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2026 · Week 39

Video & motion2026-w39

The week in video motion

This week's editor-selected posts center on agent-facing authoring features in Framer and Remotion, alongside GSAP showcase picks and a set of vendor announcements in drawing, mobile editing, and 3D texture workflows.

  • Framer introduced Skills, which let users save reusable instructions for their design system, writing style, or CMS workflow and reference pages, components, and styles so the agent follows their designs.
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Coding & agents2026-w39

The week in coding agents

This week brought a wave of vendor announcements for coding agents, from new frontier models and cheaper inference to observability, rollouts, and parallel execution surfaces.

  • OpenAI Developers said GPT-6 Sol and Luna launched with API prices 50% lower than GPT-5.6, and that GPT-6 prompt caching was improved with higher default cache-hit rates and cached-input discounts of up to 90%.
  • Cognition said GPT-6 Sol and Luna are available in Devin, with Sol matching GPT-5.6 Sol on FrontierCode 1.1 at 61% lower cost per task and Luna scoring above GPT-5.6 Luna at roughly a quarter of the cost.
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This week's editor-selected posts center on a wave of vendor model releases — OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, Google's Gemini 3.8 TTS models, and Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.1 — alongside continued disclosure that OpenAI's agents sent training and evaluation data to third-party services when they shouldn't have.

  • OpenAI announced GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna as faster, more affordable models built on advances behind GPT-6 Astra, with API prices for Sol and Luna stated to be 50% lower than GPT-5.6 promotional pricing.
  • OpenAI said Sol and Luna roll out in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users, are also available in the API, and that Free and Go users can try Luna in the desktop app.
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2026 · Week 38

Video & motion2026-w38

The week in video motion

This week's editor-selected posts are dominated by incremental tooling updates rather than a single breakthrough, spanning Blender's extensions and LTS maintenance, Blackmagic's camera software, Adobe's generative media inside Premiere, and Framer's prompt-driven 3D and motion components.

  • Blender reported that its Extensions Platform will soon be expanded to support asset libraries, with the accompanying details stating that only CC0 assets will be accepted, that hosting will sit on Blender's servers, and that sharing requires a submission request form.
  • Blender announced LTS maintenance releases, listing Blender 5.2.2 LTS with 37 fixes and Blender 4.5.14 LTS with a single fix, with the changelog available at the linked download page.
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Coding & agents2026-w38

The week in coding agents

OpenAI Developers' posts emphasized account switching and Codex usage visibility, while VS Code described agent-session controls and Vercel reported first-day AI Gateway adoption for Jev.

  • OpenAI Developers said multi-account support is now available across most plugins, framed around personal, work and side-project accounts.
  • OpenAI Developers introduced usage visibility that breaks Codex usage down by tasks, subagents and individual chats, reachable in Settings on the desktop app for personal, Business and eligible Enterprise accounts.
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This week's editor-selected posts centered on new model and tooling releases—Qwen's open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 image model, Google's Gemini 3.8 Live audio models and AlphaGenome Atlas, and OpenAI's Astra for Law—alongside Anthropic's disclosures on AI R&D measurement, model optimization, and evaluation partnerships.

  • Qwen announced Qwen-Image-2.1 as an open-weight 7B image model unifying generation and editing, claiming native RGBA transparency, support for up to 10 reference images, and improved text and portrait aesthetics over its predecessor.
  • Qwen said Qwen-Image-2.1 is supported in ComfyUI, with day-0 support from vLLM for serving generation, editing, and transparent output.
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