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Topaz gets pulled into Adobe
Plus: Anthropic gets Mythos 5 partly back
Rimsha Bhardwaj, Hasan Toor & Ihtesham Haider
June 29, 2026
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Today, we will talk about these stories:
Adobe buys Topaz Labs
The US reopens Anthropic access
Facebook gives creators an AI helper
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Adobe wants the cleanup work too
Image Credits: Adobe Newsroom
Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, a tool many editors already use when footage needs help.
Topaz has spent more than two decades building image and video enhancement tools, and it won an Emmy last year for production technology.
Adobe says it will bring Topaz models like Astra and Wonder into Firefly and its editing apps, while keeping Topaz available on its own site.
That part matters.
I think this is a retention deal as much as a product deal.
Adobe wants the sharpness, noise reduction, and archival footage repair to happen inside its own products, with the same files open on the same screen.
The pressure lands on Canva and Blackmagic, because Adobe is buying specialist tools before users build habits elsewhere.
The question is whether creators trust Adobe more when it owns the tool they already liked.
Mythos 5 gets a controlled restart
Image Credits: Anthropic
Two weeks after forcing Anthropic to pull Mythos 5, the Trump administration reopened access for more than 100 approved U.S. agencies and companies.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Anthropic that “appropriate safeguards” are in place for trusted partners, including non-American employees at those organizations.
Fable 5 remains out.
That matters.
The government appears to be drawing a tighter circle around powerful cybersecurity models instead of treating public release as the default path.
I think Anthropic got a partial win here, but the bigger signal is that frontier model access may now depend on named customers, job roles, and government comfort.
Anthropic posted on X that Mythos 5 will return quickly for groups that operate and defend critical infrastructure.
The unanswered question is how many AI products now need a permission list before they can ship.
Facebook moves closer to creator workflow
Image Credits: Facebook
Facebook is turning Creator Studio into a stand-alone AI companion app for creators.
The app is being tested with select creators and includes Meta’s AI creator assistant, which can answer questions like “When should I post?”
It also drafts comment replies, surfaces important comments, and shows daily priorities when creators open the app.
That is the point.
Meta wants creators checking a Facebook screen in the morning instead of jumping to ChatGPT, dashboards, or outside planning tools.
I think this is less about one feature and more about keeping the creator’s daily work inside Meta’s system.
The timing fits Meta’s wider app push, with Forum, Instants, and a reported Polymarket-style app called Arena all moving through the pipeline.
The open question is whether creators want help from Facebook, or just better reach.
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