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Someone used Suno AI to generate a Japanese metal band called Neon Oni. Fake member bios, AI-generated music videos, "Based in Tokyo" on Spotify. 80,000+ monthly listeners. Fans had it in their Spotify Wrapped top 5. Merch was selling. Then, community sleuths exposed it. Traced the creator's account to Europe. Spotted AI-generated hands in the music videos. The creator's response? Recruit 7 real musicians from actual Tokyo bands to perform the AI-generated songs live. They've now played several live shows and have more on the books. From an interview with the band's creator: "In an age where AI is taking everyone's jobs, this has actually created jobs. It's done the complete opposite." The AI --> real band transformation is a wild one.

Top stories in robotics today: - Nvidia wants to be the OS of every robot - Gecko Robotics lands $71M U.S. Navy deal - Ex-Meta engineers give robots visual memory - Robot dogs guard billion-dollar AI data centers - Quick hits on other robotics news

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Anthropic continues to come for the OpenClaw functionalities. Control Claude Code via messaging apps:

Cursor's new in-house model now competes with GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.6 on coding. The difference: it's 10-20x cheaper to run. Composer 2 Fast output tokens: $7.50 / million. GPT-5.4 Fast: $75. Opus 4.6 Fast: $150. Terminal-Bench 2.0 scores: Composer 2 at 61.7, Opus 4.6 at 58.0, GPT-5.4 at 75.1. Cursor's model beats Anthropic's and is gaining on OpenAI's. On CursorBench, Cursor's internal eval built from real coding sessions, Composer 2 scores just below GPT-5.4 and above Opus 4.6 at a fraction of the cost per task. This one changes the math for everyone paying for frontier coding models.

March Madness is historically one of the most unproductive work days of the year. AI agents during the NCAA Tournament in 2026:

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@LuckyBitz @GSpiliopoulou Absolutely. @ElevenLabs Iconic Marketplace already doing it with audio, only a matter of time before video takes the same leap. elevenlabs.io/iconic-marketp…

@TheRundownAI @GSpiliopoulou Sometime in the not so distant future, we'll be seeing movies with the living and the passed on, thanks to Ai.

Actor Val Kilmer passed away in 2025 without filming a single scene for a movie he was cast in five years earlier. Now, AI is resurrecting him for it. The film is called "As Deep as the Grave." His character battles tuberculosis. In real life, throat cancer destroyed Kilmer's voice and ultimately lead to his death at 65. He previously worked with an AI company to rebuild his voice for Top Gun: Maverick while still alive. His family gave its full blessing for the film. The director says: "Despite the fact some people might call it controversial, this is what Val wanted."

@GSpiliopoulou Definitely going to be controversial. Also curious to see what the quality looks like on the "resurrection".

@TheRundownAI I understand that his family agreed to this, but still I am not sure

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Google just updated its UI creation tool Stitch with what it's calling "vibe design." A few standout features: - Voice control that lets you speak directly to your design canvas and get real-time critiques - Instant prototyping that turns static screens into interactive prototypes in seconds + auto-generating logical next screens with an infinite canvas - An agent that reasons across full project history, with DESIGN.md files for portable design systems

"M2.7 is our first model which deeply participated in its own evolution." MiniMax's new model ran 100+ autonomous cycles during development, analyzing its own failures, rewriting its own code, running evals, deciding what to keep. The company also said It handled 30-50% of its own training workflow with no human in the loop. The result: Competitive performance with Opus 4.6, GPT 5.4, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on major benchmarks. The best models of the future will all build themselves

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