A little funny, scary thing we did. featuring the talents of @brianwankum and @rakelle cc: @MachineCinemaAI @CuriousRefuge youtube.com/watch?v=QiHadn3v…

AI on the Lot 2026 @AmazonMGMStudio felt different. Huge love to @MachineCinemaAI and our “Memes R US” crew, including @brianwankum & @theBW7. We went with cinematic memes and won Best Picture 🎖️at the GenJam™ AIOTL 4h hackathon. Truly reMEMEarkable people and a great event 🔥

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Increasingly, I believe companies may need to be rebuilt from the ground up, where you have a single timeline of all observability product metrics file changes laid out in a retrievable system, like Datadog Posthog Google Drive Slack (really unified filesystem of Claude Code chats Codex chats). This might be the new data foundation for any and all companies to maximize AI. Needs to be rebuilt because keeping track of diffs on existing system basically impossible to produce longitudinal information on decisions and rollbacks, something coding agent storage companies are actively trying to figure out, but this should extend to businesses as a whole. Highly skeptical existing businesses will adopt this though because it means overhauling everything about their instrumentation and business data, but I think businesses built on this foundation probably can execute 100x better and faster

It’s all about your keyframes.

This 👇. There is also incredible willingness to break habits and try new things that hadn’t been the case for quite a while as habits hardened

AI filmmakers are one of the MOST in-demand people in the creative industry right now. This is the dilemma right now. There are NOT enough AI filmmakers, partly because being really good at editing, cinematography, AND actual AI skills is a LOT to master. The very best AI filmmakers are very rare. There are 6 entities that are hunting for them, causing a squeeze in the job market: > Big studios - want to hire AI filmmakers for experimental and research projects > AI studios - they’re experiencing demand for their own projects and clients and need AI filmmakers to train and work on those projects > AI tool companies - want to hire AI creative directors and filmmakers to showcase their tools > AI streamers - who want to fill up their catalog with AI content > Ad Agencies - nobody cares if an ad is made with AI. Agencies are training up their own people to do AI to cost save on ads and… > Brands - are demanding quicker, cheaper, and more variety and since it’s so easy, they’re also hiring to tinker and even shorten feedback timelines While one side of the creative industry is losing jobs, demand in this industry is exploding and not abating. AI skills are very easy to learn but VERY hard to master.

Ridley Scott brought a foreigner’s enraptured eye to the mythic American West, capturing its magnificent, sun-baked landscapes with a breathtaking, almost mythic romanticism. I particularly loved how it effortlessly transcended the conventions of the traditional road movie and the classic Western. Guided by Callie Khouri’s terrific script, the film blossomed into a deeply affecting surrogate mother-daughter narrative in which its two heroines beautifully, and tragically, traded roles on their journey toward liberation. At the picture's beating heart were Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, who delivered fantastic, genuinely luminous performances as two thoroughly ordinary women forced by circumstance into the lives of outlaws. They grounded the film's grand scale with an irresistible blend of grit and vulnerability. The supporting cast was equally superb, anchored by Michael Madsen’s rugged authenticity and a wildly charismatic, star-making turn from Brad Pitt...a revelation that served as his introduction to most of America. The result was a profoundly moving cinematic experience that didn't just entertain, but left a seismic and lasting impact on our cultural landscape at the time.

Here’s another pretty wild story from one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies on the impact of adopting Runway: They now generate 75% of all visual media with AI, replicating projects that previously cost $800K for under $10K, saving $30K per product shot, and shifting a $5–6M annual production budget from traditional production to AI. That's the way.

Consistently funny for years. Good for them. Like Backrooms, Obsession, etc... this is just another example of people not waiting around for opportunities and showing their voice, creating original content, etc. Don't wait around, the cavalry isn't coming.

We are pumped to officially announce Advanced AI Filmmaking 2.0. We teamed up with Kavan Cardoza (@Kavanthekid) to rebuild this entire course. This will be completely new workflows, tools, and more, all geared toward helping you learn the AI Filmmaking techniques that Kavan has been using at the highest levels. Our exclusive Beta Pricing goes live on Wednesday, May 27th, and ends on Wednesday, June 3rd (when training officially starts). Join the waitlist to make sure you can take advantage of the Beta Pricing. Check out the course here: curiousrefuge.com/advanced-a…

Incredibly well deserved Curry, Inde, Michael, Megan, Cooper and the entire TEAM OBSESSION !!! These faces are just getting started!

The Filmmakers at Cannes Who Are Learning to Love AI hollywoodreporter.com/movies…

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Barry Lyndon (1975) looks so soft because Kubrick did not want normal daylight; he wanted the right daylight. Many outdoor scenes had to wait for cloudy skies, proving that even the weather had to fit the painting.

Scorsese: “I don’t know where cinema is going to go. Why does it have to be the same as it was?”

open-sourcing a 3D gen toolkit for Claude Code input image → environment, meshes, physics, lighting, & audio

Prediction: AI-native IP will fundamentally change the entertainment landscape, and YT vs. Netflix will be the primary battleground.

Interesting.

Three.js can do everything now. VFX and audio sync handled in browser. Premiere for the final assembly. #threejs #op1 @jugendingenieur

Live from Code with Claude: we're launching dreaming in Claude Managed Agents as a research preview. Outcomes, multiagent orchestration, and webhooks are now in public beta.