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Published 21 days ago • 5 min read
The Creators Hive: AI News, Tools & Tips — Curated for Modern Creators and Innovators
Greetings Qrew,
Whether you're diving into AI for work, side projects, or just out of curiosity — this issue of The Creators Hive brings you practical insights, hands-on learning, and tools you can actually use.
Claude in Chrome is a new browser extension that lets Anthropic’s AI assistant work directly inside Google Chrome. It can navigate sites, click buttons, fill forms, and run workflows while you browse.
Key details:
Available in beta to all paying Claude subscribers via the Chrome Web Store.
Runs in a side panel and can automate multi-step tasks like data extraction or scheduling.
Integrates with Claude Code, allowing developers to test and control browser actions directly from the terminal.
Requires at least a Pro-tier subscription, with security protections like confirmations for sensitive actions.
Why it matters: This brings agentic AI directly into the browser, turning routine web tasks into automated workflows for knowledge workers and developers. It also accelerates the shift toward AI agents that can not only generate text but act on users’ behalf on real websites.
China is adopting an “AI+ energy” strategy to use artificial intelligence across its power system, from forecasting demand to managing renewable energy. The goal is to support growth in data centers and AI while still hitting climate and reliability targets.
Key details:
Beijing launched “AI+ Energy” to integrate AI with grid operations and planning.
AI optimises renewable energy and reduces wind and solar curtailment.
Shanghai cut peak power use by ~162.7 MW using AI-based controls.
Global AI power demand may exceed 1,000 TWh by 2030, comparable to Japan’s total electricity use.
Why it matters: China is trying to use AI both as a major new source of power demand and as a tool to run a greener, more flexible grid. How effectively it manages this balance will influence global emissions, energy markets, and the pace of AI infrastructure build-out worldwide.
Within roughly one week in mid-December, iRobot, Luminar Technologies, and Rad Power Bikes all filed for bankruptcy protection, highlighting deep stress in hardware-focused tech businesses. Each company faced different markets but similar structural pressures around hardware costs, tariffs, and dependence on a narrow product line.
Key details:
iRobot filed bankruptcy after its Amazon deal failed and cheap rivals cut margins.
Luminar collapsed as its largest customer cut orders 90% and AV adoption slowed.
Rad Power Bikes struggled with heavy debt, tariffs, and China dependence.
Lesson:single-product hardware firms are fragile to policy, supply chains, and delayed adoption.
Why it matters: This cluster of bankruptcies is a warning sign for hardware startups that lack diversified products, proprietary manufacturing, or financial cushions. Investors and founders may tilt even more toward software or capital-light models, with hardware seen as higher risk unless it has clear defensible advantages.
Fujitsu and NVIDIA have introduced Fujitsu Kozuchi Physical AI 1.0, a technology stack designed to connect “agentic” AI systems with physical processes and, ultimately, robots. It combines Fujitsu’s AI platform with NVIDIA’s software and hardware to let multiple AI agents coordinate secure workflows.
Key details:
Multi-agent framework for automating confidential business workflows using visual tools.
Integrates Fujitsu Composite AI with NVIDIA NIM microservices for maintainability and version control.
Trial environments available, with plans to evolve into an agentic AI foundation by fiscal 2025.
Roadmap extends to factory and warehouse robots, enabling physical AI in the real world.
Why it matters: Physical AI like this could bridge today’s software agents and tomorrow’s autonomous factories, logistics systems, and humanoid robots. If successful, it may lower the barrier for enterprises to deploy secure, AI-driven automation that spans both digital workflows and physical equipment.
Disney has agreed to invest about 1 billion dollars in OpenAI and signed a multi-year licensing and equity deal tied to OpenAI’s Sora video model. The agreement lets Sora users generate videos featuring a large set of Disney-owned characters under controlled conditions.
Key details:
Disney will invest $1B in OpenAI, receiving equity warrants.
Sora can use 200+ characters from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars.
Three-year license excludes actors’ likenesses and voices, covering only character IP.
Disney will use OpenAI tools internally and explore AI-assisted storytelling with creator safeguards.
Why it matters: This is one of the clearest signals yet that a major studio is willing to license iconic IP for large-scale generative video use, rather than fighting it outright. The deal could shape how entertainment companies balance AI innovation with copyright control and may set norms for fan-created, yet officially sanctioned, AI content.
iloveimg.com is a web-based toolkit for quick image editing and optimization, focused on simple tasks like compressing, resizing, cropping, converting, and lightly editing photos directly in the browser. It supports popular formats such as JPG, PNG, GIF, SVG and more, and is designed so anyone can process images without installing software.
What makes it unique?
Simple interface for resize, crop, compress, convert in a few clicks.
Bulk processing saves time for social, web, e-commerce.
Fully online, with encryption and auto-deletion for privacy on any device.
Use case magic
Compress images to improve website load speed without visible quality loss.
Bulk resize and crop photos for marketplaces, catalogues, social media.
Batch watermarking to protect brand assets before sharing.
Create quick graphics like memes, frames, and text overlays.
Why it stands out
iloveimg.com stands out because it focuses on a narrow set of everyday image tasks and makes them extremely fast, accessible, and free to start. For many creators, marketers, and small businesses, it replaces heavy desktop software for routine work, while still offering premium options for teams that need more power and higher limits.
Masterpieces from the Hive 🎨
Here’s what our community has been creating this week using the Hive Wall:
Prompt: Transform the photo into a New Year greeting card. In the background, there is a barn-house decorated with string lights, a snow-covered Christmas tree with ornaments, and the characters are wearing matching red plaid pajamas. The heads are positioned at the top, and everyone is fully visible within the frame from top to bottom.
Prompt: Create an image of Santa Claus wearing orange clothing, fishing with an orange rod and reel. He has caught a huge tucunaré (peacock bass) fish. The view should be from farther away, and the fishing rod and Santa Claus must not be cropped.
Prompt: 2d illustration. A single Christmas snow globe resting on fresh white snow, containing a cheerful snowman wearing a red Santa hat and red scarf, surrounded by tall snow-covered pine trees. Gentle snowflakes floating inside the glass globe. The snow globe sits on a classic red base. Soft turquoise-to-light-blue gradient background with lots of empty space above. Painterly, hand-illustrated style with visible brush textures, soft lighting, cozy winter atmosphere, whimsical and magical Christmas vibe, high resolution.
Prompt: Realistic photograph of a Brazilian family gathered around the table during a Christmas dinner, all with medium-brown skin. Two children in the foreground, smiling and laughing, wearing red Santa hats. The children are seated at the table with plates of Christmas food, such as roast turkey and side dishes, and a glass of translucent pink soda with visible ice on the table near them. Adults in the background, also medium-brown, are laughing and chatting. Cozy indoor setting, with warm, soft lighting, golden and orange tones, and a festive, joyful atmosphere. Shallow depth of field, focus on the children, with the background slightly blurred. Lifestyle photography style, spontaneous, high resolution, natural colors, horizontal composition, conveying a sense of family celebration and happiness.
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