Claude Code 2.1.181 adds a /config key=value command that sets any setting from the prompt in interactive, headless and Remote Control modes, plus an Apple Events sandbox opt-in, a presence file that mutes mobile push while you are at the keyboard, and a Bun 1.4 bump.
GitHub unveiled a dedicated Copilot desktop app for agent-native development, replacing scattered chat windows with a single control center and a My Work view that consolidates agent sessions, issues, PRs and automations.
A June 12 GitHub update gives Copilot code review organization runner controls, honors content exclusion during review, and removes the character limit on repository custom instructions so teams can tailor automated review.
Adobe brought Kling 3.0 and Kling 3.0 Omni into the Firefly Video Editor next to its own model, and added Enhance Speech, noise and reverb controls, audio balancing and color sliders — turning the prompt box into a generative-video post bay.
Premiere Pro 26.2 introduces Color Mode, a beta grading workspace built specifically for editors, plus Film Impact-powered effects, Object Masking with Sharp and Smooth edges, and a searchable Sequence Index for long timelines.
Russell Crowe began shooting the action-drama The Last Druid on June 8 in Barcelona and the Canary Islands, with Rose Leslie, Andreas Pietschmann and Daniel Zovatto joining and William Eubank directing, per Deadline.
MEP Capital has bought a majority stake in film-and-TV lender BondIt Media Capital and secured a $100M credit facility, backing BondIt's lending while expanding into live entertainment, sports and the creator economy, per Variety.
Media Capital Technologies has launched MCT Credit Solutions, a new arm built to extend lending and structured credit into film and TV production — another specialist financier entering the independent market, per Variety.
CMC Pictures took theatrical rights to the Teochew-dialect family drama Dear You for North America, Australia and New Zealand, opening June 25 in Australia and New Zealand and June 26 in North America, per Variety.
Pemba, a 35kg humanoid robot from Unitree, has summited Ecuador's 6,263m Chimborazo — likely a robot altitude record — as the first leg of a Triple Crown project aiming at Mauna Kea and Everest, per ExplorersWeb.
Designboom surveys the standout installations at Art Basel Unlimited 2026, the section for works too big for a booth, where room-scale sculpture and immersive environments fill the hall as monuments visitors walk through.
Osaka Art & Design 2026 fills the streets with monumental public works — giant alphabet letters and outsized cats, including Kenji Yanobe's near four-metre SHIP'S CAT — turning the city itself into a walkable canvas.
ArtScience Museum's Into the Ocean, opened June 6 with OceanX, blends deep-sea footage and specimens with art — its centerpiece a swarm of sensor-fitted helium fish that swim the room and dodge visitors like a living school.
Four Swiss rowers plan an unsupported 3,100km row from Svalbard to Scotland's Orkney Islands over roughly 50 days, also aiming to push past the 79°55'N record set by Polar Row in 2017, per ExplorersWeb.
ExplorersWeb tracks Lia Ditton's solo, human-powered Pacific row — weeks alone at the oars on open ocean — framing it as a slow, hard and dangerous endurance feat rather than a stunt.