Good night. Adobe Research just previewed MotionStream, a new AI video tool that gives creators real-time control over how their generated clips actually move.
Also: Google just brought AI Mode to Chrome, turning the address bar into a full-on AI search experience.
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VIDEO EDITING
🎬 Adobe previews "MotionStream" for AI video
Adobe just unveiled "MotionStream", a new technique that gives creators precise, real-time control over motion inside AI-generated video.
Instead of generating a clip and hoping it moves the way you imagined, you steer the motion as the video is being made (think drawing a path or guiding a subject, and the AI follows).
Note: MotionStream is currently a research preview and isn't inside Firefly or Premiere Pro yet. Adobe's research papers tend to become product features down the line, so this is worth keeping an eye on.
Adobe Firefly is where features like this typically land once they exit research.
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APPS
🔍 Google brings "AI Mode" to Chrome
Google just rolled out "AI Mode" directly inside Chrome's address bar, so you can ask conversational questions and get AI-generated answers without ever hitting a search results page.
A few things it can do:
Ask a question from the omnibox and get an AI answer with links, images, and follow-up suggestions inline.
Ask about the page you're currently on without opening a new tab.
Keep the context going across follow-up questions, chat-style.
Note: These updates are live in the U.S. on Chrome desktop and mobile, and just expanded to Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam on desktop and iOS.
CODING
📱 Replit releases "Mobile Apps" from any project
Replit just added the ability to turn any website you've built on the platform into a native mobile app and ship it to the App Store, all from inside your existing project.
You just open your app and ask the Agent.
This closes one of the biggest gaps for non-technical builders. You could ship a web app in a weekend on Replit, but getting that same app into the App Store meant learning native development or hiring someone. Now it's another prompt.
Replit is a browser-based coding environment with an AI Agent that builds full-stack apps from plain-English prompts.
📰 Other news you might've missed
Claude added live artifacts to Claude Cowork, so dashboards and trackers connected to your apps and files refresh with current data whenever you open them.
After Effects launched a beta that lets you copy & paste Illustrator and SVG content directly as native shape layers.
Notion combined Mail and Calendar connections into one Settings tab, letting Notion AI schedule meetings and draft emails across accounts.
Descript upgraded Underlord to Claude Opus 4.7 (faster, better, cheaper than Opus 4.6).
Replit also shipped an Excel Generator that creates formatted spreadsheets in minutes.
beehiiv added clipboard image pasting to its website builder (copy, drop, done).
Bolt made its select tool smarter, auto-picking the topmost useful layer with Alt-click and "Pick from layers" for deeper control.
Artlist launched Artlist Studio, its new creative workspace, to the public.
Filmora added AI Eye Contact Correction (powered by NVIDIA Maxine), fixing off-camera gazes in one click.
Flora baked Techniques into FAUNA, so one prompt now pulls the right workflow automatically.
Tella added native Intercom Help Center embedding for Tella videos.
Shaders shipped v2.5.104 with new WebGPU-powered Fog, Smoke, and SmokeFill presets that fill logos with atmospheric effects.
ADVERTISING
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