I used Nano Banana 2 to make perfect sketchnotes: 5 lessons learned (and how I broke Gemini)

The results were fascinating, impressive, and sometimes surprisingly bad. Here are five tips that can help you get better results faster.
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Visual Studio Code previews agent plugins

Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP servers, and hooks.

‘Project Hail Mary’ Director Says ‘There’s No Green Screen in the Movie Whatsoever’ but Clarifies There’s 2,018 VFX Shots: ‘Not a Single Green or Blue Screen Was ...

Phil Lord and Chris Miller rejected the use of green screens during the making of 'Project Hail Mary' with Ryan Gosling.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Pro and Thinking versions

GPT-5.4 is billed as "our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work." ...

OpenAI introduces GPT-5.4 with more knowledge-work capability

GPT-5.4 is another model update focused on usefulness for agentic tasks, particularly knowledge work. OpenAI says this is its first model explicitly aimed at computer-use tasks; like competing models, ...

OpenAI’s new flagship GPT model can control your PC

When paired with an AI agent system, GPT-5.4 can click a mouse, type keyboard commands, browse the web, and control computer apps.

Google’s AI Mode in Search now lets you plan, write, and code on its own Canvas

Google Search has updated Canvas inside AI Mode, a workspace powered by Gemini that already lets users draft and refine documents, to now support coding projects and interactive tools. With the latest ...

If you’re into AI coding, OpenAI just puts its Codex on Windows

OpenAI has launched its Codex app on Windows, bringing a native AI coding assistant with project management, automations, and WSL support for developers.