The Computomatix Times

I'm so excited that our @theworldlabs team has achieved a major milestone today! Introducing Atlas - a first of its kind multimodal world model trained from scratch! 🚀

Atlas is capable of generating frames with pixel-perfect camera control, reconstructing large scenes from as few as one single input image, simulating space-time by reframing videos, natively outputting 3D spaces from one or more input images, composing multiple posed images into a consistent 3d world, and more! This is the best camera conditioned world model ever, opening doors to many possible use cases from VFX to robotics. I'm so so so proud of our team!♥️

Btw we open sourced the core infra piece that makes these self improving loops possible. tangleml.com

The Cloudflare API has an incredible MCP. It uses Code Mode so you get access to the entire Cloudflare API (~2500 endpoints) in ~1k tokens.

In this video we use the MCP to buy a domain, deploy a React app to it, have my agent check errors, fix them and re-deploy.

It's SICK🔥

I'd always thought AI was terrible at design, but after reading today's 🤯 post by @anshuc, I realized I was just doing it wrong.

"AI models are capable of amazing creativity, but that creativity gets stifled. LLMs are trained to be next-token predictors: they look at a sequence of text and predict what typically comes next. Great design is exactly the opposite of this. Great design bends the rules and delights users with memorable, unexpected choices."

@anshuc led design and engineering teams at Apple for 12 years. In his words: "Most people only see 1% of AI's creative potential. I want to show you how to tap into the other 99%."

His 8 techniques for breaking out of the 1%:
1. Use seed strings to inject variety
2. Be much more ambitious with your prompts
3. Create positive feedback loops with subagents
4. Use image generation to enrich designs
5. Use video generation
6. Cut out elements that don’t add value
7. Remove AI tells
8. Rewrite copy by hand

Read the post here: lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-turn-your-ai-int…

P.S. This design was made by AI 👇

Interview with an industry expert on why $META Business Agents are one of the most significant new growth drivers for the company:

1. The expert reports strong $META ad spend growth at their company, with Q1 and Q2 of this year both up more than 30% YoY, and Q3 and Q4 forecast at more than 20%, with the slowdown driven by tougher comparisons rather than any underlying deceleration. On a two-year stack, growth is actually accelerating, reaching more than 60% in Q2 and expected to hold there through year-end.

2. Reels has been the biggest tailwind for the expert's company, growing from under 30% to under 40% of total $META ad spend YoY, representing around a 4-5 point tailwind, though the expert expects this to ease as Reels matures. Forms and click-to-messaging, which route users into WhatsApp or Messenger, have roughly doubled as a share of spend and represent a meaningful CPM uplift as higher-value ad units replace lower ones.

3. Shopping ads keep users within the $META ecosystem through integrations with $AMZN and $SHOP, creating an on-site conversion experience without users feeling like they left the platform. These high-CPM ads replace lower-CPM ones, representing a small, single-digit tailwind for the expert's company. Overlay ads, which appear on creator content with a button and text, are a bigger and more purely incremental tailwind since they represent genuinely new inventory that was previously ad-free rather than replacing existing ad formats.

4. The expert describes Meta Business Agents as one of the most significant new tailwinds coming online, framing it as the evolution of Meta Business AI into something far more ambitious. What stands out is that the product leads with analytics rather than ads, integrating data from various ad stacks to give even a one-person business a unified view of multiple metrics. Ad campaign automation and chatbots remain, but the expert sees the broader business intelligence layer as the genuinely new and exciting development.

5. The expert highlights the brand linking feature as one of the most exciting elements of Meta Business Agents, where paying subscribers have their brand name turn into a live link whenever it is mentioned in a WhatsApp, Messenger, or Instagram conversation. The expert sees this eventually becoming an auctioned ad product where brands bid for the right to be linked when mentioned, with the current $10-30 per month subscription pricing being used to drive upgrades rather than capture full value upfront.

6. The expert sees $META's TAM as far larger than the traditional ads industry, with chatbots and business messaging representing a new layer of communication with customers that will eventually be part of how the ad market is defined. The expert puts the long-term TAM for the ads industry, including chatbots, at north of $3 trillion annually, with micro and small businesses seen as the biggest beneficiaries of AI-driven advertising tools.

7. Adoption of Meta Business Agents within the expert's panel of 300 advertisers has jumped from 30 to 45 in the last six weeks, a 50% increase driven entirely by opt-in rather than any push from $META. The expert estimates their panel is well ahead of the broader market, guessing $META's overall penetration is around 3% versus 15% within their own panel.

found on @AlphaSenseInc

Training tiny models for special purpose use cases works so incredibly well if you have a great self improving recursive flywheel. Shopify ML team is on fire.

finetuned 0.8b model beats GPT 5.6-sol xhigh in this very specialized task.

meet my new grok @bot tinkabot (v0.1.0)! she helps you make high quality grok bot plugins. you can ask her to look at your APIs, create an MCP and/or skills for it, and then wrap that up as a plugin that you can then submit to us for approval.

once it's approved, your plugin will be available for all grok @bot users to use!

let me know if you run into any issues, i've used it on some small toy APIs but would love to see how well it works on real ones

x.ai/bot/br5f3C4mc75QCMEHaszXd

Shopify is now available in projects.dev.

Too many teams are doing AI transformation poorly, so I wrote down everything I have learned in my journey and in chatting with many other leaders.

A long read, so get your coffees.

done, it's open source now ✅

iOS phone farm - register real iPhones, watch + control them live in the browser, schedule tiktok on a postgres-backed scheduler.

free, self-hosted, apache-2.0.

- git: github.com/Git-Agni/prod-FARM-IOS-Core
- DIY steps: gethandler.ai/ios-farm/

@petergyang if you have pstack i would suggest using "/poteto-mode update and eval the skill to <change>", you can even hillclimb on it

github.com/cursor/plugins/blob/main/pstack/ski…

A guy had 80,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points sitting in his Sapphire Preferred account. He'd been saving them for months. He was planning to redeem them through Chase's travel portal for a $1,200 hotel booking getting roughly 1.25 cents per point.

A travel strategist who's spent 8 years studying hotel loyalty programs and has booked over $200,000 worth of hotel stays on points told him:

"Don't redeem through the portal. Transfer those points to World of Hyatt instead. The exact same 80,000 points books 3-4 free nights at a luxury Hyatt worth $2,400-$3,200 in cash. That's 3-4 cents per point instead of 1.25. You're about to leave $1,200-$2,000 in value on the table because you don't know about one transfer button."

He said: "I've never stayed at a Hyatt."

"That's the point. You don't need to be a Hyatt loyalist. You don't need status. You don't need to stay there regularly. You need a Chase card with points and 30 seconds to transfer them to a program where they're worth 3x more."

He transferred 25,000 points to World of Hyatt. Booked a Park Hyatt suite worth $1,200 per night. Paid $0. Resort fees waived. No blackout dates. The room was available because Hyatt guarantees standard award rooms at every property something Marriott and Hilton don't consistently do.

He showed his coworker 9 things about World of Hyatt that make it the most valuable and most overlooked hotel loyalty program in the industry.

"Most travelers pick Marriott or Hilton because they're everywhere. Then they earn millions of points worth half a cent each. Hyatt has fewer hotels and every point is worth 3-4x more. You're not choosing a hotel chain. You're choosing a currency. And right now, you're holding the most valuable one and spending it at the worst exchange rate."

Here are the 9 things he showed him 🧵