Makko AI launches 2D game studio for creators
Makko opens its AI 2D game studio out of beta with Collections for style consistency and a Code Studio for playable prototypes. 4,500 beta users generated 40,000+ assets and 3,500 games.
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Artlist Launches Studio Platform and Cinematic Image Model for Pro Creators
Artlist launched Artlist Studio on April 20, 2026, an AI production platform that gives creators shot-by-shot directorial control, alongside Artlist Original 1.0, its first cinematic image model.
Amazon Adds $25B to Anthropic, Locks 5GW of Compute
Amazon committed up to $25B more to Anthropic on April 20, 2026, plus 5 gigawatts of new Trainium2 and Trainium3 compute. Anthropic pledged $100B+ to AWS over the next decade.
Voicebox: Free Open-Source Voice Studio with 7 TTS Engines
Jamie Pine's Voicebox brings seven TTS engines and voice cloning to your local machine. Free, open source, and entirely offline.
Apple Names John Ternus CEO as Tim Cook Steps Down
Tim Cook will step down as Apple CEO on September 1, 2026, with hardware chief John Ternus taking over. Here is what it means for creative tools and Apple Intelligence.
Quiver SVG Generation Launches in ComfyUI Partner Nodes
ComfyUI added Quiver Arrow 1.1 as a Partner Node on April 20, 2026, bringing structured SVG generation to open-source visual workflows for the first time.
Google AI Studio Adds Nano Banana Pro for Paying Subscribers
Google AI Studio is now giving Pro and Ultra subscribers access to Nano Banana Pro, the company's most capable image generation model, along with higher usage limits across Gemini models.
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Alibaba's New AI Tops Coding Benchmarks
Alibaba released Qwen3.6-Max-Preview on April 20, 2026, topping six programming benchmarks including SWE-benchPro. Here is what it means for creators building AI workflows.
TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D Now Runs on Apple Silicon Without Nvidia
A community port of Microsoft TRELLIS.2 brings image-to-3D mesh generation to Apple Silicon. No Nvidia GPU required, GLB output ready for Blender and Unity.
OpenAI GPT-Image-2 Rolls Out to Plus and Pro Users
OpenAI has quietly begun rolling out GPT-Image-2 to paid ChatGPT subscribers -- no announcement, no blog post, just a significantly more capable image model showing up in Plus and Pro accounts.
xAI Launches Grok Voice API: $0.10/hr STT, $4.20/M TTS
xAI launched the Grok Voice Agent API April 18 with standalone speech-to-text and text-to-speech endpoints priced at $0.10 per hour batch STT and $4.20 per million characters TTS.
Google Flow Music Launches: AI Song Studio Built on Lyria 3
Google launched Flow Music on April 18, 2026, rebranding ProducerAI into a standalone AI music studio powered by Lyria 3. Create full songs, AI music videos with Veo, and remix tracks with new Replace and Extend features -- free at flowmusic.app.
Eddie AI Night Shift Turns Overnight Footage into Rough Cuts
Eddie AI v3 launched Night Shift at NAB 2026, a mode that processes raw footage overnight and delivers an organized rough cut to editors by 8 a.m. PST.
RODE Launches RODECaster Studio: AI Podcast Post-Production App
RODE announced RODECaster Studio at NAB 2026 on April 17, 2026 -- a new Mac and Windows desktop app that brings AI-powered editing to podcast post-production.
Claude Design: Anthropic's Visual Workspace for Opus 4.7
Anthropic launched Claude Design on April 17, a research preview that lets Claude Opus 4.7 generate interactive prototypes, pitch decks, and landing pages through conversation.
Seedance 2.0 Now Available via Runway API
ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0, ranked #1 for image-to-video on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, is now available via the Runway API for developers.
HeyGen Open-Sources HyperFrames: Write HTML, Render Video for AI Agents
HeyGen open-sourced HyperFrames on April 17 -- an HTML-to-video framework built for AI agents. Write HTML, get an MP4. No timeline editor required.
Character.AI Launches Books Mode to Roleplay Classic Novels
Character.AI opened c.ai books on April 16, 2026, letting users play through Pride and Prejudice, Dracula, Frankenstein, and 20 plus classics with either canonical plots or freeform roleplay.
Avid Adds Gemini AI Agents to Media Composer for NAB 2026
Avid and Google Cloud announced a multi-year partnership on April 16, 2026, embedding Gemini and Vertex AI into Media Composer for agentic search, B-roll, and metadata workflows. Public demos run at NAB Show April 19 to 22.
Vizrt AI Keyer Replaces Green Screens at NAB 2026
Vizrt launched AI Keyer on April 16, 2026, a real-time background separation tool that removes the need for green screens in virtual production, with a showcase at NAB 2026.
Canva AI 2.0 Launches Agentic Design Assistant at Create 2026
Canva launched Canva AI 2.0 on April 16, 2026 at Create in Los Angeles, upgrading its AI assistant into a fully agentic design engine with tool orchestration, persistent memory, and workflow integrations.