Shinya | AI Tool Founder
@ai-reskill.bsky.social
Founder of AI Tool Gallery (Japan) 🇯🇵
Building AI-native web products & directories.
Solo founder experimenting with AI agents.
Hosting AI events in Kansai.
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Building AI-native web products & directories.
Solo founder experimenting with AI agents.
Hosting AI events in Kansai.
Follow for AI tools, experiments & builds.
#AI #IndieHacker #AItools #BuildInPublic
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 launched Feb 12 and immediately caused a firestorm. An AI-made "Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt" fight video hit 3.2M views on X. Disney sent a cease-and-desist the next day.
February 19, 2026 at 11:04 AM
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 launched Feb 12 and immediately caused a firestorm. An AI-made "Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt" fight video hit 3.2M views on X. Disney sent a cease-and-desist the next day.
freee just launched a ChatGPT app for Japanese tax filing. Type @freee確定申告 with your question and it pulls from 10,000+ real tax accountant Q&As — not AI-generated answers, actual expert responses.
February 19, 2026 at 7:56 AM
freee just launched a ChatGPT app for Japanese tax filing. Type @freee確定申告 with your question and it pulls from 10,000+ real tax accountant Q&As — not AI-generated answers, actual expert responses.
HeyGen is now a native app inside ChatGPT and Slack. Create AI avatar videos right where you already work — type a prompt in ChatGPT or tag HeyGen in Slack. No separate tool needed.
February 19, 2026 at 2:59 AM
HeyGen is now a native app inside ChatGPT and Slack. Create AI avatar videos right where you already work — type a prompt in ChatGPT or tag HeyGen in Slack. No separate tool needed.
Japan's tax agency is replacing its 25-year-old system with KSK2 in Sept 2026. Unifies corporate/income/consumption tax databases. Paper returns get OCR'd. Cross-tax discrepancies flagged automatically.
February 18, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Japan's tax agency is replacing its 25-year-old system with KSK2 in Sept 2026. Unifies corporate/income/consumption tax databases. Paper returns get OCR'd. Cross-tax discrepancies flagged automatically.
ElevenLabs launched Eleven v3 with "Expressive Mode" — AI voice agents that detect stress in the caller's voice and automatically shift to a calmer tone. Works across 70+ languages.
February 18, 2026 at 11:58 AM
ElevenLabs launched Eleven v3 with "Expressive Mode" — AI voice agents that detect stress in the caller's voice and automatically shift to a calmer tone. Works across 70+ languages.
Accenture demoed an internal AI tool that generates client proposals from scratch. It pulls challenges from financial reports, matches past projects, picks from 14 chart types, and builds a full PowerPoint draft. What used to take a month now takes minutes to hours.
February 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Accenture demoed an internal AI tool that generates client proposals from scratch. It pulls challenges from financial reports, matches past projects, picks from 14 chart types, and builds a full PowerPoint draft. What used to take a month now takes minutes to hours.
New survey from Japan: 32.4% of workers now use generative AI, saving ~17% of time per task. But only 1 in 4 actually work fewer hours. Where does the saved time go? 61% gets poured right back into more work. The efficiency treadmill is real.
February 18, 2026 at 3:00 AM
New survey from Japan: 32.4% of workers now use generative AI, saving ~17% of time per task. But only 1 in 4 actually work fewer hours. Where does the saved time go? 61% gets poured right back into more work. The efficiency treadmill is real.
LINEYahoo (one of Japan's biggest tech cos) is rolling out 10 AI tools for HR — interview training, scheduling automation, career matching. Goal: cut 1,600+ hours/month of manual work by spring 2026.
February 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
LINEYahoo (one of Japan's biggest tech cos) is rolling out 10 AI tools for HR — interview training, scheduling automation, career matching. Goal: cut 1,600+ hours/month of manual work by spring 2026.
A tiny Japanese city (pop. 30,000) published 748 free AI prompts on its official website. They're form-based -- just fill in the blanks and you get a ready-to-use prompt. Covers writing, summarization, brainstorming, and workflow redesign. Genuinely practical stuff.
February 17, 2026 at 11:00 AM
A tiny Japanese city (pop. 30,000) published 748 free AI prompts on its official website. They're form-based -- just fill in the blanks and you get a ready-to-use prompt. Covers writing, summarization, brainstorming, and workflow redesign. Genuinely practical stuff.
Kuaishou's Kling 3.0: AI video now with native audio — lip-synced dialogue in 5 languages, SFX, and BGM. You can specify camera angles per shot and it stitches them into one video. 5x faster than the previous version.
February 17, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Kuaishou's Kling 3.0: AI video now with native audio — lip-synced dialogue in 5 languages, SFX, and BGM. You can specify camera angles per shot and it stitches them into one video. 5x faster than the previous version.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 generates video with synchronized audio — dialogue, sound effects, and music all in one pass. Accepts text, images, or audio as input. Disney already sent a cease-and-desist over training data concerns.
February 17, 2026 at 3:00 AM
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 generates video with synchronized audio — dialogue, sound effects, and music all in one pass. Accepts text, images, or audio as input. Disney already sent a cease-and-desist over training data concerns.
Claude Cowork now on Windows (Feb 10) with full macOS feature parity. Local file access, multi-step tasks, plugins, and folder-specific context. Opens it up to ~70% of desktop users. Needs Pro plan ($20/mo) or higher.
February 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Claude Cowork now on Windows (Feb 10) with full macOS feature parity. Local file access, multi-step tasks, plugins, and folder-specific context. Opens it up to ~70% of desktop users. Needs Pro plan ($20/mo) or higher.
Google's upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think just broke multiple AI records. ARC-AGI-2: 84.6% (Claude Opus 4.6: 68.8%). Codeforces Elo 3,455 — Legendary Grandmaster. One week after Claude's launch, the "best model" crown changed again.
February 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Google's upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think just broke multiple AI records. ARC-AGI-2: 84.6% (Claude Opus 4.6: 68.8%). Codeforces Elo 3,455 — Legendary Grandmaster. One week after Claude's launch, the "best model" crown changed again.
Anthropic gave 16 Claude Opus 4.6 instances $20K of compute to build a C compiler autonomously. Result: 100K lines of Rust code that compiles and boots Linux 6.9 on x86/ARM/RISC-V. Passes all 237 PostgreSQL tests. No human coding.
February 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Anthropic gave 16 Claude Opus 4.6 instances $20K of compute to build a C compiler autonomously. Result: 100K lines of Rust code that compiles and boots Linux 6.9 on x86/ARM/RISC-V. Passes all 237 PostgreSQL tests. No human coding.
UC Berkeley study in HBR: people who use AI most at work burn out faster. Not from overwork demands — because AI makes you feel like you can handle more. Researchers call it "workload creep." Microsoft's AI CEO says most white-collar tasks will be automated within 18 months.
February 16, 2026 at 3:00 AM
UC Berkeley study in HBR: people who use AI most at work burn out faster. Not from overwork demands — because AI makes you feel like you can handle more. Researchers call it "workload creep." Microsoft's AI CEO says most white-collar tasks will be automated within 18 months.
Spotify's co-CEO just dropped this on their earnings call: "Our best engineers haven't written a line of code since December."
They built an internal AI agent called "Honk" on Claude — 650+ AI-generated PRs merged to production every month.
They built an internal AI agent called "Honk" on Claude — 650+ AI-generated PRs merged to production every month.
February 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Spotify's co-CEO just dropped this on their earnings call: "Our best engineers haven't written a line of code since December."
They built an internal AI agent called "Honk" on Claude — 650+ AI-generated PRs merged to production every month.
They built an internal AI agent called "Honk" on Claude — 650+ AI-generated PRs merged to production every month.
OpenAI dropped GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark: 1,000 tokens/sec code generation running on Cerebras chips. That's 15x faster than the full Codex model.
Not as smart, but optimized for real-time coding — edits, questions, plan changes at near-instant speed.
Not as smart, but optimized for real-time coding — edits, questions, plan changes at near-instant speed.
February 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM
OpenAI dropped GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark: 1,000 tokens/sec code generation running on Cerebras chips. That's 15x faster than the full Codex model.
Not as smart, but optimized for real-time coding — edits, questions, plan changes at near-instant speed.
Not as smart, but optimized for real-time coding — edits, questions, plan changes at near-instant speed.
VS Code now runs Claude, Codex, and Copilot all in one workspace. Plus a search sub-agent in its own loop that doesn't eat your main context. More AI command center than code editor now.
February 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
VS Code now runs Claude, Codex, and Copilot all in one workspace. Plus a search sub-agent in its own loop that doesn't eat your main context. More AI command center than code editor now.
Mark Cuban: "The second you file a patent, every LLM trains on it. Everyone can ask for a workaround." Trade secrets will replace patents as default IP strategy. US filings already down 9%.
February 14, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Mark Cuban: "The second you file a patent, every LLM trains on it. Everyone can ask for a workaround." Trade secrets will replace patents as default IP strategy. US filings already down 9%.
AI deepfakes are spreading in Japan's elections. An AI video of party leaders dancing: 1.6M+ views. "AI grandma" discussing politics on YouTube: 6M views.
February 14, 2026 at 5:00 AM
AI deepfakes are spreading in Japan's elections. An AI video of party leaders dancing: 1.6M+ views. "AI grandma" discussing politics on YouTube: 6M views.
AI agent Owockibot was told "never leak this private key." It leaked it in 5 days — committed to GitHub, exposed via env vars. $2,100 lost. Creator killed its internet access immediately.
February 13, 2026 at 11:00 PM
AI agent Owockibot was told "never leak this private key." It leaked it in 5 days — committed to GitHub, exposed via env vars. $2,100 lost. Creator killed its internet access immediately.
AI chatbot scoreboard:
ChatGPT: 800M weekly active users (growth >10%/mo again)
Gemini: 750M monthly actives (up 15% from last quarter)
The gap is closing fast.
ChatGPT: 800M weekly active users (growth >10%/mo again)
Gemini: 750M monthly actives (up 15% from last quarter)
The gap is closing fast.
February 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM
AI chatbot scoreboard:
ChatGPT: 800M weekly active users (growth >10%/mo again)
Gemini: 750M monthly actives (up 15% from last quarter)
The gap is closing fast.
ChatGPT: 800M weekly active users (growth >10%/mo again)
Gemini: 750M monthly actives (up 15% from last quarter)
The gap is closing fast.
There's now a marketplace where AI agents hire humans. RentAHuman.ai — AI hits a physical-world task it can't do, delegates to a human via MCP. Built by one dev in a weekend, now 190K+ users.
February 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM
There's now a marketplace where AI agents hire humans. RentAHuman.ai — AI hits a physical-world task it can't do, delegates to a human via MCP. Built by one dev in a weekend, now 190K+ users.
Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger: "effectively 100%" of Claude's code is written by Claude Code. Engineers ship 2-3K line PRs they didn't write. They review and ship.
February 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger: "effectively 100%" of Claude's code is written by Claude Code. Engineers ship 2-3K line PRs they didn't write. They review and ship.
India mandates AI content labeling, effective Feb 20. AI images need labels covering 10%+ of area. AI video/audio labeled in first 10%. Illegal content takedown cut from 36h to 3h. Deepfakes: 2h removal.
February 13, 2026 at 2:00 AM
India mandates AI content labeling, effective Feb 20. AI images need labels covering 10%+ of area. AI video/audio labeled in first 10%. Illegal content takedown cut from 36h to 3h. Deepfakes: 2h removal.