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Let's Buy Spirit Air

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Learn all about the Pika MCP at

Pika Labs shares on Model Context Protocol. @pika_labs (Pika Labs): "Learn all about the Pika MCP at http:// pika.me/mcp"

AI just killed Crypto...

Multiple AI voices are discussing OpenAI / GPT. Accounts including WesRoth, pika_labs posted in the last 48h. @WesRoth (Wes Roth): "AI just killed Crypto... Shor of Damacles and the Shtetl-Optimized ex-OpenAI, ex-Google Researches says: "THIS IS YOUR WARNING"" | @pika_labs (Pika Labs): "6/6 @yyyole broke down a highly topical legal dispute—in Chinese. Subtitles included. Input  /podcast What will be the ultimate impact of the legal showdown between Elon Musk and OpenAI?"

What if your Claude could be Monica? Or Darius? Or whoever you want them to be?

Multiple AI voices are discussing Anthropic / Claude. Accounts including theo, pika_labs posted in the last 48h. @theo (Theo Browne (t3.gg)): "If you use Claude Code, be careful what you put in your commit messages..." | @pika_labs (Pika Labs): "Don’t just code a project in Claude, create materials to promote it. Alongside our MCP, we’re also releasing a Pika Plugin with three Skills to start: Podcast Video, Explainer, and UGC Ad. Check out these example outputs from our team and community. 1/6 - Input  /explainer"

Talking to Transformers

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How the internet’s favorite squirrel dad made the hottest camera app of 2026

Downey at home in LA with one of his channel’s frequent guest stars. | Image: The Verge; Shutterstock It's not hyperbole to call DualShot Recorder an overnight sensation. It took only 12 hours from the time it was released to hit number one on the App Store's list of top paid apps. It was a surprise success - but what's even more surprising is the app's origin story: it all started with a cadre of friendly neighborhood squirrels and their favorite caretaker. Derrick Downey Jr. built a care...

AI music is flooding streaming services — but who wants it?

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on how AI is changing music and the music industry, follow Terrence O'Brien. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The use of generative AI in pop music started almost as a gimmick. There was a sense of experimentalism to 2018's I AM AI by Taryn Southern and 2019's Proto by Holly Herndon, albums that were created with sign...

You want to build, not spend hours setting up infrastructure.

Databricks shares on Cursor AI. @databricks (Databricks): "You want to build, not spend hours setting up infrastructure. In this webinar, discover how to go from an idea to a production-ready app faster using modern frameworks, real-time iteration, and serverless Postgres. Join experts from Databricks and @cursor_ai on May 5 (AMER),"

You can now run an AI agent on-device, right inside Chrome.

Alpha Signal shares on AI Agents. @AlphaSignalAI (Alpha Signal): "You can now run an AI agent on-device, right inside Chrome. No servers. No data leaving your device. The browser extension uses Gemma 4 E2B, a 2B parameter model with native tool calling baked into its chat template. The model decides when to call tools and which ones, all"

Google DeepMind just turned image generators into the best vision model.

Alpha Signal shares on Google / Gemini. @AlphaSignalAI (Alpha Signal): "Google DeepMind just turned image generators into the best vision model. They introduced Vision Banana. It's a single model that treats every vision task as image generation. Segmentation, depth estimation, 3D understanding, all framed as pictures to draw. The approach is"