AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

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.
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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

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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.
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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.
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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

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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.
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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