SIGGRAPH's 53rd conference opened July 19 in Los Angeles, headlined by NVIDIA's neural-rendering keynote and the debut of Cosmos 3 Edge and DLSS 5 — graphics research and generative AI now sharing top billing at the industry's biggest stage.
Claude Code's July update fixes a Windows PowerShell permission-check bypass, hardens Bash checks on long commands and redirects, and stops /verify and /code-review from running on their own.
GitHub's June VS Code releases bring Copilot's agentic browser tools to GA — agents can navigate pages, inspect content and capture screenshots directly inside the editor.
GPT-5.6 Sol reached general availability July 9 across ChatGPT, Codex and the API, with a Sol Ultra tier confirmed for Codex and three-tier API pricing letting developers trade reasoning depth for cost.
Beeble's new Canvas compositor brings AI operations into a familiar node-based graph rather than a single prompt box — built for VFX and virtual production artists who think in layered pipelines.
Kling's July update brings real-time collaborative editing to its generative video platform — letting teams iteratively refine a clip together instead of trading files, a first for AI video tools.
NVIDIA's SIGGRAPH keynote detailed the new Cosmos 3 Edge world model and previewed DLSS 5, shipping fall 2026, which blends traditional rendering with generative AI while preserving creative intent.
DaVinci Resolve 20's rollout has added a photo-editing toolkit thorough enough to rival dedicated image editors, alongside IntelliScript, which builds a working timeline directly from a script.
Premiere Pro 26.0's AI Object Masking, Generative Extend and upgraded media intelligence let editors track subjects, stretch clips and search footage by content rather than filename.
CapCut's new Smart Cut tool uses AI to automatically detect and remove silences, filler words and long pauses — aimed at podcasters and vloggers turning around long unscripted takes.
A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order Monday freezing Paramount Skydance's $110 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery for roughly two weeks, siding with twelve state attorneys general ahead of a preliminary-injunction hearing set for August 3.
The Odyssey took an estimated $17.5 million on Monday, the best Monday of the year, as 2026's domestic box office runs about 10% ahead of the same period in 2025.
Paramount submitted concessions to European regulators ahead of the Commission's provisional July 22 decision deadline on the Warner Bros. Discovery deal — a separate track from the U.S. legal fight.
Masters of the Universe streams free on Prime Video starting July 22, a 47-day jump from its June 5 theatrical debut, after a July 21 Digital HD release.
CAA and TPG's Integrated Media Company launched Compound Creative Holdings with $250 million to acquire and grow businesses built by YouTubers and other digital creators, led by Tucker Brown.
Dolphin Entertainment and Kynetic Media Ventures launched Graviteur Studios to help YouTubers and social stars cross into $1M–$10M film and TV projects while keeping ownership, starting with Crush Party.
Bose launched Bose Studios, a music-focused branded entertainment platform backed by producer Michael Sugar's Sugar23, with a Steven Soderbergh documentary series among its first projects.
The first trailer for Digger shows Tom Cruise as an aging oil baron ordered by John Goodman's president to fix a disaster he may have caused, in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's film, out October 2.
Paul Greengrass's The Uprising casts Andrew Garfield as Ploughman, leader of England's 1381 Peasants' Revolt against Richard II, with the film set for a September 11 release.
Grand Canyon guide Kelsey Pfendler rowed solo from Monterey to Honolulu in just under 44 days, becoming the first American woman to cross the mid-Pacific alone and beating not just the women's record of 86 days but the outright record of 52 days set by a man.
Resistencia's International Sculpture Biennial, running July 17 to 26, has ten sculptors from ten countries carving travertine marble and steel in public view — every finished work becomes permanent city art.
Dayuan Design and ocean nonprofit N.O.C. installed nine suspended glacial forms in Shanghai that channel real rainwater through their structure — weather itself becoming part of a climate-change installation.
The UIA World Congress of Architecture opened in Barcelona at a converted former power plant, its free public exhibition running through July 19 under the theme “Architectures for a Planet in Transition.”
Illuminate's 7x7 installation projected 49 laser beams over San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza — one per square mile of the city — shifting colors nightly through Pride Weekend and the Fourth of July.
A Harry Potter-themed DroneArt show flew more than 1,200 illuminated drones over the Santa Clara Fairgrounds, synchronized to the films' music to recreate its characters and creatures in the sky.
A Sky Lites drone show at the Prefontaine Classic traced Steve Prefontaine's face, Nike shoes and racing runners in formation over Hayward Field, opening with fireworks before the drones took over.
Andrzej Bargiel skied a continuous, no-oxygen line down Nanga Parbat's Diamir side after summiting June 30, threading a serac barrier that had stopped every earlier attempt — and completing all five of Pakistan's 8,000m peaks on skis.
Ultrarunner Camille Herron set a new women's six-day world record at 560.33 miles, extending her dominance in one of ultrarunning's oldest and strangest disciplines.
Scientists adapted a Mars impact-crater algorithm to scan global seafloor maps and found 73 previously undocumented volcanic calderas, more than doubling the number ever catalogued on Earth's ocean floor.