LHC • April 2026 is live 🎬🎞️ (link on bio) But before stepping into the theater: a first. LHC is now available on @cafeyn_fr, the digital newsstand. To mark the occasion, we hid 11 film references in the cover. Find them all, reply in the comments, and you’ll be entered into a draw to win a one-year Cafeyn subscription. Team ► Marine Rondo-Lotto - Jean-Michel FALCIASECCA This issue exists because a kid from Namur ran down the stairs with a DVD in hand. Because directors, lawyers, and profiles coming out of California had something to say about what’s happening to cinema. Jean-Yves le Moine opens with a disruptive idea: AI as machinic maieutics, an active mirror for the filmmaker. @LudovicCreator, @CharaspowerAI, and Julien Cocquerel detail their integration into the VFX pipeline of House of David. Jérôme Genevray refuses sides and chooses the prism. Dan Frydman imagines spaces somewhere between Stargate and a futuristic Egypt. Marine Rondo-Lotto and Jean-Michel Falciasecca reinterpret cult films through fashion. Stéphane Benini and Bruno Detante remind us that generating without intention is just pressing a button. @henrydaubrez , who has gone through a sold agency, cancer, and @GoogleLabs , shares an extraordinary journey. His AI portraits of patients moved Tribeca. We look back at @ElevenLabs Creative Sessions #1 at the Théâtre de l’IA, sold out: 22 teams, @0xSorcier and Fede win first prize. A retrospective on the @Artefact_Global festival: Mark Wachholz takes the Grand Prize with The Cinema That Never Was. Max De Donato and Cokau Lab tie for the Jury Prize. Jiaze Li wins the Audience Award with Arrow. @AnneHorel is awarded for La Tisseuse d’Ombres. Ariel Kotzer and Alix André-Kellershohn complete the lineup. Also featured: our favorites with Analogmirage, Raphael Perrollier, and Yannis Mangematin. Elisha Karmitz (@mk2) closes the section, holding the line between heritage and experimentation. Les Heures Augmentées opens with Claude Mythos Preview, a model considered too effective to be released. Eric Helias goes back to the root of the debates. Nicolas Huvé Kousmichoff introduces Mortimer, his AI agent. @caroingeborn (@LumaLabsAI ), interviewed by @TiKaWo_Crea , announces the end of prompting: we speak to AI like a collaborator. Caroline Thireau and Ludovic Carli test Seedance 2.0 through five crash tests. Aurore Sauviat and Elisa Sobczyk (Lawderis Avocats) raise the legal question everyone avoids. Dynamo Dragan takes on Hollywood. The Counter-Horoscope is back… as always. @laszlogaal_ wins the @runwayml's Big Ad Contest, the AARON Awards, of which we are partners, stream their ceremony live on the 16th and 17th depending on your time zone, and MarSAI launches its call for entries for its festival. The lights dim. The room is full. Enjoy the issue

The new LHC website will be launching soon. While we’re putting the final touches on it, we’re also building a Talents section featuring an interactive globe mapping some of the most exciting creatives working with #AI around the world. The application form is already open for anyone who would like to be featured ▼ lhc.media/candidature (FR/EN toggle)

“AI is going to replace us.” “AI is going to kill creativity.” “Tomorrow, we’ll all have a robot at home.” We know the debates. We’ve all seen them. Éric Helias chose not to answer them. He chose to tear them down. In his op-ed for LHC, he doesn’t take sides for or against AI. He points to something more uncomfortable: these big debates are poorly framed. And what do bad questions produce? Bad answers, on repeat, ad nauseam. So he suggests something else. Topics that are more real, funnier, more useful—and honestly more likely to get you into arguments with the right people. Excerpt: “The day our brother-in-law becomes a robot, will we still be able to argue about politics after a boozy dinner?” Read more in LHC (link on bio) ___ Visual by Jean-Michel Falciasecca.

Excited to see ElevenCreative Sessions #1 featured in @StudioLHC Thanks to Rémi and team for the feature and support! Full magazine here: studiolhc.hflip.co/april-26#…

I was lucky enough to be interviewed by LHC last month, and they gave me the opportunity to bore you all with my life story… so here it is in full. Obviously, I’d encourage you to check out the full magazine as well, there’s a lot of great work that went into it. Link to full magazine 👇

► AI・Events | April 7–11, 2026 This format is co-built with @MyDataMemory | @JohnEdwinGraf EUROPE _________ 🇫🇷 April 7 – May 15, 2026 | Paris | du savoir-rêve - aurèce vettier The artistic project @aurecevettier founded in 2019 by @paulmouginot, opens a new Parisian exhibition on April 7, curated by Dominique Moulon. The artist's practice weaves together artificial intelligence, intimate memory, and traditional craftsmanship: drawing from personal archives, he develops custom algorithms to transform this data into images and speculative narratives. The work revolves around two conceptual axes: sur-nature, which generates impossible botanical forms through AI, and sur-reality, which recomposes dreams, memories, and everyday fragments into symbolic landscapes. The resulting images are then materialized in mediums rooted in artisanal tradition — Aubusson tapestry, bronze, hardstone, painting, and NFTs — in close collaboration with specialized craftspeople. This hybrid practice, bridging contemporary technologies and historical materialities, was already shown in 2025 at macLYON, at the Jeu de Paume in the exhibition Le monde selon l'IA, and at events organized with NVIDIA. Works by aurèce vettier are now held in major collections across Europe, Asia, and the United States. The exhibition runs through May 15. 🇫🇮 April 7, 2026 | Helsinki | AI Lunch & Learn - AI Collective Finland @AICollectiveCo Finland is hosting an informal AI lunch at Restaurant Savier in the heart of Helsinki. The initiative is part of the AI Collective, a global nonprofit uniting over 200K members across 100 forums worldwide, with a mission to democratize access to AI issues and foster collective thinking around its development. The format is deliberately stripped back: no slides, no speaker, no agenda. Each participant orders and pays for their own lunch, then joins a small table for an hour of open conversation about AI - product building, policy, creativity, ethics, uncertainty. The event is designed to spark real exchanges between people who haven't met yet. The structured hour runs from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM, followed by open networking for those who want to stay. Open to all profiles - builders, researchers, students, skeptics, and first-timers - no prerequisites required. Limited spots. 🇪🇸 April 8, 2026 | Madrid | @openclaw: Beyond the Hype Mad Builders and Samplia are hosting a Madrid meetup focused on the evolution of development practices in the age of AI agents. The throughline: the rapid transformation of work environments, from chat interfaces to AI-first IDEs like Cursor and Windsurf, orchestration tools like LangGraph and n8n, app builders like Lovable and Bolt, and command-line agents. The broader conversation covers the evolution of UX and DX as platforms like GitHub, Jira, Notion, and Slack integrate AI into their core experience. The format combines a short presentation with discussion and networking. From 7:00 to 7:30 PM, the OpenClaw session covers multi-agent management, memory and context, terminal debugging, DevOps workflows, and the Agent Client Protocol. From 7:30 to 7:50 PM, Juan José Miranda, Director of the Innovation Center for Blockchain, DLT, Web3 & Quantum Computing for Ibero-America, speaks on the current state of DeFi and quantum computing. Networking runs until 9:30 PM. 🇬🇧 April 8, 2026 | London | @clawcon London ClawCon was born out of the OpenClaw community and its mission to put power back in the hands of users when it comes to personal AI. The format deliberately breaks with traditional tech conference codes: free entry, no LinkedIn or GitHub screening, no paywall. Open to everyone, with a priority on human connection and informal exchange. The headline sponsor for this London edition is @zocomputer, a personal cloud platform designed to host a dedicated AI agent, with built-in web hosting, external integrations, and a centralized workspace. OpenClaw runs natively within the Zo environment. The evening follows a social-first format: demos of personal AI tools and workflows, Q&A sessions, and generous blocks of unstructured networking. No fixed stage, no minute-by-minute schedule. The goal is to create a space where people curious about personal AI and digital sovereignty can meet and talk freely. 🇫🇷 April 8, 2026 | Paris | Build Your First AI Agent | Dust x Eria @DustHQ and Eria are co-hosting a hands-on evening in Paris dedicated to building AI agents — no code, natural language only. Eria is an agency specializing in custom AI agent deployment with Dust. Its two co-founders, Tifany Clemenceau and Melvin Duveau, lead the evening by sharing their own professional use of AI, with an approach centered on augmenting teams rather than replacing them. The event is held at Le Wagon Paris, free to attend, and capped at 60 registered participants. The program kicks off at 7:00 PM with networking, followed at 7:20 PM by an Eria presentation covering AI agent fundamentals, the case for Dust, and real-world enterprise use cases. A one-hour buildathon starts at 8:20 PM: each participant builds their own operational AI agent to take home. Use cases include prospecting, admin, content creation, and reporting. The evening wraps at 9:20 PM with demos, drinks, and pizza. Laptop required. 🇧🇪 April 8, 2026 | Ghent | Open Source AI Show & Tell @Nick_vh, Developer Relations Lead at @gitlab and a long-standing figure in the Belgian open source community, is hosting Ghent's first Open Source AI Show & Tell. The event is deliberately informal: no corporate setup, no stage design. Just curious neighbors showing what they're building. Veenhof has been contributing to open source since 2007, helped scale search infrastructure at Acquia, and co-organized Drupal Developer Days 2022 in Ghent with 360 attendees from 40 countries. He also chairs the Belgian Drupal User Group. The evening features three to five live demos of 5 to 10 minutes each, followed by open Q&A. Confirmed speakers: Nick Veenhof on OpenCode, Brent Gees on Kilo Code, and Walid Serokh, Bram Veenhof, and Thomas Vande Casteele on OpenClaw. Workflows covered include open source tools, local models, and self-built agents. Each demo is followed by open discussion, before informal drinks to close. Laptop recommended to follow along. Beginner-friendly. 🇫🇷 April 8, 2026 | Toulouse | AI-ficionados #5 — OpenClaw Meetup #AIficionados is back for a fifth edition in Toulouse, with the same format as always: live demos, no theory, real-world experience sharing. This meetup for generative AI enthusiasts puts OpenClaw front and center. The open source tool, which allows autonomous agent deployment on a VPS or Mac Mini, draws equal parts enthusiasm and criticism — some have already written it off, others flag security concerns. The AI-ficionados community chooses to examine it without filters, starting from actual use cases rather than positioning debates. The evening runs on a call-for-demos principle: attendees are invited to present their OpenClaw setup and use cases directly to the room. No preset speakers, no fixed agenda. The goal is to collectively map what the tool actually enables — and what it signals about a coming ecosystem built on autonomous AI agents. 🇫🇷 April 9, 2026 | Paris | Réinventez vos Formations avec l'IA | Gamma x Paatch @PaatchAI is hosting a new PlAIground in partnership with @GammaApp, this time focused on training content creation. The event targets trainers, HR professionals, L&D managers, coaches, and consultants who regularly produce educational materials. The framing is deliberately operational: Gamma is presented not as a standard presentation tool, but as a potential foundation for an entire content strategy — from onboarding to full learning programs. The evening is primarily in French, with English explanations available on request. The PlAIground format is neither a passive demo nor a lecture: attendees arrive with a laptop and leave with a training experience built live. The program opens at 6:45 PM with networking, followed by an intro from Paatch and Gamma at 7:15 PM, a demo with real use cases at 7:30 PM, and a 30-minute build challenge at 8:00 PM. Those who want to can pitch their creation at 8:30 PM, before drinks and open discussion at 9:00 PM. Exclusive Gamma perks and prizes for the challenge. Limited spots, application required. 🇪🇸 April 9, 2026 | Barcelona | Claude for Everyone Claude Community is back in Barcelona for its second edition, open to all levels of Claude Code experience. The evening explores the tool's uses beyond pure development, with programming oriented around product design, entrepreneurship, and real-world AI applications. The event is hosted by AI Summit Barcelona, with support from WTC Barcelona and Tech Nation. Four speakers are on the bill: Júlia Fort, Director of Product Design & Research , and Milan Jovanovic, Staff Product Designer at @veedstudio, presenting together. Stephany Oliveros, co-founder of SheAI, and Jasper Staats, Head of Tech & Partner at Like a Human, round out the lineup. Doors open at 6:00 PM, talks begin at 6:30 PM, followed by networking and drinks from 7:30 PM. 🇩🇪 April 9, 2026 | Stuttgart | Claude Code for Dev Claude Code Community is hosting an evening for developers and engineers who use Claude Code in their daily work, with support from Anthropic. The event is designed for technical profiles: developers, tech leads, AI-assisted workflow architects, and builders looking to deepen their command of the tool. Speakers are invited to share concrete experience — workflows that transformed how a team operates, lessons learned the hard way, or unexpected use cases. Those interested in speaking can reach out directly via the event page. Doors open at 5:00 PM for networking, speaker sessions and demos run from 5:30 to 6:30 PM, followed by co-working and open discussion from 6:30 to 7:30 PM, and pizza to close at 7:30 PM. In-person only, no online stream. Main language: English. Limited spots. 🇩🇰 April 9, 2026 | Copenhagen | Claude Code for Dev Claude Code Community is back in Copenhagen for a second edition, following a sold-out first meetup with 100 attendees and nearly 300 on the waitlist. The event is part of a global network of 90 Claude Code communities across 47 cities, organized in collaboration with Anthropic and hosted by Pyne, who provides the venue, drinks, and dinner. The format features four practitioner talks on real-world learnings, followed by a live Q&A with an Anthropic team member. The rule is the same across the global network: share what you learned, not what you sell. Optimized workflows, patterns that failed, unexpected use cases — talks aim for honest signal in 10 to 15 minutes. Speaker lineup and full agenda will be announced closer to the event. Those interested in speaking can contact ambassador Jacob Langvad Nilsson on LinkedIn or via the event page. Aimed at developers, engineers, architects, tech leads, and data scientists actively building with AI-assisted development tools. 🇫🇷 April 10, 2026 | Paris | SYNAPSE #6 Synapse AI returns to the Théâtre de l'IA for its sixth edition, true to its original spirit: an open space for AI creatives to share processes, projects, wins, and failures without filters. The evening brings together three speakers with singular projects at the intersection of artistic creation and generative tools. Nela Zai Zai revisits the making of Tableaux Vivants, an augmented scenographic experience built with a hybrid AI workflow — from initial inspiration through visual storytelling, sound design, and final edit. Raphaël Semeteys presents The Human Protocol, a cyberpunk techno-thriller written by applying software engineering principles to narrative: Git versioning, command-line interfaces, chapters treated like code. Fabrice Mathieu closes the evening with HZ2 Hollywood Zombies 2.0, a project where a meteor strikes Hollywood and turns its stars into zombies, built entirely with generative AI tools. Each presentation is followed by discussion, before a free-flowing conversation over drinks. April 10 at 7:00 PM, Artifex Lab, 10 rue de la Vacquerie, Paris 11th. 🇬🇧 April 11, 2026 | London | London AI Hackathon The {@techeurope_} community is bringing its AI hackathon to London. The event, capped at 80 participants, brings together developers, researchers, and professionals to build real AI solutions, in the presence of mentors, investors, and industry partners. Co-hosted with @V7Labs, a specialist in complex document workflows, the hackathon is supported by three technology partners: Google DeepMind for frontier multimodal models, Fal.ai for generative media, and @GradiumAI for real-time voice AI (TTS and STT). Free credits from all three providers are included for participants. The day runs Saturday, April 11. Doors open at 10:00 AM for networking, followed by an opening session and matchmaking at 10:45 AM. Lunch at 12:30 PM, competition opt-in deadline and dinner at 5:30 PM, live demos at 6:30 PM, and the awards ceremony at 7:00 PM. Entry is first come, first served — having a ticket does not guarantee entry once capacity is reached. All event updates are shared on a dedicated Discord. 🇮🇪 April 11, 2026 | Dublin | Cafe @cursor_ai Dublin Community Nomad and Give(a)Go are teaming up for a full-day co-working session in Dublin built around Cursor. The concept is simple: a café taken over for the day, open to builders who want to code in good company. Community Nomad is a Dublin-based AI company specializing in deploying AI within businesses and communities. Give(a)Go is a builder community focused on learning by doing, with 30 events and 1,500 attendees to its name. Two co-working slots are available on registration: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, and 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM. It's also possible to drop in anytime between 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM for a coffee and a quick chat, no time commitment required. Cursor credits are available on-site. Limited spots, first come, first served. ______ NORTH AMERICA 🇺🇸 April 6–9, 2026 | San Francisco | HumanX 2026 - The #1 AI Conference @HumanXCo 2026 is in full swing at the Moscone Center in San Francisco through April 9. Billed as the Davos of AI, the conference brings together 6,500 attendees, 350 speakers, and 60 hours of content over four days, featuring names like @drfeifei, Andrew Ng, @btaylor, and Matt Garman. The AI Collective is running several community sessions in open discussion format: the evolution of the developer workflow with Claude and the rise of the .md file as the lingua franca of AI-native work; building future-proof product roadmaps in a world that won't stop shifting, with speakers from Snowflake, Drata, and RoryPlans. To close the conference, two AGI-focused forums: the first with Hermitage Capital and Nebius on the economic signals of the inflection point, the second — no agenda, no preset thesis — to sit with the longest question of all. What this all means for humanity. For those missing the California gathering, HumanX is heading to Europe for the first time, September 22–24, 2026 at RAI Amsterdam. 🇺🇸 April 7, 2026 | Stamford | Demo Night 5 - Stamford AI Meetup The Stamford AI Meetup, a monthly gathering of technologists, investors, and entrepreneurs from Westchester and Fairfield Counties, is hosting its fifth Demo Night at Point Café in Stamford, under the AI Collective umbrella. Three local pre-seed startups go head to head in a live demo format: LoanBlocks, building real-time portfolio risk monitoring for private credit funds; Kreayt, a platform for scheduling and creating AI-powered YouTube quote videos; and Esstart, an event app solution featuring photo walls, interactive stories, and photo sharing. The winner is chosen by crowd applause. The event is hosted by @ddemakes, Stamford AI Meetup host and digital product development specialist. Doors open at 5:30 PM for networking and check-in, kickoff at 6:00 PM, demos at 6:30 PM, followed by pizza, beer, and networking until 8:30 PM. Limited spots, application required. 🇨🇦 April 8, 2026 | Toronto | The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist AI Collective Toronto, TO Community Builders, and Weave Toronto are co-hosting a screening of the documentary The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, followed by an open community discussion. The event is part of a broader AI Collective initiative coordinating cross-community conversations — both in-person and online — across multiple US and Canadian cities around the same film. The premise is deliberately open: pessimists, optimists, skeptics, and the genuinely curious are invited into the same room to compare their takes on AI's impact. The documentary asks a deceptively simple question: can you be clear-eyed about the risks and still be an optimist about AI? Limited spots, application required. Movie tickets must be purchased directly from the theater. 🇺🇸 April 8, 2026 | San Francisco | AI Demo Days — Demo Night SF AI Demo Days is hosting a technical demo evening in San Francisco, in partnership with @GoogleDeepMind , GV (Google Ventures), and StackOne. The format is uncompromising: 15 minutes per talk, no marketing, pure technical demos from people building real things. The event brings together engineers, founders, researchers, angels, and mentors from SF's AI scene. Google DeepMind is Google's frontier AI research and engineering arm. GV is Alphabet's venture capital fund, with over $13 billion deployed since 2009. StackOne provides agentic integration infrastructure enabling AI agents to interact reliably with enterprise SaaS systems. Three speakers are confirmed: @LeslieNooteboom for Google DeepMind, Peter Wielander for Vercel, and @RomainSestier for @StackOneHQ, with more to come. Doors open at 5:00 PM with refreshments, demos and Q&A run from 5:30 to 6:30 PM, followed by networking until 7:30 PM. Limited spots, first come, first served. 🇲🇽 April 10, 2026 | Colima, Mexico | Claude Code for Everyone The Claude Sin Fronteras tour stops in Colima for an evening dedicated to real-world Claude use cases in software development, open to all levels. The event explores two angles: building full platforms without coding experience, and deploying AI agents in real industrial environments. Four speakers are on the program: Edson Morfin, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, covers RAG, agents, and guardrails as pillars of a robust AI application. David Padilla Chávez, independent Ruby on Rails contractor, offers a guide for navigating the AI era. Mario Alberto Chávez Cárdenas, independent contractor, traces the journey from prompt to MVP with Claude. Carlos Andrés Robles Hernández, Data Architect at Globant, presents the deployment of an AI copilot for port operations in Manzanillo - PortTech - built with Claude. Doors open at 6:00 PM, talks begin at 6:30 PM, followed by networking. Venue shared with confirmed attendees only. Limited spots. 🇺🇸 April 11–12, 2026 | San Francisco | RoboHacks @ycombinator The first robotics hackathon held at the YC office brings together 120 builders and 25 MARS robots for a full weekend. The event is co-organized by Innate, Iterate, and NASA, with Google DeepMind on board. The goal: build real applications on a general-purpose robot across three domains - manipulation, navigation, and interaction. Sponsors include Scale AI for data infrastructure, Nebius for GPU compute, ElevenLabs for voice synthesis, Dryft for operational automation, and UFB, the sports league for humanoid robots. The hackathon spans two days. Day one (9 AM through the evening): kickoff, hacking, and mentorship. Day two (until 7 PM): final builds, demos, judging, and awards. Prizes include $15,000 in cash and credits, robots, a NASA Ames Center tour, and a guaranteed YC interview. In-person only. Food and drinks provided throughout. ____ ASIA 🇸🇬 April 7, 2026 | Singapore | January Capital | Builders Session — Codex x OpenClaw x OpenAI Multimodal APIs @January_Capital and @OpenAI are co-hosting a hands-on builders session for early-stage founders, builders, and students looking to build with the latest OpenAI models. The event is hosted at BLOCK71 Global, an NUS Enterprise initiative dedicated to growing the tech ecosystem across Asia-Pacific. January Capital is an early-stage VC fund focused on Southeast Asia, Australia, and India, with a portfolio including Shopback, Akulaku, and Cialfo. The session features guided technical walkthroughs from the OpenAI Solutions team, covering how to combine Codex for code generation, OpenClaw for agent orchestration, and OpenAI's multimodal APIs to build intelligent AI systems from scratch. A live build sprint follows, with expert support throughout. Top teams compete in a closing demo showcase: the top three teams share up to $50,000 in OpenAI API credits, with a top prize of $25,000. All attendees receive ChatGPT Plus access (including Codex) and API credits to keep building after the event. Limited spots. 🇯🇵 April 8, 2026 | Tokyo (Minato City) | TEAMZ AI Hackathon - Build Your Own OpenClaw AI Assistant AI Builders is partnering with @teamz_inc for a full-day hackathon in Tokyo, dedicated to building a complete AI assistant based on OpenClaw — from scratch to production deployment. The event targets developers, founders, and engineers who want to understand and assemble a modern AI stack with no black boxes and no vendor lock-in. Every participant leaves with a working, tested, deployed assistant. The stack is built across seven steps, each powered by a dedicated technology partner: Zeabur for one-click server deployment, Agnes-Claw as the LLM backend optimized for OpenClaw agents, Nosana for decentralized GPU compute, Bright Data for real-time web scraping, mem9 for long-term agent memory, TiDB Cloud for serverless state management, and QoderWork as the AI-native development environment. Free Zeabur credits are distributed to all participants. Three speakers open the session: Tadatoshi Sekiguchi from TiDB Japan, Brian Chen from Zeabur, and Jack Wang from Alibaba Cloud Japan. The jury includes Amber Liu from SIG Asia Investment, Kecheng Yang from CADDi, and Tadatoshi Sekiguchi. Check-in at 1:00 PM, hacking begins at 2:30 PM, demos and awards at 4:30 PM. 🇵🇭 April 8, 2026 | Makati City, Philippines | OpenClaw Manila feat. @Alibaba_Qwen David Marquez, LEAP Studios, @alibaba_cloud, and the Vibe Tribe crew are co-hosting a community meetup around OpenClaw and Alibaba's Qwen models, designed for builders, founders, students, and curious first-timers who want to explore what AI agents can actually do in the real world. The event is held at LEAP Studios, a venture studio and event space in Chino Roces, Makati, built to connect entrepreneurs and creatives around work in progress. The format is deliberately accessible: straightforward talks, real workflow demos, beginner-friendly examples, and plenty of time for questions and conversation. Check-in and networking start at 6:00 PM, followed by welcome remarks from David Marquez at 6:30 PM. The evening features two Show & Tell sessions — the first at 6:40 PM, the second at 8:00 PM after a group dinner at 7:00 PM. Networking closes the evening at 8:45 PM. 🇮🇳 April 10, 2026 | Hyderabad | @ Workshop for Everyone Claude Community is hosting a hands-on workshop in Hyderabad, open to all levels — from complete beginners to builders already shipping. The premise: come with an idea, leave with a working project or meaningful progress on one, with technical support in the room throughout. The event takes place in the ground floor restaurant area in Kondapur; the exact location is shared upon registration confirmation. The session runs from 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM. After check-in and snacks until 11:00 AM, a community intro showcases what's possible with Claude. From 11:20 to 11:50 AM, participants form groups and set build goals. A 70-minute deep build session follows, then an optional 2–3 minute demo showcase for those who want to share their work. The morning wraps up with a free buffet lunch and open networking until 2:30 PM. ____ OCEANIA 🇦🇺 April 10, 2026 | Sydney | Folklore Ventures x Build Club - AI Hackathon @Folklorevc, one of Australia's leading early-stage VC funds, is teaming up with Build Club for a one-day AI hackathon focused on AI applied to work. The event takes place on April 10 in Redfern, Sydney, in-person only, full day. The challenge: build an AI application in one day that reinvents a way of working. Lovable, the AI-powered web app builder, is among the event's partners. Build Club, founded by Annie Liao, describes itself as the world's most active AI builder community - around 40 events per month across 40 cities, 10K members spanning APAC, Southeast Asia, and the US. The organization reports a 70% completion rate on its training programs, versus a 30% industry average. Limited spots; full-day attendance is required at registration.

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🎬 House of David – Season 2 is now live on Amazon Prime Video. A proud moment. From experimenting with AI workflows to contributing as part of the VFX AI team, this project represents a major step in my journey at the intersection of cinema and artificial intelligence. Huge respect to everyone involved ,it was a privilege to collaborate with such a talented team. Excited to keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

🔹 Lovable integrates automated penetration testing via Aikido to secure AI-generated apps AI-assisted development platform Lovable announces the integration of Aikido, an automated pentest tool, directly into its environment. Where a traditional penetration test costs between $5,000 and $50,000 and takes several weeks, the solution promises analysis in 1 to 4 hours for $100 per test. Autonomous agents attack the application under real conditions (privilege escalation attempts, authentication bypass, injection, API exploration) combining blackbox, greybox and whitebox approaches. Detected vulnerabilities surface directly in Lovable as actionable issues, fixable in one click or via the platform's agent. A pentest report usable for SOC 2 or ISO 27001 questionnaires is generated at the end of the test. Lovable positions this integration as a response to the growing gap between the development speed enabled by AI and the effective security verification of the code produced.

🔹 ElevenLabs deploys Guardrails 2.0 ElevenLabs launches Guardrails 2.0 in alpha within ElevenAgents, its AI voice agent infrastructure. The system relies on three layers of real-time protection: system prompt reinforcement (Focus), detection of manipulation attempts or prompt injection on the user side, and validation of the agent's responses before delivery. On top of these built-in components, Custom Guardrails let users define business rules in natural language, automatically evaluated at every exchange. The full setup offers granular control over execution modes (latency vs. rigor), actions triggered upon violation (end conversation, transfer, human escalation) and sensitivity thresholds by content category. ElevenLabs also includes automatic redaction of sensitive data in post-call transcriptions and recordings, with a Zero Retention mode for deployments subject to strict compliance requirements.

🔹 Pacific Music Group and @Timbaland sign AI artist TaTa Taktumi for the Asian market Pacific Music Group (PMG), the pan-Asian entertainment company co-founded by Ne-Yo, Sonu Nigam, MC Jin and Jonathan Serbin, is partnering with Timbaland's Stage Zero to sign AI artist TaTa Taktumi. PMG will handle management in Asia and serve as the global record label, overseeing release campaigns, strategic positioning and brand development across Asian markets.

🔹 @Snapchat launches AI Clips, a Lens format that turns a photo into a five-second AI video Snap introduces AI Clips in Lens Studio, enabling developers to create Lenses that convert a photo (Snap or camera roll) into a short AI-generated video. The system relies on a closed-prompt approach: the developer defines the creative direction upfront, and the user simply selects their photo. The tool is natively integrated into Lens Studio's GenAI Suite, with no external workflow required. AI Clips are exclusive to Lens subscribers, and developers enrolled in the Lens Payouts program can monetize their creations. Snap positions the format as an alternative to open video generation tools, banking on ease of use, native Snapchat distribution and repeat engagement. newsroom.snap.com/ai-clips-i…

🔹 Freepik launches Relight Freepik expands its Pikaso suite with Relight, a tool for full lighting control on images and videos. Users can choose the position of the light source (top, bottom, front, back, left, right), adjust its intensity, color and number of sources, or import a reference image whose lighting style the AI will replicate. Over 15 presets, designed by Freepik's AI Workflow team, are also available as starting points. The feature comes in two versions: Relight Images and Relight Video, the latter launched yesterday.

🔹 OpenAI announces the shutdown of the Sora app OpenAI officially confirmed on March 24 the end of its video generation app Sora. In a post on 𝕏, the team thanked the creators and community that had formed around the tool, while promising to share more details soon about shutdown timelines, the fate of the API and how to preserve existing creations. Worth noting: the original post mentioned the end of "Sora" before being corrected to "Sora app." Whether a simple slip or a deliberate communication choice, the nuance is worth flagging, especially in the context of the super-app OpenAI is building. The announcement was viewed over 16 million times within hours, generating more than 7,000 replies. While no official reason was given, several factors are being cited: extremely high compute costs, an estimated 45% drop in engagement since January 2026, intensifying competition (Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0, among others) and controversies tied to deepfakes and problematic generated content. On the business side, Disney reportedly canceled a planned $1 billion investment. OpenAI appears to be refocusing its resources on strategic priorities: reasoning, Codex and simulation for robotics.

🔹 Higgsfield AI integrates a social and collaborative space directly into its platform Higgsfield AI has launched Higgsfield Chat, a social layer built into its platform. The goal: let creators collaborate in real time without leaving the tool. Text chat, audio and video calls, shared projects (private, public or open), generation sharing with associated prompt and model, community feed with recommendation system — everything is designed to function as a creative workspace connected to existing generation tools (Cinema Studio, Kling 3.0, Soul, Nano Banana, among others). Users can join other creators' public projects and watch their AI generations live. On the organizational side, a free plan allows collaboration under a shared name with individual credits, while a Team plan offers shared credits, admin controls and SSO. The platform claims over 18 million users. A built-in assistant powered by GPT-5, Higgsfield Assist, rounds out the offering with help for writing prompts and storyboards.

🔹 Spline launches Omma, a platform for creating 3D, websites and apps powered by AI Spline, the browser-based 3D design tool, unveiled Omma yesterday. The platform combines code generation (LLM), 3D mesh creation and image generation within a single environment. The concept: describe what you want in natural language and let multiple AI agents work in parallel to produce the result. Demos posted on 𝕏 showcase scroll-reactive 3D landing pages, an interactive music app with real-time reflections, a car game with a physics system, and a simulation of 16,000 individual hairs in the browser, all powered by WebGPU. Omma also lets users remix community-shared projects, export to CSV, JSON, GLB/GLTF, and deploy straight to production with a custom domain. The platform is available in beta at omma.build, with a free plan and a Pro plan starting at $29/month running on a credit system.