Video editors, your AI just moved in. Runway shipped a free plugin for DaVinci Resolve Studio, and it's a genuine time-saver for anyone producing video content or running a creative shop. You can generate images and video, restyle the footage sitting under your playhead, and drop the result straight onto your timeline or into your Media Pool, all without switching apps or losing your place. The plugin costs nothing to download. Generating clips pulls from your existing paid Runway plan credits. If you've been bouncing between Runway's browser tab and your edit bay, that round-trip just ended. Get it here.
The AI coding assistant that forgets everything just got a memory. Cursor's new Projects feature is a real shift. The old model was one chat per task, which meant every session started cold. Projects replaces that with a single persistent thread where a coordinator agent stays on, hands work off to subagents, and actually improves as it learns your project over time. Think of it like hiring a project manager who reads every email in the thread instead of asking you to catch them up every Monday. It's in beta now for paid accounts on version 3.21.9 or later. If you're using Cursor to build or maintain software, this is worth updating for today. Details on Cursor's blog.
The gap between "I have a transcript" and "I have a document in the right place" just closed. Plaud Intelligence 4.0 adds two features that matter. Artifacts: you ask Plaud to turn your meeting summary into a PDF, a deck, or a doc, and it builds it inside the app, ready to edit. Connectors: that finished document gets pushed automatically into Slack, Notion, Google Calendar, Linear, or Zapier, and the system asks before it sends. For owners who spend half their week in meetings and the other half trying to remember what was decided, this is the piece that was missing. Runs on Plaud Credits. See the full update.
Tools Worth a Look
Runway for DaVinci Resolve: Generate and restyle video clips inside DaVinci Resolve Studio without leaving your timeline. For video editors and creative-service owners. Plugin is free; generation uses your paid Runway plan credits.
Cursor Projects: A persistent coordinator agent that manages multi-week coding work across subagents in one thread. For owners building or maintaining software. Included in paid Cursor plans (beta, update to v3.21.9+).
Plaud Artifacts + Connectors: Turns any Plaud meeting summary into a finished PDF, deck, or doc and delivers it into Slack, Notion, Google Calendar, Linear, or Zapier. For owners who need notes converted into polished deliverables automatically. Runs on Plaud Credits.
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