OpenAI Acquires Astral to Boost Codex Python Tools
OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the company behind uv, Ruff, and ty. The team joins Codex, which has 2M+ weekly users. All tools remain open source.
CorridorKey Ships Open-Source AI Green Screen Tool
Corridor Digital co-founder Niko Pueringer releases CorridorKey, an AI chroma keyer that handles hair, motion blur, and transparency at VFX-production quality.
BandM8 Turns One Instrument Into a Full Band with AI
BandM8 debuts at NVIDIA GTC with a music-to-music AI platform that generates real-time MIDI accompaniment from a single instrument.
Amazon Ads Creative Agent Automates Full Ad Creation
Amazon Ads launches Creative Agent, a free AI tool that handles scriptwriting, image generation, video, voiceovers, and music for ads on Amazon.
Adobe and NVIDIA Partner on Next-Gen Firefly Models
Adobe and NVIDIA announce a strategic partnership to build next-gen Firefly models on CUDA-X and Cosmos, plus a 3D digital twin solution now in public beta.
Replit Raises $400M at $9B to Scale AI Coding
Replit closes a 400M Series D at a 9B valuation, tripling in 6 months. The AI coding platform targets 1B ARR by end of 2026.
Spielberg Says He Has Never Used AI in His Films
Steven Spielberg made a definitive statement about artificial intelligence during his appearance at SXSW 2026 on March 13: he has never used AI in any of his films
NVIDIA Cosmos 2.5 Adds Synthetic Video and Physical AI
NVIDIA releases Cosmos 2.5 world foundation models for synthetic data generation and physical AI reasoning, now available on Hugging Face.
Netflix's $600M AI Filmmaking Bet: What It Means for Creators
Netflix just paid up to $600 million for a 16-person AI startup that most filmmakers had never heard of. InterPositive, founded by Ben Affleck four years ago in stealth mode, builds AI tools that handle post-production tasks like wire removal, shot reframing, color grading, and visual effects
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super: Open-Source 120B Model
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Super on March 11, 2026, an open-source 120B-parameter hybrid Mamba-Transformer model that delivers 5x higher throughput than its predecessor for agentic AI workloads
Netflix Pays $600M for AI Filmmaking Startup
Netflix is paying up to $600 million for InterPositive, the AI filmmaking startup founded by Ben Affleck four years ago. The deal, confirmed by Bloomberg on March 11, 2026, ranks among Netflix's largest acquisitions ever and signals a major bet on AI-powered post-production tools
Hume TADA: Open-Source TTS With Zero Hallucinations
Hume AI has released TADA (Text-Acoustic Dual-Alignment), an open-source text-to-speech model that eliminates a persistent problem in AI speech synthesis: hallucinated words