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Tai Ji Men brought a 100-member delegation to Toronto’s 70th Annual East York Canada Day Festival on July 1, 2026, joining Canada’s 159th-anniversary celebrations with qigong, drum, dance and folk performances.

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Hollywood Studios launched an invitation-only private beta on July 15, 2026, for a secure platform aimed at the global creative industry.

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Montréal workspace operator ClickSpace is adding a new AI-focused community and planning a fourth niche group for the city’s creative industries as it marks five years in business.

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Scooter Scudieri says he has spent more than a year publicly documenting a new independent-artist model built around ChatGPT as management infrastructure, not music generation.

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Hummingbird Creative Group has been shortlisted for Best Small Agency of the Year at the US Agency Awards, giving the Cary, North Carolina, branding firm national recognition for its strategy-first approach.

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Luminous Lingnan, an immersive installation by Lampo Leong, Yanxiu Zhao, Haozheng Wu and Li Lin, won the Iron A’ Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design on July 15, 2026. The work blends hand-painted ink, wild cursive calligraphy and…

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Japanese AI music and AI art creator kokochomeka is turning songs and visuals into an expanding cyberpunk-inspired world built around memory, folklore and imagination.

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MoCA CT hosted a community program in Westport, Connecticut, tied to its summer exhibition Looking for History, with support from the CORA Foundation.

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KineMaster says every AI feature in its mobile video editing apps runs entirely on-device, positioning privacy and offline use as a direct alternative to cloud-based editing tools.

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The Lazin Magazine Awards 2026 took place July 8 at Hôtel Particulier Monceau in Paris, recognizing 11 recipients across fashion, beauty, visual art and cultural production.

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Axion Education and Kwieri.ai have formed a partnership to bring low-cost, online higher education to underserved and remote communities worldwide.

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UNESCO presented World Culture Awards in Athens on July 17, 2026, recognizing Hannover House CEO Eric Parkinson for film and filmmaker-novelist Vivian Schilling for literature.

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LANDR is expanding its opt-in Fair Trade AI program with a $5-per-track advance and ongoing revenue sharing for more than 30,000 artists.

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OpenArt launched Director on July 14, 2026, giving creators a conversational way to make longer, cinematic AI videos with synchronized visuals, voice, music and sound.

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Ascendios.ai officially launched its flagship Automatic AI Content Creation Engine on July 14, 2026, aiming to automate HD video ad production for mid-market companies with niche or technical products.

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Khansa Khatoon, founder of ALIFF in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, is building a privacy-first AI styling platform for modest Muslim women that helps users create outfits from clothes they already own. The bootstrapped startup reflects her push to…

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A new TeachingAbout.AI report from Genesee Valley BOCES says schools should treat artificial intelligence as an instructional issue, not a purchasing decision.

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Jason M. Riggs has released The MACH-10 Leader, a new book aimed at executives and operators trying to move faster without losing human judgment or accountability.

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Oxford Hill Partners has launched AICareerDefense.com, a paid platform offering personalized 12-month career strategy plans for marketing professionals as AI takes on more of the work.

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McDonald’s Philippines is using the AI conversation to spotlight the human moments tied to World Famous Fries with a new campaign called “AI Wanna Taste It.” The launch comes as the chain extends McDo Fryday through the end of August with a ₱199…