Someone you love has a birthday coming up? Our newest free toy is live at birthday.myjokes.ai. Drop 1–3 photos (the birthday person, and optionally family, friends or even the family pet), pick a vibe — a dance where everyone busts a move, a playful cue‑card meme, or a TikTok‑style slideshow — add a name and a short message, and we turn it into a fun little birthday video you can download or have emailed to you. No editing, no sign‑up: while it renders you watch a cheeky animated cake bake your clip, usually in a minute or two. It speaks your language (ten and counting), every result is clearly watermarked as synthetic, and — like everything we make — it's free and asks that you only use photos you have the right to use. The warmest way to say “happy birthday” without lifting a finger.

Our newest free toy is live at movieswap.myjokes.ai: the easiest way yet to drop someone you love into a movie scene. There's no editing and no jargon — you just chat with a friendly film‑director (“cast Grandpa in a Laurel & Hardy sketch”), add a clip and a face, and it casts that face into the scene and rolls the finished cut back to you — complete with a clapperboard and an optional roaring‑lion studio intro. On a phone you can snap the star's selfie right in the app, and you can cast up to two people at once (you and a partner as the two leads). Under the hood it tracks each person through the shot and keeps the right face locked on the right body even as they turn or cross, so the swap holds up. Like everything we make it's free, needs your consent for the faces you use, and every result is clearly watermarked as synthetic. A warm, funny way to turn “remember that movie?” into “that's us in that movie.”

We wrote up how Movie Swap came together — the film‑director chat, the location scouts, up to two stars, the lion intro, and why we built a little studio that casts the people you love. A warm 6‑minute read.

You can now add our creative tools to your phone as installable apps — no app store, nothing to download. It works on Movie Swap (movieswap.myjokes.ai), Face Swap (swap.myjokes.ai), Caricature (caricature.myjokes.ai) and Crack‑a‑Joke (joke.myjokes.ai). Once added, each opens full‑screen like a real app, launches faster, and lives as a one‑tap icon instead of a link you have to hunt for. It works on both Android and iPhone: on Android (Chrome) tap the “Install app” button (or the ⋮ menu → Install app); on iPhone (Safari) tap Share → Add to Home Screen. Free, private, and removable anytime — just like everything else we make.

This summer, our new essay makes a simple case: the reason vacations work is psychological detachment — the moment your nervous system finally lets go — and a good laugh runs a compressed version of the very same recovery program in about ten seconds (lower stress hormones, a hit of bonding endorphins, a mind that widens back out). The catch is that the people who most need those little resets — an aging parent, someone isolated, a caregiver who never fully clocks off — are the least likely to get a real getaway. You can't send them a beach, but you can send them the feeling: a daily personalized laugh that says “I'm thinking of you.” So while you recharge this August, the caring doesn't have to pause — out of office, still caring. A warm, science‑backed 6‑minute read on why humour is regeneration you can actually mail to someone you love.

Frantz's new LinkedIn Pulse essay argues that great face-swap comedy is secretly a measurement problem. The instant the swapped face flickers, the teeth smear, or the lighting disagrees, your brain stops laughing and starts debugging — so quality isn't subjective taste, it's measurable physics compliance. The piece splits evaluation into two stacks — appeal (polish, smoothness) versus physics (anatomical plausibility, lighting consistency, lawful motion) — and shows how two research benchmarks, VBench‑2.0 and WorldModelBench, carry straight over from AI world-model research to consumer effects, automatically scoring identity consistency, temporal stability and illumination/physical adherence. It closes on wiring those scores into the build pipeline (frozen test clips, per-build quality gates, latency-vs-quality curves) to ship the “best lawful quality” in real time — the science behind swap.myjokes.ai and the in-app quality scoring now landing on our effects.

Ever wonder how AIC decides which joke your loved one gets on a given morning? The hard part isn't writing a funny joke — it's choosing the right one for this person, today. So every delivery runs down a six‑rung priority ladder, from the most personal signal to the most general, stopping at the first hit: 1) 🎂 is it their name‑day? — a saint‑name match to their first name wins outright; 2) ♈ their zodiac — today's horoscope for their sign; 3) 📨 a joke idea a subscriber forwarded to funny@myjokes.ai, read by AI vision and matched to their language and country; 4) 📰 what's topical in their country right now; 5) 📚 a curated joke from our multi‑country database in their language; and only if all else misses, 6) 🎭 a fresh joke generated from their humor style. The insight: relevance beats raw funniness — a joke that lands on your name‑day, in your language, about yesterday's news, feels like it came from someone who knows you. And this month we made that last rung funnier too, with a new anti‑formula variety engine that keeps the dad jokes from ever sounding the same twice.

We just launched caricature.myjokes.ai — drop in a photo and get it back in 8 art styles at once (cartoon, charcoal, pencil, watercolour, pop‑art, oil, line‑art and a 3D look). It even detects several faces in one picture and makes a set for each, then lets you download them or have them emailed to you. Meanwhile our swap.myjokes.ai Face Swap got a big upgrade: a Light / Mild / Max strength dial (Max fully replaces the face so the original isn't recognizable), your finished video emailed straight to you, longer 15‑second clips, and a tidy AIC watermark on every result. Both are free, work right on your phone (just tap to add a photo or video), and guide you step by step. Perfect for turning someone you love into the star of the joke.

Behind the scenes, we're quietly rolling out a new version of the engine that writes and delivers your jokes — and it thinks a lot more like a comedian. Instead of settling for its first draft, it now auditions several competing versions of every joke and lets an AI comedy judge pick the one that lands hardest. More of your jokes arrive with a personal wink woven in — a name, a hobby, a little detail that says this one was written for you. Every delivery gets its own comedic personality, so no two mornings ever sound alike. And on video jokes, the narrator has learned the oldest trick in stand‑up: the pause… right before the punchline. The recipe is our secret (patent pending) — the better laughs are all yours. Nothing to install, nothing to configure: it simply starts showing up in the jokes your loved one already receives.