Released July 24, Opus 5 becomes the new default on Claude Max and the strongest model on Claude Pro, coming close to Fable 5's frontier intelligence at half the price and topping benchmarks like Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA.
GitHub shipped support for MCP's stateless 2026-07-28 spec on July 23, ahead of the official release, letting its MCP Server run behind ordinary load balancers without session handshakes.
OpenAI's Codex agent gained a talk-through-your-work voice mode in the ChatGPT desktop app on July 23, the same day it sunset every Codex-lineage model that predates GPT-5.3.
Lightcraft Technology launched a rolling public beta of Spark Story at SIGGRAPH July 21-23, an interactive previsualization tool aimed at helping independent filmmakers plan shots before a single frame is shot.
Blackmagic's July 1 point update to Resolve 21 brings faster image bypass switching, smoother H.265 playback on NVIDIA GPUs and better text rendering in the inspector panel.
Paramount Skydance agreed July 24 not to close its $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition until June 1, 2027, or until state and WGA lawsuits against the merger are resolved — whichever comes first.
The inaugural African Film Investor Roundtable ran July 21-23 in Cape Town, pitching six new African Producers Accelerator projects and five from the prior cohort directly to investors.
Toronto's New Mountain Films picked up North American theatrical and streaming rights to Marjolein Busstra's documentary about a pacifist Waldorf school in the occupied West Bank.
The production company founded by Pasha Patriki in 2015 will handle sales across Canada and internationally, kicking off with comedic thriller Sound & Fury.
The pair join Dwayne Johnson and newcomer Theo Clark Leber in Safdie's live-action/CGI hybrid adaptation of Daniel Pinkwater's novel for Amazon MGM's United Artists.
Dan Pritzker's Depression-era drama, shot around the bridge's construction, weaves together five characters including an underground abortionist and a blackmailing socialite.
Antonio de la Rosa, 57, began a solo 3,000km attempt to cross the Arctic's Northwest Passage on July 17, using a custom two-section board he can paddle, row, or drag as a sled over ice.
The Krank's 500-square-meter installation ‘The Hunt’ sits 10km from a proposed offshore drilling site, rendering ancient hunters and a drilling platform in the same black silhouette style as cave paintings.
The Pavilion of Sliding Doors in Nuglar-St. Pantaleon, Switzerland grew from a letter young residents wrote their town council, built on removable screw foundations from reused sheet metal and local timber.
China Galaxy Pyrotechnics staged its Cannes Pyrotechnic Art Festival show on July 22, choreographing an entire 30-minute pyromusical around the Chinese legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
After acclimatizing on Khosar Gang, climbers led by Cho Baek Lai summited an unclimbed peak in Gilgit-Baltistan's Thalay Valley on July 18 in a single day.
Poland's Dawid Bartoszek and Wiktor Smaglowski opened a new variation up the 6,162m peak between July 15 and 17, overlapping the Pou Brothers' famous route on its upper section.