Figma has turned its AI shaders from a static novelty into a working motion-and-code tool. A September 1 update adds motion, a code viewer, community publishing, and MCP export to its generative plugins and shaders.
Visko has launched Orbis, an early-access live model that generates video in real time and lets you redirect the scene while it is still rendering.
Gemini can now search, scan, and inspect video segments across frames, audio, and transcripts in the API, cutting tokens up to 88 percent.
Google Pics is an AI image creator and editor built into Workspace and pics.new, powered by Nano Banana, with object-level editing.
World Labs launched Atlas, an omni model that natively handles text, image, video, and 3D in one system. It is in early access with select partners.
Claude Mythos 5.1 is the same model as Fable 5.1 running with more permissive safeguards, available only through vetted cybersecurity and life sciences programmes.
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1, 2026. Headline pricing did not move, but cache reads dropped from $1.00 to $0.25 per million tokens, a 75 percent cut worth up to 45 percent on agentic workloads.
Hugging Face released @huggingface/kernels, a JavaScript library that runs AI models directly in the browser using WebGPU, with 207 optimized kernels 2.57x faster than ORT WebGPU.
Meta pushed Muse Code out of beta on August 31, adding a TypeScript SDK, a multi-agent Workflow orchestrator, and three subscription tiers. What builders can do with it now.
Appwrite 2.0, announced August 31, 2026, is a major rebuild of the open-source backend platform, adding VectorsDB, a native embeddings database with built-in embedding models.
Fireworks AI made its Training API and Fireworks Lab generally available, letting teams run custom training loops on open models with managed compute.
Runway's Solaris generates interactive app interfaces in real time by rendering pixels instead of writing code, a genuinely different approach from AI code builders like Cursor and v0.
OpenShot 4.0, released August 30, 2026, adds on-device AI subject masking, color grading, and built-in screen and audio recording to the free open-source video editor.
Anthropic will change Claude Code weekly usage limits on September 14, 2026, replacing a temporary 50% boost with a permanent 25% increase over the original baseline. For current users, that is roughly a 17% cut from today's levels.
OpenAI said on August 29, 2026 that it will wind down Cursor access to OpenAI models, with a hard cutoff on November 12, 2026.
Tencent has open-sourced Hy4 preview, a 770B mixture-of-experts model with a 1M-token context window under Apache 2.0, aimed at coding, data analysis, and builder workflows.
Google has launched Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, a production-ready video generation model that gives developers and creators frame-level control over AI video. Announced August 27, 2026, it extends scenes up to 40 seconds and renders at up to 4K.
Adobe shipped a prompt-based AI Assisted Editor and Firefly Image 5 in Photoshop on August 27, 2026. Here is what is new and how to use it.
Cohere shipped Parse to general availability on August 27, 2026: a vision language model that turns documents into clean Markdown at $1.50 per 1,000 pages, topping the ParseBench leaderboard.
Avid revealed Media Composer 2026.8 on August 27 with agentic editing tools, a Google Gemini panel, and PhraseFindAI auto cuts. It ships September 1.
The Hao AI Lab released FastH3 Preview v1 on August 27, an open-weights model that generates synchronized video and audio in four steps, roughly 14x faster than base MiniMax H3.
Alibaba opened an international public beta of QwenWork, its agentic workplace platform, on August 26, 2026, bringing the tool to users outside China for the first time.
ChatCut released ChatCut Desktop on August 26, 2026, a local video editor built for humans and AI agents to co-edit on the same timeline. Edit with GPT and Claude, bring your own subscription, and get core editing free.
x1, a Y Combinator-backed AI app studio, launched publicly on August 26, 2026 and took the top spot on Product Hunt the same day. It builds native iPhone apps from a rough idea to an App Store submission.