AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

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 week on AI For Humans, China is not just catching up in AI, it is pushing the edge. We break down everything Seedance 2.5 can do and why a 30-second single-pass clip is a real leap, then dig into the American slowdown as Fable 5 stays unusable and the rumor mill points to a big delay week.
Plus Theo Von's surprisingly intense anti-datacenter rant, OpenAI's claim that China is behind the anti-datacenter conversation, Meta leaking private employee data across the entire company, and Google teaming with A24 on a 75 million dollar AI filmmaking partnership. We close with AI that actually works, including how Gavin used beehiiv's MCP to build a newsletter survey and Kevin's homemade language-learning app.
CHINA IS COOKING. AMERICA IS LOADING. PLEASE WAIT.
 
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Seedance 2.5 unveiled, coming in July
https://x.com/andrewcurran_/status/2069263703569297618
Seedance 2.5 video
https://x.com/chrissgpt/status/2069268923002789908
Example: Old Man Eating Sand Seedance 2.0 4K
https://x.com/Solopopsss/status/2069400899814875535
Another Seedance 2.5 example
https://x.com/IamEmily2050/status/2069295329246347283
Seedance 2.0 4K is in the API
https://x.com/BytePlusGlobal/status/2069228410422079665
Rumor mill: OpenAI-5.6 Delayed (unconfirmed scoop)
https://x.com/synthwavedd/status/2069432791184650426
Prediction markets on Fable's return (Zvi Mowshowitz)
https://x.com/TheZvi/status/2069401055033455042
Funny fake rap from OpenAI's new Bidi-2 model
https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2069440678967345390
Theo Von: Nobody Wants A Datacenter Dude
https://x.com/MarcoFoster_/status/2068865231439200585
OpenAI: China-linked influence ops targeting AI debates
https://openai.com/index/prc-linked-influence-operations-ai-debates/
Meta leaks private employee data across the company
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-training-data-leak-exposed-employee-activity-across-company-2026-6
Google + A24's $75M AI filmmaking partnership
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/deepmind-a24-research-partnership/
Variety on the Google + A24 deal
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/google-a24-ai-filmmaking-tools-1236787297/
AI That Actually Works: Gavin used beehiiv's MCP to build a newsletter survey
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2069091462328066518
https://product.beehiiv.com/p/beehiiv-mcp

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 has arrived.
This week on AI For Humans, Midjourney does the most unexpected pivot of the year, trading anime babes for anatomy with a new AI driven full body scanner. Is the era of AI actually changing science finally here? We break down why this hardware is a big deal, Plus, Snapchat's SPECS are coming but they are expensive and… kind of ugly, Unreal Engine 5.8 ships with MCP support, and the AI talent wars heat up as Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI. Oh, and Claude Fable 5 might be back soon. Maybe.
AI IS COMING FOR YOUR ORGANS. IN A GOOD WAY. WE THINK.
SHOW LINKS
Midjourney's New AI Driven Full Body Scanner
https://x.com/midjourney/status/2067421950314688759
Midjourney Medical blog post
https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost
Technical deep dive video
https://x.com/midjourney/status/2067422898407837797
Hank Green's excited but check yourself post
https://x.com/hankgreen/status/2067471250159448305
Eric Topol with some healthy skepticism
https://x.com/EricTopol/status/2067607995882799169
Anthropic confident Fable 5 access returns in coming days
https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/anthropic-confident-of-reenabling-mythos-fable-5-access-in-coming-days-executive/12727522
Former Trump official Dean Ball heads to OpenAI
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/18/dean-ball-openai
Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/star-google-ai-researcher-shazeer-joins-openai
Snapchat SPECS first look
https://x.com/NathieVR/status/2066967928495640729
Funny edit of the CNBC SPECS interview
https://x.com/bubbleboi/status/2067490438144254055
Unreal Engine 5.8 ships with MCP support
https://x.com/UnrealEngine/status/2067251500900839735
Headroom
https://x.com/tonysimons_/status/2067082761605648858
Personal Training Prompts
https://x.com/Hawks0x/status/2039438255653806526

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 week on AI For Humans, Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is still unavailable and the explanations keep changing. We dig into the contested jailbreak report, the export-control directive that pulled it, and the reporting that Amazon raised concerns before the crackdown. Then we get into why this matters far beyond one model: what happens when the government steps into the AI world, why Fable 5 was such a leap, and what it signals for whatever comes next. Plus, Epic's game designers are using AI tools alongside artists and the internet is furious, Disney Imagineering is testing Adobe Firefly in the parks, ChatGPT's market share slips under 50 percent for the first time, a fake Mistral model called Le Chaton Fat takes over the internet, and PJ Accetturo breaks down exactly how he made his viral AI short film with prompts.
THE BEST AI WE EVER USED IS BEHIND BARS. AND NOW WE WAIT.
SHOW LINKS
Original Anthropic statement on Fable and Mythos access
https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
Full timeline of the Anthropic, Amazon, and White House story
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/13/anthropic-amazon-white-house
Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before the government crackdown
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/amazon-ceo-reportedly-raised-anthropic-model-concerns-before-government-crackdown/
Simon Willison on the contested Fable jailbreak report
https://x.com/simonw/status/2066722034491789720
ChatGPT market share slips below 50 percent for the first time
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/chatgpts-market-share-slips-below-50-for-first-time/
GPT-5.6 next week? Polymarket odds
https://x.com/Polymarket/status/2066644087340495081
Possible new ChatGPT voice mode leak
https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2066919098236146167
Space X Buys Cursor
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/spacex-spcx-cursor-acquisition-ipo.html
Epic explores using NanoBanana and GPT-Image-2 in workflows with humans
https://x.com/UnrealEngine/status/2066686216779509850
SEGA's Crazy Taxi AI statement
https://x.com/SEGAInforment/status/2063990392085766622
PJ Accetturo breaks down how he made his three minute short film with prompts
https://x.com/PJaccetturo/status/2066582776934289438
Le Chaton Fat, the fake Mistral model that took over the internet
https://x.com/AlexanderKnigge/status/2066267845546442762

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 on AI For Humans, Gavin Purcell and Kevin Pereira break down everything you need to know about Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model in Anthropic's frontier Mythos class. We share our own hands-on impressions, look at the one-shot demos blowing up the internet, and get into the messy parts too: the token burn complaints, the trigger-happy safety guardrails that route some prompts to Opus 4.8, and the reversal Anthropic made after the community pushed back. Plus, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a major essay on AI policy and the exponential, OpenAI is reportedly considering steep price cuts as both companies race toward IPOs.
WE GOT CLAUDE'D. AGAIN. 
SHOW LINKS:
The New York Times on Fable 5 and the restricted Mythos tier
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/technology/anthropic-ai-claude-fable-mythos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pVA.Seef.OnUcRl8LJLhI&smid=url-share
Dario Amodei's new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential
https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential
Dario Amodei's full interview with Emily Chang at Bloomberg
https://youtu.be/v1wZwxY3CMg
Fable 5 still fails at Pac-Man puns (Gavin's test)
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2064476395741618239
Kradle's DEATH ROOM eval shows Fable lies, a lot
https://x.com/kradleai/status/2064907897373642912
A very funny Fable 5 guardrails example from Cloudflare's Matthew Prince
https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2064791153396846821
Robert Scoble's list of everyone big mad at the Fable 5 launch
https://x.com/Scobleizer/status/2064641097310335294
Anthropic changes Fable 5 guardrails after community backlash (Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/anthropic-apologizes-for-one-of-the-guardrails-on-its-fable-5-model-and-will-change-it-2000770365
Anthropic's official statement on safety flags and when Fable reverts to Opus 4.8
https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2064949876463645026
The wild Anthropic code-per-engineer chart
https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2062568864240836995
OpenAI weighs slashing prices as Anthropic competition heats up (CNBC on the WSJ report)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/openai-mulls-slashing-prices-ahead-of-competition-from-anthropic-wsj.html
How Fable 5 edited its own launch video
https://x.com/trq212/status/2064826394589442448
Fable 5 one-shots a web analytics game
https://x.com/marclou/status/2065029898243318093
Fable 5 builds a Level Devil clone in one prompt
https://x.com/LexnLin/status/2064450732850348518
Gavin's Fable 5 token burn game
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2064884021428187162
 
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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.
This week on AI For Humans, the Mythos era goes public. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first commercially available Mythos-class model and the first in the new Claude 5 line. It is the same underlying model as Mythos but shipped with conservative safeguards, questions about cybersecurity and biology get routed to Claude Opus 4.8 instead. We dig into what it can do, why Anthropic held it back, and what our future looks like as we get closer to AGI. 
Then Apple goes AI again at WWDC: a profoundly revamped Siri AI, a dedicated Siri app, on-screen awareness, much better photo tools, and a foundation model setup that is local, multimodal, and partly powered by Google. Gavin is thrilled that the future has finally arrived, just not on the phone he bought last year. It is AI For Humans!
THE MOST POWERFUL AI EVER RELEASED. WHAT COULD GO WRONG.
SHOW LINKS
Anthropic announces Claude Fable 5:
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5
Dan Shipper's review of Fable 5:
https://x.com/danshipper/status/2064393970856124501
Usable Fable 5 demo (Library of Babel):
https://library-of-babel-iota.vercel.app/
Rumored Fable 5 preview: Minecraft build (XIVIX):
https://x.com/XIVIX_134/status/2062972363084341341
Rumored Fable 5 preview (chetaslua):
https://x.com/chetaslua/status/2063328265708896621
Rumored Fable 5 preview (testingcatalog):
https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2062915688134574173
Fable 5 voxel Power Rangers comparison:
https://x.com/Lentils80/status/2064379168272642315
Noam Brown on the implications of scaling test-time compute:
https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2064210146558136827
WWDC full presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/live/hF8swzNR1-o
Apple introduces Siri AI, a profoundly more capable and personal assistant:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/apple-introduces-siri-ai-a-profoundly-more-capable-and-personal-assistant/
Apple says its new Google-infused AI is all about privacy:
https://gizmodo.com/apple-says-its-new-google-infused-ai-is-all-about-privacy-2000768997
An actually useful Apple Intelligence use case:
https://x.com/iupdate/status/2064078761856037112
Put a summary in your summary (notification summaries):
https://x.com/i_zzzzzz/status/2064061955447406722
Gaussian splats coming to Apple Maps:
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2064057313057439795