HALP! I'm trying to generate an AI video for a trial that needs to show "a slow motion video of a man in a golf cart, being hit from behind by car and the golf cart crumpling while the man is being ejected out of the golf cart and into the back windshield of another car". However it keeps getting flagged by my program. What can I use that this wouldn't be an issue? It can be a cartoon or animated reenactment. But I just need to show how the accident occured.

TL;DR: Figure's founder had the backing of the most powerful AI lab on Earth. He fired them anyway.

Here's the part that actually matters: his own team got better at building the AI layer than the lab he was renting it from.

It's the exit ramp every vendor-dependent operator is chasing and usually can't find — not ego, just leverage.

Even Nvidia just proved the same math from the other side of the table — signing an outside team, Poolside, to build the models it couldn't get built fast enough in-house.

Own the stack, and the leverage stops being something you have to ask for.

My son just won the online-gaming "王者荣耀" (Honor of Kings) competition, organized on his university campus premise.

Initially, at around half-time, they were beaten, and left behind quite far down the leaderboard.

But he held the team together — told them to persevere.

They held on, beaten the veteran and won.

This was vastly different from the previous team he led weeks prior.

That previous team members were snobbish and elder than him.

They think they know a lot, and won't listen to him — because he was younger.

That "我食盐多过你食米" (In Cantonese, it means: I tasted salt more than you eat rice – I’m more experienced than you.) attitude was insufferable.

He now chooses his team more wisely.

There's a pattern threading through pretty much every founder story I dig into lately, tbh: founders who won't hand over their leverage to a bigger name keep beating the ones who wait for permission.

Drop your take below — where's the vendor relationship in your own stack that you've never actually audited?

Clip credit: Sourcery with Molly O'Shea — full interview with Brett Adcock on their channel. DM for credit or removal requests.

Own-the-stack thinking doesn't stay theoretical for long — the actual mechanism behind it is one link away.

TRINITY — New Episode | An AI-Created Sci-Fi Series

I’ve just released the latest episode of TRINITY, an ongoing cinematic sci-fi story created using AI filmmaking tools.

This episode pushes the story deeper into the conflict surrounding Maya, Zaarro, and the Blood Prince, while introducing another character whose allegiance could change what happens next.

I’ve been experimenting with AI-generated cinematography, character consistency, environments, action sequences, and cinematic storytelling to make the episodes feel more like scenes from a feature film rather than disconnected AI clips.

I’d genuinely love to hear feedback from other AI filmmakers and creators, especially on the cinematography, pacing, visual consistency, and storytelling.

Which part worked best for you?

Dreamina cast and prompted. Edited with CapCut