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Canva Unveils Brush, an AI Model Built to Edit Designs at Lower Cost
Canva spent the past week showing off an AI model that creates images, and now it’s turning to the harder task of reworking them. On Thursday, the company introduced Brush, an in-house vision-language model built to edit designs. Because Brush reads both what’s in a design and how it’s arranged, Canva AI users can make […]
With Craft, Canva Turns Its Design Templates Into an AI Advantage Over Adobe
For the past year, Canva has worked to become what it calls a creative operating system: a single platform where AI, design, and productivity come together. To make that idea a reality, the company has been developing its own models to handle everything from style transfer to video generation faster and more cheaply than frontier […]
Adobe Widens Its ChatGPT Presence With Plugin Built for Creative Workflows
When Adobe began abandoning shrink-wrapped software for the cloud in 2011, it dragged the entire industry toward subscriptions. Now the company is attempting its next migration, this time into territory it doesn’t control: chatbots. On Thursday, Adobe launched a plugin for ChatGPT that brings more than 70 of its tools natively into an assistant used […]
Web IQ Is Microsoft Rebuilding Search Around the Machines
Search engines learned what a good result looked like by observing how people behaved. A click followed by a long page stay signaled satisfaction, while a quick bounce back to the search results signaled a miss. Microsoft built its Bing search engine on those patterns. But in the AI era, there’s a type of user […]
Adobe Express Isn’t a Creative Tool. It’s Connective Tissue.
At almost every Adobe announcement lately, something slips in near the end: a mention of how the latest AI innovation connects to Adobe Express. Not as a headline. As a footnote. The app—formerly known as Adobe Spark before Adobe rebranded it in 2021—keeps showing up at the edges of bigger news, whether it’s Acrobat, Firefly, […]
This Adobe Sneak Uses AI to Rethink the Personalized Web
Cookies have long been the default tool brands reach for when personalizing the web. For over 30 years, small text files stored in browsers have given companies a window into how users move across the web—and a way to tailor ads and content accordingly. But privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA, restrictions in browsers […]
Canva Was a Design Platform With AI Tools. Now It’s an AI Platform With Design Tools.
When Melanie Perkins, Cameron Adams, and Cliff Obrecht launched Canva 13 years ago, the goal was to make design accessible to everyone. Back then, it was a territory reserved for specialists. Adobe’s suite was the industry standard—powerful, but complex and expensive enough to keep most people out. Creating a polished presentation or a simple marketing […]
Adobe’s Quick Cut Automates the Video Grind, Keeping Creators Inspired
Adobe is introducing a new feature aimed at easing the post-production workload for video creators. Launching today in the Adobe Firefly video editor, Quick Cut uses AI to assemble clips into a structured timeline, giving creators an instant first cut to refine—no more debating over how to manually piece together footage. “We designed Quick Cut […]
Adobe Acrobat Now Turns PDFs into Presentations, Podcasts
Adobe is doubling down on artificial intelligence in Acrobat, aiming to expand what’s possible with PDFs. Using natural language prompts, users can now turn these digital documents into entirely new formats, from presentations to podcasts. This update builds on Adobe’s broader push to modernize PDFs for the AI era. Last summer, the company introduced Acrobat […]
JWX Acquires AI Video Startup Aug X Labs, Folding Augie Studio Into Its Enterprise Media Stack
Aug X Labs, the creator of AI-powered video app Augie Studio, has been acquired by video technology firm JWX. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the deal includes the full retention of Aug X Labs’ team, with co-founders Jeremy Toeman and JT White moving into executive roles once the deal closes. In addition, because JWX […]