Lead · Agentic Coding
Simon Willison quotes the team's post on how Claude reviews and fixes most changes before a human looks.
Agentic Coding
Copilot
It complements CodeQL for PHP, Shell, Terraform and Dockerfiles; findings are advisory.
Compliance
A merge ruleset and an endpoint let agents check packages against org license policy.
Agents
It can open PRs and issues across repos and use shared Slack threads as context.
Claude Code
The AINews recap for Oct 15-16 also launches a "High Taste Testers" lunch series.
Codex
A ChatGPT plugin helped drive up to 10x growth in agent creation.
Film Production & Generative Video
Generative Video
An OpenAI customer story on longer generated video with voice.
On Set
A No Film School podcast with Brian Duffield and Daniel Kraus on adapting the novel.
AI Editing & Post Workflow
Post Tools
NVIDIA RTX Spark comes to Photoshop, Premiere and Substance 3D.
Desk Notice · Film
The Trades Were Unreachable This Morning, So the Film Desk Is Holding Its Pages
No dated Oct 12-17 financing, new-player or greenlight items could be verified, so none are printed.
The Frontier Ledger · Oct 17, 2026
Lead · Cities & Structures
Nakshabid Architects' passive-design factory in Rangpur is the fifth winner of the biennial prize.
Earthworks, Cities & Structures
Material Reuse
An installation by Giona Bierens de Haan uses salvaged car parts as structure.
Expeditions & Bodies at the Edge
Sea Meadows
Seagrass studied was 1.6 times more nutritionally multifunctional than coral reefs.
Listening Deep
An interview with MareCet's Saliza Bono on noise and Malaysian dolphins.
Invasion
Fishers off Porto Seguro have caught at least 440 invasive lionfish.