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Release-by-release coverage of the AI creation stack: video, image, music, voice, design and code generation tools.

Release-by-release coverage of the AI creation stack: video, image, music, voice, design and code generation tools.

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Building long-term trust in a world where creation moves at the speed of thought
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Building long-term trust in a world where creation moves at the speed of thought

By Sean Bonawitz, Head of Trust & Safety at falMy first job was in the US Navy as an EOD platoon commander, where my job was to protect the people around us…

A new chapter: Friends of Figma’s brand refresh tells the story of a global community
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A new chapter: Friends of Figma’s brand refresh tells the story of a global community

fal and AWS: Building for the Next Phase of Generative Media
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fal and AWS: Building for the Next Phase of Generative Media

By Emir Lise, Technical Partnerships Manager, AI Infrastructure @falToday fal announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS).I interned at AWS…

Meet Stable Audio 3.0, the model family built for artistic experimentation with open-weight models
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Meet Stable Audio 3.0, the model family built for artistic experimentation with open-weight models

We're releasing Stable Audio 3.0, a model family trained on fully licensed data, designed to be the foundation for what the audio community builds next.…

How to prompt Grok Imagine Video 1.5
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How to prompt Grok Imagine Video 1.5

Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is the most exciting video model release from xAI. You can generate realistic video with synchronized audio in a single pass, capable of …

7 tips for using Figma Make credits more efficiently
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7 tips for using Figma Make credits more efficiently

Web Updates
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Web Updates

Conversational mode has been improved across text and voice input:When a voice session starts, it has access to your Image Prompts, Style References, sidebar se…

Figma Make, now on your local code
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Figma Make, now on your local code

4 new ways to go from idea to product with AI tools
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4 new ways to go from idea to product with AI tools

Fix with Copilot for failing Actions now in Pro, Pro+, and Max
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Fix with Copilot for failing Actions now in Pro, Pro+, and Max

When a GitHub Actions job fails, Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max subscribers can now ask Copilot cloud agent to fix it in one click. Click the Fix with Copilot butto…

Enterprise-managed plugins in VS Code in public preview
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Enterprise-managed plugins in VS Code in public preview

Last month we launched a public preview with Copilot CLI that allows enterprise administrators the ability to configure and distribute plugins to GitHub Copilot…

GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex deprecated
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GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex deprecated

As of today, June 5, 2026, we have deprecated the following models across most GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent m…

You never stop cultivating taste
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You never stop cultivating taste

Security validation for third-party coding agents
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Security validation for third-party coding agents

Security validation for third-party coding agents is now generally available. GitHub supports third-party coding agents (including Claude and OpenAI Codex) that…

Claude Fable 5 is generally available for GitHub Copilot
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Claude Fable 5 is generally available for GitHub Copilot

Claude Fable 5 from Anthropic is now available in GitHub Copilot, the first model in Anthropic’s Mythos class, designed for long-horizon, autonomous codin…

Dedicated security review command now available in Copilot CLI
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Dedicated security review command now available in Copilot CLI

You can now run a security review on your code changes directly from GitHub Copilot CLI. The new /security-review slash command is shipping as an experimental f…

Steal this template: Bring a user persona to life with Figma Weave
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Steal this template: Bring a user persona to life with Figma Weave

Copilot Chat now sees your agent sessions
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Copilot Chat now sees your agent sessions

We’ve improved the handoff experience between Copilot Chat and Copilot cloud agent on the web. We’ve also enabled new functionality which allows you…

V8.1 is now the default model on Midjourney!
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V8.1 is now the default model on Midjourney!

Hi everyone,After your testing and feedback, we've updated the default model from V7 to V8.1!A reminder of what's new in V8.1:The model is smarter, mo…

Agentic workflows no longer need a personal access token
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Agentic workflows no longer need a personal access token

You can now use GitHub Agentic Workflows with GitHub Actions’s built-in GITHUB_TOKEN. This means that you no longer need to create and store a personal ac…

GitHub Agentic Workflows is now in public preview
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GitHub Agentic Workflows is now in public preview

GitHub Agentic Workflows is now in public preview. With agentic workflows, you can automate reasoning-based tasks like issue triage, CI failure analysis, and do…

Copilot CLI: Configure everything from one place with /settings
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Copilot CLI: Configure everything from one place with /settings

GitHub Copilot CLI now has a unified, schema-driven home for configuration. The new /settings slash command combines the scattered commands like /theme, /stream…

Improving performance in the layers panel
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Improving performance in the layers panel

Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
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Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

In this post, we show you how to build a voice ordering system that answers a phone number and takes the order from greeting to confirmation. The system uses Am…

How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI
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How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI

Cars24 uses OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to handle 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recover 12% of lost leads, and bring agentic workflows to teams acr…

ScienceSoft’s HIPAA-compliant AI voice scheduler built on AWS
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ScienceSoft’s HIPAA-compliant AI voice scheduler built on AWS

In this post, you will learn how ScienceSoft, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Services Partner, integrated Amazon Nova 2 Sonic with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to bu…

Securing the AI supply chain on GKE: Introducing k8s-aibom for automated AI BOMs
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Securing the AI supply chain on GKE: Introducing k8s-aibom for automated AI BOMs

How should your security team manage shadow AI? Workloads deployed by developers without formal registration can often evade traditional security scanners, beca…

The AI Picbreeder Experiment: Can AI agents be creative when nobody tells them what to create?
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The AI Picbreeder Experiment: Can AI agents be creative when nobody tells them what to create?

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
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How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

How OpenAI rebuilt its WebRTC stack to power real-time Voice AI with low latency, global scale, and seamless conversational turn-taking.…

How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI
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How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI

How Deutsche Telekom is becoming an AI-native telco with OpenAI-transforming customer service, employee workflows, network operations, and the future of voice.…