Story
The summer AI calendar has become a product map
ICML and SIGGRAPH now sit alongside developer conferences as launch surfaces for models and tools.
Topic dossier · Reviewed
Creative Tools
Software for image, video, audio, writing, and design work.
Editorial scope
Creative Tools
Software for image, video, audio, writing, and design work.
Essential coverage
Story
Runway is building a studio around the model
Generative video becomes a media company when tools, production, and distribution meet.
Story
Midjourney remains the strange independent lab in the image race
Its product culture offers a counterexample to both hyperscale platforms and enterprise AI.
Story
ElevenLabs is turning voice into infrastructure
Synthetic speech now spans narration, localization, accessibility, and agent interfaces.
Story
Canva is broadening design without dissolving the craft
Generative tools make production easier while increasing the value of systems, taste, and governance.
Story
Creative AI companies are learning to speak in workflows
The model is less visible when it becomes one step in editing, collaboration, rights, and delivery.
Feature
The independent labs shaping generative culture
Midjourney, Runway, and ElevenLabs are building aesthetics as well as infrastructure.
Interview
Cristóbal Valenzuela on the language of generated video
A sourced conversation about models becoming production tools.
Research
The hidden work in a generated video
A workflow analysis of prompting, selection, editing, sound, rights, and delivery.
News brief
SIGGRAPH opens in Los Angeles on July 19
The graphics conference arrives as generative video becomes a production category.
Podcast · Signal Path
Signal Path 06: Voice becomes an interface
Synthetic speech is moving from media production into agents and accessibility.