Thursday News Edition

Figma Just Killed After Effects

To everyone building while AI becomes part of the team. Keep going.

AI can now work alongside you in Slack, generate scenes from real-world locations, create production-ready visuals with a click, and make creative workflows faster than ever.

Here's what's inside:

Top Story → Claude Tag brings AI teammates to Slack
AI Video → Google Flow uses Street View for realistic scenes
AI Design → Wonder launches 700+ shader presets

And more…

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Figma has introduced Code Layers, letting designers turn any design into a live React code layer with one click or a prompt.

Teams can edit code and design side by side, switch between editable design layers and code, collaborate on the same canvas, and share interactive prototypes without leaving Figma.

Figma also launched Motion with timelines, keyframes, and code export, AI-generated shaders and effects, generative plugins built from prompts, reusable Weave workflows, and major upgrades to the Figma Agent.

The agent now supports Skills, Connectors, shared agent chats, and integrations with tools like Notion, Slack, GitHub, and Atlassian, making Figma an AI-native platform for both design and development.

Wonder has launched more than 700 shader presets for its canvas in partnership with the Shaders library.

Users can apply real-time visual effects to any SVG or image without writing code, from glass refraction and liquid effects to ASCII art and animated gradients.

Every shader is fully customizable with controls for color, scale, refraction, thickness, chromatic aberration, swirl speed, and more, making it easy to create interactive visuals directly on the canvas.

Anthropic has introduced Claude Tag, allowing teams to add Claude as a teammate inside Slack.

Users can tag @Claude in conversations, and it can access connected tools, codebases, and documents to complete tasks while building context from the channels it joins.

Claude breaks work into multiple steps, remembers relevant information, and responds directly in Slack threads. The feature is available in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise customers, with support for more collaboration platforms planned.

Stripe has launched Stripe Directory, a searchable catalog that helps developers and AI agents discover businesses, APIs, and services across the Stripe ecosystem.

The directory returns structured results that agents can use to evaluate providers and continue integrations automatically.

It includes Stripe Apps, Projects providers, machine payment endpoints, and business listings, with CLI and JSON support for autonomous AI workflows.

Google has integrated Google Maps Street View into Flow Agent, allowing creators to generate images and videos based on real-world locations.

By mentioning a U.S. Street View location in a prompt, the agent can use actual environmental details to create more realistic scenes.

The feature helps creators place characters, recreate landmarks, and build location-aware videos with real-world visual context.

• Notion's new beta feature, External Agents, brings third-party AIs such as Anthropic's Claude and Cursor directly

• Google integrated 'computer use' into Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting developers build AI agents that handle browsers, apps, and desktops by analyzing screenshots

• The update to GPT-5.5 Instant brings better understanding of questions, steadier handling of complex rules

• New in Runway, you can now localize ads

• Layer Editor 2.0 is here. Now you never have to leave FLORA for pro-grade layer control. Stay in the flow and on the canvas

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