Hollywood's AI divide deepens as the Oscars ban AI-generated acting and writing from eligibility while the Golden Globes allow AI use, sparking fierce debate across the industry as major talent agencies, Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, and hundreds of celebrities sign petitions against AI, raising urgent questions about whether human creativity …
Hundreds pack a New York City gallery for the 'AI Psychosis Summit,' a deliberately non-corporate, Diet Coke-fueled celebration of AI creativity featuring art, vibe-coded apps, and quirky projects like a subway-map jazz generator, organized by a scrappy group of online friends aiming to inject culture and humor into the AI …
Anthropic integrates Claude with major creative platforms including Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Ableton, and Autodesk, enabling AI-powered assistance directly within these tools while also joining Blender's Development Fund as a Corporate Patron alongside Netflix and Epic Games.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0, a powerful next-generation image model capable of web searching, generating up to eight images from one prompt, and maintaining character continuity, now available to all ChatGPT users with advanced thinking features reserved for paid subscribers.
Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new AI-powered visual creation tool built on Claude Opus 4.7 that enables teams to generate flyers, slides, and prototypes from simple text prompts while maintaining brand consistency through integrated design assets and seamless export options.
Google Gemini now generates personalized images using your photos and connected app data — no extra setup required — rolling out to paid US users as Google pulls ahead of Apple in the AI personal intelligence race.
Canva launches AI 2.0 with a conversational design interface, letting users create and edit designs using plain text descriptions, featuring persistent memory, Object-Based Intelligence, and third-party integrations with Slack, Gmail, and Google Drive — rolling out now to the first one million users.
Adobe launches its Firefly AI Assistant, enabling creators to execute complex, multi-step workflows across Photoshop, Premiere, and Illustrator using plain language commands while learning user preferences over time.
At CinemaCon in Las Vegas, MPA Chairman Charles Rivkin champions AI as a storytelling tool rather than a human replacement, while Cinema United's Michael O'Leary warns that the looming Warner Bros. and Paramount merger could shrink theatrical film output and damage the entire entertainment ecosystem.
AI is reshaping the professional landscape by shifting the hardest challenge from execution to articulation, suddenly making taste, judgment, and problem-definition the most critical skills — and placing designers, who have always mastered identifying true human needs, at the center of the AI-powered future.