Vannarot Roeung

Vannarot Roeung

Editor of Creative AI News. Covering the AI tools and workflows that ship for designers, video editors, audio producers, 3d artists and more.

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Microsoft Surface RTX Spark Dev Box: Build 2026

Microsoft Surface RTX Spark Dev Box: Build 2026

Microsoft announced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at Build 2026, a compact developer PC that runs AI models above 120 billion parameters entirely locally on 128GB unified memory.

Microsoft Intelligent Terminal: AI in Your Shell

Microsoft Intelligent Terminal: AI in Your Shell

Microsoft Intelligent Terminal is an open-source fork of Windows Terminal that adds a docked AI agent pane, error detection, and support for GitHub Copilot, Claude, Codex, and Gemini.

Microsoft Releases MAI Image, Voice, and Transcribe Models

Microsoft Releases MAI Image, Voice, and Transcribe Models

Microsoft shipped three creator-focused AI models on June 2: MAI-Image-2.5 beats Gemini on Arena benchmarks, MAI-Transcribe-1.5 runs 5x faster with 43-language support, and MAI-Voice-2 clones voices from short audio samples across 15 languages.

Bloc: Canvas AI Video Editor Replaces the Timeline

Bloc: Canvas AI Video Editor Replaces the Timeline

Bloc is a canvas-first AI video editor that bundles Seedance 2.0, Wan 2.6 R2V, VACE inpainting, and GPT Image 2 in a single workspace. New accounts get 250 free credits with no card required.

Microsoft Ships Postgres for Cursor with Agent MCP

Microsoft Ships Postgres for Cursor with Agent MCP

Microsoft published its first-party PostgreSQL extension to Open VSX on June 1, 2026, unblocking Cursor users and bundling a DBAgent MCP server so AI agents read live schema and EXPLAIN plans inline.

OpenAI GPT-5.5 and Codex Now GA on Amazon Bedrock

OpenAI GPT-5.5 and Codex Now GA on Amazon Bedrock

OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock at first-party pricing, with usage drawing down existing AWS commitments. The June 1, 2026 GA ends the six-week limited preview.

Meta AI Support Bot Used to Hijack Instagram Accounts

Meta AI Support Bot Used to Hijack Instagram Accounts

Hackers seized high-profile Instagram accounts by exploiting Meta AI customer support, asking the bot to link a new email without verification. Victims include Obama White House account and Sephora.

Florida Sues OpenAI Over Child Safety

Florida Sues OpenAI Over Child Safety

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a civil lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on June 1, 2026, making Florida the first US state to take legal action against an AI company over consumer safety.

Anthropic Files Confidential S-1 for IPO

Anthropic Files Confidential S-1 for IPO

Anthropic filed a confidential draft S-1 registration statement with the SEC on June 1, 2026, formally starting the process toward a public market debut.

Run Holo 3.1 Locally: Computer-Use Agent in 30 Min

Run Holo 3.1 Locally: Computer-Use Agent in 30 Min

Deploy H Company's Apache 2.0 Holo 3.1 4B locally with vLLM on a 12GB consumer GPU, hook it into a desktop-agent workflow, and benchmark step latency and cost against Claude Computer Use and OpenAI Operator.

Nemotron 3 Ultra: NVIDIA's 550B Open-Weights MoE

Nemotron 3 Ultra: NVIDIA's 550B Open-Weights MoE

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra on June 1 2026: a 550B mixture-of-experts model with 55B active parameters, open weights on Hugging Face, with 5x faster inference and 30% lower cost than Nemotron 2.

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