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Reallusion launched Headshot 3 for Character Creator 5 on April 27, 2026. AI-powered facial reconstruction from a single photo generates a fully rigged 3D digital double with 4K PBR textures.
GitHub Copilot switches to usage-based token billing on June 1, 2026. Here is what the AI Credits model means for creators who code with Copilot and what to check before the transition.
China ordered Meta to scrap its $2 billion acquisition of AI agent platform Manus on April 27, 2026, in a major regulatory intervention in the US-China AI rivalry.
Adobe opened its Firefly AI Assistant to a public beta on April 27, orchestrating creative work across Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Illustrator, and Firefly from a single conversational interface.
Canva apologized after its Magic Layers AI tool replaced the word Palestine with Ukraine in user designs, triggering immediate backlash from the creative community.
Lovable just put its vibe-coding agent in your pocket. The new iOS and Android apps let founders, designers, and non-coders queue prompts by voice or text and get a push notification when the build is done.
Alibaba's HappyHorse 1.0, the AI video model ranked first on the Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard, arrived in ComfyUI on April 27 with five native workflow templates.
Canva's Magic Layers AI feature automatically replaced the word 'Palestine' with 'Ukraine' in user designs. Canva acknowledged the bug and issued an apology on April 27, 2026.
Runway published details on how the company behind Gen-4 video AI more than doubled GPU utilization for research compute using Kueue, an open-source Kubernetes scheduling tool.
Alibaba's HappyHorse-1.0 became available on fal.ai on April 26, giving creators API access to the AI video model currently ranked #1 on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard for text-to-video and image-to-video.
OpenAI shut down the Sora consumer app on April 26, 2026. The API remains live until September 24, 2026. Existing users need to download their content before final deletion deadlines.
Instagram added text-to-video generation to its Edits app on April 26, 2026, giving every creator the ability to produce AI-generated video clips from a text description or uploaded photos.
Google is testing a credit-based billing system for Gemini that replaces fixed prompt quotas, plus a new dedicated images section spotted in the Gemini web UI ahead of Google I/O.
Topaz Labs ships 6 new AI models on April 28: Wonder 3, Denoise Max, Super Focus 3, High Fidelity 3, Starlight Precise 2.5, and Astra 2.
Google's Pomelli marketing agent launched in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland on April 25, while testing Catalog and Websites features for batch AI creative production.
xAI upgraded Grok Imagine on April 25, 2026, delivering dramatically improved lip sync and sharper audio quality on all image-to-video generations -- a capability the model has struggled with since launch.