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CraftStory and the Race to Realistic Long‑Form AI Video
For all the hype around AI video, most models still struggle with the thing businesses actually need: believable people talking, teaching, and presenting on camera for more than a few seconds. Into that gap steps CraftStory, a new AI video startup founded by OpenCV co‑creator Victor Erukhimov, which has just emerged from stealth with Model 2.0—a system that generates realistic, human‑centric videos up to five minutes long. Where rivals like OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Veo rely
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5 days ago2 min read


How AI Is Changing Basketball Without Replacing the People Who Drive It
A few years ago, “advanced stats” in basketball meant plus-minus and shot charts. Now, the NBA is wiring the game into the cloud and using AI to surface things fans and coaches could feel but never measure. Through a deep partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the NBA now tracks 29 data points per player in real time—billions of on-court data points across the league. That raw information feeds NBA Inside the Game powered by AWS , a new platform designed to translate com
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7 days ago2 min read


Artist-First AI: Inside Warner Music Group and Stability AI’s New Alliance
On November 19, 2025, in NEW YORK, NY, Warner Music Group (WMG) and Stability AI announced a collaboration that says a lot about where music and AI are headed next. Instead of chasing novelty for its own sake, the two companies are building responsible, professional-grade AI tools that put artists’ rights, control, and creativity at the center. At the heart of the partnership is a clear goal: enable artists, songwriters, and producers to experiment, compose, and produce with
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Nov 202 min read


How I Deployed My NBA Prediction App Using Hugging Face Spaces and Streamlit
In this final chapter of my NBA Insights project, I walk through the complete deployment process—turning a local machine learning app into a live web application on Hugging Face Spaces. Learn how I handled Docker vs. Streamlit SDK choices, securely managed secrets like Google API credentials, and worked around model file upload issues using Hugging Face Datasets. This post is packed with real deployment lessons, code snippets, and a look ahead at what’s coming next for the NB
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Jul 272 min read


Building NBA Insights AI — Weeks 3 to 5 Recap
In this three-week sprint, I took NBA Insights from a basic prediction script to a powerful AI system that understands momentum, rest, and game context. From experimenting with Logistic Regression vs. XGBoost to engineering features like win streaks and opponent win rates, this post documents how I trained, evaluated, and deployed an NBA prediction model that hit 70% accuracy on unseen data. Whether you're into machine learning, sports analytics, or building AI tools with rea
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Jul 62 min read


From Passion to Prediction: Building the NBA Insights System (Weeks 1 & 2 Recap)
In the first two weeks of our NBA Insights project, we collected real NBA data using nba_api, explored trends like home-court advantage, and engineered powerful features using rolling stats and matchup dynamics. This blog covers how we laid the foundation for predicting NBA game outcomes using Python and machine learning.
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Jun 102 min read


From Image to SEO: Building a Smarter Way to Write Product Listings
Tired of writing SEO product listings by hand? I built an AI-powered tool that turns product images into Amazon-style titles and bullet points — in seconds. In this post, I share how it works, why it matters, and what’s next for smarter catalog content.
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May 222 min read


Why Product Content Still Makes (or Breaks) Online Sales
In e-commerce, most people talk about ad spend, ROAS, and conversion rates. But for furniture brands, there’s one thing that...
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May 122 min read


We Used to Stage the Couch. Now We Just Describe the Room.
If you’ve ever helped build lifestyle imagery for a product catalog, you know the pain: Shipping delays, lighting revisions, styling...
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May 123 min read


Furniture Showrooms Are Changing — With or Without the Industry's Permission
A beautiful showroom used to be the end goal. Now it’s just the starting point. While e-commerce grabs headlines, the smarter shift is...
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May 32 min read
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