Daily review · 2026-07-15

Meta’s lawsuit over AI-driven layoffs casts a long shadow across today’s news cycle, exposing the human cost beneath the technical advances. Luma Labs publishes its professional video guide while Chaos V-Ray 7.4 adds relightable Gaussian splats for Houdini and the Blender Foundation ships Geometry Nodes physics in 5.2 LTS to stabilize the open-source pipeline. Jon Peddie research charts the evolution from game logic to deep learning as NVIDIA shares lessons from the Nemotron-3-Nano-30B challenge and MIT students build jet engines in four weeks. ESPN uses AI to spot poker tells.