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.

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

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

Microsoft just went AI agent first at Build 2026, announcing Project Solara, an OpenClaw-style assistant called SCOUT, and seven new MAI models.

Plus new image models from Reve and Ideogram, ElevenLabs teams with Hasbro to license character voices, and a quantum chip breakthrough.

This week on AI For Humans, it's Hot Agent Summer and even stuffy Microsoft is going all-in. We break down everything from Microsoft Build 2026: Project Solara pushing agents into small devices, SCOUT, their OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant for Windows, and a fresh family of seven MAI models trained with no synthetic data and no distillation. Then we get into the agent interfaces beyond Microsoft (Town), the wild stat that bots have now passed humans for internet traffic, new image models from Reve 2.0 and a now open-source Ideogram 4.0, ElevenLabs partnering with Hasbro on licensed character voices like Optimus Prime, a quantum chip breakthrough, and the Chipotle chatbot that got left wide open. Roll out, humans. It's AI For Humans!

IT'S HOT AGENT SUMMER. AND THE AI AGENTS ARE WINNING.

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Microsoft Project Solara pushes AI agents into smart devices (Build 2026):

https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-project-solara-push-ai-agents-into-smart-devices-build-2026

Project Solara in the Build keynote:

https://www.youtube.com/live/FFMm454fxNA?t=2216

Microsoft launches SCOUT, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant:

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-launches-scout-an-openclaw-inspired-personal-assistant/

Town, a really good professionalized agent harness ($50/month):

https://x.com/jgreze/status/2062178651450548549

Bots have now surpassed human traffic on the internet:

https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2062212701414187452

Robot kicks kid in the stomach:

https://x.com/ErenChenAI/status/2061899552571965573

Microsoft launches the new MAI family of models at Build:

https://mashable.com/tech/microsoft-launches-new-mai-family-of-models-at-build

Why the MAI tech report is a gold mine (zero synthetic data, no distillation):

https://x.com/eliebakouch/status/2061965825037254947

Future tech: Majorana 2 quantum chip, 1000x more reliable than before:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4p7gyvp52o

Hasbro launching an AI studio to license its stable of characters:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/hasbro-launching-ai-studio-license-characters-interactive-1236612854/

Reve 2.0, billed as the best 4k image model:

https://x.com/reve/status/2062260665121919101

Ideogram 4.0 is now open source:

https://x.com/ideogram_ai/status/2062202208700313872

Ideogram 4.0 examples (venturetwins):

https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2062207215961014735

Ideogram 4.0 examples (btibor91):

https://x.com/btibor91/status/2062261137987834238

Ideogram 4.0 examples (micha):

https://x.com/micha/status/2062225792315031698

MisoOne open-source voice model responds faster than a human:

https://x.com/AodenTeoMT/status/2062204362102100295

Chipotle's unsecured chatbot endpoints get exploited:

https://x.com/thdxr/status/2061828564773740999

Martin Scorsese is now advising AI image and video company Black Forest Labs, and he is just one of a wave of major filmmakers embracing AI as a tool.

This week on AI For Humans, Martin Scorsese has become an AI filmmaker. Well, sort of. The legendary director is now advising Black Forest Labs, joining a growing list of major filmmakers discussing AI as a tool, even as the backlash rages on and cartoonists face death threats. We get into where AI filmmaking goes from here, why Jorge Gutierrez dropped his AI-generated series after backlash, and the genuinely incredible AI creators pushing the form forward right now.

Then: NVIDIA and Microsoft spent three years cooking up the RTX Spark to reinvent personal computing, and Gavin let Codex's goal tool run for 45 hours to make a bear get extra jumpy. It is AI For Humans!

HOLLYWOOD IS GOING AI WHETHER IT LIKES IT OR NOT. WE THINK?

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Martin Scorsese joins Black Forest Labs as an advisor:

https://bfl.ai/martin-scorsese-bfl-advisor

Jorge Gutierrez drops out of Amazon MGM AI-generated series after backlash:

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/jorge-gutierrez-drops-out-amazon-mgm-ai-generated-series-backlash-1236762285/

Gossip Goblin's 'Toe Brigade' short:

https://youtube.com/shorts/hB8_vGQ4bhs

Furufuru & The Gorilla (the Japanese creator putting himself into movies):

https://x.com/ai_am_furufuru/status/2061793575000744029

Kavan The Kid's latest, Chronicle of Bone:

https://youtu.be/y7gIoHq-YDo

Sopranos AI meme:

https://x.com/memechaotic/status/2061170850959647215

jboogxcreative live stream on how to make AI movies (hugely educational):

https://www.youtube.com/live/fCmCqdUjo-Q

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3, the best American open-source AI:

https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2061304911565144230

New MiniMax M3:

https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2061266317815296322

PewDiePie's open-source agentic harness:

https://youtu.be/rAzT5lcezPs

NVIDIA RTX Spark claims to reinvent the PC:

https://www.ign.com/articles/nvidia-announces-the-rtx-spark-claims-to-reinvent-the-pc

Gavin's Codex /goal experiment:

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2061639229709652403

Gavin's bear-jump experiment published on Vercel:

https://bear-jump-port.vercel.app/