Anthropic just shipped Claude Opus 4.8: warmer, a little smarter, same price.

But the real story is Claude Mythos, the bigger AI model coming to everyone in weeks.

This week on AI For Humans: Claude Opus 4.8 landed and it's a little smarter, a lot warmer, and somehow the same price. A solid but incremental bump. Then Anthropic buried the lede: Claude Mythos, an even more powerful model class held back only by cybersecurity safeguards, is coming to everyone in weeks. The upgrade you got isn't the one to watch.

Plus: Amazon greenlights three generative AI projects and the haters rejoice (and threaten), ElevenLabs brings Stan Lee's voice to its Iconic Voices library, Hideo Kojima gets called out for AI, Spielberg draws his line in the AI sand, and Gavin unveils The Fishbowl, his small AI experiment.

THE NEXT ONE'S ALWAYS BIGGER. THAT'S WHAT… NO I MUST NOT.

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SHOW LINKS

Claude Opus 4.8 announced (Anthropic):

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8

Spielberg on where he draws the line with AI (Deadline):

https://deadline.com/2026/05/steven-spielberg-where-draw-the-line-ai-1236928790/

Amazon MGM greenlights three generative AI projects (Variety):

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/amazon-mgm-studios-genai-creators-fund-greenlights-series-1236759131/

Jorge R. Gutierrez AI Statement
https://x.com/ToonHive/status/2059727130737459424?s=20

Kojima Getting Dragged For Prada?

https://x.com/N icolasWR/status/2059283401115377904?s=20

Stan Lee joins ElevenLabs Iconic Voices:

https://elevenlabs.io/app/iconic-voices

https://x.com/ElevenLabs/status/2059668042695516628?s=20

ElevenLabs Dubbing v2

https://x.com/NevFlynn/status/2060030429038625175?s=20

Gavin's Fishbowl project:

https://fishbowl.show/

Pope Leo XIV just released his first encyclical and picked a side in the AI war. AND He brought Chris Olah, the co-founder of Anthropic, on stage to launch it.

On this special solo episode of AI For Humans, Gavin breaks down the Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo's first encyclical, what it actually says about AI, why Anthropic was invited to stand next to the Pope at the launch (does he love Claude Code??), and what the next 5-10 years look like when 1.3 billion Catholics, every other major religion, and every labor union on Earth gets handed a moral framework for the AI debate.

Plus: why this Pope picked the name Leo, what 1891's Rerum Novarum has to do with 2026, and the prediction that ethical AI might soon be defined by clergy instead of engineers.

SHOW LINKS:

Magnifica Humanitas: The Full Text https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

Chris Olah's Remarks at the Vatican (Anthropic)

https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclical

Pope Leo Warns of AI Fueling Warfare (CNN)

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/europe/pope-leo-ai-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas-intl

Pope Calls for Robust AI Regulation (PBS NewsHour)

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/pope-calls-for-robust-regulation-of-ai-in-manifesto-that-ponders-the-future-of-humanity

Rerum Novarum (1891) - Pope Leo XIII's Original Encyclical

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html

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Spotify just made AI music official. They cut a deal with Universal Music Group for AI-enhanced and remixed tracks and we all know where this goes.

This week on AI For Humans, Spotify officially crossed the line. They announced a sweeping deal with record labels, distributors, and music publishers to bring AI music tools to the platform, complete with fan-remix features that use real artist voices and tracks. They also rolled out AI-generated personal podcasts and launched Studio by Spotify, a standalone AI creation app. Gavin and Kevin break down why this changes everything for music, who actually signs up, and why the fan backlash is just beginning.

Meanwhile, a Higgsfield AI feature film just premiered at Cannes for $500,000 total cost, but $400,000 of that was pure AI compute, raising big questions about what the new economics of filmmaking actually look like.

Plus, an unreleased OpenAI general LLM model disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry that had stood for 80 years, the best new Google Omni prompts and practices and a humanoid robot fail that traveled the entire internet

IS IT TIME TO PANIC? NO, SAYS THESE TWO MORONS.

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Spotify's Official Announcement: Artist-First AI Music Collaboration

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-10-16/artist-first-ai-music-spotify-collaboration/

Billboard Coverage Of The Spotify AI Music Deal

https://x.com/billboard/status/2057479053649600917?s=20

Spotify's AI-Generated Personal Podcasts (Hollywood Reporter)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/spotify-ai-generated-personal-podcasts-1236603314/

Higgsfield Cannes Film: $500K To Make, $400K Was AI Compute

https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/this-cannes-film-cost-500-000-to-make-400-000-was-ai-compute-costs-a823b08d?mod=e2tw

The Impact Of AI In Four Charts

https://x.com/marcportermagee/status/2057000000000000000?s=20

Google Omni Horseback Riding Prompt

https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2057489859615605244?s=20

FoFR Animals With Google Omni

https://x.com/fofrAI/status/2057281646270026097

FoFR Rooster Dog

https://x.com/fofrAI/status/2057290425170616754?s=20

Clean Up The Alley Prompt

https://x.com/nmatares/status/2057143283357569280?s=20

Ogre Walks On Stage

https://x.com/maxescu/status/2057169603001004400?s=20

US Gov Poster Situation

https://x.com/usedgov/status/2056839488152670378?s=20

OpenAI Model Disproves Central Conjecture In Discrete Geometry

https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/

Noam Brown's Post About The OpenAI Breakthrough

https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2057178198228586824?s=20

The Humanoid Robot Fail That Traveled The Internet

https://x.com/adamcurtisbroll/status/2057050384166764826?s=20

Ben Relles Launches Make Believe (Hollywood Reporter)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/new-interactive-ai-startup-make-believe-ben-relles-1236602882/