OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, an enterprise agentic workspace that combines ChatGPT with Codex and runs on GPT-5.6 — turning team context into finished work, and squaring off directly against Anthropic and Cursor in the race for the autonomous workplace assistant.
Anthropic's latest Claude Code updates flip auto mode on by default across Bedrock, Vertex AI and Foundry, move Bedrock to Claude Opus 4.8, and refine agent view and Remote Control.
AgentPrizm launched a memory-and-skills platform on July 9, pairing a REST API with MCP infrastructure so agents keep persistent memory across sessions — part of July's agent-infrastructure wave.
Foundry Live 2026 showed Nuke 17's new USD-based 3D system, MaterialX support and Gaussian-splat rendering, plus Griptape's AI workflows — SAM 3 segmentation and local video inpainting inside the pipeline.
Creative Bloq profiles an indie Star Trek film team using AI to attack VFX's oldest headache — a green-screen pipeline where shots come out correct at capture, not fixed in post.
This week's AI roundup highlights Runway's Aleph 2.0 and GPT Image 2 letting creators edit a single reference image and propagate the change across an entire video — one edit, every shot.
PixPix launched an AI editing feature that recreates a reference video's camera style, atmosphere, composition and pacing around a new product — built to slash e-commerce video costs.
Paramount Skydance secured $24 billion from Saudi, Qatari and Abu Dhabi sovereign funds to back its bid for Warner Bros. — Gulf capital at unprecedented scale, positioned to decide who owns one of Hollywood's last legacy studios.
The WGA struck an early agreement with the studios a month ahead of contract expiration — removing the biggest scheduling risk hanging over upcoming production slates.
Veteran production execs behind the Vancouver-shot hit Backrooms launched Black Harbor at Banff — a full-service banner for American and international producers bringing projects to British Columbia.
Netflix's Positano, with Matthew McConaughey and Zoe Saldana for director Daniel Roher and Working Title, wraps July 23 after shooting across Rome, Lombardy and the Amalfi Coast.
A drama about the Isle of Man TT — 38 miles of closed public roads and the world's most dangerous motorcycle race — is filming with Channing Tatum, Ciaran Hinds and Eve Hewson.
The Tara Polar Station has begun its first Arctic expedition: a purpose-built drifting laboratory that will be locked into the ice cap by early autumn and carried in an erratic transpolar drift over the North Pole — a crewed structure steering by surrender in the fastest-warming ocean on Earth.
La Biennale di Venezia unveiled the fully refurbished Central Pavilion at the Giardini after a 16-month intervention, just ahead of the 61st International Art Exhibition.
Artnet profiles the artists redefining land art inside gallery walls — soil labyrinths with live butterflies, sprouting and rotting organic installations — work that stages nature retaking the built world.
Gerard & Kelly reinhabit the modernist Villa Benkemoun near Arles with site-specific performance — choreography that treats a 1970s architectural landmark as something to be danced, not toured.
For the 250th, the U.S. and France collaborated on a Statue of Liberty drone show — two nations redrawing their shared monument in synchronized lights above New York Harbor.
A post-Fourth survey finds drone shows everywhere for America's 250th — and fireworks resurgent beside them, the two fusing into a hybrid pyro-plus-drones national format.
ExplorersWeb surveys a crowded K2 Base Camp as ropes climb the Abruzzi Spur toward a late-July window — Everest-scale crowds arriving at the world's most serious 8,000-meter peak.
ExplorersWeb reports a quiet, early summit bid on Broad Peak was turned back — a stealth attempt to beat the crowds, defeated before the main weather window.
Schmidt Ocean Institute's 2026 expeditions send Falkor (too) on a season of deep-sea research — with the Artist-at-Sea program putting working artists on deck as the ROVs dive.