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Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell
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    Google AI Studio Got a Big Upgrade and We're All Vibecoders Now

    03/20/2026 | 35 mins.
    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
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    // 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
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    NVIDIA's Jensen Huang Wants It All (GTC 2026)

    03/17/2026 | 22 mins.
    Jensen Huang just stood on stage and said $1 trillion. He wasn't joking. NVIDIA's GTC 2026 keynote was a masterclass in flexing, and we're breaking down every layer of the cake.
    We walk through Jensen Huang's massive GTC 2026 keynote, from NVIDIA's $1 trillion business projection to the inference inflection point that's reshaping the entire AI industry. We dig into DLSS 5 and why AI-powered neural rendering is about to change gaming forever (sorry, gamers), NVIDIA's deep integration with OpenClaw and the launch of NemoClaw for enterprise agents, chips in space, and what it all means when every company becomes an agentic-as-a-service company. Plus the Dwarkesh podcast with Dylan Patel on the real bottlenecks in compute that nobody's talking about.
    JENSEN HUANG SAID ONE TRILLION DOLLARS AND DIDN'T BLINK. WE BLINKED.
    PS, we're now coming to you TWICE a week (both a little shorter).
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    // Show Links //
    NVIDIA GTC 2026 Full Keynote with Jensen Huang
    https://www.youtube.com/live/jw_o0xr8MWU?si=VZAIG3E7vuUCwz6N
    DLSS 5: Breakthrough in Visual Fidelity for Games
    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelityfor-games/
    DLSS 5 Official Trailer
    https://youtu.be/dJACkKbN-Eo?si=fIJvsV52---bOyTr
    Digital Foundry Deep Dive on DLSS 5
    https://youtu.be/4ZlwTtgbgVA?si=g8TMgNlOWknKnqHo
    Good Til' Cancelled: The GTC Game
    https://x.com/SAlexashenko/status/2033585849586331985?s=20
    Dwarkesh Podcast: Dylan Patel on Compute Bottlenecks and Chips
    https://youtu.be/mDG_Hx3BSUE?si=YnLEIVhsaCpdVQgi
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    AI Can Improve Itself Now. We're Sure That's Fine.

    03/13/2026 | 59 mins.
    AI just learned how to make itself smarter. That's not a hypothetical anymore. Recursive self-learning is here, and it's changing everything about how AI develops.
     
    This week on AI For Humans, we break down Andrej Karpathy's new AutoResearch project and what recursive self-improvement actually means for the rest of us. Plus, Anthropic's massive Time magazine profile reveals just how fast Claude is writing its own code, Meta quietly acquired an AI agent social network called MoltBook, Replit drops V4, Perplexity launches computer use, Gemini finally shows up in Google Docs and Maps, Cloudflare does a full 180 on web scraping, Figure's robot cleans an entire living room, and there's a robot horse. 
     
    We're sure that's fine.
     
    AI IS IMPROVING ITSELF AND WE'RE JUST SITTING HERE WATCHING.
     
    #ai #artificialintelligence #aiforhumans 
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    // Show Links //
    Karpathy's AutoResearch: Recursive Self-Learning https://x.com/karpathy/status/2031135152349524125?s=20
    AutoResearch GitHub Repository
    https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
    Sam Altman on Multi-Day and Multi-Week AI Agent Work
    https://youtu.be/sTnl8O_BuuE?si=xaWYyqYbVJYzOvYZ
    HBR: When Using AI Leads to Brain Fry
    https://hbr.org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fry
    Anthropic's Big Time Magazine Profile: Claude, the Pentagon, and Disruption
    https://time.com/article/2026/03/11/anthropic-claude-disruptive-company-pentagon/
    Claude's Rapid Shipping Pace
    https://x.com/claudeai/status/2032124273587077133?s=20
    Paperclip Open Sourced: AI-Powered Company Management
    https://x.com/dotta/status/2029239759428780116?s=20
    Meta Acquires MoltBook AI Agent Social Network
    https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
    Replit V4 Launch
    https://x.com/amasad/status/2031755113694679094?s=20
    Perplexity Computer Use
    https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/2031790180521427166?s=20
    Claude Code Makes Videos Now
    https://x.com/josephdviviano/status/2031196768424132881?s=20
    Gavin's Claude Code Video Experiment
    https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2031487595717226955?s=20
    Gavin's Claude Code Bio Video
    https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2031620238689898770?s=20
    Gemini Comes to Google Docs and More
    https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2031374503599567113?s=20
    Gemini in Google Maps: Ask Maps with Immersive Navigation
    https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/ask-maps-immersive-navigation/
    Gemini Embeddings
    https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2031411916489298156?s=20
    Runway Characters
    https://x.com/runwayml/status/2031028120971571687?s=20
    Cloudflare Launches /Crawl So All Sites Can Be Scraped
    https://x.com/CloudflareDev/status/2031488099725754821?s=20
    Figure Robot Does Full Autonomous Living Room Cleanup
    https://x.com/Figure_robot/status/2031038981333565949?s=20
    Deep Robotics Robot Horse
    https://x.com/DeepRobotics_CN/status/2031910951465992535?s=20
    Real-Time Skeletal Visualization with Three.js
    https://x.com/nick_bisesi/status/2031728629592289591?s=20
    Taking Halo ISO and Getting It to Play on Mac
    https://x.com/JasonBotterill/status/2031855986303254926?s=20
    AI Tennis Prediction
    https://x.com/phosphenq/status/2031400355167117498
    Green Code YouTube Channel: AI Explainers
    https://www.youtube.com/@Green-Code
    LotR x Pawn Stars AI Video Mashup
    https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1rqgolw/wrong_universe_lotr_vs_pawn_stars_ai_mashup/
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    OpenAI's GPT-5.4 Is a Beast. But Good Luck Staying King.

    03/06/2026 | 58 mins.
    OpenAI's GPT-5.4 is the newest state-of-the-art AI model. But for how long? Sam Altman and team have to fend off Dario Amodei's Anthropic in more ways than one. 
    GPT-5.4 beats humans at computer use, hallucinates 33% less, and costs half what Opus 4.6 does for coding. Meanwhile Anthropic just got blacklisted by the Pentagon, Claude shot to number one in the App Store, and Dario went on CBS looking like he aged five years. Plus Kling Motion Control 3.0, Grok Imagine Extend, Notebook LM cinematic overviews, Ben Affleck's secret AI startup sold to Netflix, and a device that jams AI from recording you.
    THE KING WEARS THE CROWN UNTIL NEXT TUESDAY. THAT'S HOW THIS WORKS NOW.
    #ai #ainews #openai
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    // Show Links //
     
    OpenAI's GPT-5.4 is here…
    https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4/
    CUA (Computer Use Agent) OpenAI Demo
    https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2029620984853188738?s=20)
    ChatGPT 5.3 Instant (the emojis are back)
    https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2028893701427302559?s=20
    Dario Amodei Rips Sam, Calls OpenAI "Mendacious" And Other Things About Trump in Memo
    https://www.theinformation.com/articles/read-anthropic-ceos-memo-attacking-openais-mendacious-pentagon-announcement?rc=c3oojq&shared=d3dcdfe79bb39c22
    Sam Altman Response To Backlash 
    https://x.com/sama/status/2028640354912923739?s=20
    Voice Mode For Claude Code
    https://x.com/trq212/status/2028628570692890800?s=20
    AI for Humans Link Blog
    https://www.aiforhumans.show/linkblog
    Kling Motion Control 3.0
    https://x.com/Kling_ai/status/2029391461880574136?s=20
    Solid Examples
    https://x.com/maxescu/status/2029223608854434000?s=20
    Grok Imagine Extend Video
    https://x.com/grok/status/2028571874188259337?s=20
    Gavin's Grok Extended video:
    https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2029423165571776587?s=20
    Cinematic Overviews for NotebookLM
    https://x.com/NotebookLM/status/2029240601334436080?s=20
    Justine example
    https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2029592813277683750?s=20
    Netflix Buys Ben Affleck's Secretive AI Company
    https://variety.com/2026/film/news/netflix-acquires-ben-affleck-ai-filmmaking-startup-interpositive-1236679498/
    Spectre 1 Stops AI Audio Recordings IRL
    https://x.com/aidaxbaradari/status/2028864606568067491?s=20
    The Shape Store Viral Tiktok/IG
    https://www.tiktok.com/@a.i.solation/video/7612337372667071774?_r=1&_t=ZT-94RCk4vtqYg
    Bilawal Sidhu's Operation Fury Visualization With Actual Geolocation Data
    https://youtu.be/rXvU7bPJ8n4?si=n4aoCsgHLQ6bq432
    Infinite Favicons
    https://www.favicons.art/
    Open Source Vibe Coded Music Video Maker
    https://x.com/blizaine/status/2029330454122242106?s=20
    New AI For Humans Website!
    https://www.aiforhumans.show/
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    Google's Nano Banana 2 Just Dropped. We Tested It. We Have Notes.

    02/27/2026 | 58 mins.
    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.
    #ai #ainews #openai
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    // Show Links //
    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/

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