🤩Adobe Ups Its AI Game

Today we will discuss:

• Sponsored: LangWatch—Smarter LLM monitoring, testing, and optimization

• Adobe’s big AI update—New image models, smarter design tools, and a collaborative app reshape Adobe’s generative AI lineup

• Don’t miss this week’s Workflow Wednesday—AI learning that sticks, sharpen your prompting skills with LearnPrompting.org, use Jenni AI as your research + writing assistant, and automate your AI-powered reading list with Notion, Zapier, and ChatGPT; now available at only $20/month! 

• Dropbox adds AI muscle to Dash—Smarter search, auto-generated docs, and new integrations roll out

• In other AI news today—California’s State Bar acknowledges using AI to create exam questions, OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 may not align as well as earlier models, Perplexity’s AI voice assistant is now available on iOS, and the US struggles with power shortages for AI amid high costs and equipment delays 

• Saved the best for last—9 must-try AI tools

 OpenSource Monitoring, Evaluating & Optimization for your LLM-apps

Today, LLM testing is often scattered across notebooks, dashboards, and scripts, making it slow, unreliable, and difficult to scale effectively.

We’ve heard the same pain points from teams struggling with LLM performance testing:

• "I don't have a dataset to evaluate yet"

• "How can we measure the quality when there is no defined golden answer in our case?"

• "I have no idea how we should get started with evals, should we use LLM-as-a-judge?"

LangWatch brings you a smarter, and more reliable way to test and optimize your LLMs. 

Here’s what you’ll love about the newest release of LangWatch: The Evaluations Wizard:

• Build your own Evaluators: Use 50+ built-ins, LLM-as-a-judge, your own, or a human-in-the-loop review.

• Evaluate full pipelines: Chain LLM calls together and test across realistic, multi-step workflows.

• Launch in minutes: Upload test data, generate synthetic examples, or connect your pipeline—no setup headaches.

• DSPy optimizers built-in: Optimize prompts and model configs programmatically, directly in LangWatch.

• CI/CD Ready: Run batch tests via SDKs or CLI and get detailed reports, costs, and latency fast.

Whether you're an AI developer, AI PM, domain expert or any other person involved in building LLM-apps this is your new command center for LLM quality. 

This is a big change in how teams will be Evaluating the performance of their LLM-apps.

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Adobe unveils new Firefly image models and supercharges Creative Cloud

Key Points 

• Firefly Image Model 4 and Ultra give users more control, faster output, and improved realism across different use cases.

• Firefly Boards, now in beta, lets teams collaborate visually, perfect for creative brainstorming, moodboards, and concept planning.

• Third-party AI models from OpenAI and Google are now available in Firefly.

🔥News - Adobe just dropped two new versions of its Firefly Image model, offering users a choice between speed and high-detail rendering.

Firefly Image Model 4 is designed for speed, precision, and realism, with support for 2K resolution and improved control over style and camera angles. For creatives who need high-detail results, there’s Firefly Image Model 4 Ultra, tailored for complex scenes and intricate textures. 

✨New tools, new playground - The new models are now live on the Firefly web app, which also hosts Adobe’s text-to-video and text-to-vector tools. 

Alongside the new image models, Adobe is also launching Firefly Boards, a collaborative moodboarding app now in public beta. A Firefly mobile app for iOS and Android is also on the way.

🤹‍♂️Expanding access with third-party AI -  For the first time, Firefly users can tap into third-party models from OpenAI, Google, and others—though Adobe is quick to label these as “for experimentation only.” Its own models, trained on licensed content, are still the only ones marked “commercially safe.”

🤓Creative Cloud gets smarter - Updates are also rolling out across Creative Cloud apps. Illustrator’s generative shape fill and text-to-pattern tools are now widely available. Photoshop is adding smarter selections, easier color adjustments, and an updated Actions panel that learns from each user’s editing style, laying the foundation for Adobe’s upcoming AI-powered creative assistant.

Read the full story here. 

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Dropbox doubles down on AI with Dash upgrade

Key Points 

• Dropbox’s Dash now lets users search across video, audio, images, and even find people by project.

• New AI writing tools in Dash pull data from emails and notes to generate memos, briefs, and plans.

☕News - Dropbox is taking a bigger leap into the AI productivity race with major upgrades to its AI-powered search tool, Dash.

👾What’s new? Originally launched in 2023, Dash is getting a significant overhaul to help users search across not just text, but also audio, video, and images. It now includes people search too, so you can track down who worked on what or find subject-matter experts without digging through endless files.

While Dropbox already offered AI-generated summaries, it’s now stepping into content creation. The upgraded Dash can pull together data from emails, meeting notes, and documents to draft new memos, project plans, and briefs—basically, less app-switching and more getting things done.

👨‍💻What’s more? For business users, Dash now gives IT admins more control, including the ability to exclude sensitive documents from search results. That’s in addition to last year’s Dash for Business, which first brought AI search to enterprises.

The latest rollout also includes deeper integrations with popular platforms like Slack, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Figma, Canva, and Jira, making it easier to search across scattered project data in one place.

Read the full story here.