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How to Make an Outstanding Tiny Desk AI Video with Your Own Photos

This guide explains the Outstanding Tiny Desk AI trend, inspired by Charlie Wilson's NPR Tiny Desk performance of "Outstanding," in which users upload 1–5 photos of people or pets to be placed into a 15-second vertical 9:16 concert video. It walks through the steps at outstanding-tinydeskai.com: assigning photos to the lead vocals, keys, backup left, backup right, and sax positions, then choosing 480p (50 credits) or 720p (100 credits) and generating the video, which includes the original audio and no watermark. It also offers tips such as using clear, front-facing photos without sunglasses or heavy filters.

Roasting China’s AI Industry

In a ChinaTalk interview, Xianyu, the writer behind the satirical blog "Funeral AI" (葬AI), discusses why AI writing isn't funny, how he built MemeBench — a public arena where ordinary users rank video models by meme-ability — and why Five-Year Plans function as a kind of benchmark while "AGI" lacks quantitative indicators. He describes recruiting about 300 students via QQ to seed the rankings, and recounts that MiniMax's open-source H3 beat ByteDance's Seedance in the meme arena, prompting ByteDance to question the result and MiniMax to complain about an earlier article. He also argues that Chinese AI startup themes rotate every three months following Silicon Valley, with many "world models" actually being post-trained versions of Alibaba's Wan video model.

Everything I know about AI regulation I learned from music videos

The author describes how 'slopcore'—AI-generated music videos made largely with code-based animation tools like Claude Opus 5.5—emerged from the 2024 song 'I'm Upping My P(doom)' and grew into a scene with its own chart, SlopHits. He curates videos that address AI safety, governance and regulation, including 'AI is a normal technology?', anabology's Claudia trilogy, and ClaudiaGI's French-language 'C'est de l'IA'. He notes the irony that a genre about AI regulation is largely compliant with the AI Act's Article 50 transparency labelling rules.

Come Back and Back AI

Come Back and Back AI is a forthcoming AI dance video generator for the TikTok "come back and back" trend set to "Wyw My Sweetie" by nissi & 25Hzz, which will turn one photo per dancer into a 10-second MP4 in Solo, Duo or Group modes and four looks. Generation has not opened yet; users can join a waitlist, and pricing is listed at $9.90 for one video down to $3.95 each in a 20-video pack. The page also covers the trend's history, the song, the seven-move choreography, photo tips and AI-labeling guidance.

Prime's first AI-generated show is here, and it's a Vaseline-smeared mess

Prime Video has premiered Castle Walls, a two-episode, 17-minutes-each series set in the 11th century around Alamut Castle, produced by Turkish studio Ay Yapım using generative video tools and billed as the first end-to-end AI-created series on a major streaming platform. The reviewer describes its visuals as looking like Vaseline-smeared Madame Tussauds creations melting in the sun, with overloaded cinematic imagery and banal dialogue, though the production used human voice actors and human screenwriters Kerem Deren and Çisil Hazal Tenim.

Meta's Muse Realtime Avatar turns any image into a talking AI character

Meta introduced Muse Realtime Avatar, an audio-driven Diffusion Transformer that turns reference images into expressive, interactive avatars with synchronized facial, hand, and full-body movement during live conversation. It shares Muse Realtime Voice's speech-token stream for synchronization, uses distillation to cut inference from 120 to 2 neural function evaluations per chunk (a 60x reduction), and streams 448x768 portrait video at 25 fps with roughly 870 ms latency. Meta says raters preferred it over Runway Characters and HeyGen LiveAvatar overall and across every evaluated dimension, and it embeds Meta Video Seal watermarks without added latency.

Meaningless as a laptop screensaver: reviewers slate Musk's AI-made Odyssey film

Elon Musk released a seven-minute AI-generated first episode of an Odyssey adaptation made with Grok Imagine and London startup Wonder Studios, after criticising Christopher Nolan's film and promising a version "true to the art of Homer". Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw gave it one star, calling its dramatic moments "as motiveless and meaningless as the movement of shapes on a laptop screensaver", and a Telegraph reviewer described its "sloppy gruesomeness". Wonder co-founder Xavier Collins said the episode was made in under two weeks by a team of three for tens of thousands of dollars, and that the team would address criticism in the second episode.

Elon Musk's AI Odyssey Review

A review of Elon Musk's seven-minute Grok AI-generated "Odyssey" episode, made after he condemned Christopher Nolan's film adaptation. The critic calls the AI footage ponderous and inert, with motiveless dramatic moments and robotic voice work, arguing it shows Musk has no passion for the story, only for winning an argument he long since lost. The piece concludes that AI has financial merit but no artistic merit, and urges Musk to retreat from his "phoney AI Dull-yssey."

Show HN: OpenMontage Drama Studio – self-hosted AI studio for short dramas

OpenMontage Drama Studio is a self-hostable web studio that turns a one-line idea into a short drama, viral short or product clip through a seven-stage pipeline: script, characters, scenes, props, storyboard and shots, voice, and edit. It requires users to supply their own text, image and video model keys (e.g. Volcengine Ark for Seedream and Seedance, or a ComfyUI server for images), with edge-tts as the default TTS, and ships a Docker Compose setup bundling PostgreSQL, Redis and a media worker while requiring an external S3-compatible endpoint. It is an independent AGPL-3.0 product by @charliewwdev derived from the calesthio/OpenMontage codebase.

Show HN: How to Make AI UGC Ads in 2026 Using an AI Video Generator

This promotional page describes a tool that turns product photos, public product URLs, or text briefs into AI presenter videos, product demonstrations, and store-ready images, with an editable storyboard reviewed before generation. It lists monthly credit plans (Starter $24.50 for 200 credits, Pro $35 for 300, Premium $63 for 600), shows credit cost before each job, and notes that failed jobs return credits. The page also states that custom voice cloning is not currently available and that subscription checkout is not currently available.

Show HN: The New Way to Make AI UGC Ads in 2026

A Show HN post for an AI video generator that turns a product photo, product link, or prompt into UGC-style ads with AI actors, cloned voices, captions, and scenes, downloadable in sizes like 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9 and lengths of 6, 10, 15, or 30 seconds. It states that videos cost 24 credits for 6 seconds up to 120 for 30, with plans from $24.50 a month for 200 credits, Pro at $35 for 300, and Premium at $63 for 600, and that failed jobs return credits. The page says generation takes a few minutes in the browser and that downloaded videos can run in paid campaigns without a watermark.

Tiny Desk AI – Turn yourself and friends into an "Outstanding" meme video

Tiny Desk AI is an independent paid service that turns one to three uploaded photos into an approximately 15-second, 9:16, 720p MP4 recreating the "Outstanding" Tiny Desk meme, with photo 1 as the laughing lead singer, photo 2 as the sax soloist and photo 3 as the keyboard player. Packs cost $9.99 for one video, $24.99 for three or $69.99 for ten, with no login or subscription, and photos are deleted within 7 days. The site states it is not affiliated with NPR, Charlie Wilson or The Gap Band, and bars celebrities, politicians, minors and anyone who has not agreed.

A hand-picked gallery of AI-generated motion graphics and their prompts

Motion Crackers is a curated gallery of AI-generated motion designs, called crackers, together with the prompts that created them. The page lists a long roster of contributing creators.

Show HN: Dola AI – AI images, video, creative and office tools

Dola AI is a browser-based creative studio that combines 2D image compositing, canvas editing, 3D scene blocking, a video timeline and reference boards, letting artists arrange compositions before submitting AI generation jobs. Manual editing and project saving use no generation credits, while AI image, video, audio, object and world generation (including World Labs Marble and Fal integrations) consume credits shown as a quote before submission. The service is built on authorized upstream open-source creative tools with its own accounts and private storage.

Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering

Google DeepMind released Genie 4 in research preview, a world model that generates photorealistic, interactive worlds with real-time audio and lets users type prompts mid-simulation to change scenes, weather, camera angles, or add objects. It maintains a consistent scene for up to two minutes, double Genie 3's limit, and integrates with Gemini, which plans steps while Genie creates visuals; a Gemini Robotics experiment had a Gemini 4 Argon model break tasks into steps that Genie 4 simulated in real time. Genie 4 is available now to trusted testers and will roll out in the coming weeks to Google AI Ultra subscribers in Project Genie and to early access partners of the Gemini API and Google AI Studio.

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Google’s next Genie AI model generates more realistic experiences

Google announced Genie 4, a world model for generating interactive experiences, with four main updates: more realistic worlds, real-time updates via natural language prompts, audio generation, and Gemini 3.8 Flash under the hood. It can create experiences about two minutes long, up from one minute for Genie 3, and Google pitches it for uses like filmmaker pre-visualization, game prototyping, and robot training scenarios, while warning that details and object permanence can shift over longer simulations. Genie 4 is launching first as a research preview to trusted testers, will be "coming soon" to Google AI Ultra subscribers, and Google has opened a waitlist to try it in Project Genie.

Show HN: EveryGen AI – AI images, short videos and copy rewrites in one tab

EveryGen AI is a browser-based tool that combines image generation (defaulting to GPT Image 2), video generation (defaulting to MiniMax H3 Max Turbo), browser image utilities, and a Gemini 2.5 Flash text-rewriting tool called Humanize AI. It offers annual credit plans from Lite ($179/year for 7,200 credits) to Max ($1,199/year for 96,000 credits), and states it is an independent tool, not an official MiniMax or fal website.

PoseForge – Local-first AI studio for images and video (Codex, ComfyUI)

PoseForge is a local-first AI studio that takes one to four identity photos plus a pose reference and generates the same people in a new pose and composition, with controls for camera, lighting, styling, fidelity, and output format. It runs as a single Node.js server with an embedded PGlite database and supports interchangeable engines including Codex CLI, Google Antigravity, ComfyUI, OpenAI, Gemini, Replicate, and fal.ai, plus Higgsfield and Dreamina in Advanced Studio. A read-only static demo is published on GitHub Pages, while generation requires running the app locally.

Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’

Three months after Elon Musk said Grok would release a full-length, "historically accurate" movie version of "The Odyssey," Grok has published seven minutes, which it calls "Episode 1 of our Odyssey series." The piece, made with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker, follows Musk's criticism of Christopher Nolan's adaptation for casting nonwhite and transgender actors. The reviewer says the footage lacks artistry, inspiration and human interest, offering no momentum or reason to care about anyone on-screen.