Cognition rebranded the Windsurf editor as Devin Desktop and shipped ACP, an Agent Client Protocol that lets Codex, Claude Agent and Devin run and cooperate inside the same window — the editor recast as a cockpit for a mixed fleet of coding agents.
Cursor's Teams overhaul gives every seat separate first-party and third-party usage pools, more included usage on the $40 Standard seat, and a new Premium seat with 5x usage for heavy agent users.
Microsoft's July roadmap puts MCP-based agent widgets into Copilot Chat for GCC, GCC High and DoD clouds — interactive agents acting inside chat in locked-down government environments for the first time.
Netflix acquired AI production-tech firm InterPositive, backed by Ben Affleck, saying it will share the tools only with in-house partners — while outsourced VFX artists worldwide brace for automation.
The July rankings put Veo 3.1 on top for realism and native audio, with Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0 Turbo and Runway Gen-4.5 close behind — each model now a priced-per-second lane with a distinct use case.
TechRadar maps the strategic split after Sora's retreat: Google is weaving Veo-powered video generation into everyday products while OpenAI steps back from the consumer video market.
Imagen Video's AI editing platform left beta with color grading tools that plug directly into Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, learning a colorist's style and applying it across the timeline.
OpusClip now connects to Claude Desktop, Cursor and other MCP hosts with 25 tools — clip selection, captions and reframing callable by agents — plus an Android app and contextual AI B-roll.
Rich Peppiatt's Netflix period tale Bad Bridgets added Colin Farrell, Steve Coogan, Charlie Heaton, Domhnall Gleeson, Himesh Patel, Niamh Algar and Simone Kirby ahead of its mid-July shoot in Ireland and Northern Ireland — with Margot Robbie's LuckyChap producing alongside the Kneecap director.
Mubi signed a multi-year co-financing deal with Helsinki fund manager IPR.VC for prestige European auteur films, starting with new features from Pawel Pawlikowski and Felix Van Groeningen.
Media Capital Technologies launched MCT Credit Solutions and is providing BondIt Media Capital with a $100 million credit facility — fresh institutional lending plumbing for indie film.
UK film and TV fund Allegro Finance secured a $2.6 million working capital facility to support operations as its $500 million production funding line moves into deployment.
Toronto's 9 Light Entertainment launched a sales and distribution arm, kicking off with Charles Wahl's comedic thriller Sound & Fury, which shoots this fall with Daniel Maslany and Shaun Majumder.
Delcy Morelos's origo fills the Barbican Sculpture Court with a 24-metre-wide volume of soil, clay, hay and seeds laced with cinnamon and cloves, applied by hand over a month — an enterable earthwork carved with burial-site hollows, floating on a shadow gap, gone at the end of July.
Superflex and KWY.studio's Super Kello, on Bothnian Bay for Oulu 2026, is a waste-marble sculpture designed for fish to enjoy after sea levels rise — with the Odyssey broadcast at one word per hour for ten years.
Kengo Kuma's Earth | Tree suspends a Douglas fir canopy made from discarded offcuts above a broken-brick stage — his first Scandinavian show, filtering light like a tree canopy through February 2027.
Cai Guo-Qiang's Radiance of Spring sent 1,000-plus drones and colored smoke over the Seine at Vernon for Monet's centenary, with gunpowder paintings filling Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey.
Studio DRIFT's Shy Society hangs kinetic, light-emitting robotic flowers from Palazzo Balbi over Venice's waterways — mechanical blooms opening and closing like living things.
Rope-fixing teams and the first group of climbers summited 8,126m Nanga Parbat, opening the Karakoram season while K2's ropes reach Camp 2 ahead of a late-July window.
ExplorersWeb debriefs Frank Wolf after his 1,350km Arctic canoe expedition — weeks of paddling and portaging across one of the least-traveled watersheds on the planet.
Into the Ocean: Journey Beneath pairs OceanX deep-sea research with contemporary art in Singapore — 1,000m specimens, the smell of the sea, and Marco Barotti's acoustic-enrichment sound work for reef recovery.