AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

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

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. 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/   // 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

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

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. 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 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

OpenAI's Path to AGI: Kill Sora, Launch a Potato

OpenAI killed Sora, cancelled Spicy Chat, and went all in on enterprise and AGI. Their next frontier model is called Spud. Yes, like the potato.  This week on AI For Humans, we dig into OpenAI's massive pivot as they kill Sora entirely, cancel their Disney deal, shut down 'Citrus Mode', and go full defense mode against Anthropic. Their next hope? A new frontier model called Spud that Sam Altman says could accelerate the economy. Plus, Google drops Gemini 3.1 Flash Live with better audio and video agents, Google's new Lyra3 Pro model brings AI-generated music and audio, Mistral launches an open-source voice model, Runway debuts multi-shot video, Meta reveals TRIBE v2 which can predict your thoughts from brain scans, a fully autonomous ping-pong robot called SMASH, and CapCut is ready to grab all that Sora traffic. OPENAI CANCELLED THE FUTURE OF VIDEO. BET IT ALL ON A POTATO.  #ai #ainews #openai 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 // OpenAI CEO Preps Spud: New Frontier AI Model Coming in Weeks https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-shifts-responsibilities-preps-spud-ai-model?rc=c3oojq&shared=2c9eeb0b22b15948 OpenAI Cancels Spicy Chat and Refocuses on Enterprise https://www.ft.com/content/de9bf0af-b241-424f-8229-5870b1c0d93d?syn-25a6b1a6=1 Sora Going Away Completely and Disney Deal Cancelled https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w3e467ewqo CapCut Ready to Take Sora's Traffic https://x.com/capcutapp/status/2036943209956344181?s=20 Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Blog Post https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-flash-live/ Google Lyra3 Pro: New AI Audio and Music Model https://x.com/Google/status/2036836307612119488?s=20 TurboQuant from Google Research https://x.com/GoogleResearch/status/2036533564158910740 Voxtral TTS Blog Post https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-tts Runway Multi-Shot Video App https://x.com/runwayml/status/2037170118669500537?s=20 Gavin's First Try With Runway Multi-Shot https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2037191271106961881?s=20 Meta TRIBE v2 Demo https://aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/ SMASH Project Page https://mmlab.hk/Smash/  

Anthropic Won't Stop Shipping. Good Luck, Everyone Else.

AI NEWS: Anthropic's Claude is slowly boiling OpenClaw & OpenAI one feature at a time. They just shipped automode, computer control, phone access, and a ton more.   This week, we breakdown all the biggest news on AI agents like how. Claude can now operate your entire computer from your phone, Claude Code automode can runs fully autonomous, and it's now accessible via Telegram and Discord.  We dig into why this matters for OpenClaw, the open vs closed AI debate heating up, Karpathy using OpenClaw to control his home gadgets… and, oh yeah, OpenAI just shut down Sora. Plus Seedance 2.0 finally drops (sort of), Figure's robot sorting is getting insane, Figure CEO Brett Adcock launches Hark with a team from Apple and Meta, Jonathan Mann's WAMP.LAND, and we debut SLOPWATCH 2026 to talk about what's happening on Fruit Love Island.  Also, we gave our AI a lunch break. His name is Figmund. ANTHROPIC SHIPPED. CLAW COOKED. SAM STUCK. WE STILL SUCK. #ai #ainews #anthropic 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 Can Now Operate Your Computer From Your Phone https://x.com/claudeai/status/2036195789601374705?s=20 Claude Code Automode: Fully Autonomous Coding https://x.com/claudeai/status/2036503582166393240?s=20 Claude Code Permissions in WhatsApp and Telegram https://x.com/noahzweben/status/2036228890717462785?s=20 ORBIT: Claude May Be Working on Phone Use https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2036210723647262778?s=20 The Open vs Closed AI Debate https://x.com/JosephJacks_/status/2036227031810318478?s=20 Karpathy Talks About Using OpenClaw to Control Home Gadgets https://youtu.be/kwSVtQ7dziU?si=etGrz9fEftbm73ZB I Gave My AI a Lunch Break https://dylan.blog/2026/03/18/i-gave-my-ai-a.html Seedance 2.0 Launch Announcement https://x.com/dreamina_ai/status/2036292154671374493?s=20 Seedance 2.0 Omnimodel Examples https://x.com/KakuDrop/status/2036367428603748772?s=20 Seedance 2.0 Noodlemaster Example and Prompt https://x.com/0xbisc/status/2036407484836094014?s=20 Gavin's Seedance 2.0 Dog Video Experiment https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2036461027211289074?s=20 Figure Robot Sorting Is Now Insane https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2036308513870540952?s=20 Hark AI Lab Video: Former Apple Designer Building a New AI Interface https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/meet-the-former-apple-designer-building-a-new-ai-interface-at-hark/ Jonathan Mann's WAMP.LAND https://x.com/songadaymann/status/2035044321154437232 SLOPWATCH: Fruit Love Island Is Blowing Up on TikTok https://x.com/ToonHive/status/2035927349133238276?s=20 Fruit Love Island TikTok Channel https://www.tiktok.com/@ai.cinema021  

Google AI Studio Got a Big Upgrade and We're All Vibecoders Now

Google AI Studio just got databases, multiplayer, and persistent sessions. Vibecoding just grew up. We break down what it means for your AI workflow. This week on AI For Humans, we dig into Google's massive AI Studio upgrade that levels up vibecoding with Firebase databases, authentication, multiplayer support, persistent sessions, and Next.js integration. We discuss how it compares to Claude Code and Codex, and ask whether this changes the vibecoding stack for good.  Plus Google Stitch for design-to-code, OpenAI cuts side projects to focus on coding and fend off Anthropic, Claude Code Dispatch lets you run Cowork from your phone, DLSS 5 drama continues, Midjourney v8 launches to mixed reviews, Runway teams up with NVIDIA's Vera Rubin chip for near real-time video generation, Val Kilmer gets resurrected by AI to star in a new film, Meta's having trouble with rogue AI agents, Kagi's LinkedIn translator is hilarious. Oh and Kevin created open-source Generative DOOM. GOOGLE GOT A NEW TOOLBOX. WE OPENED IT. THINGS GOT WEIRD. #ai #google #ainews 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 // Google AI Studio https://aistudio.google.com/ Google AI Studio New Features Demo Videos https://x.com/GoogleAIStudio/status/2034654985850659149 Google Stitch: Design to Code with AI https://stitch.withgoogle.com/docs/design-md/overview Google Stitch Launch Announcement https://x.com/stitchbygoogle/status/2034332847893574080?s=20 OpenAI Cuts Back on Side Projects to Focus on Coding and Fend Off Anthropic https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-cutting-projects OpenAI Cuts Back on Side Projects (WSJ) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chatgpt-side-projects-16b3a825 Claude Code Dispatch: Run Claude Cowork and Code From Your Phone https://x.com/felixrieseberg/status/2034381385134399913?s=20 How Claude's Team Uses Skills Internally https://x.com/trq212/status/2033949937936085378 Claude Superpowers Skill https://github.com/obra/superpowers DLSS 5 Drama: Digital Foundry Follow-Up https://youtu.be/5dTTfjBAFzc?si=gqiBAyahasQxFA0U DLSS Anything: Open Source AI Upscaling on Hugging Face https://huggingface.co/spaces/victor/dlss-5-anything Midjourney v8 Launch Announcement https://x.com/midjourney/status/2034015403542974793?s=20 Runway + NVIDIA Vera Rubin Chip: Near Real-Time Video Generation https://x.com/runwayml/status/2034284298769985914?s=20 Val Kilmer Resurrected With AI to Star in New Film https://variety.com/2026/film/news/val-kilmer-ai-film-as-deep-as-the-grave-1236691042/ Meta Is Having Trouble With Rogue AI Agents https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/meta-is-having-trouble-with-rogue-ai-agents/ Kagi's LinkedIn Speak Translator https://translate.kagi.com/ Kagi LinkedIn Translator (Fast Company Coverage) https://www.fastcompany.com/91511316/this-eerily-accurate-linkedin-speak-translation-tool-will-help-you-sound-like-an-instant-thinkfluencer Generative DOOM: Open Source AI-Powered DOOM (AI For Humans Project) https://github.com/0xunderl0rd/AI4H-DoomGen