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Adobe to acquire Topaz Labs

Adobe today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Topaz Labs, an AI company specializing in video and image enhancement models. Topaz Labs provides a broad array of advanced AI models for video and image enhancement that analyze and improve existing visual content by sharpening detail, removing noise, restoring footage and increasing resolution, making them essential for any workflow that combines real-world capture with AI-generated imagery.

With Topaz Labs, Adobe will expand its video and image model offerings with enhanced models in Adobe Firefly, Firefly Services and Creative Cloud apps, giving creators, designers, video professionals, photographers and enterprises more tools to achieve quality across every format and workflow. Topaz Labs AI technology will be integrated across Adobe’s creative AI portfolio, giving creatives the ability to enhance footage, restore and remaster archival content, and blend AI-generated and traditionally captured content into seamless final productions. Topaz Labs will also bring its proprietary Neurostream technology that enables large, complex AI models to run locally on consumer devices, democratizing advanced image and video models previously limited to high-end systems or cloud-only usage and positioning Adobe to tap into the growing opportunity for efficient, on-device AI video.

https://news.adobe.com/news/2026/06/adobe-to-acquire-topaz-labshttps://www.topazlabs.com

Canva introduces Canva Grow 2.0

Design has always been at the heart of Canva, and that’s meant more than making things look good. For marketing teams, it’s meant finding new ways to help them move faster, do more with less, and create work that actually drives results. But the tools for creating ads, publishing them, and understanding how they performed were always separate, leaving teams to stitch together their own workflow across platforms and start new campaigns largely from scratch.

Canva Grow 2.0 is designed to help teams stop managing tools and start building better campaigns, Canva Grow 2.0 brings ad creation, publishing, and performance optimization into a single AI-native workflow.

The foundation of Canva Grow 2.0 is an upgraded AI-powered ad creation experience that removes the specialist resource and production time that effective ad creation demands. Drop in your website and Canva Grow pulls in your business information, product visuals, brand colors, and audience signals to generate high-performing static and video ads in moments, ready to customize and launch.

Multi-Platform Ad Insights & Reports brings performance reporting into a single visual experience where you can identify top-performing creative, spot trends across campaigns, build custom reports, and share insights across your team without bouncing between platforms.

https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/canva-grow

Acclaro launches multimedia localization orchestration platform

Acclaro, a provider of content intelligence solutions that helps brands communicate with purpose, precision and global impact, announced the launch of Acclaro Multimedia Orchestration, a purpose-built, AI-powered solution set to transform how organizations localize and distribute multimedia content.

Acclaro Multimedia Orchestration combines AI-powered technologies with the company’s human expertise in localization, translation, subtitling, dubbing, lip syncing, and voiceover. By integrating AI into Acclaro’s existing services, organizations can localize multimedia more efficiently, and across a broader range of global distribution channels, to make multilingual content delivery fast, accurate, and scalable.

The holistic solution supports every stage of multimedia globalization across video, audio, and image formats, for both pre-recorded and live content. Flexible workflows range from fully human driven to fully AI automated, enabling organizations to tailor localization approaches to their quality, speed, and scale requirements. Features include:

  • Subtitling with AI-driven translation into 100+ target languages in real-time.
  • Dubbing, Voice Cloning and Audio Separation for multilingual audio content.
  • Voiceover from transcription to recording to quality assurance testing.
  • Lip Synching across multiple languages.
  • Video Personalization for end-to-end video production workflows, from ideation to distribution.
  • Creative Asset Localization enabling organizations to translate images and design files with AI-powered layout adaptation and collaboration tools.

https://www.acclaro.com/news/acclaro-launches-multimedia-localization-platform

Foxit tool detects hidden security threats inside PDFs

Foxit Software introduced a capability designed to uncover hidden security risks inside PDFs, as part of its latest PDF Editor 2026.1 release for Windows and macOS. 

The update is led by PDF Action Inspector, a new tool that proactively scans documents for embedded JavaScript and self-modifying behaviors – threats that can bypass redaction, expose sensitive data, or alter document output without detection. As organizations increasingly rely on PDFs to share critical infrastructure, these risks have become a growing but often overlooked attack surface.

Foxit PDF Editor 2026.1 expands enterprise protection to help organizations manage documents consistently across environments. Microsoft Azure Information Protection is available in the Mac App Store version, enabling unified policy enforcement across Windows and macOS devices. Support for FileOpen-protected PDFs has also been added to Mac editions for Editor and Reader, improving access to DRM-protected content across teams. 

Enhancements to licensing and login stability reduce friction during enterprise rollouts, while a new license page provides clearer visibility into subscription and entitlement details. Additional updates to annotation, file splitting, and page extraction workflows are designed to streamline document tasks and reduce errors. Foxit’s AI Assistant updates are focused on security controls, governance, and compliance alignment. 

https://www.foxit.com/company/press/12181.html

AI agents can now act directly on WordPress.com sites

WordPress.com, Automattic’s hosted website platform built on the open source WordPress software, announced the launch of new write capabilities for its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The update enables AI agents — including Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor — to create, edit, and manage content on WordPress.com sites directly through natural conversation, on behalf of users.

With today’s addition of write capabilities, WordPress.com has extended the agentic web. AI agents can now actively build and manage websites. Where the original MCP server let AI agents read, the new write and content authoring capabilities let them act: drafting posts, editing pages, and managing content on behalf of users, all with explicit user confirmation at every step.

The feature was designed with safeguards to ensure users remain in control. Updates require explicit user confirmation before any action is taken, and changes to already-published content are clearly flagged as going live immediately. The MCP server is opt-in only, with nothing enabled by default.

The MCP write capabilities are available now. The feature is compatible with any MCP-enabled AI agent WordPress.com plans. The MCP server is available to all paid WordPress.com plan users at no additional cost.

https://wordpress.com/blog/2026/03/20/ai-agent-manage-content/

Aprimo unveils Agentic DAM

Aprimo, a provider of digital asset management and content operations solutions, today announced the launch of Aprimo’s Agentic DAM, the next evolution of its digital asset management designed for enterprises, where AI agents increasingly discover, interpret, and act on content.

Aprimo’s Agentic DAM enables AI agents to become first-class content consumers. These agents create, review, govern, and personalize content, while maintaining human oversight and continuous compliance. 

Aprimo’s agents operate persistently across the entire content operations process, from planning, creation, and enrichment to review, transformation, and distribution. Governance is applied continuously, not only at ingestion but at runtime across upstream creative tools and downstream marketing systems.

Aprimo organizes its Agentic DAM into specialized AI agent categories, including Planning Agents, Librarian Agents, Critic Agents, Compliance Agents, and Production Agents. Together, these agents automate repeatable tasks, enrich metadata, validate claims, generate variants, and personalize content dynamically.

Aprimo’s Agentic DAM not only governs content within the DAM repository but extends intelligence across the broader marketing and creative stack. Agents can operate upstream in creative tools to review work in progress and downstream in CMS and campaign systems to validate assets at the point of deployment.

https://www.aprimo.com/platform/digital-asset-management

Research Solutions launches Scite MCP, connecting ChatGPT, Claude, & other AI tools to scientific literature

Research Solutions, provider of AI-powered scientific research tools, launched Scite MCP, which enables researchers and developers to search scientific literature and evaluate the trustworthiness of research findings without leaving the AI tools they already use.

Large language models can generate text on most topics, but coverage of scholarly material is limited, and they struggle to distinguish well-supported findings from contested ones.

Scite MCP solves this by giving AI tools direct access to over 250 million indexed articles, book chapters, preprints, and datasets, along with Scite’s proprietary Smart Citations, which classify each citation as supporting, mentioning, or contrasting findings it references.

  • Answers grounded in trustworthy research: AI tools connected to Scite can return responses backed by specific, verifiable papers rather than generating unsourced claims
  • Citation context: Users and AI agents can see not only that a paper was cited, but also whether subsequent research supported, mentioned, or contrasted its findings
  • Broad literature coverage: Access to over 250 million scientific articles, book chapters, preprints, and datasets
  • Works across tools: Compatible with ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and any MCP-enabled application

Scite MCP currently provides access to Open Access articles, with publisher discussions underway to expand coverage to paywalled content.

https://researchsolutions.investorroom.com/2026-02-26-Research-Solutions-Launches-Scite-MCP,-Connecting-ChatGPT,-Claude,-Other-AI-Tools-To-Scientific-Literature

WP Engine acquires Big Bite

WP Engine, a global web enablement company providing products and solutions for websites built on WordPress, today announced its acquisition of Big Bite, an enterprise agency known for the development of advanced editorial tools to improve how global brands and media organizations create and share digital content.

A longstanding WP Engine agency partner, Big Bite has over a decade of experience developing newsroom platforms, publishing workflows, and specialized tools that combine editorial flexibility with technical excellence. Their publishing expertise has helped transform the digital ecosystems of some of the world’s biggest media brands, including The Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Metro, and Macworld. As part of this transaction, Big Bite’s agency business will be wound down, and its team will transition into WP Engine’s Engineering organization to help build products that enhance publishing solutions for customers and agency partners. 

Big Bite’s publishing expertise, focused on navigating the rapidly changing digital landscape with innovative solutions, will seamlessly integrate into the premium service WP Engine provides its network of global agency partners.

https://wpengine.com/blog/wp-engine-acquires-big-bite/

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