Anthropic just accused Alibaba of the largest known corporate espionage campaign against it, alleging 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million queries aimed at stealing Claude.

We get into the AI cold war heating up between the US and China, why Apple and Microsoft just raised prices, OpenAI's first chip Jalapeno, the wild new Seed Audio 1.0 model, Claude landing in Slack, and a Blender plus Seedance video workflow that gives you real control.

This week on AI For Humans, Gavin Purcell and Kevin Pereira open on a genuine spy-novel turn: Anthropic has accused Chinese tech giant Alibaba of running an industrial-scale distillation campaign to siphon Claude's capabilities, laid out in a letter to US senators. It is an accusation, not a proven finding, and Alibaba has not responded, but it puts the US-China AI race front and center. From there we get into why the new models everyone expected this week didn't actually arrive, the AI memory crunch driving Apple and Microsoft price hikes, and OpenAI designing its first chip, Jalapeno, with Broadcom. On the fun side, Seed Audio 1.0 generates full songs and layered soundscapes, Claude shows up inside Slack via Claude TAG, TheWrap experiments with AI microdramas, and we break down a Blender pre-viz plus Seedance 2.0 workflow that makes AI video remarkably controllable.

WE ARE NOT SPY. WE NEED FABLE 5 BACK. WE PLEAD.

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Anthropic accuses Alibaba of brazenly and illicitly extracting Claude's capabilities (CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/24/anthropic-alibaba-distillation-campaign.html

The post that put the espionage story on our radar (unconfirmed single-source thread)

https://x.com/S0N_IA/status/2069893802802745673

Apple raises MacBook and iPad prices as the AI memory crunch bites (CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/25/apple-macbook-ipad-price-hike-memory.html

OpenAI unveils its first chip, Jalapeno, built with Broadcom (official)

https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-chip/

No new flagship this week, but OpenAI did ship a GPT-5.5 Instant update

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2069843083701915755

Seed Audio 1.0 generates full songs and layered audio scenes (via fal)

https://x.com/fal/status/2070138257891791237

Claude TAG brings Claude into Slack for everyone

https://x.com/ashwingop/status/2069814177624121469

Andrej Karpathy on the new Slack workflow

https://x.com/karpathy/status/2069822834160124091

Blender pre-viz into Seedance 2.0 for incredible video control (shared by venturetwins)

https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2069809200788799582

Original creator of the Blender to Seedance workflow

https://x.com/craftcapitallab

The full AI Warper workflow breakdown

https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2069847773034488262

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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.

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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