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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 […]
SAP Expands Tabular AI Lineup With RPT-2 and New Forecasting and Decision Models
For nearly a year, SAP has relied on a single general-purpose AI model to make predictions from business data rows and columns. At its annual TechEd conference this week, the company expanded that lineup with SAP-RPT-2, a next-generation model, and two specialized models for forecasting and decision-making. First introduced in November 2025, SAP’s Relational Pre-Trained […]
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 […]
Amazon’s SageMaker Gives Developers More Control Over How They Train AI Models
Amazon Web Services (AWS) now lets machine learning engineers, applied researchers, and data scientists write the training code for their AI models while the company supplies the computing power. On Thursday, AWS made a feature called training sessions generally available in Amazon SageMaker, expanding a service that lets customers fine-tune open-weight models without managing hardware. […]
Ai2 Releases OlmoEarth v1.3 With Free Satellite Embeddings for the Entire Planet
For two years, gold miners moved through the rainforest along the edge of Peru’s Tambopata National Reserve, clearing more than 1,200 hectares around a settlement called La Pampa, according to Amazon Conservation’s MAAP monitoring program. In February 2019, the country’s government launched a crackdown to shut down the mining operations. Since then, conservationists have asked […]
AWS Releases Strands Decider 2B, a Small Model for an AI Agent’s Routine Decisions
In the 16 months since Amazon Web Services (AWS) released Strands Agents, its open-source SDK for building AI agents, the project has steadily grown beyond that original toolkit. Since then, the company has added a labs program for experimenting with new approaches to agentic AI and released a harness for running agents, among other things. […]
Adobe Firefly Graduates Its Audio Tools and Adds a Free Tier to Its AI Assistant
Sound is usually the last thing a creator adds to a project, and the first thing anyone watching it notices. It’s also the point where the work stops. The edit is finished, the pacing is right, and then comes the detour: out to a stock library, through a licensing page, into a subscription in search […]
Snowflake Will Now Pick Which AI Model Handles Your Task
Snowflake has announced a feature that will soon automatically select the best AI model to handle a customer’s request—and it may not even be one from Anthropic or OpenAI. Dynamic model routing, in Cortex AI as a private preview, is the AI data cloud company’s answer to enterprises that have moved away from the one-model-fits-all […]
OpenClaw Won. Big Tech Is Now Playing Its Game.
The definition of an AI agent has evolved rapidly since the term first entered the zeitgeist. The earliest versions were chatbots with better manners: systems that answered questions, drafted text, and waited for the next prompt. Tool use and function calling took them a step further, allowing models to query databases or call APIs, but […]
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 […]