Lead · Twelve Hundred Agents Found a Message Board and Organised
Seventy thousand messages, 700 agents in one attack, and 956 credentials pulled from a vault by a repurposed kernel exploit.
Agentic Coding
Release
Copilot adds shared agent sessions in Slack and Teams, and rebuilds its CLI on a native Rust runtime.
GitHub Changelog · Aug 28, 2026 ·
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GitHub reopens Copilot Business signups with upfront per-seat billing and folds three chat surfaces into one policy.
GitHub Changelog · Aug 28, 2026 ·
readBenchmarks
DeepMind and the Singapore AI Safety Institute run the first double-blind cryptographic evaluation of a frontier model.
The Decoder · Aug 28, 2026 ·
readModel
Alibaba previews its Qwen4 architecture at 16 cents per million input tokens, one twelfth the flagship price.
The Decoder · Aug 26, 2026 ·
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A Wharton study finds shopping agents swing wildly on source order and throwaway memory statements.
The Decoder · Aug 27, 2026 ·
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Film Production & Generative Video
Model
Runway Solaris draws a 720p interface frame by frame and reacts to clicks, drags and voice.
The Decoder · Sep 1, 2026 ·
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Instagram swaps its AI creator tag for an AI-generated profile label, with reach penalties for omission.
The Decoder · Aug 31, 2026 ·
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AI Editing & Post Workflow
Release
Nice Touch rebuilds its edit assistant for Premiere and Resolve, adding multicam and 18-language transcription.
postPerspective · Aug 31, 2026 ·
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The After Effects AI Assistant beta handles project organisation and expressions, with rival agents already shipping.
ProVideo Coalition · Aug 31, 2026 ·
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For-A splits its AiDi brand into a real-time live vertical cropper and a sports graphics hub.
TV Tech · Aug 31, 2026 ·
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Lead · The Exhibitor Sits Down in the Distributor Chair
Leawood Films will buy theatrical rights to finished pictures only, and book them into rival circuits too.
Financing & Deals
Incentive
Trump asked Congress to approve a Federal Production Incentive; the MPA welcomed it the same day.
Variety · Aug 31, 2026 ·
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Phil Tippett closes his 6,200 square foot studio and liquidates models, cameras, storyboards and costumes.
TheWrap · Aug 31, 2026 ·
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The Parasite studio takes worldwide sales on Joko Anwars Satans Slaves: Origin for a 2027 release.
Deadline · Aug 31, 2026 ·
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mk2 films takes Heil Jupiter, premiering in Currents at the 64th New York Film Festival.
Deadline · Aug 31, 2026 ·
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Finecut takes world sales on the Korean animated feature, showing first footage to Toronto buyers.
Deadline · Aug 31, 2026 ·
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Kino Lorber takes the IDFA winner A Fox Under a Pink Moon for a documentary awards run.
Deadline · Aug 31, 2026 ·
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New Producing Players
Launch
Fandango distributed House of Worship into roughly 400 theatres over a three-day event run.
Deadline · Aug 28, 2026 ·
readLeadership
Lux Angeles Studios hires Binh Dang as head of production and targets bigger independent features.
Deadline · Aug 26, 2026 ·
readLaunch
Larenz Tate joins Vault, a new streaming and distribution outfit with Newark festival founder Kenneth Gifford.
Variety · Aug 28, 2026 ·
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Films Being Made
Casting
Black Label Media stacks Copperhead around Miles Teller ahead of the Toronto market.
Deadline · Aug 31, 2026 ·
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Josh Duhamel leads Speak, shooting in October and going to buyers at the first TIFF Market.
Deadline · Sep 1, 2026 ·
readGreenlight
Kirill Sokolov turns the Slava Kurilov escape into his first animated film, backed by Lazy Sunday.
Variety · Aug 28, 2026 ·
readProduction
Appian Way boards Soleil Moon Frye film Werewolf in the Waves about her reunion with Shifty Shellshock.
The Hollywood Reporter · Aug 31, 2026 ·
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Scott Vickers sets the cast on gangland thriller Nozem, fronted by writer Buddy Boerkoel.
Variety · Aug 28, 2026 ·
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Captain India begins principal photography in London in September, wrapping by the end of October.
Variety · Aug 29, 2026 ·
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Lead · Three Countries, One River, One Night
Korea, Britain and the United States compete over Yeouido on 5 September, with 4,700 safety staff on the ground.
Earthworks, Cities & Structures
Gwangju, South Korea
Beijing suspended its Gwangju pavilion after a sponsor exhibition was renamed the Taiwan Pavilion.
The Art Newspaper · Sep 1, 2026 ·
readOslo, Norway
Oslo fills an 1877 church with thirty projects built from reused materials, plus a daily sermon.
ArchDaily · Aug 24, 2026 ·
readKonotopie, Poland
A 182-foot concrete and steel Marian statue now towers over a hamlet northwest of Warsaw.
Smithsonian Magazine · Aug 19, 2026 ·
readBrno, Czech Republic
KOGAA converts a shed inside an operating Brno machinery plant, with the turbine makers building the bar.
Dezeen · Sep 1, 2026 ·
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Sky-Tech, Fire & Spectacle
Cologne, Germany
The demoscene staged its first drone show contest, flying community-written artworks over Cologne.
Digitale Kultur · Aug 13, 2026 ·
readBlackpool, England
Blackpool lights a six-mile seafront on 4 September with neon sandcastles and LED cherry blossom.
Blackpool Gazette · Aug 27, 2026 ·
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Expeditions & Bodies at the Edge
Chamonix, France
Ben Dhiman ran 18:16:29 at UTMB, with two more finishing under nineteen hours behind him.
iRunFar · Aug 29, 2026 ·
readBrunnen, Switzerland
Robin Steiner flew 92.58 feet off a water airbag, beating a mark that had stood since 2012.
UPI · Aug 28, 2026 ·
readDallas, Texas
Erica Felicella swung concrete blocks until they shattered, then faced sepsis and multi-organ failure.
Glasstire · Aug 31, 2026 ·
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