Anthropic's August 7 Claude Code release adds self-hosted runners, cross-session messaging between agents, and new sandbox credential-masking tools, while removing the 200-subagent spawn cap.
Runway is bringing Seedance 2.5 to its platform with 50-reference generations and 30-second clips, offering a week of unlimited access to new Max subscribers.
Sony and Marvel's "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" crossed $1 billion worldwide in just six days, the second-fastest climb to that mark in box-office history behind "Avengers: Endgame."
Paramount CEO David Ellison says the company would welcome a settlement in its antitrust battle over the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, even as he insists Paramount would win at trial.
Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer is publicly endorsing the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger and says he's held talks about co-financing opportunities with a bigger Paramount+.
Veteran manager-producer Jennie Church-Cooper has launched Hello Sailor Media, a new management and production company for comedians and multi-hyphenate creators.
Working Title is developing "Runaway Wedding," a rom-com from Stephanie Laing about a young couple whose elopement is chased across the country by their disapproving parents.
A University of Washington-led expedition departs this week to dive an ROV into Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano a mile beneath the Pacific, and the methane seeps of Southern Hydrate Ridge.
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Brookgreen Gardens hosts the National Sculpture Society's 93rd Annual Awards Exhibition starting August 8, with 43 figurative works and visitors voting for a People's Choice winner.
The Pyrotechnics Guild International's Wisconsin Fireworks Festival brings professional shell-makers to a raceway near Kaukauna for three nights, including a million-piece firecracker finale.
Pyrotechnics Guild International · Aug 8-14, 2026 · read