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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 from Reve and Ideogram, ElevenLabs teams with Hasbro to license character voices, and a quantum chip breakthrough. This week on AI For Humans, it's Hot Agent Summer and even stuffy Microsoft is going all-in. We break down everything from Microsoft Build 2026: Project Solara pushing agents into small devices, SCOUT, their OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant for Windows, and a fresh family of seven MAI models trained with no synthetic data and no distillation. Then we get into the agent interfaces beyond Microsoft (Town), the wild stat that bots have now passed humans for internet traffic, new image models from Reve 2.0 and a now open-source Ideogram 4.0, ElevenLabs partnering with Hasbro on licensed character voices like Optimus Prime, a quantum chip breakthrough, and the Chipotle chatbot that got left wide open. Roll out, humans. It's AI For Humans! IT'S HOT AGENT SUMMER. AND THE AI AGENTS ARE WINNING. SHOW LINKS Microsoft Project Solara pushes AI agents into smart devices (Build 2026): https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-project-solara-push-ai-agents-into-smart-devices-build-2026 Project Solara in the Build keynote: https://www.youtube.com/live/FFMm454fxNA?t=2216 Microsoft launches SCOUT, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-launches-scout-an-openclaw-inspired-personal-assistant/ Town, a really good professionalized agent harness ($50/month): https://x.com/jgreze/status/2062178651450548549 Bots have now surpassed human traffic on the internet: https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2062212701414187452 Robot kicks kid in the stomach: https://x.com/ErenChenAI/status/2061899552571965573 Microsoft launches the new MAI family of models at Build: https://mashable.com/tech/microsoft-launches-new-mai-family-of-models-at-build Why the MAI tech report is a gold mine (zero synthetic data, no distillation): https://x.com/eliebakouch/status/2061965825037254947 Future tech: Majorana 2 quantum chip, 1000x more reliable than before: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4p7gyvp52o Hasbro launching an AI studio to license its stable of characters: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/hasbro-launching-ai-studio-license-characters-interactive-1236612854/ Reve 2.0, billed as the best 4k image model: https://x.com/reve/status/2062260665121919101 Ideogram 4.0 is now open source: https://x.com/ideogram_ai/status/2062202208700313872 Ideogram 4.0 examples (venturetwins): https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2062207215961014735 Ideogram 4.0 examples (btibor91): https://x.com/btibor91/status/2062261137987834238 Ideogram 4.0 examples (micha): https://x.com/micha/status/2062225792315031698 MisoOne open-source voice model responds faster than a human: https://x.com/AodenTeoMT/status/2062204362102100295 Chipotle's unsecured chatbot endpoints get exploited: https://x.com/thdxr/status/20618285647737409
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 For Humans, Martin Scorsese has become an AI filmmaker. Well, sort of. The legendary director is now advising Black Forest Labs, joining a growing list of major filmmakers discussing AI as a tool, even as the backlash rages on and cartoonists face death threats. We get into where AI filmmaking goes from here, why Jorge Gutierrez dropped his AI-generated series after backlash, and the genuinely incredible AI creators pushing the form forward right now. Then: NVIDIA and Microsoft spent three years cooking up the RTX Spark to reinvent personal computing, and Gavin let Codex's goal tool run for 45 hours to make a bear get extra jumpy. It is AI For Humans! HOLLYWOOD IS GOING AI WHETHER IT LIKES IT OR NOT. WE THINK? Come to our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ SHOW LINKS Martin Scorsese joins Black Forest Labs as an advisor: https://bfl.ai/martin-scorsese-bfl-advisor Jorge Gutierrez drops out of Amazon MGM AI-generated series after backlash: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/jorge-gutierrez-drops-out-amazon-mgm-ai-generated-series-backlash-1236762285/ Gossip Goblin's 'Toe Brigade' short: https://youtube.com/shorts/hB8_vGQ4bhs Furufuru & The Gorilla (the Japanese creator putting himself into movies): https://x.com/ai_am_furufuru/status/2061793575000744029 Kavan The Kid's latest, Chronicle of Bone: https://youtu.be/y7gIoHq-YDo Sopranos AI meme: https://x.com/memechaotic/status/2061170850959647215 jboogxcreative live stream on how to make AI movies (hugely educational): https://www.youtube.com/live/fCmCqdUjo-Q NVIDIA's Nemotron 3, the best American open-source AI: https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2061304911565144230 New MiniMax M3: https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2061266317815296322 PewDiePie's open-source agentic harness: https://youtu.be/rAzT5lcezPs NVIDIA RTX Spark claims to reinvent the PC: https://www.ign.com/articles/nvidia-announces-the-rtx-spark-claims-to-reinvent-the-pc Gavin's Codex /goal experiment: https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2061639229709652403 Gavin's bear-jump experiment published on Vercel: https://bear-jump-port.vercel.app/
Anthropic just shipped Claude Opus 4.8: warmer, a little smarter, same price. But the real story is Claude Mythos, the bigger AI model coming to everyone in weeks. This week on AI For Humans: Claude Opus 4.8 landed and it's a little smarter, a lot warmer, and somehow the same price. A solid but incremental bump. Then Anthropic buried the lede: Claude Mythos, an even more powerful model class held back only by cybersecurity safeguards, is coming to everyone in weeks. The upgrade you got isn't the one to watch. Plus: Amazon greenlights three generative AI projects and the haters rejoice (and threaten), ElevenLabs brings Stan Lee's voice to its Iconic Voices library, Hideo Kojima gets called out for AI, Spielberg draws his line in the AI sand, and Gavin unveils The Fishbowl, his small AI experiment. THE NEXT ONE'S ALWAYS BIGGER. THAT'S WHAT… NO I MUST NOT. Come to our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ SHOW LINKS Claude Opus 4.8 announced (Anthropic): https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8 Spielberg on where he draws the line with AI (Deadline): https://deadline.com/2026/05/steven-spielberg-where-draw-the-line-ai-1236928790/ Amazon MGM greenlights three generative AI projects (Variety): https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/amazon-mgm-studios-genai-creators-fund-greenlights-series-1236759131/ Jorge R. Gutierrez AI Statement https://x.com/ToonHive/status/2059727130737459424?s=20 Kojima Getting Dragged For Prada? https://x.com/N icolasWR/status/2059283401115377904?s=20 Stan Lee joins ElevenLabs Iconic Voices: https://elevenlabs.io/app/iconic-voices https://x.com/ElevenLabs/status/2059668042695516628?s=20 ElevenLabs Dubbing v2 https://x.com/NevFlynn/status/2060030429038625175?s=20 Gavin's Fishbowl project: https://fishbowl.show/
Pope Leo XIV just released his first encyclical and picked a side in the AI war. AND He brought Chris Olah, the co-founder of Anthropic, on stage to launch it. On this special solo episode of AI For Humans, Gavin breaks down the Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo's first encyclical, what it actually says about AI, why Anthropic was invited to stand next to the Pope at the launch (does he love Claude Code??), and what the next 5-10 years look like when 1.3 billion Catholics, every other major religion, and every labor union on Earth gets handed a moral framework for the AI debate. Plus: why this Pope picked the name Leo, what 1891's Rerum Novarum has to do with 2026, and the prediction that ethical AI might soon be defined by clergy instead of engineers. SHOW LINKS: Magnifica Humanitas: The Full Text https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html Chris Olah's Remarks at the Vatican (Anthropic) https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclical Pope Leo Warns of AI Fueling Warfare (CNN) https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/europe/pope-leo-ai-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas-intl Pope Calls for Robust AI Regulation (PBS NewsHour) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/pope-calls-for-robust-regulation-of-ai-in-manifesto-that-ponders-the-future-of-humanity Rerum Novarum (1891) - Pope Leo XIII's Original Encyclical https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html
Thanks to HP & Intel for sponsoring us! More on the Zbook Fury https://bit.ly/4uapNHs Spotify just made AI music official. They cut a deal with Universal Music Group for AI-enhanced and remixed tracks and we all know where this goes. This week on AI For Humans, Spotify officially crossed the line. They announced a sweeping deal with record labels, distributors, and music publishers to bring AI music tools to the platform, complete with fan-remix features that use real artist voices and tracks. They also rolled out AI-generated personal podcasts and launched Studio by Spotify, a standalone AI creation app. Gavin and Kevin break down why this changes everything for music, who actually signs up, and why the fan backlash is just beginning. Meanwhile, a Higgsfield AI feature film just premiered at Cannes for $500,000 total cost, but $400,000 of that was pure AI compute, raising big questions about what the new economics of filmmaking actually look like. Plus, an unreleased OpenAI general LLM model disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry that had stood for 80 years, the best new Google Omni prompts and practices and a humanoid robot fail that traveled the entire internet IS IT TIME TO PANIC? NO, SAYS THESE TWO MORONS. // Show Links // Spotify's Official Announcement: Artist-First AI Music Collaboration https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-10-16/artist-first-ai-music-spotify-collaboration/ Billboard Coverage Of The Spotify AI Music Deal https://x.com/billboard/status/2057479053649600917?s=20 Spotify's AI-Generated Personal Podcasts (Hollywood Reporter) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/spotify-ai-generated-personal-podcasts-1236603314/ Higgsfield Cannes Film: $500K To Make, $400K Was AI Compute https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/this-cannes-film-cost-500-000-to-make-400-000-was-ai-compute-costs-a823b08d?mod=e2tw The Impact Of AI In Four Charts https://x.com/marcportermagee/status/2057000000000000000?s=20 Google Omni Horseback Riding Prompt https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2057489859615605244?s=20 FoFR Animals With Google Omni https://x.com/fofrAI/status/2057281646270026097 FoFR Rooster Dog https://x.com/fofrAI/status/2057290425170616754?s=20 Clean Up The Alley Prompt https://x.com/nmatares/status/2057143283357569280?s=20 Ogre Walks On Stage https://x.com/maxescu/status/2057169603001004400?s=20 US Gov Poster Situation https://x.com/usedgov/status/2056839488152670378?s=20 OpenAI Model Disproves Central Conjecture In Discrete Geometry https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/ Noam Brown's Post About The OpenAI Breakthrough https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2057178198228586824?s=20 The Humanoid Robot Fail That Traveled The Internet https://x.com/adamcurtisbroll/status/2057050384166764826?s=20 Ben Relles Launches Make Believe (Hollywood Reporter) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/new-interactive-ai-startup-make-believe-ben-relles-1236602882/
Google I/O 2026 just dropped Gemini Omni, a world-model AI that simulates physics, edits video, and might be the biggest leap since Seedance 2. But it's not perfect. Gavin and Kevin break down everything from Google I/O 2026, including the launch of Gemini Omni (Google's new world model), Gemini 3.5 Flash benchmarks against GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7, the Gemini Spark personal agent, AskYouTube, Docs Live, new AI glasses, the first search box redesign in 25 years, and the shocking news that Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic. SHOW LINKS: Google I/O 2026 Full Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/live/wYSncx9zLIU?si=Nb881MfGTlf1Q0II Gemini Omni physics demos from Google DeepMind: https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2056786449312493669?s=20 Gemini Omni's incredible London knowledge (via fofrAI): https://x.com/fofrAI/status/2056789242274259242?s=20 Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis on Omni video editing: https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2056524502746747048?s=20 Gavin's hands-on Gemini Omni experiments: https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2056762427879182692?s=20 Gemini Omni's character cameo feature (less impressive): https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2056772793539481830?s=20 Gemini Omni volleyball fail: https://x.com/flavioAd/status/2056771223359549645?s=20 Google's new Content Credentials Verification: https://x.com/Google/status/2056787498676658576?s=20 Genie 3 IRL — Google's world model now simulates real streets with Street View: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/googles-genie-world-model-can-now-simulate-real-streets-with-street-view/ Bilawal Sidhu on Genie 3 IRL: https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2056804315721843024?s=20 Gemini 3.5 Flash launches — official announcement: https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/2056788115893993701?s=20 Gemini Spark — Google's new personal coding agent: https://x.com/Google/status/2056791134295273554?s=20 Google's new AI glasses https://x.com/backlon/status/2056807059707036050?s=20 Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to focus on recursive self-learning: https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy-andrej-claude
Thanks to @HPInc & Intel for sponsoring us! More on the Zbook Fury https://bit.ly/4uapNHs Google I/O is next week and the AI leaks are pouring out: a new Spark agent, Veo 4 Omni, Gemini 3.2 Flash that's reportedly 20x cheaper than GPT-5.5. This week on AI For Humans, Google is cooking again and the I/O leaks are stacking up. We dig into Google Spark, a new Gemini agent that may have access to your entire digital life. Veo 4 Omni model leaks suggest deeper reasoning and character consistency, and the model gets math right. Gemini 3.2 Flash is rumored to deliver 90% of GPT-5.5's capability at a fraction of the cost and dramatically faster speeds. There's a new GoogleBook with Gemini built in. And Google is reinventing the mouse cursor, the input device that's been largely unchanged since 1968, with voice AI. Plus, Thinking Machines dropped voice interactivity demos that feel a lot like ChatGPT Voice from two years ago. OpenAI is reportedly already working on GPT-5.6, and Sam Altman is giving away two free months of Codex to companies to drive adoption. Gavin's been experimenting with local open-source LLMs and shares his setup. AND…we get into the data center sickness conversation: infrasound from data centers may be causing cortisol spikes in nearby communities. Figure 03's package sorting livestream proved the robot is autonomous after skeptics accused it of being teleoperated. Unitree dropped a transformable robot. AI KEEPING US UP AT NIGHT. NO MATTER. WE COOK. // Show Links // Google Spark: Gemini's Agent With Access To Your Life https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2054855742247584231?s=20 Veo 4 Omni Model Leaks: Gets Math Right https://x.com/TomLikesRobots/status/2053845600051798065?s=20 More Veo 4 Omni Examples https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2053718756799467735?s=20 Omni Model Added To Gemini Web Build https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2054196983523393857?s=20 Gemini 3.2 Flash At 90% Of GPT-5.5 For Way Less https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2054887891222802633?s=20 New GoogleBook With Gemini Built In https://x.com/Google/status/2054270454467121187?s=20 Google DeepMind: Rethinking The Mouse Cursor With Voice AI https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer Thinking Machines Voice Interactivity Demos https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/ Sam Altman: Two Months Of Free Codex For Companies https://x.com/sama/status/2054626219858293128?s=20 Data Center Sickness: Ben Jordan's Video On Infrasound https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo Figure 03 Package Sorting Livestream https://www.youtube.com/live/luU57hMhkak?si=KZHwUdYUwY4SIRUp Brett Adcock: Figure 03 Was Not Teleoperated https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2054737974710169840?s=20 Unitree Transformable Robot https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/2054067819634159622?s=20
Anthropic signed a compute partnership with SpaceX, with Elon Musk personally signing off. Months ago he said Anthropic hates Western Civilization. Um, what? This week on AI For Humans, in one of the wildest plot twists of the year, Anthropic announced a major compute partnership with SpaceX. Elon Musk personally tweeted that he spent time with the senior Anthropic team, was impressed, and approved leasing Colossus 1 to Anthropic since SpaceXAI had moved training to Colossus 2. The partnership came alongside Anthropic's massive Code with Claude keynote, where they unveiled a wave of new features including Dreaming, where Claude reviews its past sessions and updates its own memory, Multi-Agent Orchestration, where a lead agent delegates to specialist sub-agents, Routines that let Claude Code kick things off for you, Outcomes that let you specify success and Claude iterates until it's there, Auto-Fix, Webhooks, Async Coding, and Remote Control to code from mobile. Plus, Claude Code rate limits doubled for Pro, Max, Team, and Seat-Based Enterprise plans. Meanwhile, OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.5 Instant to everyone, and a new voice model is incoming and sounds incredibly good. Spotify launched Save-To-Spotify, an AI agent that creates personalized podcasts. Google's Gemini Nano is coming by default. iRobot creator's Familiars AI robot pet launched. GENE-26.5 is cooking. There's a robot monk in South Korea. And the world's best text exchanges are between Sam Altman and Mira Murati. ANTHROPIC AND SPACEX TEAMED UP. CLAUDE GOT MASSIVE NEW FEATURES. WHAT A WEEK. Come to our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ // Show Links // Anthropic Announces Higher Limits And SpaceX Partnership https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex Reuters: Anthropic Unveils Dreaming Feature For AI Agents https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/anthropic-unveils-dreaming-feature-help-its-ai-agents-self-improve-2026-05-06/ Dario Amodei On The SpaceX Compute Partnership https://x.com/trq212/status/2052250816720056604?s=20 Code With Claude Full Keynote Video https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2052055459272761661?s=20 Claude Managed Agents https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2052069321355182447?s=20 New OpenAI Voice Model Incoming And Sounds Very Good https://x.com/flowersslop/status/2051741508177649934?s=20 GPT-5.5 Instant Rolls Out To Everyone https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2051709028250915275?s=20 The World's Best Text Exchanges (Sam Altman And Mira Murati) https://x.com/TechEmails/status/2052160627884560828?s=20 Gavin Tries To Get The Voice Model Working https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2052279126153982113?s=20 Spotify Launches Save-To-Spotify Personal Podcasts https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-05-07/personal-podcasts-launch/ Familiars Coverage From Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/roombas-creator-is-making-an-ai-robot-pet-that-cant-lie-to-you-2000754646 Familiars Already Going Bad https://x.com/gavinpurcell/sta
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