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Gilbane Advisor 4-22-26 — Flight simulator, neurosymbolic AI

April 22, 2026 /

Featured articles from:  Rohit Krishnan, and Gary Marcus.

Additional reading from: Michael Andrews, Kurt Cagle & Chloe Shannon, Stanford HAI, Ship X/ TechX.

News from: Adobe, Canva, Tiny Technologies, Pantheon.

Our next issue arrives 5/6/26.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index

Opinion / Analysis

Can we build a management flight simulator?

Turns out, yes

This piece is a follow-up from Rohit Krishnan’s article last month on world models, in particular enterprise world models. He has now built an experimental world model flight simulator for testing practical applications for large (and small) companies, and illustrates its use with real public data from the Enron scandal. Really interesting. (8 min)

https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/can-we-build-a-management-flight

Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI

And vindication for Apple’s unfairly maligned 2025 reasoning paper

Gary Marcus celebrates a new paper from Tufts that backs up Apple’s earlier research on LLM reasoning, and a showed a neurosymbolic hybrid out-performed LLMs, including VLAs (Vision-Language-Action models) (4 min)

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/even-more-good-news-for-the-future

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Tiny Technologies debuts TinyMCE AI

TinyMCE AI gives content teams everything they need to write, refine and review conversational AI, text transformations without leaving the editor.
https://www.tiny.cloud/tinymce/

Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant with new creative agent

Creators direct outcomes as the assistant orchestrates and executes multi-step workflows across Creative Cloud apps in a single conversational interface.
https://news.adobe.com/news/2026/04/adobe-new-creative-agent

Canva introduces Canva AI 2.0

New architecture layer spans conversational design, iterative agentic editing, layered object intelligence, and living memory, alongside six new workflows.
https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/canva-create-2026-ai/

Pantheon adds Next.js to WebOps platform

The platform for WordPress and Drupal now runs Next.js, reducing multi-vendor complexity, unifying IT, developers, and marketers around a single system.
https://pantheon.io/platform/nextjs

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Tiny Technologies debuts TinyMCE AI

April 16, 2026 /

Tiny Technologies announced the release and general availability of TinyMCE AI, a fully integrated AI writing environment built into the editor.

TinyMCE AI gives content teams everything they need to write, refine and review conversational AI, instant text transformations and automated quality checks without leaving the editor. This addition to the platform means that developers can meet user demand for robust AI content capabilities without adding a technical burden to application teams or imposing model lock-in.

With the new functionalities, developers can enable enterprise-grade AI features via a simple drop-in module. Content teams gain a collaborative writing partner that helps with research, understands the context of a full document, suggests changes through familiar editing markups, adapts to brand guidelines through custom prompts, and automatically catches quality issues.

Starting with version 8.4, key features include:

  • Conversational AI Chat: Enables multi-turn, natural-language conversations with awareness of the active document, and the ability to add additional context via web searches and file attachments.
  • Context-Aware Quick Actions: Applies rewriting, expansion, shortening and tone adjustments.
  • AI Review: Runs automated quality checks; delivers inline suggestions to improve clarity, consistency and accuracy.
  • Custom Prompts: Organizations can define and enforce brand voice, style guidelines, and content standards.

https://www.tiny.cloud/tinymce

Canva introduces Canva AI 2.0

April 15, 2026 /

Canva introduced Canva AI 2.0, transforming Canva into a conversational, agentic platform where teams can go from the spark of an idea to complete, published work in one place.

Powered by the Canva Design Model – a foundation model built to understand the structure, hierarchy, and complexity of real-world design – Canva AI 2.0 generates layered, editable output from a single prompt, and gets smarter the more you use it.

Available as a research preview, Canva AI 2.0 introduces a new architecture layer spanning conversational design, iterative agentic editing, layered object intelligence, and living memory, alongside six new intelligent workflows: connectors, scheduling, web research, brand intelligence, Sheets AI, and Canva Code 2.0.

Conversational design Describe an idea, goal, or rough structure, and Canva AI generates an editable design with layout, hierarchy, and brand, then stays with you throughout the process.

Agentic orchestration gives Canva AI access to Canva’s complete design engine, calling the right tools at the right time.

Layered object intelligence everything Canva AI generates is built from scratch using individual, editable objects.

Memory Library turns interactions into building blocks. With persistent memory, Canva AI 2.0 understands how you work, keeps every project on brand, and applies your style automatically.

https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/canva-create-2026-ai

Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant with new creative agent

April 15, 2026 /

Adobe unveiled Firefly AI Assistant, powered by Adobe’s creative agent, bringing Adobe’s creative tools into a single conversational interface. Available soon in Adobe Firefly, an all-in-one creative AI studio, Firefly AI Assistant enables creators to describe the outcome they want using their own words as the assistant orchestrates and executes complex, multi-step workflows across Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps, including Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, Illustrator and more.

For creators of all levels, this shift to agentic creation simplifies the process of getting started and making progress quickly without navigating multiple apps or manual steps. For creative professionals, it unlocks the ability to direct more complex, multi-step workflows, combining speed with the control and precision required for high-quality creative work.

Adobe also expanded Firefly’s video and image editing capabilities, introducing new features in Firefly Video Editor including studio-quality sound, advanced color adjustments and Adobe Stock integration, as well as new precision image editing capabilities such as Precision Flow and AI Markup.

Adobe will also bring this new way of creating with Adobe apps to third-party AI models including Anthropic’s Claude, enabling creators to access the best of Adobe directly across the surfaces where they work every day.

https://news.adobe.com/news/2026/04/adobe-new-creative-agent

Pantheon adds Next.js to WebOps platform

April 14, 2026 /

Pantheon, a WebOps platform for running the web as one system, released managed Next.js. Changing how organizations deploy modern frameworks; moving from fragmented, multi-vendor stacks toward cohesive website operations where WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js sites are managed in one place. 

With Next.js part of Pantheon.io’s WebOps platform, teams can move from fragmented workflows to a unified system that manages CMS and frontend under one dashboard, one workflow, and one contract. 

  • Operational Velocity on a Single Stack: Eliminate the second vendor tax by unifying WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js on the same platform. A single Git workflow and the Terminus CLI allow developers to manage the CMS and frontend as one, using real-time GitHub build syncing to ship faster.
  • Enterprise Governance Without Bottlenecks: Automated CI/CD, Secrets Management, and Multidev environments ensure pull requests are tested before production. Standardized runtime controls provide enterprise-scale security without handoff delays.
  • Faster Publishing and Technical SEO: Move content in parallel with code. Content Publisher syncs Google Docs and Microsoft Word directly to your Next.js frontend — no dev ticket required. Integrated caching and a global CDN ensure sub-second load times, boosting user retention and AI/search authority signals.
  • Predictable Costs at Professional Scale: Contract-based pricing eliminates bandwidth overages and per-invocation charges.

https://pantheon.io/platform/nextjs

Gilbane Advisor 4-8-26 — HAIC benchmarks, capability thinking

April 8, 2026 /

Featured articles: Angela Aristidou, and Daniel Kocot.

Additional reading: Kurt Cagle & Chloe Shannon, Caleb Sponheim, Sarah Perez, and Scott Brinker.

News: Box, MadCap, Progress, and Fox..

Our next issue arrives 4/22/26.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index

Opinion / Analysis

AI benchmarks are broken. Here’s what we need instead.

“AI is almost never used in the way it is benchmarked. Although researchers and industry have started to improve benchmarking by moving beyond static tests to more dynamic evaluation methods, these innovations resolve only part of the issue. That’s because they still evaluate AI’s performance outside the human teams and organizational workflows where its real-world performance ultimately unfolds.”

Angela Aristidou proposes a different approach that deserves attention.  (6 min)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/31/1134833/ai-benchmarks-are-broken-heres-what-we-need-instead

APIs don’t follow domains. They follow capabilities.

Why Domain Driven Design alone leads to leaky APIs and how capability thinking creates stable and evolvable interfaces

Daniel Kocot has some good architectural advice on APIs and domain driven design roles, and how to keep them in sync with desired outcomes over time. (4 min)

https://architecturalbytes.substack.com/p/apis-dont-follow-domains-they-follow

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Content Technology News

MadCap updates MadCap Syndicate platform

Features enrich user experiences, content management and integration, maximize quality of AI-generated content, and improves effectiveness of AI agents.
https://www.madcapsoftware.com/press-release/madcap-syndicate-brings-ai-enablement-to-corporate-content/

Box unveils the Box Agent

Acts as a unified AI engine across Box, leveraging the latest reasoning models to search company files, analyze critical data, and generate content.
https://www.boxinvestorrelations.com/news-and-media/news/press-release-details/2026/Box-Unveils-the-Box-Agent-to-Transform-How-Enterprises-Work-With-Content/default.aspx

Progress Software updates Sitefinity Generative CMS

Enables operationalization of GenAI across websites, portals & digital experiences – supporting AI search, conversational interfaces & personalized content delivery.
https://investors.progress.com/news-releases/news-release-details/progress-software-delivers-sitefinity-generative-cms-ai-driven

Foxit tool detects hidden security threats inside PDFs

PDF Action Inspector proactively scans documents for embedded JavaScript and self-modifying behaviors that can bypass redaction, expose sensitive data, or alter document output.
https://www.foxit.com/company/press/12181.html

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MadCap updates MadCap Syndicate platform

April 2, 2026 /

MadCap Software, Inc., a provider of multi-channel content authoring, management and publishing software, introduced the Spring 2026 release of MadCap Syndicate, a platform for content delivery, aggregation, and artificial intelligence (AI) enablement. The new version adds AI-powered features for enriching users’ experiences, managing content, maximizing the quality of AI-generated content and analysis, and improving the effectiveness of AI agents.

  • AI-Powered Semantic Search. Syndicate supports AI-powered semantic search that understands the context of content whether answering a user’s question or conducting duplicate content analysis.
  • Portals enable the creation of customized public or private portals that provide top-to-bottom control of the user experience and leverage the power of Syndicate’s semantic AI.
  • Tech Docs Integration provides direct, seamless connections to MadCap Flare and MadCap IXIA CCMS for technical documentation, complementing learning and development content, further facilitating content unification.
  • Automated Content Classification and Tagging driven by AI and machine learning improves search and analysis by content teams and AI agents.

All features of the Spring 2026 release of MadCap Syndicate are available today, except semantic duplication analysis and automated content classification and tagging, which will be released in April 2026.

https://www.madcapsoftware.com/press-release/madcap-syndicate-brings-ai-enablement-to-corporate-content

Box unveils the Box Agent

April 2, 2026 /

Box, Inc., an Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, announced the general availability of the Box Agent, an AI-powered capability that takes natural language instructions to reason and complete complex tasks, allowing enterprises to work more effectively with unstructured data. Acting as a unified AI engine across Box, the Box Agent leverages the latest advanced reasoning models to securely search company files, analyze and synthesize critical data, and generate new content, while respecting Box’s enterprise-grade security, governance, and permissions controls. Box also announced enhancements to Box AI Studio, allowing admins to develop custom agents tailored to complex, business-specific use cases.

Leveraging AI capabilities from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, the Box Agent is able to autonomously understand a user’s intent based on their prompt, find the right content needed to execute that task, reflect on the work it needs to do, and iterate until it can successfully answer the user’s request. This all takes place within Box AI’s new conversational interface, which provides the ability to revisit previous sessions where users can iterate, refine, and return to work from where they left off.

Customers on the Enterprise Plus and Enterprise Advanced plans can start using the Box Agent today.

https://www.boxinvestorrelations.com/news-and-media/news/press-release-details/2026/Box-Unveils-the-Box-Agent-to-Transform-How-Enterprises-Work-With-Content/default.aspx

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