Claude Code's June 19 update hardens auto mode: it blocks destructive git commands when you did not ask to discard work, refuses amend on commits it did not make, and won't run terraform/pulumi/cdk destroy unless you name the stack.
Google's Gemini API adds Managed Agents in public preview — autonomous, stateful agents in Google-hosted sandboxes, including a general-purpose Antigravity Agent and a Deep Research agent, all running on the now-GA Gemini 3.5 Flash.
xAI made Grok Imagine Video 1.5 generally available on June 16 across its API, web and mobile apps, with Video 1.5 Fast rendering a six-second 720p clip in about 25 seconds — down from 40-plus.
Imagen, used by 100,000+ photographers, took Imagen Video out of beta, putting adaptive AI color grading directly into Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve as a co-pilot for corrections and camera matching, from about $7/month.
Evoke Entertainment closed a senior secured production financing facility of up to $35M, backed by an institutional private credit fund, to power a slate spanning a Hallmark Christmas film, a Lifetime thriller and indie features, per Deadline.
The producers of The Brutalist and Perfect launched a film fund to finance five to 10 films a year at $2-25M budgets, targeting the mid-budget, auteur-driven features that have become harder to finance, per Deadline.
Matty Matheson and Ricky Staffieri of The Bear teamed with producer Hannah Welever to launch Super Athletic Film Co., debuting with the darkly comedic thriller Grind, directed by Peter Collins Campbell, per Deadline.
Matt Damon is set to star in The Dish, the next feature from the Daniels (Everything Everywhere All at Once), marking the Oscar-winning duo's closely watched follow-up, per Deadline.
Bad weather forced Sean McLane, Vitaliy Musiyenko and Christian Black off Chaukhamba III, so they climbed 6,471m Balakun's 2,300m ridge in a single 40-hour push — sustained M5-M6, hallucinations on descent — naming the likely first ascent Kishmish, per ExplorersWeb.
A €60M gift will add a riverside sculpture garden at the Rijksmuseum, with Foster + Partners reworking three brick pavilions and a planted garden of Giacometti, Bourgeois, Calder and Moore works opening autumn 2026, per Dezeen.
The Balloon Museum opens its first permanent U.S. flagship in NYC's Tin Building on July 15 with DAYDREAM – Air Becomes Art, anchored by Marina Abramovic's first inflatable work — a walk-through field of inflatable grass and balloon "snow," per Galerie.
French adventurer Noe Perchet paddled a folding kayak ~1,400km of a 1,750km Amazon route from Ecuador's Curaray River to Colombia, fishing for food, capsizing under logs and facing armed men twice, per ExplorersWeb.