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Your face can sell while you sleep. But if the eyes don’t glisten and the lips miss the beat, people swipe in two seconds.

My AI research agent pulled the latest 2026 playbook so you don’t drown in PDFs. Here’s the no‑BS way to build a цифрового двойника that looks exactly like you for horizontal ads and promos.

Pipeline 1 - highest quality, studio‑grade

• When: hero launches, TV/CTV, close‑ups under scrutiny.
• Capture: soft, big lights; shoot a color card; record 30‑60 minutes of expressions and an hour or two of clean booth audio with your real product words. Get a few RAW stills. If you wear glasses, capture both looks.
• Build: train a modern Gaussian head avatar - think next‑gen 3D portrait that keeps pores, eyes, and tiny saccades - inside Unreal. Drive the face from audio, then layer light performance capture for micro‑brows and cheeks. Groom hair strands so it’s not a plastic helmet. Lock a reusable scene with your LUT and camera look.
• Gear: a serious GPU box or cloud. Edit in Resolve or Premiere

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Vertical had a good run. In 2026, horizontal is back, and your best salesperson is your clone on camera that looks exactly like you, not almost-you. 👀

My AI research agent pulled the latest on head avatars, voice, and platform rules. Here is the no‑BS way to build a super‑realistic цифрового двойника for 16:9 promos that actually sell.

First, the quality bar. No dead eyes. Natural blinks and tiny eye twitches. Skin with pores, not plastic. Lips that seal on m, b, p. Teeth that don’t glow. Hair with flyaways, not a helmet. Hands with the right number of fingers. Voice that carries your sarcasm and stress. Lip sync tight within a couple frames. If you miss any of this, people feel it and bounce.

Pipeline 1 - Flagship quality, studio grade

• Capture you properly: multi‑view video for about an hour of expressions, 10 to 20 minutes of body moves, a handful of calibrated photos, and an hour or two of clean booth audio.
• Build the head as a high‑fidelity Gaussian avatar in Unreal. Drive it with audio‑to‑face ani

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Google didn’t make another video toy. They made a tiny universe that listens to your keyboard. 🎮

My AI research agent pulled the raw posts, papers, and cranky critiques. Here’s the no-BS version.

What it is: Genie is DeepMind’s world model that turns a short prompt or an image into a small, playable world. Not a clip. You can walk, drive, or fly inside it and the scene answers in real time. The thing people can try is Project Genie, a web prototype powered by Genie 3.

What you can do: sketch a riverside town at sunset and actually stroll the riverbank; rough out a Martian outpost to feel mood, motion, and camera before touching Unity; flip the time of day or terrain mid-run and keep playing. Sessions last minutes, not hours. It feels around HD, about 20 frames per second when it behaves.

How it works in human words: most video models are a movie. Press play and you’re a passenger. Genie is a tiny stage with a smart puppeteer. It learned from piles of video how the world tends to change. It compresses fram

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Your coffee has a rating. Your rideshare driver has a rating. The person who controls your home? Crickets. That’s backwards.

I’ve rented enough to know the real reviews happen in whispers on stairwells. The moment you meet the current tenant, you learn everything - how fast repairs get done, who pops by unannounced, how often the rent “mysteriously” climbs.

I wanted a Glassdoor for landlords but assumed lawyers would nuke it. So I had my AI research agent pull the legal play-by-play - and surprise: in the U.S., this is buildable if you use your brain instead of your feelings.

Plain English version:

• There’s a U.S. law that says the platform isn’t the author of your review. That helps a lot.
• Some states have “anti-SLAPP” rules - translation: if a bully files a junk lawsuit to shut you up, a judge can toss it and make them pay.
• Anonymous speech isn’t a free pass, but courts usually require real evidence before unmasking someone. Subpoenas will come. Many can be resisted. Some can’t.

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It’s January 2026. Shipping a mobile app is no longer a five-month slog. You can get to a real build in days - and you don’t have to torch the stack later.

I had my AI research agent sweep the latest docs and real-world posts. The data is boringly clear: there are two sane paths if you want iOS and Android, a simple feature set, and a straight line from MVP to production.

Pick 1 - React Native + Expo on the new architecture. This is the speed king. Expo Router, push, camera, maps, in-app purchases - most of the boring plumbing is one command away. EAS cloud builds get you to TestFlight and Play Internal fast. The new rendering stack - Fabric with the Hermes JS engine - finally killed the old lag and bridge pain. And you can hire JS/TS people without selling a kidney. Catch: if you need weird native stuff like hardcore background tracking, BLE, or deep NFC, you might write a small native module. In 2026 that rarely means a full eject - Expo’s Dev Client covers most cases.

Pick 2 - Flutter with Impeller. If

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Your site didn’t suddenly get better at sunset. Your eyes did.

I caught myself tonight staring at a dark-themed page I built today and thinking, wow, it looks cleaner, deeper, more polished than it did at noon. Colors that felt flat now pop. The background finally sits right. Not magic. Biology.

My AI research agent pulled the raw data on this, and the pattern is boringly human. Daylight floods your room, bounces off the screen, and washes out contrast. At night the room goes dark, your pupil opens up, and the screen becomes the brightest thing around. That alone makes edges look sharper and colors feel richer.

There’s also the Purkinje effect - in low light your vision shifts toward blue-green. Reds look duller, blue accents look punchy. If your palette leans cool, it will sing at dusk. If it leans warm, it will look sleepy. That’s not design quality. That’s your retina.

Dark mode is part of the illusion. It feels easier in dim rooms and it reduces glare. But for long reading, most people still read fast

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The prompt gold rush split in two: flea markets and factories. In 2026, both will make noise, but only one will survive scale.

My AI research agent pulled the raw data, and the pattern is loud. Consumers hoard templates. Teams need control. Governance keeps everyone out of the headlines.

The flea markets:

• PromptBase, FlowGPT, PromptHero, and AIPRM put prompts on shelves. AIPRM claims over 2 million users. OpenAI’s GPT Store has millions of custom GPTs. Easy to browse, great for creators, but quality is hit or miss and prompts go stale fast.

The factories:

• LangSmith, Vellum, PromptLayer, and Langfuse treat prompts like code: versioning, evals, tracing, releases. After Humanloop shut down in 2025, teams migrated here. Why? Copy-paste prompts in Notion break the minute models update.

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You don’t need Plus to stop hitting the “you’re out of messages” wall. OpenAI just rolled out a cheaper middle lane that covers most of what normal people actually use.

It’s called ChatGPT Go - a low-cost plan aimed at folks who outgrow Free but don’t want to pay full Plus. In India, it’s roughly 400 rupees a month, and there’s a promo that gives a full year free if you sign up now. After that, it auto-renews unless you cancel. That’s about one-fifth the price of Plus.

My AI research agent pulled the raw docs and news so you don’t have to. Here’s the no-BS version.

What you get vs Free - more messages, image generation, file uploads, advanced data analysis, and a longer memory so it remembers you better. This is the everyday toolkit: brainstorm text, analyze spreadsheets, plot charts, and whip up images without begging the model to keep up. Think scooter that finally stops stalling at green lights.

What’s murky - OpenAI doesn’t publish hard numbers for consumer caps. Your real limit is whatever the app sh

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Porn usually adopts new tech first. This time it didn’t. We have AI girlfriends printing money, but no mainstream, fully AI‑generated porn videos. Where is it?

My AI research agent pulled the receipts, and the answer isn’t sexy: it’s boxed in on every side.

Technically, the wow‑demos are short. You can get a gorgeous 10‑second clip, but try holding the same face, body, and voice across minutes with complex motion and multi‑camera cuts and it falls apart. Hands go weird, contact looks floaty, lips drift. And the kicker - the best video engines flat‑out block sexual content. The models won’t let you.

Data is a desert. There isn’t a large, clean, performer‑consented explicit video dataset. Scraping big porn sites mixes in unknown consent and age risk - that’s not a gray area, that’s a red siren. No serious team wants to train on a legal grenade.

Law turned the screws. In the US, making or distributing sexual deepfakes is now a crime in many cases, and platforms must rip them down fast. The Supreme Court let

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The flashiest thing at CES wasn’t a headset. It was a LEGO brick that tells your phone to stay home. 🧱

My AI research agent pulled the raw details from LEGO’s CES pages and first hands-ons, and the story is simple: LEGO Smart Brick is a normal-looking 2x4 stuffed with sensors, LEDs, and a tiny speaker. Twist it, tap it, swoosh your starfighter - it answers with lights and sound. Dock a SMART minifig or drop a SMART Tag tile nearby - it changes behavior on the fly. No app required for core play.

This is the anchor of LEGO’s new SMART Play platform. First wave is Star Wars, planned for March 1 in select markets, with preorders widely reported to open Jan 9. Think X-wing engines ramping when you swoosh, blaster cracks when you hit the turret tile, lightsaber clashes when Vader clicks in. It snaps into builds like any brick, not a bulky hub glued on top.

Why this exists: parents want less screen time, kids want feedback now. Previous LEGO tech leaned on phones or coding kits. This keeps the magic in your hands