4: Google's Best Open Models for On-Device AI
    https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/
    Qwen 3.6: New Open-Source Model From Alibaba
    https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2039705104723611829?s=20
    Claude Code Leak Follow-Up: Anthropic Confirms Human Error
    https://x.com/bcherny/status/2039210700657307889?s=20
    Claude Code /Buddy Is Now Live
    https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2039424476262355294?s=20
    April Fools' Fake Post About the Leak Being Fake Goes Viral
    https://x.com/Harish_521/status/2039544042980356505?s=20
    Grok Gets the Puka Nakua Rehab Story Completely Wrong
    https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2039500653425483829?s=20
    HeyGen x Seedance 2.0 Integration
    https://x.com/HeyGen/status/2039628911727030360?s=20
    Seedance 2.0 JSON Prompt Technique
    https://x.com/CharaspowerAI/status/2039704453784191201?s=20
    Gavin's One-Shot Seedance 2.0 Result
    https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2039730049558139217?s=20
  • AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

    The Claude Code Leak Accidentally Revealed AI's Future. Oops.

    2026-04-01 | 28 mins.
    Claude Code's source code just leaked. Frrom always-on autonomous agents to AI dream modes and a tamagotchi pet, Anthropic accidentally showed us the AI future.
    .
    This week on AI For Humans, we break down the massive Claude Code source code leak and what it tells us about where AI is heading. The leaked repo reveals Kairos (an always-on autonomous agent mode), a dream mode for nightly memory consolidation, shared project memory across teams, and a tamagotchi-like AI pet called Buddy. Then the leaks kept coming: a separate Anthropic presentation exposed Mythos, a powerful new model tier above Opus that's already at version 8 internally. Plus, Google drops VEO 3.1 Lite for cheaper and faster AI video, Sync-3 brings next-gen lip sync, a Midjourney developer's Pretext library turns boring web text into interactive art and the internet lost its mind, Disney's Robot Olaf collapses on stage, and Dana White has thoughts about AI.
    ANTHROPIC'S SOURCE CODE GOT LEAKED. LET'S TALK ABOUT IT.
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    // Show Links //
    Claude Code Source Code Leak: What We Know
    https://venturebeat.com/technology/claude-codes-source-code-appears-to-have-leaked-heres-what-we-know
    First Source on the Claude Code Leak
    https://x.com/Fried_rice/status/2038894956459290963?s=20
    Reverse Engineering Claude Code's Source
    https://x.com/iamfakeguru/status/2038965567269249484?s=20
    Undercover Mode Found in Claude Code
    https://x.com/btibor91/status/2038920388369854775?s=20
    Buddy: The Tamagotchi-Like AI Pet in Claude Code
    https://x.com/ShanningZhuang/status/2038952966414311864?s=20
    Anthropic's Mythos Model Leak: Fortune Report
    https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/anthropic-says-testing-mythos-powerful-new-ai-modelafter-data-leak-reveals-its-existence-step-change-in-capabilities/
    Leaked Mythos Blog Post
    https://m1astra-mythos.pages.dev/
    VEO 3.1 Lite: Cheap and Fast AI Video From Google
    https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/veo-3-1-lite/
    Sync-3: Next-Gen Lip Sync
    https://x.com/synclabs_so/status/2039020795171578359?s=20
    Pretext: New Forms of Interactive Text From Midjourney Dev
    https://x.com/_chenglou/status/2037713766205608234?s=20
    Pretext Example: DVD Menu Style
    https://x.com/reathchris/status/2038038252704485851?s=20
    Pretext Example: Super Pretext Bros
    https://x.com/d4m1n/status/2038242983108079638?s=20
    Pretext Example: Video + Interactive Text
    https://x.com/measure_plan/status/2037953730616721775?s=20
    Tetris and Flappy Bird With Your Body
    https://x.com/measure_plan/status/2038996019816305138
    DripWarts: The Potter-Slop Moment
    https://x.com/AIslop_/status/2037371581228372013?s=20
    BlackSnape: More Harry Potter AI Slop
    https://x.com/pierrychan1984/status/2037114083594412332?s=20
    Dana White's Take on AI
    https://x.com/ChampRDS/status/2038096221819052188?s=20

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