NextDesign
Analysis
Disney’s First CTO Turns Technology Into a Creative Mandate
Karandeep Anand will oversee AI, data, product, engineering and infrastructure as Disney tries to make technology a companywide creative and growth system.
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Topic: Creative Technology
NextEnt
Rapid News Brief
Roblox Will Let Creators Take Games Beyond Its App
Roblox is expanding AI-assisted creation while preparing standalone and browser-based distribution for games built with its engine.
NextTech
News Brief
Runway Launches AI Router for Video, Image and Audio
Runway’s Media Router chooses among generative video, image and audio models based on cost, speed and quality through one developer endpoint.
NextTech
Analysis
Sony and TSMC Are Betting $4.7 Billion on the Future of Seeing
A new Sony-controlled venture will combine sensor design and advanced manufacturing to produce smartphone image sensors from 2029.
NextDesign
Analysis
Why Vintage Computers Feel More Legible Than Modern AI
Collectors are drawn to machines they can inspect, repair and understand—a useful contrast with today’s invisible AI systems.
NextTech
News Brief
OpenAI Acquires NextSlide as ChatGPT Moves Deeper Into Presentations
NextSlide’s team has joined OpenAI to work on ChatGPT, bringing expertise in turning prompts, notes and documents into polished, editable presentations.
NextDesign
News Brief
Disney and TikTok Bring Creator Videos to Disney+
An opt-in pilot will place selected Disney-focused TikTok videos in the Verts feed on Disney+ and give creators access to approved franchise assets.
NextDesign
Analysis
AI Is Changing the Design Review Before It Changes the Designer’s Role
Layered generation, design agents and code on the canvas are multiplying the number of viable directions a team can evaluate.
NextCommerce
Analysis
Getty and Shutterstock Walk Away From Their Merger
Getty terminated its $3.7 billion agreement with Shutterstock after U.K. regulators required the sale of Shutterstock’s global editorial business.
NextDesign
News Brief
Meta’s Muse Image Turns Image Generation Into an Agentic Workflow
Meta’s newest image model can search, write code, combine references and revise its own output before returning a finished visual.