At WWDC on June 8, Apple opened its Foundation Models framework so an app can route a query to Apples on-device model, Anthropics Claude or Googles Gemini — and switch between them by changing a single Swift Package Manager dependency, with no session-code rewrite. Anthropic shipped a companion Claude package that handles streaming, tool calls and structured Swift outputs, with support across iOS, macOS, visionOS and watchOS 27.
Disclosed June 2, Scorsese is advising Black Forest Labs and used its FLUX model to storyboard scenes from his DiCaprio-Lawrence drama, calling the tool creatively freeing.
The two companies unveil a new AI-native production company and the tech behind the AI-animated feature Critterz — a bet that generative tools can anchor a studio, not just a shot.
Anthropics new Swift package lets Mac creative and post apps call Claude for multi-step reasoning, code and streaming output — and swap providers without a rewrite.
Sondo AIs Professional Video Editor adds scene restructuring, audio sync and subtitle editing so creators can refine AI music videos without re-rolling the whole generation.
The 2026 Tribeca Festival has set the June 10 world premiere of Dreams of Violets, billed as the first full-length, live-action AI-generated film accepted by a major festival — a 75-minute docudrama inspired by protests in Tehran, from studio Fountain 0. It puts a generative-AI feature on a marquee stage and sharpens the question of where festivals draw the line on AI-made cinema.
MCT Credit Solutions debuts with a $100M credit facility to BondIt Media Capital, deepening the private-lending plumbing behind independent film and TV.
Production began June 8 in Barcelona and the Canary Islands, with Rose Leslie joining Crowe; a Roman emperor finds a hidden Druid stronghold in Caledonia.
Pedro Reyes has installed Tlali, a four-metre volcanic-stone female face inspired by Olmec colossal heads, on LACMAs new David Geffen Galleries. The work — a reworking of a scrapped Mexico City monument — has drawn an open letter from nearly 80 Mexican critics arguing a male, non-Indigenous artist should not be the one to represent Indigenous women in stone.
Brandywine will gain a 40,000-sq-ft building of four wood-clad pavilions by Kengo Kuma — his first US museum — inside a new public 325-acre reserve with ten miles of trails.
Refik Anadols Dataland opens June 20 at the Gehry-designed Grand LA — five galleries driven by a Large Nature Model trained on Smithsonian and Cornell datasets.
Seattle plans match-night drone shows near the Space Needle, hundreds of drones forming team flags and final scores; the first lands June 15 after Belgium-Egypt.
From June 5-28, i Light Singapore strings 14 installations along Marina Bay — a cube that appears to move while still, and a seven-minute light-and-sound work driven by natural motion.
Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne, who abandoned in April when their rudder broke, restarted in May and have now covered 5,900 km of a planned 14,000 km Peru-to-Australia row.
A Norwegian team of six has begun a 35-day, 650 km sled haul from southern Svalbard to Verlegenhuken in the north, through polar-bear country and spring ice.
The summer season opens around June 10, with teams staging in Islamabad and Skardu for back-to-back attempts on Gasherbrum I and II, which share a base camp.