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If this is difficult for you, you are heading in the right direction.

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@kilo_cpa For football fans, this is just perfect :)

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@kilo_cpa already started applying it - how's is going?

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No office. No team. No degree.
Here's the business model breaking the internet right now: 👇
He walks into rooms with his phone. Scans them. Feeds the scan data into Claude Code. Claude generates accurate 3D models, floor plans, and spatial layouts automatically.
The client receives a professional 3D room scan deliverable.
The 19-year-old gets paid.
Total setup cost: a phone he already owned.

Why this works:

3D room scanning used to require expensive LiDAR equipment, specialized software, and trained operators. A professional scan could cost thousands.
Now: modern iPhones and Android flagships have depth sensors built in. Apps like Polycam and RoomScan can capture full 3D geometry. And Claude Code can process, clean, and output that data into usable formats — automatically.
One person. One phone. One AI.
The market is massive and untapped:
Real estate agents need room scans for listings. Interior designers need accurate measurements. Architects need as-built documentation. Property managers need inventory records. Insurance companies need damage documentation.
Most of them are still paying $500–$2,000 per scan to specialists.
This kid is undercutting everyone — at scale — because his marginal cost per scan is nearly zero.
The real lesson here:
AI didn't replace a job. It created one that didn't exist before.
A 19-year-old found a gap between what the market pays for and what AI can now produce cheaply — and turned it into $300 days.
That gap exists in dozens of industries right now.
The question is who finds them first.

[maximum @maximumdegen]

Soon, expensive cameras may become unnecessary. Here's how it works with AI:

This is what the future of 3D production looks like.

Top: a raw viewport preview. Gray geometry. No textures. No lighting. Just the skeleton of a gothic cathedral floating in void.

Bottom: the exact same frame after Seedance 2.0 in 4K.
Lightning. Fire. Storm atmosphere. Cinematic depth. Floating islands with weight and drama.
Same camera angle. Same composition. Same structure.
Completely different reality.

Here's why this workflow is changing everything for 3D artists:
The old pipeline:
Model → texture → rig → light → render → composite → repeat for every frame.

A single cinematic shot could take days. A full sequence — weeks. A small studio needed: a modeler, a lighter, a texture artist, a compositor, a render farm.

The new pipeline:
Block your scene in 3D → lock your camera and motion → feed the viewport preview to Seedance 2.0 → get a 4K cinematic render.
Hours, not weeks. One person, not a team.

Why 3D previz as input is the key insight:
Most people use AI video by typing prompts and hoping for the best.

The professionals figured out something different.
A 3D viewport gives you something a text prompt never can — exact spatial control. Camera position locked. Object scale locked. Motion path locked. Composition locked.

You're not asking the AI to imagine a scene.
You're telling it precisely what exists in 3D space — and asking it to make it beautiful.
Seedance 2.0 understands 3D geometry. It respects your camera. It follows your motion. And then it adds everything else — materials, lighting, atmosphere, drama — on top of your exact structure.
The result is AI video that actually looks intentional. Because it is.

What this means for the industry:
Game cinematics. Film previz. Archviz. VFX concept work. Music videos. Commercial production.
Every field that relied on expensive render farms and large teams now has a faster path.

Not a replacement for artists — a multiplier.
The artists who understand 3D space and know how to direct a shot are becoming 10x more powerful.
The ones still waiting for AI video to "get good enough" already missed the window.
Higgsfield AI just showed the gap between 2024 and 2026 in a single two-frame image.

[Higgsfield AI 🧩 @higgsfield]

Viewport Preview Reference + Seedance 2.0 in 4K.

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⚠️🚨 This is getting serious — #BTC could be in #trouble:

⚖️ #MichaelSaylor Under Legal Scrutiny...

Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class-action lawsuit against Strategy.

The reason is an investigation into the securities #MSTR, #STRF, #STRC, #STRK, and #STRD. The company is suspected of disseminating materially misleading business information that allegedly resulted in investor losses.

The law firm is already preparing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of affected investors to seek compensation for those losses.

https://t.co/CBTHqV8DWo

[maximum @maximumdegen]

Here's what's already circulating online around the GTA 6 pre-sale news:

What's shown in this video is not an official Rockstar Games project. This is a fan-made/independent project called Vice Economy, built by one person using Lovable — an AI no-code builder. The site runs on https://t.co/mXwGeiByGC.
In short, this is an unofficial GTA 6 roleplay economy server with its own $VICE token — completely unaffiliated with Rockstar Games or any official GTA 6 crypto listing.
DYOR.

[Rockstar Games @RockstarGames]

Grand Theft Auto VI is now available to pre-order.

All pre-orders will get the Vintage Vice City Pack, a collection of items that flash back to when the neon burned brightest.

Pre-order now: https://t.co/ENWCnl0nrl

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GM ☀️ today very hot in Europe 38/40 c•

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@JatinTweets_ yep, viking mode xDDD

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@a1lon9 "We’re offering $1m - $5m base salary." 🫣

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@NoContextHumans ahahahahahahaha🤣🤣🤣🤣

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With the recent correction in the #crypto #market, here's an update on the positions of major #BTC and #ETH holders:

Michael Saylor is currently down $13.88 billion — Strategy's unrealized loss on its BTC investments.

BitMine (Tom Lee's company) is currently sitting on an unrealized loss of $10.37 billion on its ETH holdings.

ps. Hold BTC & ETH 💪

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@ZentrixHQ Just a little more time, expensive cameras will be cheap :)

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@francescoswiss @naiivememe yep, hold!

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@naiivememe everything will be ok, grandpa - still hold, diamond hands 😎

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YES, Awesome!
This is what happens when a professional animator meets AI video tools.
@craftcapitallab didn't just prompt something and hope for the best.

This works because Seedance was literally built for this.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5, previewed at Volcano Engine FORCE 2026, natively supports 3D white-model previz — the idea being to lock space, composition, and motion in 3D before the AI adds materials, lighting, and style. Instagram

Seedance 2.0 understands the mechanics of the 3D world — it rigorously respects your creative intent, optimizing camera execution while keeping your original direction intact.

What used to require a full production crew — camera operator, animator, renderer — now fits into a single workflow that one person can run.
Professional animators aren't being replaced by AI.
They're becoming 10x more powerful because of it.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Incredible to see what a professional animator can do with AI video.

He created a 3D previz and then had Seedance render the actual anime - with the motion and camera control preserved!

(made by @craftcapitallab)

[maximum @maximumdegen]

The NY Knicks just won a championship.
Most people celebrated.
Pat built an AI basketball coach.

Here's what's actually impressive about this: 👇
He didn't use some expensive proprietary stack.
He used three open-source tools that anyone can access right now.
Roboflow RF-DETR — detects players, the ball, and the rim in real time.
MediaPipe — captures body angles and skeletal positioning frame by frame.
OpenCV — analyzes and annotates the footage on the fly.

The result?
A live overhead court map showing exactly where each player and the ball are at any moment. Real-time bounding boxes on players. Body mechanics tracked continuously. The kind of analytics that NBA teams paid millions to build — running on a public court in New York.

And the best part?

He named his opponent "WEMBY."
This is what computer vision looks like when someone actually ships instead of just talking about it.
No team. No funding. No pitch deck.
Just a camera, three libraries, and a reason to build.
The tools are free.
The knowledge is public.
The only thing missing is the motivation.
Apparently all you needed was the Knicks winning a ring. 🏆

[Pat @pattssun]

The @nyknicks championship inspired me to build an AI basketball coach to improve my 1v1 game

Built with:
- Robloflow RF-DETR to detect players/ball/rim
- MediaPipe to capture body angles
- OpenCV to analyze and annotate the clip

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@andreysuperior I'd love to try something like this and see it in action 🤔

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🐋 #Whales are moving #markets.

➤ Whale "0x50b3" opened a $105.77M #BTC long at 20x leverage. Since June 2, he's made 100 trades — 93 closed in profit.

➤ A wallet linked to Arthur Hayes withdrew another 44,156 HYPE ($2.93M) from #Gate.

➤ James Wynn got liquidated 5 times in the last 24 hours.

➤ #BlackRock transferred 2,400 BTC ($149.61M) and 38,337 ETH ($63.38M) to Coinbase.

➤ Machi Big Brother got liquidated 7 times in the last 10 hours — and keeps longing #ETH.

➤ A wallet linked to a16z withdrew 12,780 ETH ($21.22M) from Binance.

➤ An address likely tied to Bitmine received 8,450 ETH ($14M) and 108,000 #HYPE ($7M) from FalconX.

➤ A whale withdrew another 40,000 HYPE ($2.51M) from Gate. Wallet now holds 497,212 HYPE ($31.26M).

➤ New wallet "bc1qxp" pulled 1,683 BTC ($104.87M) from #Binance.

➤ Whale "0xf79C" opened a $30.9M #XRP long at 20x leverage.