Novi AI Launches Long Video Agent for 5-Minute Stories
Novi AI launched its Long Video Agent on April 30, enabling creators to turn scripts into complete 5-minute narrative videos with character consistency and multi-model AI production.
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Gemini Generates PDFs, Excel, Slides Direct From Chat
Google's Gemini app can now create PDFs, Microsoft Word, Excel, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, LaTeX and more directly inside the chat. Available globally to all Gemini users starting April 29, 2026.
Cursor Launches SDK for Programmatic Coding Agents
Cursor released a TypeScript SDK on April 29, 2026 that lets developers build and deploy AI coding agents programmatically, embedding the same runtime that powers Cursor into their own products and pipelines.
Zed 1.0 Lands With Multi-Agent Coding and Edit Prediction
Zed Industries shipped Zed 1.0 on April 29 2026, a Rust-built, GPU-accelerated code editor with parallel agents, edit prediction, and the open Agent Client Protocol.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Open Multimodal Video Model
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on April 28: a 30B open-weight model that handles text, image, video, and audio in one architecture, with joint audio-visual reasoning and multi-hour context.
ComfyStudio: ComfyOrg Opens LA VFX Residency in May
ComfyOrg announced ComfyStudio on April 28: a Los Angeles VFX and animation residency that pairs working artists with the ComfyUI team and releases every workflow open-source.
Poolside Releases Laguna M.1 and Open-Weight XS.2
Poolside released the first two models in its Laguna family on April 28: a 225B-parameter flagship called M.1 and an open-weight 33B model called XS.2 under Apache 2.0. Both are pitched at agentic, long-horizon coding work.
Figma AI Image Generation Gets Canvas Reference Support
On April 28, Figma added multiple new ways for designers to supply reference images when using AI to generate or edit images inside Figma.