The Model Context Protocol shipped its 2026-07-28 release candidate, stripping out the protocol-level session entirely and adding Tasks, sandboxed MCP Apps, an Extensions framework and tougher auth. The final spec arrives July 28 after a ten-week validation window — a foundational reset for the layer every coding agent depends on.
Antigravity 2.0 ships as a standalone desktop app, CLI and SDK for orchestrating coding agents, running on the faster Gemini 3.5 Flash — recasting the IDE as a control room for an AI coding team.
Claude Code can now plan a job, run hundreds of parallel subagents and self-verify before reporting — enough, Anthropic says, to drive codebase-scale migrations from kickoff to merge.
An engineering walkthrough of the RC: dropping the session unlocks horizontal scaling and serverless MCP servers, while pushing state onto the app and the new Tasks model — MCP maturing into fleet infrastructure.
Luma Agents now orchestrates a roster of engines — Ray 3.14 HDR plus Veo, Kling and Seedance — from one interface, with Ray3.14 generating native 16-bit HDR aimed at pro color pipelines.
A June ranking shows ByteDances Seedance 2.0 and Alibabas HappyHorse-1.0 holding the top two Artificial Analysis slots, with Seedance praised for keeping logos and text stable across frames.
A 2026 roundup finds Premiere, CapCut and DaVinci Resolve all generating timed subtitles from audio natively — captioning shifting from a premium add-on to a baseline feature across the major editors.
A24 beat Mubi, Focus, Searchlight and Netflix to take worldwide rights to Jordan Firstmans Club Kid for about $17M after a heated Cannes-market auction — an aggressive bet on a buzzy independent at a quiet edition of the festival.
The lender is partnering with a New York asset-management firm on a pooled film-and-TV fund, extending private credits push into structured senior debt for independent productions.
The teams behind Perfect and The Brutalist are backing a fund aimed squarely at the hard-to-finance middle — director-driven features budgeted between $2M and $25M.
The competition-series producer is starting a new banner backed by international group Mediapro — another producer-led shingle in a year thick with them.
Matthias Schoenaerts, Makita Samba and Marton Csokas have joined Halle Berry on Fleur, now shooting in Paris — another star-led international drama before cameras.
The team behind Smile has begun production on Rule of Three with Thomasin McKenzie, Chloe East, Jimmi Simpson and Sutton Foster — a franchise bet on theatrically reliable horror.
Croatian freediver Vitomir Maricic stayed under for 29 minutes and 3 seconds, beating the mark by nearly five minutes and dedicating the feat to ocean conservation — the human body as instrument, held in a cinematic, almost unbearable stillness.
A monumental silk sculpture by Aquinnah Wampanoag artist Ella Mahoney hangs across the rock formations of Rock House Reservation, drawing a living Indigenous story over glacier-carved stone.
Studio Clash wraps stepped steel platforms around four mature trees in Zibo, turning a stand of trunks into a spiraling gathering space that bends entirely to the canopy.
The Dorothy Projects Mission Taroni floated an ultra-light silk-clad form to the stratosphere on a balloon, chasing the astronauts overview effect — couture staged where the sky turns black.
A motorless, mirror-finned fractal sculpture by Vincent Leroy lets the wind scatter the plains light, its branching form echoing the acacia trees around it.
On June 11, a three-man team made the first ascent of the SE Pillar of 7,388m Ultar Sar in the Karakoram, climbing one of the ranges great unclimbed lines in pure alpine style.
A crewed Deep Sea Arctic Expedition is broadcasting live from roughly 3,000 meters down, putting audiences eye-to-eye with the abyss as deep-sea mining looms over the region.