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Adobe Adds AI Assistants to Photoshop, Premiere, and Illustrator — and Firefly Now Remembers Your Projects
Adobe is rolling out bespoke AI assistants across Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io in public beta, while a redesigned Firefly studio gains persistent project memory.
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G7 Leaders Warn U.S. AI Kill-Switch Risk Is Real After Anthropic Fable 5 Blackout
French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised the alarm at the G7 after the Trump administration's abrupt export order took Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline globally — including for U.S. users.
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Pinterest's 'Ask Pinterest' App Brings Conversational AI to Visual Shopping Discovery
Pinterest has launched Ask Pinterest, an experimental standalone app that lets users find products and inspiration through a conversational AI interface — a signal of where visual discovery is heading.
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Big Tech's Federal AI Preemption Push: What a Single U.S. Law Could Mean for Creators
Tech lobbyists are pushing hard for a federal AI law that would override state regulations. For AI-art creators, the outcome could determine which tools stay legal, how platforms handle content, and what liability rules apply.
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ChatGPT Falls Below 50% Market Share for First Time, But Still Leads with 1.1B Monthly Users
ChatGPT's share of the AI assistant market has dropped below 50% for the first time, according to TechCrunch — but with 1.1 billion monthly users, it still dwarfs Gemini's 662M and Claude's 245M.
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SpaceX Acquires AI Coding Platform Cursor for $60 Billion in Stock
SpaceX is buying Cursor, the AI coding assistant, for $60 billion in stock — a bet on enterprise AI that signals how seriously the rocket company is chasing OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Meta Launches Facebook AI Mode Search Powered by Public Posts
Meta's new AI Mode on Facebook surfaces AI-generated answers drawn from public posts across its platforms — a shift that could change how creators research styles, trends, and communities.
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Inside the Anthropic Mythos 5 and Fable 5 Export Control Fight With the Trump Administration
On June 12th, the Trump administration ordered Anthropic to block all foreign access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models — and the fight that followed exposed how fragile frontier AI access can be for anyone outside the US.
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Indian AI Startup Sarvam Hits $1B Valuation with $234M Funding Round
Bengaluru-based AI startup Sarvam AI reaches unicorn status with a $234 million Series B round led by HCLTech, marking India's growing influence in AI model development.
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Skydio's Autonomous Drones: What AI-Powered Flight Means for Visual Creators
Skydio's autonomous drones use onboard AI to navigate and capture footage independently — a development that's quietly reshaping how creators source real-world reference imagery and video.
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Salesforce Buys AI Agent Platform Fin for $3.6 Billion to Power Agentforce
Salesforce is spending $3.6 billion to acquire Fin, an AI customer service platform, folding its technology into Agentforce — the enterprise agent-building tool used by the businesses that commission creative and marketing work.
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