the internet is full of forgotten films so i built a website with over 120,000 historical public-domain clips, dating 1894 to 2021! all free to use, and waiting to be seen again. 🎥

when does ai enter the zeitgeist in a positive way? when it is anti-tech: using ai to make a morning newspaper using ai to build a cyberdeck that replaces your laptop using ai to make a bluetooth landline phone when it points towards a world where we use less tech and intelligence can be more ambient, rather than require us to be chronically online

voice is the most magical way to interact with ai there is something beautiful about a future where bringing an idea to life starts with saying it out loud so excited for devin voice! @marvinvonhagen @jhanikhil @felixms

another fun day co-hosting the @talent_watching segment with @sophiadew on @MTSlive! 🎤 🚨 today we covered the biggest CEO handoff in tech in years, a wave of major frontier lab hires, and a few meaningful meta departures some highlights: - Pepijn Rijvers joining Airbnb as Chief Business Officer (prev booking dot com, tripadvisor / viator) - @nvidia reportedly agreed to buy @huggingface for $12.9B - @air__security, an AI agent security startup, came out of stealth with $50M and landed Ryan Knisley (ex-CISO of Disney and Costco) as Chief Strategy Officer - @OpenAI added 3 strong hires this week: @feitong_yang (science products), @thenanyu (ex-Linear, joining Codex), and creator/design engineer @covacut - @ElevenLabs hired OpenAI's enterprise sales lead, @ashleyekramer, as CRO - @METR_Evals picked up @derifatives (19 years at Google) and @JoeJBenton (ex-Anthropic) - @Meta had 3 departures: @vincent_jh_cho (→ Thinking Machines), Vikas Chandra (8+ years, Reality Labs AI), and Pinar Donmez (→ Apple) watch the full episode here!

Thrilled to welcome @covacut to our Developer Experience team at OpenAI! I love how she brings ideas to life with Codex, hardware, and storytelling. So much creativity and range. Can’t wait to see what she dreams up with @jxnlco and all of us! ✨

in the past year @covacut has partnered with gemini, lovable, claude, manus, adobe, higgsfield, and more. cole’s videos are some of the most impactful sponsored posts. we’ll likely see more brands essentially acquihire creators. bring talent in house while also taking off market.

after a year as an independent creator, i'm joining @openai imagining the future is how we create it we need to expand who gets to imagine and what becomes possible. those are the stories i’m here to tell if you're an artist, storyteller or maker, i'd love to hear from you 🫶🏼

taste has been on my mind. i think we're seeing a taste epidemic because of a perpetual cycle: 1. the trust shift. the wider public have lost trust in legacy media and placed greater trust in the humans they feel like they can reach (i.e. influencers) 2. performance. people perform taste (i.e. 'larp', thus creating 'tasteslop') by mimicking these influencers. influencers have leaned into the interest through trending formats such as ‘how to become disgustingly educated’. 3. displacement of experience. the performance displaces the experience; instead of going to a show, you post that you like a band because your favourite influencer does. now, there's no risk or mistake in discovering and experiencing that band for yourself. but those moments of friction are precisely how taste gets formed: through lived experiences that teach you what you like, and why. unfortunately, this create a cycle where the trust shift -> performance -> displacement of experience, which forms taste. unfortunately though, you can't really find taste from watching a piece of content.