PUBG Ally: KRAFTON's On-Device AI Teammate
KRAFTON shipped PUBG Ally, a co-playable AI teammate that listens, reasons, and acts in real time, running a 2B model on the player GPU with NVIDIA ACE.
Agentic Creative Suites: AI Agents Take the Canvas
Creative software is being rebuilt around agents that work inside the canvas. The single-prompt era is ending, and the creator role is shifting from operator to director.
OpenArt Director Turns Chats Into Five-Minute AI Films
OpenArt has launched Director, an agentic tool that turns a plain-language conversation into a finished film up to five minutes long, with consistent characters, voices, music, and sound design.
Shumai: Open-Source AI Frame.io Alternative
Shumai is a new open-source, self-hosted Frame.io alternative for creative teams, with AI semantic video search, frame-by-frame review, and Gemini metadata tagging.
Meta Glasses Launch at $299 With AI Photo Capture
Meta launched Meta Glasses, AI smart glasses starting at $299 that run the Muse Spark model and add a Dynamic Photo capture mode that picks your best shot.
Moebius Inpainting Model Now Runs Free in Your Browser
An open-source 0.2B inpainting model that rivals FLUX.1-Fill at under 2% the size, now running entirely in your browser via a WebGPU port built with Claude Code.
Sakana Fugu: One API to Orchestrate Top AI Models
Sakana Fugu is a multi-agent system that behaves like one model: send a request to a single OpenAI-compatible API and it routes across frontier models for you. Here is what it costs, how it scores, and why orchestration matters for builders.
Claude Code Artifacts: Turn Sessions Into Live Pages
Anthropic shipped Claude Code Artifacts, turning a coding session into a live, interactive web page you can share with one link. It is in beta for Team and Enterprise plans.
OpenAI Codex Record & Replay Turns Demos Into Skills
OpenAI Record and Replay lets Codex watch you do a macOS task once, then turn it into a reusable, editable skill it can run again with new inputs.
Cursor Automations Adds /automate and Slack Triggers
Cursor 3.8 expands Automations with a new /automate skill, five new GitHub triggers, and Slack emoji starts for always-on cloud agents.
Local AI vs Cloud AI for Creators: 2026 Decision Guide
When Anthropic disabled Fable 5 for US users, creators lost their workflows overnight. The real 2026 question is no longer whether you can run AI locally, but which jobs belong on your machine and which belong in the cloud.
Gemini Image API Preview Shuts Down June 25: Migrate
Google is shutting down the preview versions of its Gemini image generation models on June 25, 2026. If a tool you rely on still calls a preview model ID, image generation breaks. The fix is a one-line swap to the GA models.
Claude Design Now Imports Your Design System
Anthropic shipped a major Claude Design update on June 17, 2026 that imports your design system from GitHub, edits on a visual canvas, and hands off to Claude Code.
Cutback Selects: AI Rough Cuts for Long-Form Video
Cutback shipped a major Selects update on June 15, 2026 that syncs multicam footage and builds a draft rough cut from a single prompt, then exports to Premiere, Final Cut, or DaVinci Resolve.
Android 17 Adds Gemini Omni Video Editing for Creators
Google shipped Android 17 on June 16, 2026 with Gemini Omni conversational video editing and Screen Reactions, a built-in way to record selfie reactions over your screen.
UCP-Local: Offline RAG for Claude Desktop and Cursor
A new open-source tool, UCP-Local, grounds Claude Desktop, Cursor, and LM Studio in your own files for fully offline retrieval. Released June 16, 2026 under Apache-2.0.
NVIDIA ACE Game Agent SDK: On-Device AI NPCs in UE5
NVIDIA released the ACE Game Agent SDK and three Unreal Engine 5 plugins that let game creators build AI NPCs running on-device on the player RTX GPU, with no cloud calls or per-message cost.
MiniMax Unveils Hub, an All-in-One AI Video Studio
MiniMax used the Shanghai International Film Festival to introduce Hub, an all-in-one AI tool that folds image, video, voiceover, music, and editing into a single agentic interface.
Cartesia Sonic-3.5 and Ink-2: The #1 Voice AI Stack
Cartesia launched Sonic-3.5 and Ink-2 on June 15, 2026, claiming the top streaming voice AI on both speaking and listening, built for real-time voice agents.
TTS Audio Suite v5 Brings Higgs v3 to ComfyUI
TTS Audio Suite shipped v5.0.0 for ComfyUI, adding Higgs Audio v3 voice cloning, Transformers 5, and Runtime Isolation for legacy engines.
Shutterstock Turns Its Stock Library Into an AI Platform
Shutterstock turned its stock content library into a human-led, AI-powered creative platform on June 11, 2026, letting creators generate, edit, and customize assets in one workflow with commercial licensing carried through to AI output.
GLM 5.2 Ships 1M-Token Context on Z.ai Coding Plan
Zhipu has shipped GLM 5.2, a coding-first model now live across every tier of its Z.ai Coding Plan, led by a 1-million-token context window.
Brightdeck: AI Slide Maker That Outputs Editable PPTX
Brightdeck is a new AI presentation tool that outputs native, fully editable PowerPoint files instead of locked templates, turning a prompt or existing deck into an on-brand deck in minutes.
Topaz Mac Update: 2x Faster Photo Upscaling
Topaz Labs shipped a Mac update that makes upscaling and enhancing images 1.7x to 2x faster on Apple Silicon via NeuroStream 2.