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Good morning, AI enthusiasts. A Hollywood executive producer of Pulp Fiction just watched an AI make a short film from a hotel room in 8 minutes, and he didn't have a word to say.
That scene in the hotel room might be remembered as a before-and-after moment for AI video. When a filmmaker with 35 years of experience can't find the language to describe what just happened, has AI film finally crossed into professional territory?
In today's recap:
GLITCH turns your voice into a film in minutes
Figure AI robots clear 200 hours in the warehouse
Build AI presentations inside PowerPoint with ChatGPT
Nvidia's $81B quarter sends SoftBank soaring 20%
4 new AI tools, prompts, and more
AI VIDEO
Speech to film in eight minutes flat
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Recaply: Arq.live just unveiled GLITCH, a speech-to-film system where directors speak scenes into existence, demonstrated to a veteran Hollywood producer from a hotel room in under 8 minutes.
Key details:
Directors speak to cast characters, build the world, and block the scene. Multiple AI models and agents work in sequence like a film crew to generate footage in real time.
The demo produced a complete short film in under 8 minutes from a single laptop, with no crew and no traditional production setup required.
Michael Shamberg, executive producer of Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, and Erin Brockovich, found Arq.live on X and flew in for the session, according to the thread. He left without a word to say.
GLITCH is available for serious productions through Arq.live. The team is based in El Salvador, where it spent one year building the system and made the country's first AI short film.
Why it matters: GLITCH isn't another text-to-video button. It's the first system built to work the way directors actually think, through spoken direction rather than typed prompts. Every filmmaker who's had an idea killed in a budget meeting now has a tool that can put a scene on screen by the end of the day. A 35-year Hollywood veteran walked out of a hotel room speechless. That matters. It signals that AI video has moved from impressive demo to professional tool.
PRESENTED BY VIKTOR
We hired one colleague for every department.
Last Tuesday, marketing asked Viktor to write the weekly campaign recap, pull performance from Google Ads and Meta, and format it as a PDF for the exec team. Done in four minutes.
That same afternoon, engineering asked Viktor to review three open pull requests on GitHub, cross-reference with the Linear sprint board, and flag anything blocking the release. Posted to private channel before standup.
At 9pm, ops asked Viktor to draft a vendor contract summary from three Notion docs and send it to the team. It was in #ops by morning.
None of them knew the others were using it.
Same colleague. Three departments. That's what changes when your AI coworker lives in Slack, where your whole company already works. It's not a tool one person logs into. It's a teammate everyone messages.
5,700+ teams. SOC 2 certified. Your data never trains models.
"Viktor is now an integral team member, and after weeks of use we still feel we haven't uncovered the full potential." - Patrick O'Doherty, Director, Yarra Web
FIGURE AI
Figure Robots clear 200 hours in the warehouse
Figure AI
Recaply: Figure AI just completed a 200-hour endurance test of its humanoid robots handling packages in warehouse conditions, with the livestream running for over 8 days before the company brought it to a close.
Key details:
Robots sorted and handled packages across the full 200-hour period in warehouse conditions, with no human intervention in the handling loop throughout the run.
200 hours equals 8 days and 8 hours of continuous operation. The livestream drew hundreds of Reddit comments from viewers tracking the milestone, with 348 upvotes on the main post.
Viewer commentary on Reddit noted the robot visibly walked away from its station at the end of the run, a sign of how sustained the operational loop appeared throughout.
The livestream ended today, with Figure AI framing the 200-hour result as a real-world deployment milestone rather than a controlled lab demo.
Why it matters: This isn't a 30-second highlight reel. Eight days of robots handling packages under real conditions, with a live audience watching every hour. If Figure can hold that kind of quality across that duration, the math on replacing human pickers starts to shift from "someday" to "soon." The question isn't whether humanoid robots can do the job. It's how fast the cost will fall.
GUIDES
Build AI presentations inside PowerPoint with ChatGPT
Recaply: In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ChatGPT's new native PowerPoint integration to build, edit, and polish presentations without leaving the app, cutting deck creation time from hours to minutes.
Step-by-step:
Open PowerPoint and look for the ChatGPT panel in the Home ribbon or sidebar. It's currently rolling out in beta to Microsoft 365 subscribers through the Copilot integration, so look for a Copilot or ChatGPT icon in your toolbar.
In the ChatGPT panel, type your presentation goal, such as "Create a 10-slide deck on the top 5 ways small businesses can use AI in 2026," and hit enter to generate a full outline and slide structure.
Review the generated slides. ChatGPT keeps all slides fully editable, so you can click into any text box, chart, or layout and make direct changes the same way you would with any normal PowerPoint file.
Ask ChatGPT to refine specific slides with follow-ups like "Make slide 3 more visual" or "Add a data summary to slide 7 with a chart placeholder." It updates in place without regenerating the whole deck.
Use the image generation feature by selecting a slide and prompting "Generate a hero image for this slide" to create visuals without leaving PowerPoint. ChatGPT Images 2.0 is rolling out to Copilot in PowerPoint now.
Pro tip: Start with a single-sentence brief and let ChatGPT scaffold the full outline first, then use follow-up prompts to deepen specific slides. It's faster than building the structure yourself and gives you more to react to.
TOGETHER WITH HIGHTOUCH
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Less time prompting. More time launching.
NVIDIA
Nvidia posts 85% revenue jump, SoftBank soars 20%
Recaply: Nvidia just reported Q1 revenue of $81.62B, up 85% from $44.06B a year earlier, while SoftBank shares jumped 19.85% on the news as the Japanese firm holds more than $30B invested in OpenAI.
Key details:
Nvidia's AI data center GPU demand drove the revenue surge. SoftBank's jump came from its stake in Arm Holdings, whose chip designs power AI servers, and from its $30B-plus OpenAI investment.
SoftBank added over $35B to its market cap in a single session. Nvidia also launched an $80B share repurchase program and raised its dividend alongside the earnings release.
CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC that Nvidia has largely conceded China's AI chip market to Huawei, acknowledging a structural shift in the world's second-largest AI market.
SoftBank's Vision Fund posted a $46B annual gain in the fiscal year ended March. About $45B of that came from OpenAI's rising valuation alone.
Why it matters: There's been lots of talk of an AI bubble, but the leader of the AI chip revolution doesn't agree, and has some eye-popping figures to back it up. Despite many competitors trying to come for Jensen Huang's crown, Nvidia's reach continues to grow powerfully across every aspect of the AI boom. SoftBank's near-20% single-day jump shows how much of the broader market is now structurally tied to Nvidia's performance and the continued appetite for AI infrastructure.
TOOLS
Trending AI Tools
🧠 Multi-Stream LLMs - Research architecture that splits LLM computation into parallel streams, letting models read, think, and act simultaneously instead of one step at a time
🦞 NanoClaw - A secure, lightweight, open-source alternative to OpenClaw
🧠 Contract Intelligence - Harvey’s agents for first pass on inbound contracts
💻️ Antigravity - Google’s next-gen agentic development platform
NEWS
What Matters in AI Right Now?
ChatGPT just rolled out a direct PowerPoint integration, letting users build, update, and polish presentations inside the app while keeping slides fully editable. The beta also supports AI-generated images inside decks.
The White House postponed Trump's planned AI executive order signing after internal infighting, per Reuters and AP. The order would have required frontier AI labs to submit models for federal testing before public release.
The Pentagon launched a new task force spanning Cyber Command and the NSA to deploy AI tools on classified government networks, per Politico. Gen. Joshua Rudd announced the initiative via internal email, targeting models from OpenAI and Google.
Grok 4.3 topped a new LLM Sycophancy Benchmark tracking whether models shift their judgment based on who they're talking to. It ranks as the most consistent model tested, though it achieves this by being reluctant to take a firm position rather than by being more decisive.
A top Pizza Hut franchisee filed a $100M lawsuit against the chain, alleging its AI-powered Dragontail delivery system caused "cascading operational breakdowns" that pushed delivery times from under 30 minutes to over 45. The franchisee says the rollout cratered a business that had previously outperformed most of the chain's operators.
Lyft responded after a Florida driver was caught using Gemini AI, complete with a visible watermark, to generate a fake damage photo and charge a teenage rider a $75 cleaning fee. The family spotted the watermark and escalated to Lyft customer service, prompting national coverage on Good Morning America.
A new analysis found that AI chip demand is creating a global memory shortage that will push worldwide smartphone shipments down 13% in 2026, their largest-ever single-year decline. Africa and the Middle East face a 20% drop, pricing hundreds of millions out of smartphone ownership.
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