Bad Decisions Podcast

OpenAI shipped a wave of GPT 5.6 updates this week across its three model weights. 1X Technologies gave its NEO home robot a new pair of hands with far better dexterity. Meta announced MuseSpark 1.1, its latest push into generative media. And xAI released Grok 4.5 with a dedicated coding agent aimed squarely at Claude Code and Codex. Sources: 1. GPT Work and 5.6 is out https://x.com/OpenAI/status/...

We spent over $1,000 on AI credits over the weekend to test and experiment what real AI production actually looks like. 🔥 Ready to level up with AI? Sign up for the Ultimate AI Program https://ai.baddecisions.studio/ ⭐ Master Unreal Engine 5 in 14 Days - 50% OFF (LIMITED TIME ONLY⏱️): https://learn.baddecisions.studio Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 04:03 The Truth About AI Content 09:00 Video Gene...

Epic's MCP integration inside Unreal Engine is already producing great demos from the creator community. ComfyUI shipped their official MCP implementation the same week, closing the gap and unlocking a serious local-hosting workflow. And US enterprise is quietly migrating to Chinese open-source models at scale, cutting costs by up to 75x while OpenAI restricts GPT 5.6 to trusted partners only....

Varun Mayya joined the show to walk us through Unleash the Avatar, the Souls-like video game his studio EOS Games is building in India And we covered Autodesk Flow Studio, an AI-powered creative tool with Google's Nano Banana integrated natively, which we use for pre - production Try Autodesk Flow Studio: https://www.autodesk.com/campaigns/flow-studio Sign up for presale: https://store.steampo...

ByteDance announced Seedance 2.5 with 30-second native single-clip video, local edit modification, and up to 50 model references per generation. Google DeepMind invested 75 million dollars in A24 to co-develop AI tools for film production. Unity AI demoed a prompt-driven scene builder that constructs an entire wall of cliffs in seconds. 🔥 Ready to level up with AI? Sign up for the Ultimate AI Pro...

Midjourney announced a biomedical division and a full-body ultrasonic medical scanner that targets MRI-level detail in 60 seconds with no radiation. OpenAI shipped Record and Replay inside Codex, which lets you demo a workflow once and have the agent turn it into a reusable skill. And Z.ai released GLM 5.2, an open-source frontier-class model that benchmarks alongside Opus 4.8 at roughly one eight...

The US government had forced Anthropic to pull Claude Fable 5 after Amazon found a jailbreak. Epic Games showcases their Artists workflow for creating Fortnite assets using AI. ElevenLabs Dubbing v2 ships 90 plus languages with your real voice preserved. And AMD unveiled the world's smallest AI dev system that runs 200 billion parameter models locally for under 4000 dollars. 🔥 Ready to level...

Anthropic released Mythos publicly this week as Fable 5, the same model from Project Glasswing now with cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, and model-distillation safeguards locked in. We walked through the best real examples from the internet, including the Stripe code migration, the Apollo control panel reconstruction, and Tarek's launch video edited entirely by Claude. And Dario published a poli...

Apple shipped Apple Intelligence at WWDC with a new Siri that uses personal context across native apps and runs on a foundation model distilled from Google's Gemini. OpenAI filed a confidential draft S1 with the SEC a week after Anthropic quietly filed theirs, and we walked through what an IPO actually means for the user. Claude Mythos may have already appeared on Microsoft Azure as Claude 5,...

Ideogram shipped Ideogram 4.0, an open source image model that finally puts open weights on par with the closed frontier for professional work, with dense text rendering. Anthropic published a paper showing Claude now writes more than 80 percent of its internal code, and we walked the graph that proves it. And Founders Fund launched a Mafia show filmed at the Tosca Cafe in San Francisco, and the m...

Epic Games dropped the Unreal Engine 5.8 preview, and it is stacked with updates that change real time work, from full body Mesh to MetaHuman and a production ready MegaLights to a new mesh terrain system and an official MCP server that lets AI agents work inside the editor. Then we broke down the Take-Two CEO's argument that AI is brilliant at making assets but cannot make hits, and we debate...

Higgsfield released SuperComputer, an AI agent that plans and creates product photos and videos for you using Claude Opus 4.7 and Higgsfield's pre-built skills. WorldLabs open sourced Image Blaster, a pipeline that turns a single reference photo into a fully interactive 3D environment with movable objects, Collider, and 3D Gaussian splat output. OpenAI dropped Codex into the ChatGPT mobile app...

Google's Gemini Omni leaked online and it might be the first AI video model that gets text rendering right, including a professor writing mathematically accurate equations on a board. Unitree's GD-01, the same company that did the Chinese New Year robot fighting demo, dropped a mass-produced mecha suit weighing over 500 pounds at $650K. We share a workflow tip that swaps the default markdo...

The Pursue directive made 162 UFO and UAP files public on war.gov/ufo, covering 80 years of reports from NASA astronauts, FBI agents, US Navy pilots, and foreign governments. Figure released Helix 0.2 with two humanoid robots cleaning a bedroom in under two minutes with no central controller and no messages between them. Then we brought Chris from Polycam back on the show for a long conversation a...

Unity AI is launched publicly. We argue Unity is now meaningfully ahead of Unreal Engine in the AI race, and explain why the next generation of artists picks tools by who is moving fastest. Blender accepted a 240,000 euro annual donation from Anthropic, then walked it back after community backlash. Remotion's new HTML in Canvas feature is now inside Codex. Then we cover Ollama landing inside t...

Anthropic dropped Claude for Creative Work, a set of official connectors that plug Claude directly into Blender, Adobe Creative Cloud, Ableton, Splice, Canva, SketchUp, and Resolume. They also became a corporate patron of Blender with a 240,000 euro donation. Stripe used their Sessions event to launch Stripe Projects, the Machine Payments Protocol, and the Link Wallet for Agents, that let AI agent...

OpenAI's GPT Image 2.0 beating Nano Banana Pro on text rendering and character consistency. Autodesk Flow Studio adds AI rigging and neural layer rendering for an idea to rigged 3D character pipeline that runs in under an hour. HyperFrame and Remotion now generate motion graphics from a prompt. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 03:58 GPT Image 2.0 First Tests and Use Cases 28:01 Autodesk Flow Studi...

Live demo of Higgsfield Marketing Studio powered by Seedance 2.0 testing product ads with known brands and our own fictional energy drink (what works, and what doesn't), and Diplo going on a podcast to talk about how AI is changing the music industry and why it applies to every creative field. 🔥 Ready to level up with AI? Sign up for the Ultimate AI Program https://ai.baddecisions.studio/ ⭐...

Bad Bunny using Unreal Engine 5 for a real-time character performance at Coachella driven by a live performer, factory workers in India wearing head-mounted cameras to train AI robots on hand movements without knowing they're training their replacements, and a new branding for the Amazon Rainforest created entirely from real satellite imagery of the Amazon River turned into typography. 🔥 Ready to...

A UK studio trained an AI model on 6 million face captures that can turn one photo into a full 3D head scan, HeyGen Avatar 5 letting you create a clone from 15 seconds of footage (we tested it live), Meta's Superintelligence Lab releasing their first model called Muse Spark, Seedance 2.0 finally available for everyone, and Anyma working on a new VFX heavy show. 🔥 Ready to level up with AI? Si...

Claude Mythos Preview finding thousands of critical security vulnerabilities in every major browser, operating system, and open source library that humans missed for up to 27 years. They are partnering with Apple, Google, NVIDIA, and Cisco to patch everything before public release. 🔥 Ready to level up with AI? Sign up for the Ultimate AI Program https://ai.baddecisions.studio/ ⭐ Master Unreal En...

Live demo of Grok Imagine, the AI image and video generation platform we we think is the best ideation tool for artists and creatives right now. Real-time Pinterest-style image boards, infinite scroll generation, speed vs quality modes, one-click video from any image. 🔥 Ready to level up with AI? Sign up for the Ultimate AI Program https://ai.baddecisions.studio/ ⭐ Master Unreal Engine 5 in 14 D...

Seedance 2.0 finally available on every major platform but locked behind enterprise plans, AI agents getting faces and voices for real-time video meetings from Pika Labs, Google releasing Gemma 4 as their most intelligent open source model for free, and OpenAI acquiring TBPN. 🔥 Ready to level up with AI? Sign up for the Ultimate AI Program https://ai.baddecisions.studio/ ⭐ Master Unreal Engine 5...

Oracle laying off 30,000 people and Jack Dorsey publishing an article called From Hierarchy to Intelligence about replacing middle managers with AI (Block already fired 40% of their workforce), OpenAI raising $122 billion to build the AI super app, and Tripo 3D as an AI tool that is actually helping 3D artists and game developers. 🔥 Ready to level up with AI? Sign up for the Ultimate AI Program h...

Suno AI generating 7 million songs per day with 2 million paid users and $300 million in revenue, and a live demo testing Kling for VFX on Higgsfield to see if AI can actually create quality visual effects. 🔥 Ready to level up with AI? Sign up for the Ultimate AI Program https://ai.baddecisions.studio/ ⭐ Master Unreal Engine 5 in 14 Days - $350 OFF (LIMITED TIME ONLY⏱️): https://learn.baddecisio...