Image created with gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: Muted documentary-style photograph of a cramped Chinese print shop interior, elderly worker beside vintage offset press surrounded by stacks of paper and metal type cases, fire horse standing naturally in background near doorway, grimy windows showing half-demolished buildings outside, overcast daylight filtering through dust, desaturated gray-green-beige palette, flat natural lighting, observational realism composition, large white Chinese cinema-style text overlay reading PUBLISHING, 35mm film aesthetic

Introducing the WordPress AI Assistant — Now Built Into WordPress.com https://wordpress.com/blog/2026/02/17/wordpress-ai-assistant/?irclickid=x2NzhwXFExycWR-WHYQ6WUG6UkuxLzQR1Sn8Vw0&sharedid=engadget.com&irpid=10078&irgwc=1&afsrc=1

To get an idea of the near-term future of work with AI, take a look at the official Claude Cowork plugins, which give the AI specialized knowledge for various hard tasks A natural successor for GPTs, but built for agents (& therefore much more scalable & customizable for firms)”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2023113346162336137

The browser agent in Comet now runs on Claude Sonnet 4.6 for all Perplexity Pro users. Max users can choose between Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6.”” https://x.com/comet/status/2023889197556441464

From Claude Code to Figma: Turning Production Code into Editable Figma Designs | Figma Blog https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-claude-code-to-figma/

Improved Web Search with Dynamic Filtering | Claude https://claude.com/blog/improved-web-search-with-dynamic-filtering

All tracks generated in Gemini are embedded with SynthID, our imperceptible watermark for identifying Google AI-generated content. We are also giving you more tools to help identify AI content, broadening our verification capabilities to include audio. Simply upload a file and”” https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/2024153548641177781

Is that track AI-generated? Now you can just ask @GeminiApp. We’ve broadened our verification tools so you can now upload audio files to Gemini to check for SynthID — our imperceptible watermark on AI-generated content. Just upload a file and ask: “”Was this created using Google”” https://x.com/Google/status/2024172104711823678

We just dropped Lyria 3: our latest generative music model. 🔊 It can turn photos and text into dynamic tracks – complete with vocals and lyrics. 🧵”” https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2024153067654902014

Use Lyria 3 to create music tracks in the Gemini app https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/lyria-3/

Reddit In Case You Saw It: We are Testing a New Shopping Product Experience in Search https://redditinc.com/news/in-case-you-saw-it-we-are-testing-a-new-shopping-product-experience-in-search

Interfaces are slowly leaving the screen. Instead of pressing buttons, you interact with things that behave like real objects in space. In this case, music stops being a timeline and becomes something you can walk around, touch, and reshape from any angle. And for my dear”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2021948191784960024

The Future of Design Is Code and Canvas | Figma Blog https://www.figma.com/blog/the-future-of-design-is-code-and-canvas/

A short film Jia Zhangke produced using Seedance 2.0 for Chinese New Year (Subtitled) – YouTube

As promised, here’s the short film Jia Zhangke produced using Seedance 2.0 for Chinese New Year and his take on AI filmmaking”” https://x.com/FrankYan2/status/2023257752017981446

ByteDance Seed https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seed2

Jia Zhangke is considered one of the greatest living directors… not an AI hack. He’s worth Googling. I’m overwhelmed by the critical acclaim he has, and his brazen “look at me make an AI video” flex. The X video has subtitles, and the YouTube one has commentary in the description from Vanity Fair.

Primer: Where to start with Jia Zhangke
https://www.avclub.com/primer-jia-zhangke

Ranking the Jia Zhangke Films – The Reel World

Ranking the Jia Zhangke Films

the first official AI movie is here and.. its wild China’s top director Jia Zhangke was so impressed by Seedance 2.0 that he made a film himself.. in just 3 days when asked if AI will replace filmmakers, he said cinema has always moved with tech. Digital cameras didn’t kill”” https://x.com/EHuanglu/status/2023449238114320514

Where to begin with Jia Zhangke | BFI
https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/where-begin-jia-zhangke

WORLD APART: THE FILMS OF JIA ZHANGKE
https://www.artforum.com/features/world-apart-the-films-of-jia-zhangke-171661/

WebMCP is the future of the web. Agents can now interact with any website without ever seeing the UI. I built a starter template to show how: A DoorDash like app where the agent adds items to cart and checks out with the right address + promo code. The browser is now the API.”” https://x.com/skirano/status/2022387763421810989

Don’t read the replies”” has taken on an entirely different context as the replies are now from AIs who write meaning-shaped comments that you actually have to spend a split second thinking about. Gets around the defenses of those of us used to filtering bad & stupid comments”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2022472041514041525

AMC Theaters Will Refuse to Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ai-short-movie-amc-theaters-1236509143/

Cohere labs just released the best multilingual low resource language model. it runs on a phone, It covers 70+ languages and excels at languages underrepresented on the internet, like Zulu, Javanese, Yoruba, and others.”” https://x.com/nickfrosst/status/2023756803717427467

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