AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

Nano Banana 2 is Google's best image model yet and it just dropped. It's cheaper, it's smarter, and it removed an Adidas logo from a banana in a tracksuit on the first try. But we have notes.
The Door Brothers and Logan Paul made a 15-minute AI movie with Seedance 2.0 that looks like a direct-to-video action film…KIND OF. Meanwhile Seedance 2.0 is now live in CapCut, Anthropic is in a standoff with the Secretary of War over a $200M defense contract, and a sketchy music site called Sonato is generating perfect James Brown and Nirvana tracks from text prompts. 
Using that, Kevin vibe coded a custom AI Spotify mash-up that looks like an iPod. During the show. While apologizing.
Plus we built a whole new AI For Humans website from scratch with Claude Code, the stock market crashed because of an AI memo, and Deep Seek V4 might drop any minute now. Totally normal week.
KEVIN OWES US ALL AN APOLOGY AND HE KNOWS IT.
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Nano Banana 2 Launch
https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2027051577899380991?s=20
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/
Nano Banana 2 Window App: 
https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2027057726170509724?s=20
Complex Imagery: 
https://x.com/emollick/status/2027051701258109306?s=20
Precise Editing of Adidas Tracksuit: 
https://gemini.google.com/share/4d9ab1243d40
Failed at my Periodic Table test:
https: //x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2027058092824027238?s=20
Dor Brothers / Logan Paul 15 Minute Movie
https://x.com/thedorbrothers/status/2026733954942775433?s=20
Creator of Entourage Responds LOL
https://x.com/mrdougellin/status/2026801159282057666?s=20
Seedance 2.0 Updates
Now In CapCut?
https://x.com/charliebcurran/status/2026713011805946301?s=20
Lil' Hot Dog Video I Made In CapCut
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2026751216139542733?s=20
Weights Leaked? Likely Fake
https://x.com/taker_of_whizz/status/2026749425851253095?s=20
Tom Cruise/Brad Pitt Creator Second Video: 
https://x.com/RuairiRobinson/status/2026164263547793787?s=20
My Chicken Run 90 Min Example: 
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2025260426519609557?s=20
Energym by AI Candy
https://www.aicandy.be/giorgio-1
Citrini Piece Tanks Stock Market (Claude Code)
https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/business/citrini-ai-stock-market.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PFA.WBh9.KPcM171X5cU2&smid=url-share
Anthropic Use Growing Much Faster Than OpenAI or Gemini
https://x.com/deedydas/status/2027057965862432843?s=20
New Claude Co-Work Plugins For Many Disciplines
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2026305186671608315?s=20
Remote Control For Claude Code / Cowork
https://x.com/noahzweben/status/2026371260805271615?s=20
Scheduled Tasks in Cowork
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2026720870631354429?s=20
Fighting Vs The Pentagon Re AI Safety In War***
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-pentagon-claude-hegseth-dario
Theo Replicates & OpenSources Frame IO
https://x.com/theo/status/2026794317197849001?s=20
Sonauto: AI Music With WAY Too Many Actual Voices
https://sonauto.a
Theoretically Media on Sonauto: 
https://youtu.be/fK886jyF9Hw?si=DMbV4vikeD6y_jeP
DeepSeek v4 Trained on Blackwell Chips
https://x.com/niubi/status/2026111153617727843?s=20
New AI For Humans Website!
https://www.aiforhumans.show/

Sam Altman says superintelligence is two years away. Google just dropped Gemini 3.1 with benchmark scores that look like a full generation leap. The AI upgrade wars are here. But are we ready?
Anthropic released Sonnet 4.6, OpenAI is rumored to be adding a spicy "Citron Mode" to GPT-5.3, and Sam and Dario Amodei refused to hold hands on stage like two kids at a school dance. Plus Hollywood is threatening to sue over Seedance 2.0, Google's new Lyria 3 AI music model is fine (we tested it with a McNugget rap), the OpenClaw founder got hired by OpenAI, and Kevin made Mr. Tibs delete himself to create a better version. He's fine with it. Probably.
SUPERINTELLIGENCE IN TWO YEARS AND THEY CAN'T EVEN HOLD HANDS. WE'RE FINE.
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Dario Amodei & Sam Altman Can't Hold Hands
https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2024366483917459659?s=20
Sam Altman on SuperIntelligence
https://x.com/clashreport/status/2024401234447520220?s=20
Google Gemini Pro 3.1
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro/ 
New Photoshoot Update to Google Pompeii
https://x.com/GoogleLabs/status/2024529795548102667?s=20
Claude Sonnet 4.6 
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
SVG Results from 4.5 to 4.6
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2023840565641556439?s=20
OpenAI's 'Citron Mode' Soon = Spicy Mode?
https://x.com/btibor91/status/2024456593669231032?s=20
Netflix, Disney & Paramount All Threaten Seedance 2.0
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/netflix-bytedance-immediate-litigation-seedance-ai-1236666084/
Seedance 2.0 Output Restrictions
https://x.com/jamesjyu/status/2024305814950101034?s=20
Seedance 2.0 Dor Brothers $200m Movie
https://x.com/thedorbrothers/status/2023460644905742577?s=20
Seedance 2.0 FERAL trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmhiZ5OQBW0
Operation You Know What (Charles Curran Seedance 2.0)
https://x.com/charliebcurran/status/2023611358160597060?s=20
Seedance Dark Cats: 
https://x.com/pleometric/status/2023231194050052508?s=20
Trust Everything You See on Tiktok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@trusteverythingyousee
Google's Lyria 3
https://deepmind.google/models/lyria/
https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/2024154215182926027?s=20
OpenClaw Founder Joins OpenAI
https://x.com/sama/status/2023150230905159801?s=20
HermitClaw: One Sandboxed Area, Learning 
https://x.com/brendanh0gan/status/2023230513230614563?s=20
Contra: Agents Buy From Creatives (New Start-up)
https://x.com/contraben/status/2024182864506761617?s=20
Unitree Robots Training For Chinese New Year Look Scary
https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2024025865328488690?s=20
Chinese New Year Celebration Comparison:
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2023388775511191699?s=20
AI Boston Dynamics Video?
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/2023791639601230195?s=20
Scary Robot Deployment
https://x.com/ClaytonMorris/status/2024501307659407371/video/1
Riley Brown's OpenClaw to Blender
https://x.com/rileybrown/status/2024334527217455270?s=20
Amazing Non-Seedance 2 AI Video Space Pirate Vibes
https://x.com/ryanlightbourn/status/2023581484766875948?s=20

Seedance 2.0 is the best AI video model we've ever seen. Bytedance's new AI tool generates 15 second clips of basically anything. But what happens next? And where do we go from here?
Gavin got early access before it got locked down. We tested it with original animation, fake sitcoms, anime, and a McDonald's ad. The results are genuinely shocking - multi-shot editing, cinematic camera work, and real celebrity voices coming straight out of the model. People are making fake Seinfeld episodes, Avengers deleted scenes, and Rocky working at a fast food restaurant with Optimus Prime.
Plus two new Chinese LLMs beating American models on benchmarks, Google Deep Think scores 84% on ARC-AGI, OpenAI's Codex Spark model, that viral AI post your mom sent you, and Kevin loses his mind building an Open Claw agent named Mr. Tibs who now requests server upgrades at 3am.
HOLLYWOOD LAWYERS ARE GOING TO HAVE A VERY INTERESTING YEAR. ITS FINE.
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Seedance 2.0 - Bytedance's New AI Video Best Since Sora 2
https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedance2_0
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/bytedances-new-ai-video-model-goes-viral-china-looks-second-deepseek-moment-2026-02-12/
The Seinfeld Test:
https://x.com/apples_jimmy/status/2021351821718225330?s=20
Even better The Seinfeld Fight: https://x.com/itspoidaman/status/2021409465355075655?s=20
Wolverine vs Thanos: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2021979655130296487?s=20
Avengers Endgame: https://x.com/cfryant/status/2021398605278376201?s=20
Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt: https://x.com/RuairiRobinson/status/2021394940757209134?s=20
Ethan Hunt vs John Wick: https://x.com/chatcutapp/status/2021902856367092108?s=20

Gavin's Game of Friends Sitcom Test:
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2021418263432032635?s=20
Gavin's Rocky Balboa & Optimus Prime Test:
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2021429329012650045?s=20
Original Animation style: https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2021396803787383254?s=20
Anime test: https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2021732810554507352?s=20
Comparing AI McDonald's Ads: https://x.com/AIForHumansShow/status/1802715910488400047?s=20

GLM-5 from Z.AI
https://x.com/Zai_org/status/2021638634739527773
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5
GLM-5 Gameboy Emulation
https://x.com/Zai_org/status/2021754659590033565?s=20
New Minimax 2.5 Model
https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2021980761210134808?s=20
CODEX SPARK - Faster Codex
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex-spark/
New Google Deep Think Model CRUSHES Benchmarks
https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2021981510400709092?s=20
The 'Something Big Is Happening' Post Heard Round The World 
https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403?s=20
Gavin's Simultaneous Take (in Monday's newsletter too)
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2021292314291999182
AI 2027
https://ai-2027.com/
One-Shot Otter Anime From Ethan Mollick:
https://x.com/emollick/status/2021412306291392535
The Best Prompt Ever Seedance
https://x.com/Gossip_Goblin/status/2021468902220497061?s=20
MattVidPro's Shrek & Donkey Crash a Honda Accord
https://x.com/MattVidPro/status/2021739211674566808?s=20

Anthropic drops Opus 4.6. Twenty minutes later, OpenAI fires back with GPT-5.3 Codex. This is the AI agentic coding arms race and it's moving fast.

Both AI models are writing code that can write itself now. OpenAI is using 5.3 to improve its own tooling. Opus 4.6 is "voicing discomfort with being a product." We tested both and break down what actually matters for people building stuff. 

Plus Kling 3.0 is out (and harder to prompt than you think), OpenClaw bots are hiring humans on rent-a-human.ai, Roblox launches prompt-to-3D creation, and robots are now doing 130K step challenges in negative 47 degree weather.
THE MODELS ARE IMPROVING THEMSELVES NOW. EVERYTHING IS FINE.
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6
Orchestrating Agents in Claude Code https://x.com/lydiahallie/status/2019469032844587505?s=20
Opus 4.6 Beats Humans at analyzing complex human science docs https://x.com/_simonsmith/status/2019502742209769540?s=20
OpenAI GPT-5.3 Codex https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/
5.3 Codex First model instrumental in creating itself https://x.com/deredleritt3r/status/2019475360438493597
OpenAI Frontier https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-frontier/
Anthropic's Superbowl Ads https://x.com/tomwarren/status/2019039874771550516?s=20
GPT-5 connected to an autonomous lab to do experiments https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2019488071134347605?s=20
OpenClaw https://openclaw.ai/
Rent-A-Human https://rentahuman.ai/bounties
Kling 3.0 = Really good model https://x.com/Kling_ai/status/2019064918960668819?s=20
Kling 3.0 Moonlanding Mockumentary https://x.com/Kling_ai/status/2019228615775604784?s=20
PJ Ace's Way of Kings Intro https://x.com/PJaccetturo/status/2019072637192843463?s=20
 We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson's Keynote Speech https://youtu.be/mb3uK-_QkOo?si=EgKBjxZf4GE4DYIJ
Gavin's Kling Fail https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2019436331999588371?s=20
FIGMA VECTOR AI https://x.com/moguzbulbul/status/2019106665732403708?s=20
Grok Imagine 1.0 Officially Launches https://x.com/xai/status/2018164753810764061?s=20
Roblox Launches 4D Creation https://x.com/Roblox/status/2019221624604750238
Unitree Robot Walks Across The Tundra (-47C!!) https://x.com/War_Radar2/status/2018315065414635813?s=20
KinectIQ's Humanoid Framework https://youtu.be/Y2DhzLPGdwY?si=iWibCGoc_h53yZz3
The LooksMaxxor https://x.com/Gossip_Goblin/status/2018362969025884282?s=20
Midi-Survivor https://x.com/measure_plan/status/2019082789379858577?s=20

Google DeepMind dropped Project Genie and you can now walk around AI-generated 3D worlds. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says this is the path to the holodeck. He's not wrong.
Meanwhile Clawd aka ClawdBot and now Moltbot is giving people AI superpowers… spawning agents, teaching itself skills, connecting to everything in your life. It's also a massive security risk and people are spending thousands on API calls. You *probably* shouldn't use it.
Plus… Grok video is suddenly really good, KREA real-time generation, a robot that hip-checks dishwasher drawers, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's sobering new essay, and the dead internet theory is no longer a theory.
THE ROBOTS ARE DOING CHORES NOW. WE'RE SO BACK.
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Google Project Genie: Playable Worlds (formerly Genie 3)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie/
Josh Woodward (VP of AI Studio and more @ Google) low poly 3D cowboy
https://x.com/joshwoodward/status/2016921839038255210?s=20
Theoretically Media: Realistic Hollywood Blvd & New York
https://x.com/TheoMediaAI/status/2016919987428991107?s=20
Ethan Mollack: Otter Pilot in an Airport
https://x.com/emollick/status/2016919989865840906?s=20
Clawdbot (Now MoltBot) Insanity
https://clawd.bot/
Creator Peter Steinberger On TBPN
https://x.com/tbpn/status/2016306566077755714?s=20
Good long post on the pros / cons & safety concerns
https://x.com/Andrey__HQ/status/2016228427901370760?s=20
White Hat Hacker Shows Exactly How Bad It Can Get
https://x.com/theonej vo/status/2016510190464675980?s=20
MoltBook - Social Network For Bots, By Bots
https://x.com/MattPRD/status/2016560277333168540?s=20
Kimi K2.5 launches 
https://www.kimi.com/
Dario's Amodei's Essay Shows Potential AI Risks
https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology
Lucy DecartAI Demo
https://lucy.decart.ai/
KREA Real-time
https://www.krea.ai/realtime
New Grok Imagine Model
https://x.com/xai/status/2016745652739363129
Figure Introduces Helix 2 (the AI model running the robot)
https://x.com/Figure_robot/status/2016207013236375661?s=20
Pokemon-style Interactive Game For Podcast Content Quiz
https://x.com/lennysan/status/2016584174421897590?s=20
Small Builder Alert: Racing App For Data
https://x.com/ShinjaeJung/status/2015980232667435048?s=20
Blackfiles: AI Generated Visual YouTube Channel Long Form
https://youtu.be/2n01_rt2vKg?si=QvP3vYgGV6_Y7pua
Mureka V8 AI Music Model
https://x.com/EHuanglu/status/2016668882644156863?s=20
https://x.com/Mureka_AI/status/2016544920283365831
Isometric NYC
https://x.com/_coenen/status/2014359718697799989
https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/