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AI for Designers.
Image generation got the headlines; the useful tools are about iteration speed and design-system consistency. We track Figma plugins, prototyping copilots, and image tools — and we note which ones you can use in client work without licensing landmines.
Featured for designers.
Marketers · Writers
ChatGPT Work.
A long-running AI work agent for real tasks.
We tested ChatGPT Work on two demanding jobs that go beyond normal chatbot demos: making and publishing a YouTube video from a minimal prompt, and finishing a half-built mobile app through the Apple Developer publishing…
- Workflow automation
- Video production
- Voice generation
- App publishing
- Research
- Knowledge work
Designers · Engineers
Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol.
A side-by-side Blender animation test of two AI models.
This review puts two flagship models through the same creative-coding job: write a Blender script that builds, lights, animates, and renders a 30-second 3D film. The contenders are Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 at Max…
- 3D animation scripting
- Blender scene generation
- AI model comparison
Engineers · Designers
Claude Opus 5.
An agentic model for complex software builds.
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's high-end model for complex agentic coding, long-running work, and difficult reasoning. Our hands-on build suggests it can turn a compact product brief into an unusually complete and visually…
- Agentic coding
- Web app prototyping
- Codebase refactoring
- Long-horizon reasoning
Designers · Engineers
Reactor LingBot World 2.
Real-time AI world generation in the browser.
Reactor LingBot World 2 is an early browser-accessible way to try LingBot-World 2.0, also called LingBot-World-Infinity by Robbyant. The pitch is exciting: give the model a reference image and a prose prompt, then…
- AI world generation
- Interactive prototyping
- Game concept testing
- Visual research
The next shelf.
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Figma Make.
Prompt to working prototype.
We think Figma Make is promising for fast prototyping, but the public feedback is clearly more mixed than the marketing suggests. It is best understood as a design-to-prototype shortcut, not a reliable way to skip…
- Prototyping
- Web app generation
From the dispatch.
All news →Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol: same Blender prompt, two animations
Oct 2, 2026·6 min readOpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents with their own computers
Oct 1, 2026·5 min readOpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol nears Astra at one-fifth the price
Oct 1, 2026·5 min readOpenAI cancels GPT-6.1 Astra release after safety tests
Sep 29, 2026·5 min readAnthropic says Claude helped make claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks
Sep 25, 2026·6 min readOpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna with lower prices for Codex and agent work
Sep 23, 2026·6 min readKey terms.
Full glossary →- Agent hookAn automatic handler that runs at a defined point in an AI agent's workflow, such as before a tool call or after a file edit.
- Content provenanceSignals attached to a file that record how it was made, including whether a model generated it.
- MultimodalAn AI that works across more than just text — reading images, audio, and video, not only words.
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