Good night. Framer just shipped "Logo Shaders," turning your static brand mark into a kinetic, animated visual right on the canvas.
Also: Replit teamed up with Plaid so that anyone can spin up a custom financial app in under five minutes.
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✨ Framer launches "Logo Shaders"
Framer just shipped "Logo Shaders", a new way to add animated, light-based effects to your brand mark directly inside the canvas.
Drop in your logo, pick a shader, and turn a static graphic into something that moves, glows, or shifts in real time.
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APPS
📱 Replit teams up with Plaid
Replit just announced a partnership with Plaid that lets anyone build custom financial applications in under five minutes.
Plug in Plaid's financial data infrastructure, prompt Replit, and spin up a working personal finance tool, expense tracker, or budgeting app without writing code from scratch.
What's Plaid? Plaid is the service that securely connects apps to your bank accounts (it's the infrastructure behind Venmo, Robinhood, and Chime, among others). Now that toolkit is a few clicks away inside Replit.
PHOTOGRAPHY
📸 Adobe Stock adds "AI Studio"
Adobe just relaunched Adobe Stock with AI Studio built directly into the site, letting you tweak images and video before you download them.
Find an almost-perfect photo, then adjust lighting, swap wardrobe colors, change a subject's expression, or turn a still image into a 5-second video without leaving Stock.
Note: Adobe is sunsetting Customize today, with AI Studio replacing it going forward.
What you can do inside AI Studio:
Type to Edit: Describe what you want and watch the image update (shift lighting, refine expressions, add elements, change the time of day).
Change Mood: One-click adjustments to lighting, tone, and atmosphere.
Change Color: Swap preset palettes or paste a hex code to match your brand.
Animate Image: Bring stills to life with 5-second motion.
Audio Match: Pair video clips with an AI-generated soundtrack in seconds.
📰 Other news you might've missed:
OpenAI introduced workspace agents in ChatGPT, shared agents that handle complex, long-running tasks across tools and teams.
X rolled out joinable group chat links in XChat (up to 350 members) and announced it's deprecating Communities on May 6.
Anthropic brought interactive charts and diagrams to Claude Cowork (in beta on all paid plans).
Figma brought Make preview to its mobile app, so you can view and interact with your Figma Make projects from your phone.
Figma shipped major performance improvements, with vector editing up to 10x faster, smoother frame rates, and 92% fewer memory warnings.
ElevenLabs added GPT Image 2 to ElevenCreative.
Notion added a breadcrumb browser that shows sibling pages on hover for easier navigation.
Notion renamed "Database agents" back to Autofill, now offered in Basic (Biz + Ent plans) and Custom Agent flavors.
Replit launched Auto Protect.
HeyGen opened up direct timeline editing in HyperFrames, letting you drag in the preview and update the video instantly.
Bolt rebuilt project sharing from the ground up with Viewer/Editor/Co-owner roles and new public/private publishing controls.
Bolt refreshed its homepage with a new projects dashboard, thumbnails, starring, and quick rename/transfer.
Leonardo launched Pro Upscaler, its strongest upscaling tool yet — built for AI images and scales up to 105MP.
Higgsfield introduced Marketing Studio (powered by Hermes Agent) for generating viral UGC ads in a few clicks.
Restream added Ask AI to its Analytics, surfacing what worked in your stream and what to do next in plain English.
OpenArt launched Multi View, generating multiple shots (close-ups, mood scenes, lifestyle) from a single image.
Shipper shipped multiple versions + draft preview, letting you compare variations side by side before publishing.
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