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AI Video
Palmier Pro launched this week as a Mac-native video editor with AI generation built directly into the timeline, plus an MCP integration that lets agents like Claude edit projects directly.
vimeo
Bending Spoons, the company that gutted Vimeo's staff after acquiring it, just filed to go public on the Nasdaq at a roughly $20 billion target valuation.
AI Video
Higgsfield is offering 30 days of unlimited Seedance access, but creators are already finding the fine print: it's a separate, lower-resolution model, not unlimited Seedance 2.0 itself.
Seedance
Online chatter about a possible Seedance 2.5 is picking up. Here’s what would actually make an update worth the upgrade for filmmakers, and what would just be a letdown.
canon
Canon's EOS R6 V is real and shipping in June, but rumor sites point to a lot more on the way in 2026, including a possible second "world's first" lens and a retro EOS R8.
Unreal Engine
Puget Systems is adding Unreal Engine to its Puget Bench for Creators platform, bringing real-world benchmark testing to real-time 3D workflows for the first time. Public beta expected late Q3 or early Q4 2026.
AI Video
Taste Labs launched out of stealth on June 16 with $18.5M in seed funding to build the data and infrastructure layer that gives AI models and agents genuine aesthetic judgment, starting with design.
AI Video
xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 promises better motion, built-in synced audio, and generation speeds nearly twice as fast as before, now live on the API and in the Grok app.
Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine 5.8 launched today as Epic's last major UE5 release, bringing an official AI agent plugin and full-body markerless capture to MetaHuman Animator.
cinematography
Shooting a one-person interview that feels intentional — not like a YouTube video — comes down to a handful of decisions that have nothing to do with budget.
Lenses
Viltrox has launched its AF 28mm f/4.5 Chip lens for L-Mount at $99, making it the only autofocus pancake available for the mount and a direct answer to the Panasonic Lumix 26mm f/8.
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro warned an industry crowd in Hollywood that 'we are on the verge of cinema illiteracy' during a BFI America dinner celebrating his BFI Fellowship. The speech continued a pattern of deliberate, sustained warnings about AI and the erosion of creative craft.