🎥 Seedance 2.0 Creations
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 dropped and users were generating clips that made Hollywood panic. The tool's output quality is stunning - AI video generation has crossed a threshold that the entertainment industry can't ignore.
The MPA and Disney have already hit ByteDance with copyright infringement claims, which tells you everything about how seriously the industry is taking this. When the lawyers show up, you know the tech is real.
Here’s a few good examples:
🖼️ Ultimate 2026 Guide to Creating Insane Content using AI
A useful reference to bookmark. TechHalla put together a great into on the workflow that goes into the content creation, which is often the more important and underappreciated side of things.
📊 British Museum Data Visualization
A Chinese student built an app using vibe coding that visualises nearly 5,000 artefacts in the British Museum from 99 countries - showing when they arrived, where they came from, and how the distribution would look if they were returned.
It's genuinely impressive the speed at which AI can gather data and compile it in ways that we might not have thought of.
📊 What Jobs Will AI Take?
From Anthropic's latest labour market impacts report - a radar chart showing the gap between what AI could theoretically do in different occupations versus what it's actually being used for.
The gap between "theoretical capability" and "observed usage" is massive in almost every category. That's either reassuring or a warning depending on how you read it.
Read it here - https://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts
📊 Claude Code Hackathon Winners
The people building with AI aren't just developers anymore. They're domain experts who finally have the tools to bring their ideas to life without needing to learn to code first. Creators and builders will start to look a lot different in the future.
🔶 The Shape Store
I loved this blend of retro style filmography mixed with uncanny effects - infinite_archive_ on Instagram creating this surreal, VHS-aesthetic content.
🛹 Tony Hawks Gandalf DLC
Someone used AI to put Gandalf on a skateboard doing tricks around Minas Tirith and Mordor.
@awatanation1 Made on @OpenArt
🏎️ Vibe Coded F1 Racing Game
ineedthealgorithm created a top-down F1 racing game using AI and was kind enough to post his process in the thread. This keeps blowing my mind. A fully playable racing game, built by describing what you want rather than writing code.
Check it out here
👾 A Pixel World Where You Can See Claude Code Working
m_aeu_m on Reddit asked Claude Code to create a pixel world so you could visualise it working, and the result is a proper retro style environment where you can watch the AI agent move around and complete tasks. Check out the thread here
🗂️ Notion Clone
Vivek Reddy created a Notion Clone in Cursor. If one person can rebuild a complex productivity tool in a week using AI coding assistants, what does that mean for the barrier to entry in software?
🖼️ Midjourney Is Still Beautiful
I came across this video on the r/midjourney subreddit and love the aesthetic. Midjourney seems to get less exposure these days but I still think it’s one of the most interesting tools for unique visual styles.
While everyone's chasing photorealism with the latest models, Midjourney still occupies this unique space for creating genuinely artistic imagery. The VHS found-footage aesthetic in this piece is haunting. If you're a creator who cares about visual identity over raw realism, Midjourney is still worth your time.
That's it for this week. If any of this made you think, forward it to someone who'd find it useful.
Ben, Future Creator