Lead · Two Frontier Labs, One Afternoon, Every Price Moving Down
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5.5 at 20% below Opus 5; OpenAI answers the same afternoon with GPT-6 models at half the old price.
Agentic Coding
Guardrails
Copilot for JetBrains 1.18 auto-approves low-risk tool calls, lets you rewind a session, and shares org-wide skills.
GitHub Changelog · Sep 22, 2026 ·
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The GitHub Copilot app adds OpenTelemetry export of agent activity through enterprise-managed settings.
GitHub Changelog · Sep 22, 2026 ·
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Copilot CLI builds a persistent whole-codebase index for C++, including files that are not open.
GitHub Changelog · Sep 22, 2026 ·
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Simon Willison and Jesse Vincent host an agentic-engineering Birds of a Feather evening in San Francisco on October 14.
Simon Willison’s Weblog · Sep 23, 2026 ·
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Film Production & Generative Video
Pushback
Asked the AI question at a BAFTA Life in Pictures event, Cruise delivered an extended defence of human-made cinema.
Deadline · Sep 22, 2026 ·
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OpenAI’s Sora 2 API is scheduled for removal on September 24, completing a two-stage shutdown.
OpenAI Help Center · Sep 24, 2026 cutoff ·
readVoice
Simon Willison highlights a TikTok creator arguing AI-scripted videos give themselves away through an absence of opinion.
Simon Willison’s Weblog · Sep 22, 2026 ·
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Utopai Studios and DeNA partner to test Utopai’s PAI system inside experimental anime production.
Variety · Sep 2026 ·
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AI Editing & Post Workflow
Retreat
Evoto 8.0 brings portrait retouching inside DaVinci Resolve and Premiere and opens a creator asset marketplace.
RedShark News · Sep 23, 2026 ·
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Adobe Premiere mobile launches free on Android with a multi-track timeline and one-tap Enhance Audio.
9to5Google · Sep 22, 2026 ·
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Lead · The Merger Arithmetic Is Already Done for 2027
Deadline counts 36 theatrical releases already dated for 2027 across the merged studio, above the 30-film settlement floor.
Financing & Deals
Acquisition
Sony Pictures takes North America and more on Roshan Sethi’s The Surgeon with Michelle Yeoh and Martin Freeman.
Variety · Sep 22, 2026 ·
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The fifth Creative Investors’ Conference with CAA Media Finance runs Sept. 22–23 alongside a Cannes investor delegation.
Variety · Sep 22, 2026 ·
readAcquisition
Cinema Guild buys North American rights to Ted Fendt’s Foreign Travel ahead of its New York Film Festival launch.
Variety · Sep 2026 ·
readRegional
San Sebastián’s 74th edition carries 31 titles with Basque production involvement, 19 of them world premieres.
Variety · Sep 2026 ·
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New Producing Players
Leadership
Former Cinecittà chief Nicola Maccanico is named CEO of Rainbow Group’s Rome-based Colorado Film.
Variety · Sep 21, 2026 ·
readNetwork
Hollywood Ventures Group launches Producers365 and pairs with the Hayes brothers’ First-Look platform.
The Hollywood Reporter · Sep 2026 ·
readOwnership
A look at which companies are capturing the growth behind the Basque Country’s production surge.
Variety · Sep 2026 ·
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Films Being Made
Wrap
David Robert Mitchell’s They Follow wraps with Maika Monroe back as Jay; Neon releases in the U.S.
Bloody Disgusting · Sep 21, 2026 ·
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Lionsgate and Kingdom Story Company’s My Jesus casts Aliza Kate Barlow as Anne Wilson; shooting starts next month.
Deadline · Sep 22, 2026 ·
readPickup
Searchlight lands Lorraine Nicholson’s debut Playmates with Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Pullman and Indiana Elle.
Deadline · Sep 22, 2026 ·
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Lead · Brooklyn Bridge, New York
Anita Glesta projects AQUA COSMOS onto the Brooklyn Bridge for two nights, bringing the hidden Hudson Canyon ashore.
Earthworks, Cities & Structures
Sydney Harbour
Besley & Spresser’s Pier Pavilion, clad in rock-oyster-shell terrazzo, makes the Dezeen Awards 2026 shortlist.
Dezeen · Sep 21, 2026 ·
readP·P·O·W, New York
Hew Locke hangs a flotilla of embellished miniature ships in The Wanderers, on view through October 24.
Colossal · Sep 2026 ·
readNew York City
From the Bronx to the Lower East Side, New York’s museum construction boom continues with more projects in the pipeline.
The Art Newspaper · Sep 21, 2026 ·
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Sky-Tech, Fire & Spectacle
Grand Rapids → Low Earth Orbit
ArtPrize 2026 will digitise its public-vote winner onto a plaque aboard a Reflect Orbital satellite.
FOX 17 · Sep 18, 2026 ·
readTANK Shanghai
The first MM·ARTech+ residency premieres nine projection-mapping works across TANK Shanghai’s curved facades.
Motion Magic via FinancialContent · Sep 22, 2026 ·
readToronto
Nuit Blanche Toronto marks its 20th edition, dusk to dawn Oct. 3–4, under the theme Tomorrow’s Memories.
Destination Ontario · Oct 3–4, 2026 ·
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Expeditions & Bodies at the Edge
Patagonia → Atlantic
Two Argentinian kayakers set off September 25 on a month-long, possibly first, Andes-to-Atlantic crossing.
ExplorersWeb · Sep 22, 2026 ·
readDhaulagiri, Nepal
As big teams airlift out, two independent climbers ride out the storm under Dhaulagiri hoping for a no-O2 push.
ExplorersWeb · Sep 22, 2026 ·
readGreenland Ice Sheet
An eight-man UK forces team finishes a 666km Nansen-variant ice sheet crossing as Greenland’s summer season closes.
ExplorersWeb · Sep 18, 2026 ·
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