On July 16, Anthropic reset Claude's five-hour and weekly usage limits, OpenAI Codex quotas refreshed the same day, and Cursor doubled included usage for Grok 4.5 and Composer 2.5 on every paid plan — a pattern developers read as vendors buying retention with compute as the coding-agent war moves from benchmarks to the invoice.
GitHub made the Copilot app available on every plan — Free and Education included — on macOS, Windows and Linux, putting agent-driven development on the desktop without an IDE.
GitHub's July 14 Visual Studio update brings a clearer view of Copilot usage, a new trust layer for MCP servers, and C++ modernization-agent scenarios reaching general availability.
Copilot Vision reached general availability for all tiers on July 1 — attach images and PDFs to chat and Copilot reasons about what it sees alongside your code.
Foundry released SmartRoto, an AI plugin for Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio and Nuke Indie that aims to take the grind out of roto — assisting the artist's workflow rather than replacing it.
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says 2026 content spend is rising about 10% while savings from generative AI grow — the tech is now used across roughly 300 productions.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 moves from enterprise beta toward public launch with native 30-second clips, up to 50 multimodal reference inputs and local re-draw editing of single frame elements.
fxguide profiles SwitchHDR, Beeble's AI model that reconstructs HDR from SDR video — pulling standard-dynamic-range footage into HDR VFX pipelines.
No Film School breaks down Premiere's new Color Mode, arguing its zone-based color and contrast controls outclass traditional Lift/Gamma/Gain wheels for editors who grade in the timeline.
Blackmagic's free Android camera app hits 3.4 with 4K HDMI video output plus audio — letting a phone feed monitors and switchers like any other camera on set.