Aug 15, 2026
Suno shipped a studio, signed with BMG, and put a meter on downloads, all in one week. The meter starts September 3.
Aug 11, 2026
Everyone is writing image prompts as neat objects now, and the pictures do look better. The reason is not the one being shared, and knowing the real one makes the tidiness optional.
Aug 10, 2026
Meta published a 30 billion parameter multimodal model today, small enough for one consumer card. The size will get the headlines. The three words that matter for paid work are Apache two point zero.
Aug 8, 2026
Runway's Unlimited plan runs until August 31 and becomes Max on September 1. If you pay annually, your decision is due this month, and what goes away is the part that let you look before you knew.
Aug 7, 2026
Liquid AI put a 2.6 billion parameter model on Hugging Face on August 4 that runs in under 2.5 GB of memory. It makes no pictures at all, which is exactly why it is worth your attention this week.
Aug 6, 2026
The five image jobs people are most often asked to produce, each written as a complete brief you can paste today, with the lines that must not move held apart from the lines left open.
Aug 5, 2026
A macro portrait, a product, an interior, a second shot of the same character, and a short clip. Each one complete, each one with the single line to change first.
Aug 4, 2026
Take one prompt you already use and write it out as an object. Three fields, one entry per thing in the picture, and a position only where the position is the point.
Aug 3, 2026
Plain sentences, comma tags, blocks you keep constant, and JSON. Ideogram 4.0 reads JSON natively, and its own guide tells you when to stop using it.
