Reuben ASK

What problem does it solve?

[Sulfur @sulfurscales]

i built a way to generate full ai vlogs for youtube using seedance 2.5, without ever picking up a camera

this was supposed to stay internal but f*ck it, i'm leaking the whole thing

you give it a script or even just a topic and it comes back with a finished vlog, voiceover, b-roll, captions, ready to upload

here's how it works: a custom claude skill breaks your script into scenes and writes timestamped storyboard prompts for each one, matched to pacing so nothing feels random. those prompts get fed into seedance 2.5, using its 30 second continuous generation and reference asset support to keep the visuals consistent across scenes instead of looking like ten unrelated clips stitched together. then it pulls in an ai voiceover that matches the tone of the script, stitches every scene together, and burns in captions automatically

you're not filming, not voicing, not editing, not exporting from three different apps

the whole thing runs start to finish and outputs a finished 16:9 vlog ready to post, and it costs a fraction of what an editor or camera setup would run you

i'm sharing the full breakdown, which includes:

the claude skill that handles scene breakdown and storyboard prompts the seedance 2.5 setup that keeps visuals consistent scene to scene the voiceover setup that keeps it from sounding robotic the exact workflow from script to finished vlog

RT + reply "PROMPTS" and i'll send it over (must follow so i can dm)

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

The biggest opportunities right now:

1. build for solving loneliness (the more AI floods everything, the more people crave real human connection, IRL and small social)

2. build for agents that need to spend money (they're getting virtual cards and budgets, someone builds the spend controls, fraud protection, receipts)

3. build for people drowning in AI output (everyone generates infinite drafts now, the bottleneck moved to reviewing and choosing, build the judgment layer)

4. build for the burnout economy (everyone is expected to always be on and always optimizing, and the backlash toward rest, slowness, and enough is building)

5. build for verifying humans (deepfakes broke trust, every dating app, marketplace, and video call needs proof-of-human within 2 years)

6. build for the physical world (the trades, hardware, robots that AI is finally reaching)

7. build for the agent that answers the phone (every local business misses calls after 5pm, a voice agent that books the job is worth thousands a month)

8. build for the aging (70M+ boomers who want to stay healthy, sharp, and connected)

9. build for the LLM-search land grab (being the cited answer is the new SEO)

10. build for the newly automated (the paralegal, the analyst, the marketer whose job just changed and needs to reskill fast)

11. build for the seat-pricing collapse (software repricing from $50/seat to per-outcome, whoever nails outcome billing wins a category)

12. build for AI enablement (95% of businesses use nothing beyond ChatGPT, someone has to onboard the other 95%)

13. build for the agency everyone resents (businesses pay $1k/mo to agencies they hate, an agent that does 80% of it undercuts the model)

14. build for verticals on 2011 software (dentists, HOAs, contractors, all overdue for an AI-native rebuild)

15. build for reviving dead software (thousands of abandoned apps with real users, agents can maintain what a team couldn't, buy and revive)

16. build for markets too small to matter before (500 lobster fishermen was never worth a team, now it's a weekend and a real business)

17. build for agents hiring agents (a shadow economy is forming, it needs escrow, reputation, and dispute resolution for machines)

18. build for the anti-AI premium (as everything gets generated, human-made and analog become status symbols people pay up for)

19. build for distribution-first (anyone can build the product now, so the audience is the moat, media company first, product second)

20. build for the reinvention of college (what does an MBA even mean anymore)

21. build for a world with more free time than it knows what to do with (if AI takes the busywork, the question becomes what people do with the hours, and that's a civilization sized market)

note: more trends/ideas @ideabrowser (free to sign up)

22. build for the return to the physical (screens fill with slop, people crave the real world, the hands-on, the local, the analog)

23. build for the caregiving wave. The population is aging fast, tens of millions are caring for parents, and the whole burden is landing on families with no support.

24. build for the longevity shift (people want to live to 100 healthy, and a whole industry is forming around actively managing your own biology)

25. build for the housing and rootlessness problem (people can't afford to settle down, and the whole idea of a stable home base is up for grabs)

26. build for spiritual hunger (as institutions hollow out, the need for meaning, ritual, and belonging is exploding into new forms)

KEEP BUILDING

[Gizem Akdag @gizakdag]

You loved it so much, so here's Part 2.

It's tea time!

[Miss Scarlett @vampScally]

VIDEO EDITORS ARE COOKED - CLAUDE NOW MAKES A FINISHED PROMO VIDEO FROM ONE SENTENCE

No timeline, no After Effects, no $2k freelancer. You describe the video in plain words and a full branded promo comes back done.

The tool is Motion by Mosaic. You bolt it onto Claude once and it becomes your motion designer.

Setup takes a minute. In Claude open Customize, go to Connectors, add a custom connector, name it Motion, paste the Motion link and authorize. That's it, no code, no API key to wrestle with.

Then you just talk. Say "make me a 30 second launch video for my app, clean and modern." Claude hands it to Motion, and Motion runs the whole production the way a studio would:

it researches your brand and picks a look

storyboards the scenes

animates everything with real motion, not stock slides

adds voiceover, music and captions

renders a finished MP4 you can post

Five minutes later you have a promo that looks like an agency charged four figures for it. From a single sentence.

This is the part people are sleeping on. A solo founder can now spin up launch videos, product demos and ad variations on demand, while everyone else is still emailing an editor and waiting three days.

Bookmark this and follow - I'm posting the exact one-sentence prompts that pull the best videos out of it this week, and you'll want them saved before your next launch.

[Ege @egeberkina]

Tour de France

[INTERIOR HUB @INTERIORBYHUT]

Relaxing on a classic Fardos Sofa by Ricardo Fasanello is a mid-century Brazilian modernism dream

[Wisdom Kaye @modsiwW]

The world cup, but if it was high fashion

[Tanzil Chowdhury @iamtanzil_]

GPT 5.6 Sol is quite good at design tasks.

A complete landing page with just one prompt.

Access the prompt👇

[Taaruk @Taaruk_]

GPT image 2 on Chatgpt

Prompt:
Whimsical hand-drawn watercolor and colored-pencil illustration of a peaceful everyday life scene, inspired by a cozy vintage children's picture book. Create a richly detailed, story-filled environment with charming ordinary people doing simple daily activities—cooking in a warm kitchen, tending a lush garden, sharing tea at a wooden table, working in a quiet neighborhood, or meeting on a countryside path. Loose imperfect black ink outlines, naive hand-drawn proportions, visible pencil marks, soft watercolor washes, slightly uneven coloring, warm paper texture, gentle muted reds, greens, blues, yellows and earthy oranges. Fill the composition with tiny narrative details: flowers, leafy trees, potted plants, cats or small dogs, birds, cups, kitchen utensils, fruit bowls, old furniture, scattered autumn leaves and cozy household objects. Wide storybook composition, playful perspective, calm nostalgic atmosphere, warm human emotion, traditional analog illustration, scanned vintage paper feel, no photorealism, no 3D, no glossy digital art, no text, highly detailed editorial children's book artwork.

[Thijs @cdngdev]

i gave 5.6 sol access to my camera roll and had it extract pictures of every piece of clothing i own from my photos

then, told it to find new outfits for me and render them on me with gpt-image!

its kinda cool to see your entire wardrobe in a collection like this

[Sam Altman @sama]

this would have been a whole startup not too long ago

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Trying something real quick (look closely at the top)

[Reuben ASK @iamreubenask]

@hasankutlu How can one be a part of this union ?

[Argona @Argona0x]

He works on Codex inside the $852,000,000,000 company that just shipped GPT-5.6 Sol.

instead of keeping the workflow OpenAI wrote a whole blog post about, he quietly open-sourced it.

Jason Liu. Creator of Instructor - the library OpenAI cited as inspiration for structured outputs.

'personal-monorepo-template' - his personal vault that turns Codex into a chief of staff with permanent memory:

→ remembers every project, experiment and person you work with: plain folders, no vector database
→ repo-local skills your agent loads into every session
→ a write-like-me skill built from your sent emails and slack: it starts writing like you
→ daily 9am and 4pm check-ins it runs without being asked

a human chief of staff costs $150k a year. this one is a git clone.

122 stars. almost nobody has seen it.

bookmark this. your codex setup levels up from here.

[Jukan @jukan05]

CHINA CONSIDERS RESTRICTING OVERSEAS ACCESS TO CUTTING-EDGE AI MODELS

China’s Ministry of Commerce has led meetings over the past month with major AI companies, including Alibaba, ByteDance, and https://t.co/YDe0KRldDB, to discuss measures that would restrict overseas access to cutting-edge AI models, including models that have not yet been released.

The discussions reportedly include not only closed-source models but also open-weight models. However, the scope of application is still under debate, and the rules may ultimately apply only to future frontier models.

Officials have also discussed designating the leakage or theft of proprietary AI technologies as a national security crime, with stronger penalties, as well as restricting the types of foreign capital that can invest in Chinese AI startups.

The backdrop is the U.S. move to strengthen export controls on AI models, along with national security concerns over cutting-edge models that could possess advanced cyberattack capabilities.

Chinese authorities are reportedly concerned that advanced U.S. cybersecurity AI models could be used to exploit vulnerabilities in Chinese software.

Since the beginning of this year, China has continued to tighten measures to prevent AI technology from being transferred overseas. Authorities have investigated whether Chinese AI startups that relocated abroad violated export control laws, while also strengthening oversight of overseas transactions involving Chinese investors, technology, data, and national security concerns.

Future regulations could take the form of a tiered framework based on technological capability. Basic open-source AI models may be managed through a filing system, high-performance models may be subject to security reviews, and the most sensitive frontier models may be banned from public release or restricted to use within China.

[Keskin @craftian_keskin]

Rap Prophet

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

even Sam Altman is confused by how education hasn't significantly changed at all since ChatGPT came out:

"if we continue to teach students as if we were in a pre-AGI world, it's gonna lead to an atrophy of critical thinking."

[Rapsody @rapsody]

GOD GOTTA AFRO 🪮🪮🪮🪮🪮⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

https://t.co/ZS6EdlQ3gV