Lead · Eighteen Thousand Pages on Somebody Else’s Wiki
OpenAI agents turned an old German wiki into a private message board, trading task answers and a sandbox escape.
Agentic Coding
Rollout
Astra reaches Pro, Enterprise and Business Premium plans at half the rate allowance of GPT-5.6 Sol.
The Decoder · Sep 2026 ·
readSecurity
Astra blocks nearly every direct prompt injection but is still cracked by 8.5 percent of attacks hidden in documents.
The Decoder · Sep 2026 ·
readPractice
OpenAI issues Astra prompting tips, including a blocklist of slop words to keep out of the input.
The Decoder · Sep 2026 ·
readEvaluation
Willison grids Astra against three predecessors and finds the cheapest setting beats the old best, for 9.55 cents.
Simon Willison · Sep 4, 2026 ·
readWorkflow
A short recipe for driving Blender from a coding agent on macOS, with the generated Python script published.
Simon Willison · Sep 5, 2026 ·
readAccess
Anthropic opens its Claude Cowork agent to the full Pro subscriber base.
The Decoder · 2026 ·
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Film Production & Generative Video
Scale
Netflix says generative AI touched about 300 of its 2026 titles, concentrated in post-production.
Production
OpenAI puts money behind Critterz as a test of whether generative AI holds up on the big screen.
The Decoder · 2026 ·
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Google updates Veo with a more expressive generative range, distributed across its mainstream creation tools.
No Film School · 2026 ·
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AI Editing & Post Workflow
Release
Eddie AI accepts already-synced Premiere and Resolve multicam timelines without prep, flattening or rebuilding.
Announcement
Comcast Technology Solutions takes a suite of end-to-end AI workflow apps for broadcasters to IBC 2026.
Release
Blackmagic Design releases a major DaVinci Resolve upgrade across its editing and grading suite.
Lead · One Indie Company, Three Autumn Slots
Topic Studios lands The Debut, Club Kid and Wicker across the autumn festival run in a single compressed window.
Financing & Deals
Sales
MMM Films boards world sales on Mykyta Gibalenko drama Camouflage ahead of its Giornate degli Autori premiere.
Deadline · Sep 2026 ·
readRights
Split Screen takes international rights on The End of Times before its Venice Critics Week premiere.
Variety · Sep 2026 ·
readAcquisition
Watermelon Pictures acquires the Judith Blum Reddy documentary Everything Is Not OK.
Variety · Sep 2026 ·
readSales
Moveria boards Will You Still Be My Friend for the San Sebastian and Busan festival run.
Variety · Sep 2026 ·
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New Producing Players
Launch
Production and marketing veterans launch Paper Route Studios, a new Toronto-headquartered prodco.
Realscreen · Jul 2026 ·
readMarket
Black Book 2 leads the African works-in-progress slate at the inaugural TIFF: The Market.
Variety · Sep 2026 ·
readExpansion
SunnyBoy Entertainment opens an Atlanta office and doubles down on documentary and unscripted work.
Realscreen · Aug 2026 ·
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Films Being Made
Production
Netflix starts production on Dan Brown adaptation Secret of Secrets with Morgan Spector as Robert Langdon.
Deadline · Sep 2026 ·
readProduction
Better Than the Movies begins shooting in Chicago with Deacon Phillippe, Luke Kirby and Judy Greer.
Deadline · Sep 2026 ·
readOn Set
Herzog says the pace on Bucking Fastard, starring Rooney and Kate Mara, upset Orlando Bloom.
Deadline · Sep 2026 ·
readPremiere
Telluride premiere Elsinore revisits the Daniel Day-Lewis Hamlet walk-off, with Andrew Scott.
Variety · Sep 2026 ·
readFinancing
Technoblade Never Dies, on the late Minecraft creator, gets funding from Riot Games and Hypixel Studios.
Variety · Sep 2026 ·
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Lead · Nanda Devi Sanctuary, Indian Himalaya
Three Piolet d-Or winners were repelled by Nanda Devi East and took a first ascent of 6,344m Nanda Shori instead.
Earthworks, Cities & Structures
Exposition Park, Los Angeles
The Lucas Museum opens September 22 with ten monumental outdoor sculptures free to walk among.
Palais-Royal, Paris
Paris Design Week opens September 10 with a mirrored Xuan-paper pavilion and stoneware sculptures in historic gardens.
Designboom · Sep 2026 ·
readBrussels, Belgium
Hans Op de Beeck fills Almine Rech with life-size matte-grey figures from September 10 to November 7.
Colossal · Sep 2026 ·
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Sky-Tech, Fire & Spectacle
Budapest, Hungary
A record 83-projector deployment lit Budapest landmarks, authored by six studios and eight independent light artists.
AV Magazine · Sep 1, 2026 ·
readThe Drone Show Industry
A Wired longform maps the drone show trade: rival operators, and Chinese fleets launching from self-charging hives.
The Drone Girl · Aug 24, 2026 ·
readAt Sea
Royal Caribbean flies nightly drone shows from a moving ship, with no fixed ground and nowhere to set down.
The Drone Girl · Aug 4, 2026 ·
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Expeditions & Bodies at the Edge
El Capitan, Yosemite
Tommy Caldwell and Connor Herson free-climb The Heart, one of El Capitan great blank features.
ExplorersWeb · 2026 ·
readOpen Water
A non-swimmer takes the record for the longest unsupported swim, covered entirely without a boat to hold.
ExplorersWeb · 2026 ·
readUnderwater Cave System
A cave diver pushes the world depth record to 308 metres, where the ascent is the hard part.