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

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Microsoft's Copilot Cowork moves to usage-based billing and may tap DeepSeek
Briefing

Microsoft's Copilot Cowork moves to usage-based billing and may tap DeepSeek

Microsoft is weighing a fine-tuned version of Deepseek V4 as a cheaper model option for Copilot Cowork. The company is also switching to usage-based billing, si…
SpaceX bets $60 billion on Cursor to catch OpenAI and Anthropic
Briefing

SpaceX bets $60 billion on Cursor to catch OpenAI and Anthropic

Just two trading days after its IPO, Elon Musk's SpaceX is buying AI coding startup Anysphere. The deal is meant to help the struggling xAI division catch up wi…
Microsoft Research's Mirage gives video generation a persistent spatial memory that doesn't forget what's around the corner
Briefing

Microsoft Research's Mirage gives video generation a persistent spatial memory that doesn't forget what's around the corner

Mirage, a video world model from Microsoft Research and several universities, stores scene information directly in latent space instead of pixel-based point clo…
Announcing Ironwood TPUs General Availability and new Axion VMs to power the age of inference
Practice

Announcing Ironwood TPUs General Availability and new Axion VMs to power the age of inference

Today’s frontier models, including Google’s Gemini, Veo, Imagen, and Anthropic’s Claude train and serve on Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). For many organization…
Apply AI Webinar on AI for Cultural, Creative and Media Sectors
Policy

Apply AI Webinar on AI for Cultural, Creative and Media Sectors

Apply AI Webinar on AI for Cultural, Creative and Media Sectors Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 06/02/2026 - 12:29   24 June 2026 This webinar will focus on …
Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro are generally available, and already powering creative workflows
Practice

Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro are generally available, and already powering creative workflows

Organizations are unlocking entirely new ways to use image generation and editing across their industries. To drive next-generation experiences, businesses are …
Developer's guide to Gemini Enterprise and A2UI integration
Practice

Developer's guide to Gemini Enterprise and A2UI integration

If you've built a chatbot, you know this conversation: User: "Book a table for two tomorrow at 7pm." Agent: "Okay, for what day?" User: "Tomorrow." Agent: "What…
Doubling Down on Suno, the Platform for Creative Entertainment
Practice

Doubling Down on Suno, the Platform for Creative Entertainment

Every major consumer platform is built on a new behavior. TikTok made short-form video consumption mainstream. Netflix changed how we watch TV. Suno is doing so…
Evaluate your Amazon Nova Sonic voice agent at scale, no microphone required
Practice

Evaluate your Amazon Nova Sonic voice agent at scale, no microphone required

In this post, we walk you through the Nova Sonic Test Harness, an open source framework that we built to solve both problems. It serves as a rapid iteration too…
Modernizing Healthcare: How Alcidion achieved greater stability and performance with AlloyDB
Practice

Modernizing Healthcare: How Alcidion achieved greater stability and performance with AlloyDB

In clinical informatics, every second counts. For Alcidion, a global leader in smart health solutions, the mission is simple but critical: use technology to red…
It’s safe to close your laptop now: Hosting coding agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Practice

It’s safe to close your laptop now: Hosting coding agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime gives each agent session its own isolated microVM with a persistent workspace, secure tool access through Gateway, and built-in…
MCP Apps - Bringing UI Capabilities To MCP Clients
Agents

MCP Apps - Bringing UI Capabilities To MCP Clients

MCP Apps is now live as the first official MCP extension — tools can return interactive UI components that render directly in the conversation.…
Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction
Research

Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction

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GridSFM: A new, small foundation model for the electric grid
Research

GridSFM: A new, small foundation model for the electric grid

Introducing GridSFM, a small foundation model that can predict AC optimal power flow in milliseconds, boosting efficiency and unlocking cost savings. Learn how …
TetherCache: Stabilizing Autoregressive Long-Form Video Generation with Gated Recall and Trusted Alignment
Research

TetherCache: Stabilizing Autoregressive Long-Form Video Generation with Gated Recall and Trusted Alignment

Autoregressive video diffusion models provide a natural formulation for streaming and variable-length video generation by conditioning newly generated frames on…
Limits of spectral learning under noise
Research

Limits of spectral learning under noise

Learning functional relationships from noisy data is a central problem in scientific inference. Spectral methods approximate unknown functions by expanding them…
DuET: Dual Expert Trajectories for Diffusion Image Editing
Research

DuET: Dual Expert Trajectories for Diffusion Image Editing

Recent diffusion editors perform diverse instruction-based edits while conditioning on the source image at every denoising step. Yet persistent source-image con…
Adaptive Turn-Taking for Real-time Multi-Party Voice Agents
Research

Adaptive Turn-Taking for Real-time Multi-Party Voice Agents

Turn-taking in multi-party spoken conversations remains a fundamental challenge for voice-based agents, particularly under dynamic floor competition and varying…
Modality Forcing for Scalable Spatial Generation
Research

Modality Forcing for Scalable Spatial Generation

Text-to-image (T2I) models contain rich spatial priors. Synthesizing photorealistic, cluttered scenes requires an understanding of geometry, including perspecti…
InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation
Research

InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation

Recent image generators have demonstrated impressive photorealism and instruction-following capabilities in single-image generation and editing. However, constr…
A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
Labs

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music

The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images.…
OpenAI Codex and Figma launch seamless code-to-design experience
Labs

OpenAI Codex and Figma launch seamless code-to-design experience

OpenAI and Figma launch a new Codex integration that connects code and design, enabling teams to move between implementation and the Figma canvas to iterate and…
Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed
Labs

Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed

Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.…
Creating with Sora Safely
Labs

Creating with Sora Safely

To address the novel safety challenges posed by a state-of-the-art video model as well as a new social creation platform, we’ve built Sora 2 and the Sora app wi…
Speaking of Voxtral
Labs

Speaking of Voxtral

Voxtral TTS: A frontier, open-weights text-to-speech model that’s fast, instantly adaptable, and produces lifelike speech for voice agents.…
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable
Labs

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable

Our latest voice model has improved precision and lower latency to make voice interactions more fluid, natural and precise.…
Codex for (almost) everything
Labs

Codex for (almost) everything

The updated Codex app for macOS and Windows adds computer use, in-app browsing, image generation, memory, and plugins to accelerate developer workflows.…
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.0
Labs

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.0

ChatGPT Images 2.0 introduces a state-of-the-art image generation model with improved text rendering, multilingual support, and advanced visual reasoning.…
Uber uses OpenAI to help people earn smarter and book faster
Labs

Uber uses OpenAI to help people earn smarter and book faster

Uber uses OpenAI to power AI assistants and voice features that help drivers earn smarter and riders book faster across a global real-time marketplace.…
Advancing voice intelligence with new models in the API
Labs

Advancing voice intelligence with new models in the API

Explore new realtime voice models in the OpenAI API that can reason, translate, and transcribe speech, enabling more natural and intelligent voice experiences.…