Break down knowledge silos and amplify team performance with data-augmented, customizable and secure AI agents. Deploy in minutes, no coding required.
Based on the provided content, I cannot find any reviews or social mentions specifically about "Dust" as a software tool. The social mentions you've shared appear to be political news articles and posts from Lemmy about topics like Trump, data centers, water issues, and various political developments, but none discuss a software product called "Dust." Without actual user reviews or mentions of the Dust software tool, I cannot provide a meaningful summary of user sentiment, strengths, complaints, or pricing feedback. To properly analyze user opinions about Dust, I would need relevant reviews from software platforms, user forums, or social media posts that specifically discuss the tool's features and user experience.
Mentions (30d)
12
2 this week
Reviews
0
Platforms
7
Sentiment
0%
0 positive
Based on the provided content, I cannot find any reviews or social mentions specifically about "Dust" as a software tool. The social mentions you've shared appear to be political news articles and posts from Lemmy about topics like Trump, data centers, water issues, and various political developments, but none discuss a software product called "Dust." Without actual user reviews or mentions of the Dust software tool, I cannot provide a meaningful summary of user sentiment, strengths, complaints, or pricing feedback. To properly analyze user opinions about Dust, I would need relevant reviews from software platforms, user forums, or social media posts that specifically discuss the tool's features and user experience.
Features
Industry
information technology & services
Employees
130
Funding Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$22.0M
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) lays out the connections between Trump, Russia, and Epstein (transcript included)
**NOTE:** This transcript now appears in [the Senate section of the official *Congessional Record* of March 5, 2026, pages 18 - 23,](https://www.congress.gov/119/crec/2026/03/05/172/42/CREC-2026-03-05-senate.pdf) with Sen. Whitehouse's own list of sources appended. ----- The following is the YouTube transcript which I cleaned up, checked for errors, lightly edited for readability, verified spelling of proper names via Wikipedia, and added links to any quotes that I checked myself. (EDITED to add links to individuals mentioned, correct placement of quotes, and insert links to original articles where I could find them online) I found myself doing it anyway just for me, to keep track of who's who, and then I realized I might as well do it for you as well. This is an unparalleled speech: while the substance of it might be available elsewhere and I've just missed it, Sen. Whitehouse has answered a lot of questions in my mind about not just the links between Trump, Russia, and Epstein -- and William Barr as one of many links -- but also about the recording equipment and blackmail angle that is present in so many survivor accounts and so noticeably absent everywhere else. It's truly worth listening to, but if you can't sit still that long, here's the transcript. ----- Thank you, Madam President. It was the spring of 2019. Public and media interest in special counsel [Robert Mueller's report into Russia's election interference operation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_special_counsel_investigation) reached a fever pitch. There had been a steady drip, drip, drip of reporting on the Trump team's cozy and peculiar relationship with Russia. Since his surprise election victory in 2016, ahead of the Mueller report's release, Trump's Attorney General, Bill Barr, [issued a letter to Congress purporting to summarize the report's findings.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_letter) The letter declared that Russia and the Trump campaign did not collude to steal the election. The press, ravenous for any news of the long-anticipated Mueller report's conclusion, largely accepted [Attorney General Barr's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr) narrow, carefully worded conclusion and, not yet having access to the full report, blasted the attorney general's summary around the world. Trump himself declared, all caps, NO COLLUSION. He said he had been cleared of the Russia "hoax," a term he reserves only to describe things that are true, like climate change. Frustrated, Mueller wrote to Barr that the attorney general's letter did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of the investigation. But by the time [the dense, voluminous Mueller report](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report) was issued the month after Barr's letter, its message had been obscured. The Mueller report actually concluded that the Trump campaign knew of and welcomed Russian interference and expected to benefit from it. That conclusion was later echoed and reinforced by [an investigation led by then-chairman Marco Rubio's Senate Intelligence Committee,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report#Senate_Intelligence_Committee) a bipartisan report. But Barr's scheme had largely worked. Many in the media and in the Democratic Party seemed to internalize that the Russia speculation had perhaps gotten out of hand, and that perhaps we had been wrong to believe there was a troubling connection between Trump and Russia after all. But were we? Let's take a look at a sampling of what Trump has done for Russia just lately, and usually at the expense of American interests. There are many, but here's a top 10. **One,** after Trump and Vice President Vance theatrically chastised the heroic Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in front of TV cameras in the Oval Office last year, Trump paused our weapons shipments to Ukraine. **Two,** in July, during the worst Russian bombing campaign of the war until that point, Trump paused an already funded weapons shipment for Ukraine, including the Patriot interceptors that protect civilians from Putin's savage attacks. **Three,** that same month, Trump's Treasury Department stopped imposing new sanctions and closing sanctions loopholes, effectively allowing dummy corporations to send funds, chips, and military equipment to Russia. **Four,** leaked phone calls show that White House envoy [Steve Witkoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Witkoff) and Putin envoy [Kirill Dmitriev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_Dmitriev) have worked together closely behind the scenes on a peace deal favorable to Russia. **Five,** last summer, Trump rolled out the presidential red carpet for the Russian dictator on American soil. with a summit in Alaska that yielded unsurprisingly no gains toward ending the war in Ukraine. **Six,** Trump's vice president traveled to the Munich Security Conference last year to parrot Russia's anti-western talking points pushed by right-wing groups that Puti
View originalThe end of 'shadow AI' at enterprises? Kilo launches KiloClaw for Organizations to enable secure AI agents at scale
As generative AI matures from a novelty into a workplace staple, a new friction point has emerged: the "shadow AI" or "Bring Your Own AI (BYOAI)" crisis. Much like the unsanctioned use of personal devices in years past, developers and knowledge workers are increasingly deploying autonomous agents on personal infrastructure to manage their professional workflows. "Our journey with Kilo Claw has been to make it easier and easier and more accessible to folks," says Kilo co-founder Scott Breitenother. Today, the company dedicated to providing a portable, multi-model, cloud-based AI coding environment is moving to formalize this "shadow AI" layer: it's launching KiloClaw for Organizations and KiloClaw Chat, a suite of tools designed to provide enterprise-grade governance over personal AI agents. The announcement comes at a period of high velocity for the company. Since making its securely hosted, one-click OpenClaw product for individuals, KiloClaw, generally available last month, more than 25,000 users have integrated the platform into their daily workflows. Simultaneously, Kilo’s proprietary agent benchmark, PinchBench, has logged over 250,000 interactions and recently gained significant industry validation when it was referenced by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during his keynote at the 2026 Nvidia GTC conference in San Jose, California. The shadow AI crisis: Addressing the BYOAI problem The impetus for KiloClaw for Organizations stems from a growing visibility gap within large enterprises. In a recent interview with VentureBeat, Kilo leadership detailed conversations with high-level AI directors at government contractors who found their developers running OpenClaw agents on random VPS instances to manage calendars and monitor repositories. "What we’re announcing on Tuesday is Kilo Claw for organizations, where a company can buy an organization-level package of Kilo Claws and give every team member access," explained Kilo co-founder and head of product and engineering Emili
View originalMeta's new structured prompting technique makes LLMs significantly better at code review — boosting accuracy to 93% in some cases
Deploying AI agents for repository-scale tasks like bug detection, patch verification, and code review requires overcoming significant technical hurdles. One major bottleneck: the need to set up dynamic execution sandboxes for every repository, which are expensive and computationally heavy. Using large language model (LLM) reasoning instead of executing the code is rising in popularity to bypass this overhead, yet it frequently leads to unsupported guesses and hallucinations. To improve execution-free reasoning, researchers at Meta introduce "semi-formal reasoning," a structured prompting technique. This method requires the AI agent to fill out a logical certificate by explicitly stating premises, tracing concrete execution paths, and deriving formal conclusions before providing an answer. The structured format forces the agent to systematically gather evidence and follow function calls before drawing conclusions. This increases the accuracy of LLMs in coding tasks and significantly reduces errors in fault localization and codebase question-answering. For developers using LLMs in code review tasks, semi-formal reasoning enables highly reliable, execution-free semantic code analysis while drastically reducing the infrastructure costs of AI coding systems. Agentic code reasoning Agentic code reasoning is an AI agent's ability to navigate files, trace dependencies, and iteratively gather context to perform deep semantic analysis on a codebase without running the code. In enterprise AI applications, this capability is essential for scaling automated bug detection, comprehensive code reviews, and patch verification across complex repositories where relevant context spans multiple files. The industry currently tackles execution-free code verification through two primary approaches. The first involves unstructured LLM evaluators that try to verify code either directly or by training specialized LLMs as reward models to approximate test outcomes. The major drawback is their
View originalWARNING - Browser Extentions are reading every word you write in ChatGPT - AND Selling it!
If you are like me, then you have like 15 rarely used browser extensions just collecting dust. It's so nice that so many of them are free, right? Well, THIS is why!... Today I asked ChatGPT about some obscure medical peptide. I've NEVER once Googled, or ever talked about it before online, IRL, on any website, search engine, or anywhere, I literally only typed it into a ChatGPT prompt line and that's it... A few hours later, I was served an ad for that exact super-rare and obscure thing here on Reddit. OpenAI swears they don't sell any data to advertisers and all personal data is strictly kept private, which I do tend to agree is accurate..... Soooo then how is this happening? From POS free extensions is how! Using DOM access, they literally get free rein of your browser. On your Chrome toolbar click on the "extensions" logo (a puzzle piece), click "manage extensions", then click on any of your extensions' "details" and under "site access", does it say Allow this extension to read and change all your data on websites you visit: "On all sites"??? If so, then any one of these extensions may be selling your ad data. I searched around and found spoofed extensions, also, a free extension that does everything the non-spoofed one does, so I wondered why in the world would someone spoof a free extension. So don't download extensions from anywhere but the Chrome Store. Even the legit ones from there are free for a reason, their goal is to get the largest userbase possible and then auction "your" data... which is now "their" IP to ad-tech data brokers. Has this happened to you? If so, post up what extensions you're using, and maybe we can narrow it down. I'll go first. I'm using: AI Prompt Helper for ChatGPT and Claude - This extension wants access to ALL sites. So I should limit to only ChatGPT or remove it. It wouldn't let me restrict it to "on specific sites," so I removed it. Dark Reader - An extension that puts any website in Dark mode. It had full access to everything on every site - Changed it to "on click only." Easy Auto Refresher - Had access to everything on every site. Google Docs Offline - This extension comes with Chrome and is strictly limited to use on 2 Google Docs sites. So it was all good. Keepa Amazon Price Tracker - Also very good, boy, it literally only gave itself access to the Amazon website. Helium 10 - Gave itself access to everything, but also very reputable, still changed it to "on click." NoFollow extension - Gave itself access to everything. Changed it to "on click." Grammarly - Has access to everything, but I kept it as is, they are a super reputable company, so I half trust them. You may also want to click on "Site Settings." Most of my extensions had full access to Protected Content IDs, the copy and paste clipboard, Third-party sign-in, Payment handlers, and more! You can also click on "service worker" and see if it's communicating with any external endpoints, but it could just do it at certain intervals. Any techy people out there want to use a packet sniffer like Wireshark and let us all know how the bad actors are? Where's Nick Sherly when ya need him! Moral of the story is, ChatGPT/Gemini prob arent selling our chat logs and discussions.... But we're freely giving all our extensions FREE roam of every word we write or see on every website we go to! submitted by /u/ARCreef [link] [comments]
View originalOpenClaw has 500,000 instances and no enterprise kill switch
“Your AI? It’s my AI now.” The line came from Etay Maor, VP of Threat Intelligence at Cato Networks, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat at RSAC 2026 — and it describes exactly what happened to a U.K. CEO whose OpenClaw instance ended up for sale on BreachForums. Maor's argument is that the industry handed AI agents the kind of autonomy it would never extend to a human employee, discarding zero trust, least privilege, and assume-breach in the process. The proof arrived on BreachForums three weeks before Maor’s interview. On February 22, a threat actor using the handle “fluffyduck” posted a listing advertising root shell access to the CEO’s computer for $25,000 in Monero or Litecoin. The shell was not the selling point. The CEO’s OpenClaw AI personal assistant was. The buyer would get every conversation the CEO had with the AI, the company’s full production database, Telegram bot tokens, Trading 212 API keys, and personal details the CEO disclosed to the assistant about family and finances. The threat actor noted the CEO was actively interacting with OpenClaw in real time, making the listing a live intelligence feed rather than a static data dump. Cato CTRL senior security researcher Vitaly Simonovich documented the listing on February 25. The CEO’s OpenClaw instance stored everything in plain-text Markdown files under ~/.openclaw/workspace/ with no encryption at rest. The threat actor didn't need to exfiltrate anything; the CEO had already assembled it. When the security team discovered the breach, there was no native enterprise kill switch, no management console, and no way to inventory how many other instances were running across the organization. OpenClaw runs locally with direct access to the host machine’s file system, network connections, browser sessions, and installed applications. The coverage to date has tracked its velocity, but what it hasn't mapped is the threat surface. The four vendors who used RSAC 2026 to ship responses still haven't produced
View originalThe company behind ClassPass and Mindbody just got a lot bigger with a $7.5B merger
The merger is a sign that the fitness industry is continuing to move toward consolidation to compete at a larger scale. Recent moves include MyFitnessPal acquiring Cal AI, an AI calorie counting app, and Strava buying two apps: cycling app The Breakaway and running app Runna.
View originalGlia wins Excellence Award for safer AI in banking
Glia, a customer service platform providing AI-powered interactions for the banking sector, has been named a winner in the Banking and Financial Services Category at the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards. The awards recognises achievements in a range of industries and use cases, spotlighting “companies and leaders moving AI beyond experimentation and into practical, accountable […] The post Glia wins Excellence Award for safer AI in banking appeared first on AI News.
View originalYour AI Coding Agent Is Building Job Security — Its Own
The entire industry thinks AI-generated technical debt is a quality problem. It's not. It's...
View originalUpdate v1.1.0 - Text Adventure Games
Original post What's new in v1.1.0? Campaign Arcs — Your Story Continues The biggest addition. Previously, each adventure was a closed loop. Now when you finish an adventure, you can continue to the next arc as the same character: Character carries forward — level, stats, proficiencies, reputation World consequences persist — factions remember you, NPCs remember you, your choices shaped the world New arc, new adventure — fresh inventory, new quests, but in a world shaped by everything you did before Epic arcs unlock at level 5+ — longer, higher-stakes narratives Branching arcs — your choices at the end of one arc determine which adventure comes next NPCs Got Smarter NPCs now have actual stats (STR, DEX, CON, INT, WIS, CHA) and levels. When you try to persuade, deceive, or pickpocket an NPC, the GM secretly rolls for them too — you only see the narrative outcome, never the NPC's numbers. A level 2 bartender is easier to bluff than a level 8 faction leader. Visual Atmosphere New optional module that makes scenes feel different: Environmental particles — dust motes in abandoned corridors, rain outside, sparks from damaged systems Screen shake on explosions and damage Colour flash on critical hits and level-ups Cinematic letterboxing during climactic scenes UI degradation — as narrative tension rises, the interface itself starts showing wear. Borders flicker, colours desaturate, the widget feels damaged Day/night cycle — the ambient lighting shifts based on in-game time Procedural Audio Optional ambient soundscapes via Web Audio API — synthesised ship engine hum, rain, heartbeat during tense moments, alarms. No external audio files, all generated in the browser. Play/stop button, 30 second max, no looping. Tiered Module Loading Under the hood: the skill now has a priority system for which of its 22 modules Claude reads first. This fixes issues where Claude would skip critical files, leading to broken saves or visual style drift. How to try it Download text-adventure.zip from the GitHub releases page In Claude Desktop or claude.ai, upload the zip as a project file (Skills section) Start a new conversation and say "Let's play a text adventure" Pick a scenario, create a character, and explore Designed for Opus and Sonnet. Feedback welcome This is a passion project. I'd love to hear what scenarios people create, what themes work best, and whether the arc system feels right. The GitHub repo has the full source and release history. Fully free to use and tweak as you please! TL;DR: A text adventure skill for Claude (claude.ai / Claude Desktop) that turns it into a full tabletop RPG game master — complete with 3D dice, interactive widgets, save/load, and now multi-arc campaigns where your choices carry forward. submitted by /u/gazmagik [link] [comments]
View originalFictionRush.com
So I was messing around with prompts (I run an interactive ai storytelling website) and accidentally created a website that writes unreal full novels from a prompt. I get sidetracked and go off on tangents, this one was a week long excursion away from my original time plan 🤣 https://fictionrush.com Come check it out and generate a short story. It's running on Claude with about 7 or 8 passes to get it right. But the flow has eliminated most of the ai-isms. I can't offer more than a short story free mind, it's burning almost half a million tokens for a full novel. Free short stories - and they read soo good in genuinely shocked at how good they are. Here's an excerpt from a short romance novella opening chapter. It's got a few tells but this is close. Thoughts? ‐------- The car door groans as Evelyn pushes it open. She steps out onto the gravel, the Atlantic hitting her hard: salt-cold air, the boom and drag of waves against the rocks below the cliff. She lifts her gaze to the house. Its white paint blisters and peels, the dark shingles spotted with moss, the whole structure listing into the wind, as if the weather has been pushing at it for years. Each crunch of gravel under her shoes is a step she doesn't want to take. She climbs the warped porch steps, her hand hesitating over the tarnished brass doorknob before she forces herself to turn the key. The lock gives with a gritty scrape. Old meals, lemon polish, damp wood. Her mother's peacoat still hangs from the hook by the door. A stack of mail wilts on the hall table and she picks up the top envelope, her name and her mother's printed neatly above the address. Unopened. Her stomach drops. A thud from the porch yanks her out of it. She flinches, the envelope fluttering from her fingers. Through the sidelight window a figure moves, blocking the light. The front door swings inward. Rowan Price stands in the doorway with a toolbox in one hand, the cold outdoor air pressing in around him. "Saw your car," he says. His eyes move over her. "Door's sagging on its hinges. Was going to tighten it up before the weather turns." Evelyn crosses her arms. "I didn't ask you to do that, Rowan." "I know. Your mom would have." He sets the toolbox down on the porch boards. "Just keeping an eye on things. Like I always have." She feels the judgment in it. "Well, I'm here now. You don't need to keep an eye on anything. I'm just here to clear it out and list it." He studies her, his gaze dropping to the envelope on the floor, then returning to her face. "That's it? You're just going to sell it?" "That's the plan." "Seems a shame. After everything." He doesn't elaborate. He stands in the open doorway, not moving. He stands there as if none of this can touch him. She can't say the same. Below the cliff, the waves keep crashing. Between them the door hangs open, letting in the cold. Late sun comes through the water-streaked windows, carving warped shapes across the dusty floorboards. Evelyn stands rigid just inside the threshold, arms crossed over her chest. Rowan watches her from across the room, hands in his pockets. "You can glare at me all night, but it won't fix the joists," he says. "The foundation's weeping. You won't get a decent offer if an inspector sees that." Her gaze moves across the sagging ceiling, the mold creeping along the baseboard. "I don't need your help. My mother's lawyer can handle an inspector." He takes a step forward and the floor groans beneath him. "That's rot. A lawyer can't fix rot. Let me walk through with you. Five minutes." A gull cries somewhere outside. She gives a curt nod. "Five minutes. You talk. I listen." He points to a crack running the height of the plaster wall. "Stress fracture. The whole back wall is shifting." They move into the dining room, where a dark water stain maps the ceiling like a continent. "Roof leak." Her fingers worry the hem of her sleeve. "It's just a house, Rowan." "Is it?" He turns to face her. "Or is it the reason you never came back?" For a moment, she loses her grip on her temper. "You don't get to ask me that." He pushes open the door to the study. Her mother's reading glasses rest on the desk, exactly where she left them. He drags a finger along the edge, feeling the dust. Evelyn appears in the doorway. "What are you doing?" "Checking for damp." "You always do this." Her voice tightens. "You cross the line. You think because you knew her, you can walk into her private things." "I was checking the wall." "It's my house. My problem. Not yours." He takes a slow breath. "Fine. But the damp is your problem too. A few weekends of work. That's all I'm offering." She looks away, taking in the decay. He watches her see it properly. "Minor repairs," she says at last. "Strictly structural. Temporary." He nods. "Temporary." They stand in the failing light, the five minutes long past, neither of them moving toward the door. submitted by /u/lee-tellmemoreAI [link] [comme
View originalAmodei AI Jobs Prediction: Damage Starts at the Bottom
Your first “real” job is usually 30% useful work and 70% learning how to be an adult in an industry. ...
View originalOpenAI’s Frontier puts AI agents in a fight SaaS can’t afford to lose
When OpenAI launched Frontier in February, the announcement was described as a platform for enterprise AI agents. What it actually signalled was a challenge to the revenue architecture underpinning the software industry. Frontier is designed to act as a semantic layer in an organisation’s existing systems, connecting data warehouses, CRM platforms, ticketing tools, and internal […] The post OpenAI’s Frontier puts AI agents in a fight SaaS can’t afford to lose appeared first on AI News.
View originalPrompt for generating images Claude
Note I can’t guarantee you’d be perfect or anything beyond 2D you will count to some issues this is a project at currently experimenting with Go ahead have fun. If possible, share some Discover or improvements with the community. # Claude Visual Generation Methods — A Complete Field Guide ## What This Document Is A reference for every method Claude can use to generate visual content inside artifacts, discovered through direct experimentation. Each method was tested, its ceiling found, its limits documented. This is the map of the territory. ----- ## Method 1: Pixel Art (Canvas Grid Rendering) **What it is:** Placing colored squares on a fixed grid — the same technique used in 8-bit and 16-bit game sprite creation. Each pixel is defined as a character in a string array, mapped to a color palette. **Best for:** Game sprites, retro-style characters, tile maps, icons, simple animations. **Resolution:** 16×16 to 64×64 is the sweet spot. Beyond that, the data becomes unwieldy. **Strengths:** - Extremely precise — every pixel is intentional - Sprite sheet animation (idle, walk, attack frames) is straightforward - Tiny file size, instant render - Scales cleanly with `image-rendering: pixelated` - The aesthetic *is* the constraint — chunky pixels are the point **Limitations:** - No smooth curves, no gradients within the grid - Detail ceiling is hard — a 32×32 face reads as “face” because the viewer’s brain fills gaps - Labor-intensive at higher resolutions (each pixel is a manual coordinate) **Animation capability:** Frame-based sprite sheets. Swap between pre-built frames on a timer. Smooth motion is an illusion of frame sequencing, not interpolation. **Color palette:** Best kept to 8–16 colors. Constraints force clarity. Dithering patterns can simulate additional tones. ----- ## Method 2: Canvas 2D Procedural Painting **What it is:** Using the HTML Canvas 2D API as a digital painting engine — bezier curves, radial/linear gradients, compositing blend modes, layered rendering passes. **Best for:** Character portraits, illustrated scenes, atmospheric environments, anything requiring painterly depth. **Resolution:** 800×1000+ at full detail. Limited only by computation time. **Strengths:** - Multi-pass rendering: background → character → foreground → post-processing - Gradient-based skin rendering simulates subsurface scattering - Variable-width bezier strokes replicate brush/ink pressure - Compositing modes (screen, multiply, soft-light) enable bloom, color grading, volumetric light - Perlin noise integration for organic textures (terrain, fabric, skin variation) - Film grain, vignette, bloom via downsampled buffer — proper post-processing stack - Breathing animation, hair sway, particle systems all run in real-time **Limitations:** - Every coordinate is hand-authored — no “happy accidents” - Faces plateau at “recognizable” rather than “expressive” — the millimeter-level asymmetry that makes a smirk read as knowing is extremely hard to nail mathematically - Curly/organic hair requires dedicated curl generators and still lacks the volumetric per-curl lighting of hand-painted illustration - Lines are mathematically smooth — they lack the confidence irregularities of a human hand **Ceiling we reached:** Multi-layer character portrait with strand-based hair, iris-fiber eye detail, subsurface skin warmth, layered forest environment with Perlin noise terrain, atmospheric mist, fireflies, volumetric moonlight, ACES tone mapping, and film grain. This was the highest fidelity static image achieved. **Key techniques discovered:** - **Strand-based hair:** Each lock is an independent bezier with its own gradient, width taper, and wind response - **Soft brush system:** `createRadialGradient` with transparent outer stop creates painterly soft dots - **Variable-width strokes:** Subdivide a bezier into segments, vary `lineWidth` per segment based on parametric t — mimics pen pressure - **Screen-blend rim lighting:** Draw highlight strokes with `globalCompositeOperation = 'screen'` for backlit edges - **Multiply color grading:** Full-canvas gradient fill with `multiply` blend shifts shadow tones warm or cool ----- ## Method 3: SVG Vector Illustration **What it is:** Mathematically defined vector shapes — paths, curves, gradients — rendered as scalable graphics. **Best for:** Clean illustration styles, logos, icons, diagrams, anything that needs to scale without quality loss. **Strengths:** - Resolution-independent — renders crisp at any zoom - Path data (`d` attribute) can describe complex organic curves - Built-in filter primitives (see Method 8) provide GPU-accelerated effects - Declarative structure — shapes described as markup rather than imperative draw calls **Limitations:** - Less control over per-pixel compositing than canvas - Complex illustrations produce large SVG markup - Animation is possible but less fluid than canvas `requestAnimationFrame` **Untapped potent
View originalWalking Through a Portal
https://preview.redd.it/luwvi9nuhhog1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=9025361918a0d6b431ed0a8f0a6ab21b561a0250 Prompt- Ultra cinematic portrait of me walking through a glowing interdimensional portal in the middle of a dark forest, intense light beams exploding outward from the portal, fog and dust swirling in the air, dramatic backlighting, cinematic atmosphere, volumetric lighting, shot on ARRI Alexa cinema camera, epic movie scene, hyperrealistic skin detail, 8k. same face as reference photo, ultra photorealistic skin texture, natural imperfections, cinematic color grading, 85mm portrait lens, shallow depth of field, high dynamic range, 8k submitted by /u/AdCold1610 [link] [comments]
View originalFintech Daily Digest — Monday, Mar 09, 2026
# TOP 3 STORIES 1. **X taps William Shatner to give out invites to its payments service, X Money** [Source: Fintech News | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/x-taps-william-shatner-to-give-out-invites-to-its-payments-service-x-money/) X has launched a unique marketing campaign for its payments service, X Money, by partnering with William Shatner to give out invites to 42 users who donated to his charity. This campaign aims to create buzz around X Money's beta launch. **What this means for Stripe:** This marketing strategy could influence how Stripe approaches its own marketing efforts for new product launches, potentially incorporating more creative and charitable initiatives. Stripe's Connect product could be particularly relevant in facilitating such campaigns. **Content angle:** A blog post exploring innovative marketing strategies for fintech products, highlighting the role of charity and celebrity endorsements, could be an interesting response from Stripe's content marketing team. 2. **Stripe wants to turn your AI costs into a profit center** [Source: Fintech News | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/stripe-wants-to-turn-your-ai-costs-into-a-profit-center/) Stripe has released a preview aimed at helping AI companies track, pass through, and profit from underlying AI model fees. This move positions Stripe as a key player in the AI economy, enabling businesses to monetize their AI investments more effectively. **What this means for Stripe:** By facilitating the monetization of AI costs, Stripe strengthens its position in the payments infrastructure for the internet, making its platform more appealing to AI-driven businesses. This could particularly impact Stripe's Revenue Recognition and Billing products. **Content angle:** A case study or whitepaper on how Stripe's solutions can help AI companies turn their costs into revenue streams could provide valuable insights for potential clients. 3. **Plaid valued at $8B in employee share sale** [Source: Fintech News | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/26/plaid-valued-at-8b-in-employee-share-sale/) Plaid, a fintech company specializing in account linking and payment processing, has seen its valuation increase to $8 billion through an employee share sale. This significant valuation underscores the growing importance of fintech infrastructure companies. **What this means for Stripe:** As a major player in the fintech infrastructure space, Stripe should consider the implications of Plaid's valuation on its own valuation and competitive positioning. Stripe's products like Payments and Connect might see increased demand as the fintech space grows. **Content angle:** Stripe could publish a thought leadership piece on the evolving fintech landscape, discussing how valuations like Plaid's reflect the sector's growth and the role of infrastructure providers in facilitating this expansion. # NEWS BY TRACK ## _Advancing Developer Craft_ - **Kast raises $80 million** [Source: Finextra Research Headlines](https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/47408/stablecoin-startup-kast-raises-80-million?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed) Kast, a stablecoin startup, has secured $80 million in funding, indicating growing interest in stablecoin technology. **Stripe relevance:** Stripe's Issuing and Treasury products could be relevant for stablecoin startups like Kast. **Content angle:** A developer tutorial on integrating stablecoin payments using Stripe's API could be a useful resource. ## _Designing Adaptive Revenue Models_ - **Papa John’s Thinks the Next Great Pizza Topping Is Software** [Source: PYMNTS.com](https://www.pymnts.com/restaurant-technology/2026/papa-johns-thinks-the-next-great-pizza-topping-is-software/) Papa John's is focusing on technology and digital capabilities to compete and grow, highlighting the importance of adaptive revenue models in the restaurant industry. **Stripe relevance:** Stripe's Billing and Revenue Recognition products can help businesses like Papa John's manage complex revenue models. **Content angle:** A blog post on how restaurants can leverage technology and adaptive pricing strategies to boost revenue could feature Stripe as a solution provider. ## _Charting the Future of Payments_ - **Real-Time Payments Reach a Turning Point in North America** [Source: PYMNTS.com](https://www.pymnts.com/real-time-payments/2026/real-time-payments-reach-a-turning-point-in-north-america/) Real-time payments in North America are transitioning from expansion to execution, with each country following a distinct strategic path. **Stripe relevance:** Stripe's Payments product is well-positioned to support the growth of real-time payments. **Content angle:** An in-depth analysis of the current state and future of real-time payments in North America, highlighting Stripe's role, could be a valuable resource for businesses. ## _Optimizing the Economics of Risk_ - **OpenAI fires employee for using confidential info on prediction
View originalDust uses a usage-based + tiered pricing model. Visit their website for current pricing details.
Key features include: Discover Dust, Dust for..., Resources, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, Knowledge, Data Analytics.
Based on user reviews and social mentions, the most common pain points are: llm, ai agent, $500 bill, ai infrastructure.
Based on 51 social mentions analyzed, 0% of sentiment is positive, 100% neutral, and 0% negative.
Luma AI Team
Company at Luma AI (3D/Video)
2 mentions