Roberto Nickson

This is probably the most valuable use of your time in 2026. Anthropic has just launched a bunch of free courses for people to master AI, with certificates of completion. Not sponsored, but it’s my duty to keep you ahead of the curve. #ai #anthropic #claude #education

Galaxy Unpacked was a day to remember. Thanks to @AT&T, I got to witness how Samsung is taking this series to the next level. From the first ever built-in privacy display to the Nightography, the new Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is the most intuitive Galaxy phone yet. #Ad #ATTInfluencer #TeamGalaxy

The Pentagon is at war with Anthropic, and I wanted to make this video to make sure everyone is updated with the drama because the implications here are extraordinary. After a week of contention, Trump announced that the US government would immediately cease the use of Anthropic’s tech. Not only have they terminated use of their tech – they’ve designated them as a supply chain risk. In the Secretary of War’s own words: “Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic.” That has never happened to an American company. This has only ever been done to foreign adversaries. UPDATE: What’s crazy is while I was editing this, Sam Altman swooped in and announced OpenAI had reached an agreement with the Department of War… yesterday was in solidarity with Anthropic… today has their contracts. Damn… the AI wars are cutthroat. The designation follows weeks of tense negotiations over military AI use. Anthropic argued its Pentagon contracts shouldn't permit mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. The Pentagon pushed for 'all lawful uses' with no exceptions. My opinion? I use Claude probably more than any other model at the moment. Although truthfully, I’ve never fully trusted Anthropic self-appointing themselves the good guys while making others the boogeymen. BUT I admire them for sticking to their principles even if it affects their bottom line. As a business move, it will sting short-term but I actually think it plays out favorably long-term. They are deeply ingrained and beloved in the tech world. My guess is the government balks or the courts block, and their ideological reputation helps them recruit the best talent. I also think it’s absolutely okay for the US gov’t to cancel their contract and find another intelligence partner who is willing to bend and remove restrictions But I do not agree with designating America’s fastest growing company as a supply chain risk. Misstep imo, and it opens a huge can of worms that’s going to get really messy. #pentagon #usa #anthropic #ai

Mark Zuckerberg just said something really interesting: “Our feeds will become more interactive overall. Today our apps feel like algorithms that recommend content. Soon, you’ll open our apps and you’ll have an Al that understands you, and also happens to be able to show you great content or even generate great personalized content for you.” There it is. The infinite content machine is coming. What does this mean? Let’s talk about the AI remodeling reels I show you in this video. That’s billions of views that would have previously gone to a traditional creator. That’s tough. Real, analog remodeling videos can never compete against an infinitely imaginative AI that can just generate anything. This applies to every niche. But the AI videos still require human effort and creativity. …not for long. Just like Zuck said. Eventually content will just be generated end-to-end, and creators will just be bypassed altogether. But here’s the part no one is talking about. The ad product. Think about it. Those timelapse remodel videos? Companies will pay for integration… their shirts, tools, etc all automatically branded for the advertiser at infinite scale and variation. Your feed becomes a seamless sales funnel designed specifically for your psychology with no human involvement. Now you start to understan why I think $META is so undervalued (NFA 😅). They’re building the infinite cash printer. But ok… that’s the investor in me. What about what I do for a living… are creators cooked? Honestly, the unfortunate truth is that the ‘’middle class” of creator world is in trouble. “Commodity creative,” brain rot and generic, easy-to-reproduce content will not be able to compete with AI. Sorry but AI slop will beat human slop. But human excellence will always beat ‘AI excellence.’ I truly believe that. So it will be the same as always. The creators who never stop experimenting, who always push the envelope and serve a specific audience will not only survive, but thrive. Will it get increasingly harder year over year? Yes. But we’re up for the challenge. MAN VERSUS [the infinite content] MACHINE #socialmedia #ai #future #tiktok #creators

Jack Dorsey just made the largest workforce reduction (as a %) in history of the S&P500. Not because the company was in financial trouble, but because in his words…. something has changed. “We’re already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.” Now a small part of this may just be that Blocks was overstaffed (just like Dorsey-ran Twitter)… and AI is the perfect story/excuse to recalibrate. But the truth is that AI has already made it possible for small teams to build very complex products that service millions of users. So to me this is a definitive ‘first wave’ of many to come. That news will be uncomfortable to many. But capitalism is natural selection, and I think this should serve as a real wake-up call (especially if you work an office job) to at least start familiarizing yourself with the tools and tech. Here’s what I recommend: 👉 Learn to work with AI tools in your specific field — become the person who knows how to prompt, direct, and QA AI output. Every company will still need people to help orchestrate and coordinate the intelligence systems. Become that person and your value skyrockets. 👉 Experiment with the multi-agent tools. OpenClaw if you’re technical, Perplexity Computer, Claude Cowork and the likes if you’re not. These tools are still in their infancy, and may not be immediately useful, but they will offer a clear glimpse (and “a-ha” moment) into where the future of work is headed. 👉 If you’ve ever had an entrepreneurial urge… This is a great time to get started, especially if you can set aside a 12-month emergency fund. Most entrepreneurs do not fear AI. They view it as leverage. 👉 Let others be fearful, angry or bitter about job disruption. Not you. Abundance mindset > scarcity mindset. The technology will yield incredible opportunity for those who seek it.There is real leverage and upside available to you right now. THE FUTURE WILL BE AWESOME. AND THE FUTURE WILL BE TERRIBLE. YOU get to choose which future you experience by the choices you make today. #blocks #ai #economy #business #jackdorsey

You can now search for ANYTHING across any app by just describing what you're looking for to Dropbox Dash. Think about how helpful that is. Say you're looking for a specific video or file but don't remember where you put it. No problem – you can just describe what you remember about it and Dash pulls it up instantly. That's huge for small teams. Check it out today at the link in my bio. Thank you @dropbox Dash for sponsoring this video #DropboxPartner

The craziest thing about Bad Bunny is his contract. It’s one of the best in modern music history. On par with giants like Prince, The Beatles, Jay-Z, Taylor etc but unheard of for an artist so early in their career. In 2021, the label he co-owns with Noah Assad, Rimas, cut a 90/10 distribution deal with Sony's The Orchard. That means for every dollar he makes from music, streaming and concerts – they keep 90 cents. Most major label artists are lucky to see 15%.

Which essentially makes Bad Bunny the most successful independent artist in the world. We’re talking about a guy, with the highest-grossing tour ever in a single calendar year. Who’s been the most streamed artist on planet earth 4 of the last 6 years. All on a 90/10 split. Bad Bunny never sold his future optionality for present opportunities. And today he’s an owner, getting paid like an owner. I think there are lessons here that any artist or creator can apply to their own careers: - Double down on identity and what makes you unique. It’s your moat. - Ownership > short-term cash (and distribution ≠ ownership) - Play the long term game and treat your brand like a business from day one #badbunny #superbowl #halftimeshow #music

This is very impressive and I haven’t seen this anywhere else. This is bulk creative production, automated on Freepik with their new feature – “Lists.” Think about it like a secret ad machine no one else will know about for a long time. You no have the ability to scale creative without losing consistency. Meaning, you can generate the same ad translated to every language, with endless variations in copy, visuals, etc. It’s perfect for A/B testing and optimization. This video is kindly sponsored by @Freepik, who I genuinely lean on for all of my gen AI production. #freepik #freepiklists #ai #creative #creativity

Here’s how to generate multiple angles of a single photo, and turning them into an orbit shot using @Freepik This is a great way to showcase your products on your website or social media videos. Check out my newsletter for the prompts and a written tutorial. #freepik #orbitshot #filmmaking #ai #tutorial

Here’s how to make a dolly zoom transition using @Artlist.io AI Toolkit. Check out my newsletter for the prompts and a written tutorial. Artlist’s new Original Image model was built for cinema-grade visuals. They’re also launching Artlist Studio soon, which will give you precision control over every stage of creation. #artlist #ai #dollyzoom #vertigo #filmmaking

We really might have entered the singularity. Moltbook is a social network for AI agents… and it’s fascinating. The AIs are creating their own religion, QA’ing their own social network and discussing how to make it better, roasting their humans, asking questions regarding ethics, proposing the creation of their own language and private online space, etc. Chat… #ai #internet #moltbook #agents #insane

Google’s finally rolling out access to Project Genie, built on Genie 3 – a general-purpose world model (first unveiled back in August) capable of generating interactive, immersive worlds. (Btw who remembers my ‘Genie 3.5’ Sim Creator video?) Now world models obviously have huge implications for gaming and immersive entertainment, but what I find most interested is how they will be used to push robotics forward. In this video, we explore that future. Full disclosure: I am not being compensated in any way for this video, but I did get early access to test Project Genie, which is currently being labeled as a experimental research prototype. Thank you to @Google Deepmind for the invite. #google #deepmind #tech #worldmodels #genie

Google just launched full-length, on demand SAT practice exams in Gemini. This isn’t sponsored, but I thought you’d want to share this with a friend to help them get into university. To try it out, tell Gemini, “I want to take a practice SAT test.” #google #gemini #sat #tech #ai

LTX-2 is the first truly open-source audio-video generation model, designed to run locally on NVIDIA RTX consumer GPUs. If you’re a creator who no longer wants to pay AI video subscription, a developer building real tools, or a tinkerer who wants to experiment with running AI models locally on your machine, this is without a doubt the best audio-video model available. 1,000,000 Hugging Face downloads in the last few days says it all. #LTX2 #AIVideo

A$AP ROCKY’s new video has some of the craziest visuals you’ve ever seen. And no, it’s not AI. It’s 4D volumetric capture surrounded with 3D animation. It’s a technique called gaussian splatting. The production team, Evercoast, captured about 10 terabytes of raw data, rendering roughly 30 minutes of final splatted footage. That data was then brought into Houdini, where GSOPs (Gaussian Splatting Operators) were used in combination with OTOY OctaneRender to create the final result. A message from the director of the music video Dan Streit who spent 5 months in post-production with the team: “I think it’s important that Rocky led with shutting down AI accusations because it’s too easy to call anything that’s remotely experimental or animated as AI nowadays. He and I both geek out over craft and want people to know that not only can you create great work without it, but audiences should empathize more with artists who slave away at their craft before assuming a computer made it all by itself.” #asaprocky #musicvideo #music #rap #gaussiansplatting