Microsoft unifies its AI assistant into one Copilot spanning everyday chat and cowork, natural-language app-building for non-developers, and an autonomous Autopilot agent that keeps working after you close the laptop.
GitHub’s agentic autofix now draws on Copilot Memory, storing each security-fix pattern so future alerts get resolved using the repository’s own patched history.
GitHub Copilot for Slack and Microsoft Teams adds file and attachment awareness, mid-conversation model switching, and duplicate-issue checks before it opens a new one.
PixVerse’s new R2 model builds persistent, navigable environments instead of fixed video clips, letting a prompt or action update the running state of a whole scene rather than just the next frame.
New Runway plugins for Premiere Pro and After Effects generate, restyle and upscale footage directly at the playhead, so results drop straight into the sequence instead of round-tripping through a separate app.
Adobe’s Premiere Pro 26.5 update adds a Generative Media tool that creates video and sound effects from text descriptions directly on the timeline, plus a Paper Edit mode that assembles rough cuts straight from transcripts.
Marko Zaror and Tyrik Johnson join Amazon MGM’s hostage thriller Deadlocked, expanding a Jamie Foxx-led cast that already includes Sasha Calle, KiKi Layne and Luke Hemsworth.
The West of England’s new Greenlight West fund hands productions non-recoupable grants of £50,000 to £500,000, aiming to generate £20.7 million in regional spending and more than 230 jobs.
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Thunder Road Films’ Basil Iwanyk and Lit Entertainment Group’s Adam Kolbrenner combine their outfits into TR/AK Media, pairing a $4.4 billion box-office track record with a book-to-screen pipeline.
Lionsgate and Blumhouse’s Blair Witch Project reboot, directed by Dylan Clark, begins production in Baltimore on October 13, aiming for a fall 2027 release.
Polish mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel is attempting to climb and ski Dhaulagiri without bottled oxygen, his second 8,000-metre descent of the year, as heavy snow, high winds and avalanches batter the mountain.
Frida Escobedo Studio’s underground expansion of Buenos Aires’ MALBA museum will double its exhibition space entirely beneath the existing plaza, leaving its surface untouched.
Artist Nate Page’s new sculpture at Madison’s Imagination Center wears the flags of the area’s immigrant communities on one face and polished steel on the other, reflecting the park back at itself.
More than 1,000 drones form illuminated flower formations above the Chao Phraya River this weekend, closing out the Bangkok Flower Festival at the city’s historic flower-market district.
Cleveland’s IngenuityFest fills a Hamilton Avenue warehouse with over 75 jellyfish sculptures, including a sound-responsive 32-arm installation, alongside projection-mapped inflatables and a water-tracked sound sculpture.
Former truck driver Diogo Aguiar is 2,000 kilometres into an 8,200-kilometre solo kayak of Brazil’s entire coast, against prevailing headwinds, in a fishing kayak locals warned would kill him.
Chinese hiker Zhu Guangyue is walking 4,000 kilometres from his adopted home in Sichuan back to his birthplace in Xinjiang, a journey he began after losing both parents.