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What if coding felt like jamming with a band rather than orchestrating a solo concert? With Cursor 2.0, coding takes on a new rhythm, powered by an AI that works fast and fluid. Designers are in for a treat too, as they gain access to Canva's newly free tool packed with top-tier features. But that's not all—AI-generated video sensation OpenAI Sora is capturing imaginations worldwide.

Ready to see what these new developments can do for you?

In This Issue:

• 💥 Big News: Uncover how AI coding and design tools are reshaping creativity, and watch AI video take on a new global stage

• ✨ Weekly Spotlight: Unify voice AI features with one API to streamline app building like never before

• 🔥 Hot Tools: See the top tools that streamline everything from presentations to CRM insight enhancement

• 🛠️ Deep Dives: Check out tools that simplify content creation, enable intuitive workflows, and translate seamlessly across languages

💥 Big News

Cursor 2.0 Makes AI Coding Actually Fun

Ever wish coding felt less like debugging and more like teamwork? Cursor 2.0 delivers with a major update to its AI code editor. The new Composer model runs four times faster and finishes most tasks in under 30 seconds. You can launch up to eight agents at once, each testing, fixing, and even browsing directly from inside the editor.

Coding With Backup

• Composer speeds through code with near-instant completion

• Run up to eight agents in separate, safe environments

• Browser integration lets AI test live UI flows directly

Canva Relaunches Affinity As A Free Powerhouse

Big news for designers. Canva has made Affinity free for everyone, combining professional photo editing, vector illustration, and publishing tools in one powerful app. It works across Mac and Windows, with iPad support on the way. Canva Pro users also unlock AI features like Generative Fill, background removal, and instant image generation.

Spreadsheet Upgrade

• Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher now in one free app

• Works across Mac and Windows with iPad coming soon

• Canva Pro unlocks advanced AI design features inside the app

OpenAI Sora Expands To Android Users

AI video just went worldwide. OpenAI’s Sora, the viral app that hit one million downloads on iOS in five days, is now live on Android. It turns imagination into endlessly scrollable, social-ready clips in seconds. You can star in your own AI-generated videos, create Character Cameos that stick around, and scroll through a feed that feels part TikTok, part future of entertainment.

AI Video Goes Mainstream

• Android rollout opens the floodgates for creators everywhere

• Cameos make recurring AI avatars your digital twin

• New safeguards keep deepfakes and copyright issues in check

💫 Check out all 175 AI products, features, & news Big Tech released this week.

✨ Weekly Spotlight

Build Production-Ready Voice AI Apps with a Single API

AssemblyAI brings transcription, speaker detection, PII redaction, topic detection & LLM integration together in one powerful API. Instead of stitching multiple tools, you build complete, intelligent voice products in minutes—faster to test, easier to scale, and more accurate out of the box.

• Unify key voice AI features with one easy-to-use API

• Speed up development by replacing five vendors with one platform

• Improve accuracy with industry-leading speech-to-text & understanding

• Scale effortlessly to millions of users without contracts or throttling

🔥 Hot Tools

8 Top & Trending AI Tool Releases This Week

• ChatFeatured: Rank your brand #1 on ChatGPT and Perplexity**

• Gatsbi: Generates research ideas, drafts papers, writes patents**

• okkslides: Create professional presentations with design suggestions**

• BrandCrowd: Generate logos, business cards, and social media designs**

• Doco: The best AI Agent for Microsoft Word**

• Floqer: Enhance CRM insights with real-time data enrichment

• Jinna.ai: Automates invoicing and follow-ups for small businesses

• build0: Create apps without coding to streamline workflows

**Featured

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🛠️ Deep Dives

1. Castmagic: AI-Powered Content From Audio & Video

Why It’s Worth Your Time

• Save hours & multiply output by turning recordings into diverse content

• Generate context-aware text like blogs, social posts, newsletters & scripts

• Get accurate transcriptions with speaker labeling in 60+ languages

• Collaborate effortlessly with shareable pages, team assignments & comment threads

• Manage workflows using the Content Pipeline for scheduling & status tracking

• Customize with prompts & Magic Chat for iterative AI content refinement

Pricing

• Free Trial: Users begin with a 7-day free trial to explore transcription and AI tools

• Paid Plans (from $29 per month): Hobby, Starter, and Business tiers increase transcription hours (5–80 hours), cloud storage (10GB–1TB), and seat limits (5–20). All include multilingual transcription, AI outputs, custom prompts, Magic Chat, and unlimited re-generations, with higher plans adding more collaboration and storage

2. Gooey.AI: Low-Code AI Workflows For Everyone

Why It’s Worth Your Time

• Build AI workflows without coding using a model-agnostic, low-code platform

• Support multiple AI models including GPT-5, Gemini, Claude & LLaMA

• Create shareable AI recipes for tasks like document search & email indexing

• Enable multilingual chatbots to reach diverse users in local languages

• Boost frontline productivity with AI assistants for technical guidance

• Scale securely on cloud infrastructure with Kubernetes and modern web standards

Pricing

• Free Plan: 500 free credits, then 1,000 for $10. Includes public workflows, one shared workspace (up to 5 members), API access, TTS and Lipsync tools, and up to 5,000 workflow runs

• Paid Plans (from $399 per month): Private workspaces, compliance features, advanced concurrency, custom workflows, and premium support. Enterprise adds unlimited runs, API calls, on-prem deployment, and AI consulting

3. ZipZap.AI: Real-Time Multilingual Translation & Writing

Why It’s Worth Your Time

• Translate content instantly across Twitter, Discord & web pages without switching tabs

• Get AI-powered writing help with natural, professional tone using ChatGPT models

• Use speech-to-text & immersive reading for smoother language learning & communication

• Automate workflows & analyze text to boost productivity & comprehension

• Protect privacy with CCPA & GDPR compliance for secure data handling

• Enjoy a user-friendly browser extension that works seamlessly with stable internet

Pricing

• Free Plan: 10 free ZPoints (about 7,500 words of AI power) with access to immersive translation on X, Discord, and web pages, plus GPT-3.5 chat and input box translation

• Paid Plans (from $6.99 per month): Pro and Pro+ add GPT-4o chat, faster access speed, priority features, 24/7 support, and 1,000–2,000 ZPoints monthly for up to 1.5 million words of translation power

⏭️ What’s Next

From faster coding to free design tools and viral AI videos, it’s clear the future of creation is speeding up. Every week feels like a new gear shift — and we’re only getting started.

Tuesday, we’ll be back with a fresh How-To featuring one of our favorite tools. No spoilers yet, but let’s just say it’s one you’ll want open in a second tab.