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Lead · Agentic Coding

Advancing Coding in Low-Resource Programming Languages

OpenAI describes work to improve ChatGPT across low-resource programming languages.

OpenAI · Oct 19, 2026 · Read the story →

Agentic Coding

Copilot

GitHub Retires Six Models From Copilot as of Oct. 19, Pointing to GPT-6.1 Sol and Gemini 3.8 Flash

Gemini 3.7 Flash, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 and others are deprecated across Copilot Chat, agent mode and completions.

GitHub Changelog · Oct 19, 2026 · Read the story →

Copilot

Copilot Model Policy API Reaches General Availability for Enterprises, Orgs and Teams

GET and PATCH endpoints now let admins manage which Copilot models are allowed.

GitHub Changelog · Oct 19, 2026 · Read the story →

Commentary

My Obituary for Programming: Willison Links a Post on What Agents Do to the Puzzle of Code

Willison points to Jeremy Scheff on how coding agents affect programmers who loved the puzzle.

Simon Willison · Oct 19, 2026 · Read the story →

Models

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Lands With 552B Parameters Under an MIT License

Latent Space recap cites Artificial Analysis listing 16B active parameters and an MIT license.

Latent Space · Oct 20, 2026 · Read the story →

Agents

The EU's Next Chapter in AI Is Agentic, OpenAI Analysis Argues

New analysis shows agentic AI adoption growing across EU enterprises and small businesses.

OpenAI · Oct 14, 2026 · Read the story →

Film Production & Generative Video

Video Models

FLUX 3 Max Video Model From fal and BFL Surfaces in Latent Space Recap

The recap mentions a FLUX 3 Max video model from fal x BFL.

Latent Space · Oct 20, 2026 · Read the story →

AI Editing & Post Workflow

Premiere

Premiere Beta Enhance Audio Separates Speech, Music, Ambience, Effects and Reverb in One Pass

A sponsored ProVideo Coalition piece covers stem separation inside the edit, with Split to Clips for turnover.

ProVideo Coalition · Oct 19, 2026 · Read the story →

DaVinci Resolve

Blackmagic Runs an "AI Sale": 20% Off DaVinci Resolve Studio

The sale runs through Nov. 20 and brings Studio to $236.

No Film School · Oct 20, 2026 · Read the story →

Editing

Cutting Primetime: Editor Daniel Garber on Taming a Mountain of Footage

Garber on organizing footage from 14 cameras in many formats.

No Film School · Oct 19, 2026 · Read the story →

Lead · Financing & Deals

Reese Witherspoon Partners With Mediawan to Buy Hello Sunshine

Deadline reports a Witherspoon–Mediawan partnership to buy her Hello Sunshine banner.

Deadline · Oct 2026 · Read the story →

Financing & Deals

Studios

New Line Cinema Boss Richard Brener Poised to Jump to New Paramount-Warner Bros.

Deadline headline on the post-merger leadership picture.

Deadline · Oct 2026 · Read the story →

Capital

Why Film Studios Are Trading Sound Stages for Data Centers

Private capital is moving from production into AI infrastructure, with some stages converted.

No Film School · Oct 19, 2026 · Read the story →

Lead · Sky-Tech, Fire & Spectacle

What If a Museum Facade Became a Screen of Words? Jenny Holzer's ÉCLAIRÉ Lights Up the Musée d'Orsay

Holzer projects about 250 excerpts by 34 authors onto the Seine-facing facade, Oct. 18-22, 7-11 pm.

Designboom · Oct 19, 2026 · Read the story →

Earthworks, Cities & Structures

Earthworks

What If a Painting Were Too Big for Any Museum? Chipperfield Builds Kiefer's "Black Flakes" Its Own Pavilion

A 140 m² concrete pavilion in Künzelsau houses a painting more than 11 m tall.

Designboom · Oct 19, 2026 · Read the story →

Sky-Tech, Fire & Spectacle

Light

What If Glass Rods Remembered the Wind? Studio DRIFT's "Aeolus" Responds to Visitors' Movement

Illuminated glass rods react to motion; on view through Oct. 25 at Ladbroke Hall, London.

Colossal · Oct 19, 2026 · Read the story →