Daily review · 2026-07-16

The industry is pivoting from hype to heavy infrastructure. SideFX shipped Houdini 22 while NVIDIA rolled out DeepStream 9.1 for real-time processing, establishing the hardware baseline for everything else. OpenAI clarified its policy stance alongside new hardware plans. Meanwhile, BytePlus leaked details on Seedance 2.5’s long-form video capabilities and PlayCanvas added AI coding support to SuperSplat, leaving Thinking Machines’ Inkling and Anthony tec’s OctoSense dataset as the final pieces of this computational puzzle.