TUPACABRA: UFO COPILOT

• TUPACABRA turned a rare UFO audio story—featuring a pilot and air traffic controller—into a cinematic AI-animated short using the podcast audio of Mr. Ballen and Tom Segura.

• The main visual tool behind the video was Midjourney, which he used to generate the striking animated frames that bring the eerie, otherworldly narrative to life.

Issa Sissoko: MANSA

• Issa Sissoko’s concept trailer is a visually stunning, AI-generated fantasy inspired by African legends like Mansa Musa.

• Blending history with mysticism and political intrigue, the trailer uses tools like DeepMind’s Veo 2 and Veo 3 to explore power and legacy in a reimagined empire.

The Original Tamale Co.: Skydiving Ad

• In a bold and hilarious move, The Original Tamale Co. used AI video tools to create an amazing ad.

• The over-the-top commercial features a man free-falling through the sky, all in the name of grabbing the company’s award-winning tamales.

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OpenAI Introduces GPT-5

• OpenAI releases GPT‑5, a major upgrade in speed, reasoning, and real-world usefulness capable of handling tasks in writing, coding, health, and visual understanding.

• The model introduces a new system with built-in “thinking,” allowing it to decide when to pause and reason deeply or respond quickly.

“Dracula” Director Explains How His Film Uses AI

• Radu Jude’s Dracula, premiering at Locarno, is a chaotic, irreverent, and layered deconstruction of the vampire myth that is packed with pop culture references and politics.

• Jude used AI-generated images in about five percent of the film, originally as a budget solution, but ultimately as a thematic device to mirror Dracula’s own mythic power to absorb and transform.

• The film explores how cinema, trash culture, avant-garde art, and technology can coexist, all while being shot on an iPhone and crafted with a blend of cardboard cutouts, recycled costumes, and deliberately “bad” imagery.

Google DeepMind Announces Genie 3

• Google DeepMind unveiled Genie 3, a real-time, general-purpose world model that can generate fully navigable, interactive environments from text prompts at 24 fps with 720p resolution.

• The system maintains environmental consistency for several minutes, supports “promptable world events” to change conditions on the fly, and can model realistic physics, ecosystems, fictional worlds, and historical settings.

• Released as a limited research preview, Genie 3 is aimed at advancing embodied agent research, training simulations, and creative applications while gathering feedback to address safety and responsibility concerns.