🎥 Netflix’s AI-generated scenes

What we’ll cover today:

🎥 Netflix’s AI-generated scenes (yep, they’re here)

💔 Why another AI startup crashed mid-race

🤖 Robots pivoting from lunch runs to factories

🐷 A YC startup gave up on Windows agents

🛠️ Tools to build, create, and grow faster with AI

📚 Google’s own AI hacks to save you hours

🎥 Netflix Quietly Adds GenAI to How It Makes TV

• Netflix confirmed it used GenAI for the first time in a show, El Eternauta, to create a building collapse scene. [Read Full Story]

• AI made the process 10x faster and cheaper than traditional VFX.

• Netflix is also using GenAI across pre-visualization, search, ads, and personalization.

• Leadership says this is about helping creators work faster, not replacing them.

• Reality check: AI is already part of how Netflix gets content made.

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💔 Windsurf’s Messy Exit After OpenAI Ghosted

• Windsurf’s OpenAI acquisition fell apart when Google poached its CEO and licensed its tech.

• Morale collapsed, the CEO quit, and the interim team rushed to find a way forward.

• Cognition AI stepped in quickly and acquired what remained. [Read Full Story]

• The deal prioritized paying out staff and securing talent for both sides.

• Takeaway: even broken startups with IP and GTM muscle still have value.

🤖 Cartken Swerves From Lunch Orders to Factory Floors

• Cartken shifted focus from food delivery bots to factory logistics after strong demand from manufacturers.

• Their robots proved more useful moving factory parts than campus lunches. Mitsubishi just placed a 100-unit order for Cartken’s heavy-duty bots. [Read Full Story]

• Industrial use offers better margins and steady demand compared to delivery.

• Smart founders follow real money, not headlines.

🐷 Pig.dev Kills Windows Agent Idea, Pivots to Caching

• Pig.dev wanted to automate Windows desktops with AI but found no real market demand.

• Customers preferred finished solutions, not dev tools or APIs.

• The founder pivoted to Muscle Mem, a caching system to make agents faster. [Read full story]

• Focus now is on helping agents handle repetitive tasks more efficiently.

• Microsoft already leads this space so the timing was right to switch.

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