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Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Canva set its AI ambitions too high.

The company has reportedly slashed its revenue forecast for 2026 by a third after relying too heavily on frontier models from other providers to drive AI features on the platform. According to Startup Daily, here’s what CEO Melanie Perkins had to say in an update to shareholders:

“Several of our first-party models were not yet ready for release, and our pricing, consumption model and usage controls had not caught up with the outsized demand we were seeing.”

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
AI is now designing brand new biological viruses.

A new study published in the journal Science used genome language models to produce viruses we’ve never seen before in nature. The resulting bacteriophages pose no threat to humans. The research simultaneously raises hope for medical advances, while stoking fear that AI could enable the creation of new diseases and biological weapons.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Anthropic is hiring an “Insider Risk Investigator.”

The job’s responsibilities include conducting insider risk investigations, monitoring and triaging “external threats targeting employees,” and conducting “sensitive interviews of employees or other involved parties.”

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Two men convicted in France over the death of a Kick ‘humiliation streamer.’

The New York Times reports that Owen Cenazandotti and Safine Hamadi were convicted of aggravated violence, incitement to hatred, and violence online related to Raphaël Graven’s death during a Kick livestream last year. Cenazandotti and Hamadi both face suspended prison terms, fines, and a six-month ban from posting on Kick.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Today’s Vergecast: The next big thing in movies is 60-year-old IMAX tech.

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is the first feature film ever shot entirely with IMAX 70mm film cameras, which is apparently a very big deal, and why it’s been harder than usual to get a ticket to see Matt Damon on the biggest screen. Now that Spider-Man is moving onto IMAX screens, it may be even harder.

So, why is this 60-year-old tech suddenly the hottest thing in movies? The Verge’s Charles Pulliam-Moore joins The Vergecast to compare the standard and IMAX versions of The Odyssey and talk us through the difference between IMAX, LieMAX, and Infinity Vision.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
YouTube now lets creators practice making vertical live videos.

The new practice mode offers creators a chance test things out privately before really going live.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Nothing could launch six new phones in 2027.

Co-founder Akis Evangelidis told Times Now Tech that the company may double the number of phones it launches next year while “expanding its product portfolio across multiple categories,” including audio. He also says Nothing’s “looking at different ways” to launch a new CMF Phone next year, after this year’s was cancelled.

It’s still too early to discuss individual products, but I can say we’ve launched three smartphones (Nothing Phone 4a, Phone 4a Pro and Phone 4b) this year, and we’re looking to launch twice that number next year. We’ll share more details closer to launch, but the idea is to have a wider range of smartphones.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Quake just got a new, free expansion.

Quake: Dawn of the Machine includes 19 “all-new maps across a cohesive campaign” as well as “a brand-new soundtrack, hidden secrets, a dedicated episode hub, and an all-new deathmatch map.” It’s available now.

id Software collaborated with MachineGames on the expansion to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the game.

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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google DeepMind says its AI model can predict tropical cyclones sooner.

The company shared research about how its WeatherNext AI model can predict a cyclone’s track, intensity, and wind structure up to 15 days in advance, giving “forecasters an extra day’s worth of predictive accuracy.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The Matrix, re-resurrected.

Warner Bros. Discovery gave a tiny update on the planned fifth Matrix film on Thursday, saying that the movie is scheduled to release sometime “beyond 2027.”

The company also announced that it’s making a live-action Jetsons movie starring Jim Carrey. Seems like a great pick?

Q2 2026 Shareholder Letter

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