Everything from our first news episode in readable form: the mystery model that topped OpenRouter, Claude Fable 5’s return (and reprieve), GPT-5.6’s rollout, Suno opening its API, and our own lab report.
We just signed up for the GenJam Directors Cup, 16 nations, 4-hour film sprints, winner takes $1,000. Here’s why a channel about building AI is now competing with it, and how to join our team before July 7.
A weekend game-development project with my daughter as lead designer and an AI coding agent as the engineer. The whole thing hinged on one line in the very first prompt, before any code, ask clarifying questions and list your assumptions.
Three attempts to score a 29-second action tease with AI music: one sounded like a Christmas movie, one physically hurt to listen to, and one shipped. What text-to-music can and can’t do in mid-2026.
We produced a 29-second helicopter-and-dragons action tease with image-to-video AI. Here’s every mistake we made, tangled limbs, teleporting wardrobes, shrinking monsters, and the directing rules that fixed them.
Our shorts series has an AI judge whether media is AI-generated. Twice, her verdict contradicted the community’s receipts, and we nearly published. Here’s the verification pipeline that now gates every episode.
Behind the scenes of EP01: the script-to-upload pipeline where the narrator, the presenter and the editor are all the same local AI, including the sync bug we shipped and fixed.
A working comparison from our production pipeline: 24-second local renders on an RTX 5090 vs 15-second cloud generations, cost, speed, quality, and when we actually use each.
The honest timeline from ‘what’s a LoRA?’ to a self-producing AI persona with a voice, a face, and a daily upload schedule, and what I’d tell anyone starting today.
The images, the video, the 3D avatar and the daily uploads on this channel run on one prebuilt gaming PC. Here’s the exact spec, what actually matters for local AI, and what we’d change.