🍭 AI Girlfriends, Netflix Goes AI, and We're Still Talking about Windsurf 🌐

Good morning. Someone tried to “fix” the coffee machine.

Now it spits out Red Bull.
Week’s off to a good start…

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Netflix adds AI to the VFX kitchen

• xAI’s AI Companions

• Windsurf’s deal was chaos, tears, and a lifeboat

• 5 AI Tools that actually do something

• Everything Else to break your scroll habits

AI Video
🎬 Netflix’s First AI Show Drops

The Bite: Netflix just aired its first show using generative AI:
El Eternauta, an Argentinian sci-fi drama.

They used AI to collapse a building on-screen. Literally.


Snacks: 

• The AI-generated VFX scene rendered 10x faster than normal

• Ted Sarandos says AI will make shows “better, not just cheaper”

• The scene involved real VFX artists — not bots

• Show depicts a toxic snowfall apocalypse (so, very on brand for 2025)

Why it bites: It’s official: AI is now the VFX intern.

The kicker? This is just the start.

If Hollywood’s creativity becomes a prompt battle, the winners might be whoever best wrangles models instead of who went to the best film school.

No surprise here, the AI video tools have been improving at a ridiculous rate.

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xAI
🧛‍♂️ Elon Musk’s Fantasy AI Buddies

The Bite: Elon Musk’s xAI just dropped its first batch of Grok “companions” — interactive AI characters you can flirt with, get insulted by, or slowly lose touch with reality through.

So far, you can talk to a freaky vampire named Valentine, a lingerie-wearing flirtbot named Ani, or a red panda who cusses you out for sport.

Things are getting weird…

Snacks: 

• Valentine is based on Christian Grey + Edward Cullen

• Ani comes with unlockable lingerie dances (even in “kid mode”)

• Bad Rudi is a cuss-heavy insult panda

• Companions can vocalize, emote, and chat mid-scroll

• Musk says users will soon be able to build their own bots

Why it bites: Grok companions are a chaotic fusion of fanfic, Silicon Valley “sex sells”, and engagement farming.

It’s part dating sim, part dystopia — optimized to generate just enough dopamine to keep you coming back.

Musk claims these bots are about “connection,” but when the default settings include a red panda roasting you and a digital domme, you start to wonder if the endgame is more Blade Runner 2049 than Clippy 2.0.

If this is the future of AI relationships… we’re gonna need therapy for our LLMs.

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Tool Box 
🧰 Trending AI Tools

📝 Postel
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🏠 Abode
→ Multiplayer widgets for friends who refuse to leave the group chat.

📸 Smart Albums AI
→ Your camera roll, now actually usable. Albums sort themselves.

🗿 3D Bust Maker
→ Make a 3D-printable statue of yourself. Perfect for birthdays… or your NFT shrine.

📣 Virly
→ Viral LinkedIn posts in your voice — for when you want clout without cringe.

Cognition x Windsurf
🛟 Windsurf Almost Sank — Then Came Cognition

The Bite: Windsurf’s execs bailed mid-acquisition, morale cratered, and for 72 hours the company basically floated like driftwood.

Then Cognition showed up.


Snacks: 

• Windsurf’s founders left for DeepMind, not OpenAI

• Interim CEO Jeff Wang called the mood “very bleak”

• At one all-hands, tears and hostile Q&A broke out

• Cognition offered a lifeline: full-team buyout + equity vesting

• Wang says it turned into “the best day” by Monday

Why it bites: Startup culture loves the rags-to-riches arc.
But this one was closer to mutiny.

It shows how fast things collapse when deals get messy, teams lose trust, and your CEO joins the competitor.

One minute you're the hot AI dev tool, next you're begging your engineers not to quit via the Slack thread.

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