Canva just unveiled Brush, its own vision-language model built for one job: editing designs. Not generating a picture from scratch. Taking your existing design and changing what you ask for, from one line of copy to every slide in a deck, while leaving the rest untouched. That second half is the hard part. Anyone who has used AI design tools knows the failure mode: you ask for one small change and the tool redraws everything, wrecking your layout, fonts and spacing. Canva says Brush runs an agentic loop that writes code to adjust elements, then inspects the page to check its own work, and that it is up to 69% faster and 46% cheaper per edit than Canva's previous design agent. Everything it produces stays fully editable. Why should a business owner care about a design model? Because the edit loop is where design budgets go to die. Ad variations, resized creatives, updated price points, new headlines across a 12-slide deck: that is the repetitive work you pay a designer, a VA or an agency to grind through. Brush is live now for Canva Pro subscribers inside Canva AI, with wider availability coming. If you already pay for Canva, test it this week on your most annoying recurring edit: the weekly ad resize or the deck update. Time it against what you pay a human to do the same job. Source: https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/canva-brush/

Anthropic announced Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, describing it as a small model designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive work. Here is the business question: are you paying for the biggest model to do your smallest jobs? Sorting product descriptions. Tagging leads. Turning a transcript into a first draft. Those are jobs worth testing separately from your hardest research or coding work. Do not switch because of a launch headline. Take 20 real examples from one repeatable job. Run the same instructions through your current model and a cheaper option available to you. Check accuracy, speed and the time a person spends fixing the output. Cheap answers that need constant repair are expensive. If the smaller model passes your test, use it for that job. Keep the stronger model for work that actually needs it. That is a practical service you can offer a client: test one workflow and show the cost per usable result. No promises of easy money. A measured improvement. What task are you still running through your most expensive AI tool out of habit? Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news

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Greetings! My name is Harris Terry, and I am glad to be a part of this group on Artificial Intelligence! I have been using AI since the very beginning of 2023, and teaching AI since early 2024 with great success and satisfaction. I have been a teacher for 30 years, and at the moment I am helping startups and app developers create AI workflows and train models for a wide variety of purposes, including recently helping create the image generation workflows for an entire video game being created without artists or programmers, creating advertisements, setting up an app to have a multitude of styles for virtual tattoos, and many other exciting futuristic things! At the moment I am developing a number of workflows for video generation as well as learning how to make AI agents via ChatGPT and other LLMs/GPTs. For more about me, check out my webpage and LinkedIn: https://aidreams.tech/ - my personal webpage, which includes much of my work https://www.linkedin.com/in/harris-terry-072121267/ - my LinkedIn page which shows many of my past projects and qualifications https://www.youtube.com/@ThePromptWizard2023 - my YouTube page with many videos to check out I look forward to discussions with everyone!