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There is room for flexibility without abandoning the framework entirely. An occasional late dinner is not the same as a chronic late eating pattern. Most proponents of this approach acknowledge that consistency matters more than perfection.
What gets me is that the concept is not even traditionally beautiful or commercial. It is dark installation art that only 32 people bothered to see. Someone saw that and decided it was worth killing for. That level of obsession directed at a forgotten failure is genuinely unsettling.
As a long-time Bastard reader, I was slightly nervous about Copycat because sometimes creators peak and then coast. Ten chapters in I can confirm this is absolutely not coasting. Kim seems genuinely energized by this premise.
The underdog who can't cultivate inner energy angle is honestly a bit tired at this point. Nearly every murim series has some version of the protagonist being looked down on before their rise.
SSS-Class Revival Hunter should absolutely have been on this list. A protagonist who gains powers by dying repeatedly is one of the most creative mechanics the genre has ever produced.
The cultivation level hierarchy visualization described here is something other murim series have been trying and failing to do since forever. Making power levels legible without exposition is an art form.
The competitive landscape is moving so fast that any article about which model tops the leaderboard has a built-in expiration date of about 90 days. Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0, and whatever comes next will keep reshuffling the rankings.
Most people can edit a Google Doc. Delete some words, rearrange sentences, fix typos, add paragraphs. It's intuitive and requires no special training. Now imagine editing video the same way. That's Descript's core innovation, and it transformed video editing from a specialized skill requiring expensive software into something anyone who can edit text can do effectively. Descript started as a transcription tool for podcasters. Record your podcast, upload it to Descript, and get an accurate transcript for show notes. But the founders realized something bigger. If you have a perfect transcript synchronized to audio, you can edit the audio by editing the text. Delete a word from the transcript and that word disappears from the audio. That insight became the foundation for a complete editing platform.
The AI video generation race just got a clear winner. Runway Gen-4.5 topped the Video Arena leaderboard with a 1,247 Elo score, surpassing both Google Veo 3 and OpenAI Sora 2. For those unfamiliar with Elo ratings, this is the same system used to rank chess players and competitive games. A higher score means more wins in head-to-head comparisons. When real users compare videos side by side without knowing which AI generated them, they consistently choose Runway's output. Runway didn't start as an enterprise video tool. It began as a playground for artists and filmmakers who wanted to experiment with AI-generated visuals. The early versions produced fascinating but inconsistent results. Sometimes you'd get stunning cinematic footage. Other times you'd get distorted motion and unrealistic physics. Gen-4.5 changed that equation by achieving breakthrough consistency in motion quality and physical accuracy.
There's a version of this where AI avatar training videos become so ubiquitous and indistinguishable that employees stop trusting any video communication as authentic. That trust erosion risk feels underrated.
When a company raises $200 million in Series E funding during January 2026, investors are betting on more than potential. They're backing proven market demand and sustainable growth. Synthesia's funding round came alongside a 44% year-over-year increase in headcount to 706 employees, signaling aggressive expansion in a category the company essentially created: AI avatar-based video generation for enterprise training and communications. Corporate training videos have been expensive and slow to produce for decades. Recording a single 10-minute training module traditionally required booking a studio, hiring a presenter, scheduling a videographer, managing multiple takes, and editing everything together. If you needed to update information or translate content, you essentially started over. Synthesia eliminated this entire production workflow by replacing human presenters with AI avatars.
I am more interested in whether this kind of vertical integration is actually good for users. If every major AI company ends up running on proprietary silicon, does that make the technology less interoperable and more siloed?
Hot take, this rally has more legs than the skeptics think because the structural buyer, meaning ETF demand, has fundamentally changed the supply-demand equation relative to every previous cycle.
To answer the encryption question above, transit encryption just protects your message while it travels between your phone and TikTok's servers. End-to-end encryption means only the two people in the conversation have the key. With what TikTok does, TikTok itself can unlock and read any message whenever it wants. Huge difference.
It would likely go through federal court challenging the administrative process, possibly arguing the designation criteria were misapplied. Cases like this tend to move slowly and the interim restrictions can last years.
Every time I think I understand what drives crypto prices, something like Iran considering Bitcoin for oil payments happens and I realize I have no idea about anything.
The global cryptocurrency market capitalization has climbed back above the $2.5 trillion threshold, fueled by a massive liquidation of short positions and renewed institutional interest. Geopolitical developments and shifting investor sentiment combined to create a powerful rally that caught bearish traders off guard, resulting in substantial losses for those betting against the market. According to data from CoinGecko, the total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies combined increased 1.4% to reach $2.52 trillion on Friday, April 10. Bitcoin experienced a notable surge of over 3%, briefly touching the $73,000 mark before consolidating around $72,000 at the time of writing. Ethereum demonstrated equally impressive strength, pushing past the $2,200 level, while the majority of top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization also posted significant gains.
The bumping heads with Piccioli moment went viral and I loved that it did. Two polished, composed people having a totally normal awkward human moment. That is the stuff that makes public figures actually likable.
Not sure about the navy slides with grey leggings. I would probably go for black ones to keep it more streamlined
