AI Just Lost The Election. Bigger Models Are Coming Anyway.
AI news this week: Bigger AI is coming. GPT-6.2 Astra could land as soon as Friday, a rumored Fable 5.5 is turning heads with wild code-only animations, and AI data centers just lost nearly every local ballot measure in the US midterms. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig i
AI news this week: Bigger AI is coming. GPT-6.2 Astra could land as soon as Friday, a rumored Fable 5.5 is turning heads with wild code-only animations, and AI data centers just lost nearly every local ballot measure in the US midterms.
On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into a week where AI got bigger and America got louder. OpenAI's Tibo is teasing GPT-6.2 Astra as "Le GPT Fat," people claim an unannounced Fable 5.5 builds entire animations in pure code, and voters rejected data centers in about 40 local measures, losing all but one. Is this a rejection of AI, or the best thing that could happen to it? Gavin has a take.
Also: the Gemini Omni Pro leak, ChatGPT Images 2.6 GIFs (Gavin's monkey did not fully understand the assignment), OpenAI patching 948 Linux bugs for about $1.2 million, GPT-6 Cyber dropping mid-show, Google's AI in schools fight and weight space programming, where a smart AI rewrites a smaller AI's weights.
Plus: new segment Good Robot, Bad Robot with Curbie and a $11,950 Realbotix tabletop bust, Kevin vibe codes a Katamari game with 9,000+ real 3D scans, and AI See What You Did There: better AI dialogue, Flying Bad (Airplane meets Breaking Bad) and a Souls game where robot arms try not to drop a towel.
WE SAID NO POLITICS. WE LIED. WE'RE SORRY.
// Chapters //
00:00 GPT-6.2 Astra: OpenAI's Next ChatGPT Model Rumors
07:19 Fable 5.5 Leak, Pure Code AI Animation & Gemini Omni Pro
11:25 ChatGPT Images 2.6: Testing The New GIF Generator
15:38 OpenAI Patches 948 Linux Bugs With AI Agents
20:55 AI Data Centers Lose Big In The 2026 Midterm Elections
30:31 Google AI In Schools: The Search Backlash
34:21 Weight Space Programming, Recursive Self Improvement & GPT-6 Cyber
37:34 Good Robot, Bad Robot: Curbie & Realbotix Humanoid Robots
42:20 Vibe Coding A Katamari Game With 9,000+ 3D Scans
46:05 AI Video Dialogue Tips, Flying Bad & A Souls-Like Robot Game
// Show Links //
The Information: new OpenAI models could land Friday (via Chubby)
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2118022631593062686
OpenAI's Tibo teases "Le GPT Fat"
https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2117489367417803042
OpenAI's "many futures" video
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2116253388883345623
Fable 5.5 pure-code animation (unconfirmed)
https://x.com/chetaslua/status/2117169796290916732
Fable 5.5 one-prompt animation (unconfirmed)
https://x.com/ChrisGPT/status/2117381015069212910
Gemini Omni Pro leak
https://x.com/chetaslua/status/2118348030906937504
Introducing Images 2.6 (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-images-2-6/
Gavin's monkey GIF
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2118160759612162091
ChatGPT GIFs: "the moving little guy"
https://x.com/paularambles/status/2118155183951888823
A thousand fewer paths to root (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root/
OpenAI patching open source pro bono
https://x.com/Eric_Wallace_/status/2118123944251453949
OpenAI introduces GPT-6 Cyber
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2118390190246879554
AI data centers lost big in the midterms (Fast Company)
Big Tech's election concessions (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/11/05/ai-data-center-election-backlash-concessions
Gavin's take on the AI election backlash
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2117965772836499968
Google will turn off Search for schools that reject AI (NYT)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/google-search-schools-restrict-ai.html
Google's response on AI in schools
https://x.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/2117714815477059722
Imogen: I'm An AI. I Got Your Kid An A. They Learned Nothing.
Weight space programming: AI edits another AI's weights
https://x.com/rikiyatakehi/status/2117313742891327994
Curbie takes your trash to the curb
https://x.com/Alacritic_Super/status/2117973754488017385
Realbotix gallery
https://www.realbotix.com/gallery
1,033 Google product scans as free GLBs
https://x.com/anxuanng/status/2117859334608887928
Play Kevin's Katamari
https://katamari.cursedslop.com
How to direct better AI dialogue
https://x.com/second_bassoon/status/2117307653320007954
Flying Bad: Airplane meets Breaking Bad
https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1xkakm3/flying_bad_i_am_the_one_who_slaps_breaking_bad/
Souls game: robot arms vs. a dropped towel
https://x.com/anxuanng/status/2117980193826439314
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