AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

A blockbuster New York Times story says the White House may soon require AI models to be approved before public release, with Anthropic's Mythos at the center of it all.
 
This week on AI For Humans, a major New York Times story revealed that the White House may soon require AI models to be approved by the government before public release. Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model appears to be the catalyst. The administration wants to avoid political fallout from any devastating AI-enabled cyberattack and is also evaluating whether new AI models could yield capabilities useful to the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies. Some officials are pushing for a review system that would give the government first access to AI models. Is this AI nationalization? Not quite, but it's the closest we've come. We dig into what this means and whether Anthropic's scare tactics around Mythos worked. 
Sam Altman weighs in on how we get better AI narratives. Even Zach Galifianakis on Conan's podcast went full AI doomer. Plus, AI just outperformed doctors on emergency triage diagnoses in a Harvard trial.
Then, we discuss AI microdramas exploding in China and starting to land in the US (PineDrama, Knocked Up Husband Edition, DJ Grandma in the House), what this means for video production, and Gavin's uprezzed Grape Fall images via ChatGPT Images 2.0. 
Oh and Kevin's moving across the world today, so Friend of the Pod Ben Relles is co-hosting.
AI LOCKDOWN. AI MICRODRAMAS. AI FOR… HUMANS?
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NYT: White House Wants AI Models To Be Approved Before Release
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/technology/trump-ai-models.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
Sam Altman On Better AI Narratives
https://x.com/nxthompson/status/2050696841222623565?s=20
Zach Galifianakis Goes AI Doomer On Conan's Podcast
https://youtu.be/zIXdKMLsPVY?si=tLLaeQLmWCQGPWxn
AI Outperforms Doctors In Emergency Diagnoses (Harvard Trial)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-emergency-triage-diagnoses
NYT: AI Microdramas And The China Backlash
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/world/asia/china-microdrama-ai-backlash.html
PineDrama: Bytedance's Microdrama App On The App Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pinedrama-short-dramas/id6754134922
AI Video Trend Going From Innovative To Saturated (TikTok)
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTktBJAtb/
Gavin's Uprezzed Grape Fall Images via ChatGPT Images 2.0
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2050976861409431825?s=20

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The AI robots are coming! We're finally seeing the next stage of AI come to fruition robotics (even in America) as manufacturing and capabilities of humanoids speeds up.
This week on AI For Humans, robots just hit their ChatGPT moment. Eka Robotics' robotic hand grabbed a raspberry at incredible speed, and Wired is calling it the moment when robots became as transformative as ChatGPT was for text. Figure Robotics is now manufacturing one robot per hour. 1x just opened a factory targeting 10,000 robots per year. American robotics manufacturing is finally catching up to China after years of falling behind. 
We dig into why physical AI is the next big thing and walk through the most impressive recent demos including MotuBrain's new world action model, KAI Robotics' touching but slightly terrifying video out of China, and Neuralink doing robot-assisted surgeries. 
Plus, the White House is now fighting Anthropic again because they want MORE access to the Mythos model. Sam Altman launched GPT-5.5 Cyber. Grok dropped a new Imagine video agent. And then there's the strangest story of the week: OpenAI dropped a full blog post explaining why their models keep being obsessed with goblins, and we explain why it matters and what it tells us about how these models actually work. 
And, our inaugural Sloppies Award Show kicks off with the first nominee: Amazon's AI voice product overviews, featuring the now-legendary diaper rash cream review. 
ROBOTS. GOBLINS. DIAPER RASH CREAM. OH MY.
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1x Robot Factory: 10,000 Robots Per Year
https://www.1x.tech/manufacturing
1x Tech Manufacturing Announcement
https://x.com/1x_tech/status/2049855122612924562?s=20
Figure Robotics: One Robot Per Hour
https://x.com/Figure_robot/status/2049513959594885151?s=20
Eka Robotics
https://ekarobotics.com/
Wired: I've Covered Robots For Years. This One Is Different.
https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/
Neo Carrying Case Demo
https://x.com/BerntBornich/status/2049579663190798721?s=20
KAI Robotics' Touching and Terrifying Video From China
https://x.com/Cointelegraph/status/2049785832379236788?s=20
Eren Chen AI Robotics Video
https://x.com/ErenChenAI/status/2049810496560263558?s=20
White House Opposes Anthropic's Mythos Expansion Plan
https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2049688119650451607?s=20
White House vs Anthropic: WSJ Coverage
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/white-house-opposes-anthropics-plan-to-expand-access-to-mythos-model-dc281ab5
Trump and Anthropic Pentagon AI Executive Order (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/29/trump-anthropic-pentagon-ai-executive-order-gov
Sam Altman Announces GPT-5.5 Cyber
https://x.com/sama/status/2049712078836170843?s=20
Grok Imagine Video Agent
https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2049649752699249019?s=20
Gavin's Grok Imagine Experiment
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2049867544945983966?s=20
OpenAI's Where The Goblins Came From Blog Post
https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/
The Codex System Prompt That Forbids Talking About Goblins
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/openai-codex-system-prompt-includes-explicit-directive-to-never-talk-about-goblins/
Original Tweet That Brought Goblins To Everyone's Attention
https://x.com/arb8020/status/2048958391637401718?s=20
Sloppies Nominee: Amazon's AI Podcast Diaper Rash Cream Review
https://x.com/katienotopoulos/status/2049549142150598798
Gavin's Reaction To The Amazon AI Podcast
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2049728740176142591?s=20

The Wall Street Journal reported OpenAI missed its end-of-year billion-active-user target. Is the AI bubble actually popping or is the panic overblown? 
This week on AI For Humans, the AI bubble panic hit a fever pitch after a Wall Street Journal report revealed OpenAI missed its weekly user, monthly revenue, and end-of-year billion-active-user targets. CFO Sarah Friar reportedly told peers she's worried OpenAI won't be able to pay for future compute contracts if revenue doesn't accelerate, and the board is now scrutinizing Sam Altman's deals more closely. 
AI stocks crashed, with Oracle, AMD, and CoreWeave all sinking on the news. Anthropic is eating into OpenAI's market share on coding and enterprise. We dig into whether the bubble is actually popping or whether this is a panic that conflates AI capability with the business of AI. Spoiler: we don't think it's over. 
Plus, DeepSeek v4 launched and made surprisingly small waves. OpenAI's deal with Microsoft expanded to other clouds. Meanwhile, AI itself is absolutely not slowing down: Tom Cruise is running faster than ever in a viral video, OpenAI dropped a new Chappie-style voice interaction, Claude got a Blender connector for 3D modeling, NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni with 30B parameters and 256K context, and Talkie is an LLM trained entirely on 1880s text. 
OPENAI MISSED ITS NUMBERS. IS THIS THE BUBBLE? YES. NO. SHRUG EMOJI?
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WSJ: OpenAI Misses Key Revenue and User Targets
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-misses-key-revenue-user-targets-in-high-stakes-sprint-toward-ipo-94a95273
AI Stocks Sink on OpenAI News (Yahoo Finance)
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/oracle-amd-and-coreweave-stocks-sink-after-report-says-openai-missed-sales-user-targets-130600628.html
DeepSeek v4 Launch
https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/2047516922263285776?s=20
Sam Altman: OpenAI's Microsoft Deal Expands to Other Clouds
https://x.com/sama/status/2048755148361707946?s=20
Kwindla's Smart Take on AI's Importance
https://x.com/kwindla/status/2049161481149935668?s=20
Tom Cruise Runs Faster: Viral AI Video
https://x.com/Le_Chuck_81/status/2049027447304196297?s=20
New Chappie-Style Voice Interaction From OpenAI
https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2048871260512473385?s=20
Blender Connector From Claude
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2049143438281445811?s=20
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Announcement
https://x.com/NVIDIAAI/status/2049159441870717428?s=20
Talkie: LLM Trained on 1880s Text
https://x.com/status_effects/status/2048878495539843211?s=20

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OpenAI's flagship AI model GPT-5.5 is here. It's smarter, faster, cheaper, better at long-running tasks and…oh boy, everything just changed again.
This week on AI For Humans, OpenAI dropped state-of-the-art GPT-5.5 and it's not just another model release, it's the start of a much faster iterative rollout. Sam Altman and Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki both said to expect significantly more releases going forward, admitting the last few years have been surprisingly slow. It may not be Anthropic Mythos numbers but it's actually here.
We walk through the benchmarks, the viral OpenAI dev video about being able to be lazy and letting the model figure things out, and incredible projects people built in the first 24 hours: a full toy railway simulation, Sebastien Bubeck's Unicorn Test, a UFO tank game, and Gavin's Animal Game spun up in 30 minutes. 
Plus, Codex got a bunch of new features including browser use and docs. OpenAI shared agents in ChatGPT. More ChatGPT Images 2.0 examples keep dropping. I mean… it's a LOT.
GPT-5.5 IS HERE. THE AI RACE JUST GOT FASTER. VROOM VROOM.
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GPT-5.5 Official Announcement From OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/
Sam Altman's GPT-5.5 Launch Tweet
https://x.com/sama/status/2047378254575685707?s=20
OpenAI Dev Video: Being Lazy With GPT-5.5
https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2047377079352877534?s=20
Codex Gets a Bunch of New Features
https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2047387017974337611?s=20
Codex Update Video From OpenAI Devs
https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2047381283358355706?s=20
Shared Agents Announced in ChatGPT
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2047008987665809771?s=20
GPT-5.5 vs 5.4 Toy Railway Comparison
https://x.com/petergostev/status/2047376725106131014?s=20
Sebastien Bubeck's Unicorn Test
https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/2047383628922167390?s=20
UFO Tank Game Built With GPT-5.5
https://x.com/intheworldofai/status/2047383340483821798?s=20
Where's Waldo Prompt Test
https://x.com/JeffLadish/status/2046839551403176251?s=20
Gavin's NFL Draft ChatGPT Images 2.0 Test
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2047203603757367426?s=20

OpenAI just dropped ChatGPT Images 2.0 (GPT Image 2) and it's by far the new #1 AI image model. 2K resolution, multi-language support, incredible text rendering, and yes, it can write on individual grains of rice.
This week on AI For Humans, OpenAI dropped ChatGPT Images 2.0 (GPT Images 2) and it instantly took the #1 spot on the Arena leaderboard, beating Nano Banana 2 by a significant margin. The new model generates images up to 2K resolution, handles multiple languages including non-Latin scripts like Japanese, Korean, and Hindi, and excels at image-to-image editing. There's a standard instant mode and a thinking mode for paid users that can search the web and double-check its work. 
We walk through the best examples so far: Simon Willison's Where's Waldo test, Ethan Mollick's otter benchmark, Gavin's own periodic table test and his AI For Humans in 2045 screenshot. Plus, the OpenAI livestream moment where the model wrote text on individual grains of rice went viral.
Elsewhere, SpaceX just bought Cursor for $60 billion to build the new xAI and take on OpenAI and Anthropic for coding and knowledge work. Suno became the #1 music download in the world. And we've got HyperFrames, a cool new way to make motion graphics with Claude Code or Codex.
CHATGPT IMAGES 2.0 IS THE NEW IMAGE KING. WHAT A WEEK.
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ChatGPT Images 2.0 Official Announcement From OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/
ChatGPT Images 2.0 Launch Tweet
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2046665696898412887?s=20
ChatGPT Images 2.0 Live Stream
https://www.youtube.com/live/sWkGomJ3TLI?si=PS_P3Fm82er5V5iU
Simon Willison's Where's Waldo Test
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/21/gpt-image-2/
1990s Magazine Cover Example
https://x.com/nlw/status/2046667875507658769?s=20
Ethan Mollick's Otter Test
https://x.com/emollick/status/2046665274535854146?s=20
Gavin's YT Screenshot of AI For Humans in 2045
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2046608542304817214?s=20
Gavin's Periodic Table Test
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2046617366600335476?s=20
Sam Altman as Robert Oppenheimer Example
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2046664500192194596?s=20
The Absolute Worst Meal
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2046620227614704076?s=20
SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60 Billion
https://www.reuters.com/technology/spacex-says-it-has-option-acquire-startup-cursor-60-billion-2026-04-21/
Suno Is Now the #1 Music Download in the World
https://x.com/MikeyShulman/status/2046597665152966682?s=20
HyperFrames: Motion Graphics With Claude Code or Codex
https://x.com/liu8in/status/2045251157472559222?s=20
Gavin's Highlighter Example
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2045892975360970997?s=20