All posts tagged: Adobe

I cleared the hidden caches inside Discord, Spotify, and Adobe — this is how much space I got back

I cleared the hidden caches inside Discord, Spotify, and Adobe — this is how much space I got back

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My C: drive was creeping toward full, and I hadn’t installed anything new in weeks. The usual suspects — Downloads folder, old games, forgotten installers — were already cleaned out. What I hadn’t checked was how much junk these apps were quietly piling up behind the scenes. Three apps were hogging the most space: Discord, Spotify, and Adobe. They don’t advertise how much space they’re using, and they don’t make it obvious how to get it back. Here’s exactly where I looked and how much space it freed up. Related I turned off one Windows 11 feature and freed up gigabytes of SSD space instantly he overlooked Windows feature that impacts available storage. Discord: The cache folders that quietly fill up How to find it and clear it manually Discord doesn’t look like the kind of app that eats up storage. It runs in your system tray; you use it constantly, and it never seems like a storage problem. That changes quickly once you take a look. Press Win + R or type %APPDATA%\discord, and …

Netomi raises 0 million as Accenture and Adobe bet on AI for customer service

Netomi raises $110 million as Accenture and Adobe bet on AI for customer service

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Netomi, the San Francisco-based startup building AI systems for enterprise customer service, said Thursday that it has raised $110 million in new funding in a round led by Accenture Ventures, with participation from Adobe Ventures, WndrCo, Silver Lake Waterman, NAVER Ventures, Metis Strategy and Fin Capital. Jeffrey Katzenberg, managing partner of WndrCo and co-founder of DreamWorks, has joined the company’s board. The round builds on early backing from a roster of AI luminaries that includes OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. On its face, the financing is another large AI round in a market still awash in capital. But the deal is more revealing than that. It suggests that a new line is being drawn inside enterprise AI — not between companies that have a chatbot and companies that do not, but between companies that can show AI works in the messy, brittle, heavily governed environments where large businesses actually operate, and those that still mostly shine in demos. The market around Netomi makes the stakes …

Claude Gains Integrations With Adobe, Blender, SketchUp and Other Creative Apps

Claude Gains Integrations With Adobe, Blender, SketchUp and Other Creative Apps

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Anthropic today updated Claude with new connectors aimed at creative professionals, adding integrations for Ableton, Adobe, Affinity, Autodesk Fusion, Blender, Resolume Arena and Wire, SketchUp, and Splice. Connectors are tools that Claude can use to access other platforms and help with completing tasks. Anthropic says that Claude can open up new ways for creatives to work and take on larger-scale projects. Ableton – Allows users to ask questions about the official product documentation for Live and Push. Adobe – More than 50 tools across Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop, Premiere, and Express are available. Affinity – The Affinity connector lets users automate repetitive production tasks and generate custom features. Autodesk Fusion – Fusion subscribers can create and modify 3D models through conversations with Claude. Blender – The Blender connector adds a natural-language interface for the Python API. Users can analyze and debug Blender scenes, build custom scripts to batch-apply changes to objects, and add new tools to the Blender interface. Blender’s documentation is also available. Resolume Arena and Wire – Visual artists can control Arena, …

Adobe Is Working With Anthropic to Bring a Creative AI Agent to Claude

Adobe Is Working With Anthropic to Bring a Creative AI Agent to Claude

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Adobe is diving deeper into agentic AI and expanding its partnership roster in a new deal with the AI developer Anthropic. Adobe on Wednesday introduced its latest conversational, agentic creative assistant, which is the technological foundation for its work with Anthropic. Firefly is the hub for all things Adobe AI, with integrations across other popular Creative Cloud apps such as Photoshop, Acrobat and Premiere Pro. The new Firefly AI assistant is agentic, which means that it can perform tasks with minimal human oversight. You can upload a batch of photos and have the AI edit them for you, automatically adjusting the lighting and cropping, for example. One way to think about it is as a new school AI tool that you can use to do old-school, or non-generative, editing.  Adobe has been building assistants into its creative software for a while now. It introduced AI assistants in Adobe Express and Photoshop back in October. Agentic AI tools like the kind Adobe is building are becoming rapidly popular across the entire AI industry, with tools like …

Krita’s free AI integration just made Adobe Firefly obsolete

Krita’s free AI integration just made Adobe Firefly obsolete

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Adobe Firefly is genuinely good. I want to be honest about that before I tell you I stopped paying for it. It’s polished, it’s fast, and it lives right inside the Creative Cloud ecosystem most of us already know. But somewhere between monthly subscription renewals, I started asking myself a question I probably should have asked sooner: Am I paying for capability, or for convenience? Mostly, it was convenience. When I found the open-source Firefly alternative, Krita’s free AI Diffusion plugin, offered similar features, I decided to see how much convenience I truly needed. Related This open-source Photoshop rival is better than it has any right to be I didn’t expect much from a free Photoshop alternative—but Krita seriously overdelivers. Why I swapped Adobe Firefly for Krita Defining my workflow needs as a writer I’m a writer, not a designer. I used Firefly for simple tasks, not for everything it can do: making images for articles, sometimes using generative fill to clean up photos, and producing quick concept visuals as placeholders or handoffs. I didn’t …

Nvidia launches enterprise AI agent platform with Adobe, Salesforce, SAP among 17 adopters at GTC 2026

Nvidia launches enterprise AI agent platform with Adobe, Salesforce, SAP among 17 adopters at GTC 2026

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Jensen Huang walked onto the GTC stage Monday wearing his trademark leather jacket and carrying, as it turned out, the blueprints for a new kind of monopoly. The Nvidia CEO unveiled the Agent Toolkit, an open-source platform for building autonomous AI agents, and then rattled off the names of the companies that will use it: Adobe, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Siemens, CrowdStrike, Atlassian, Cadence, Synopsys, IQVIA, Palantir, Box, Cohesity, Dassault Systèmes, Red Hat, Cisco and Amdocs. Seventeen enterprise software companies, touching virtually every industry and every Fortune 500 corporation, all agreeing to build their next generation of AI products on a shared foundation that Nvidia designed, Nvidia optimizes and Nvidia maintains. The toolkit provides the models, the runtime, the security framework and the optimization libraries that AI agents need to operate autonomously inside organizations — resolving customer service tickets, designing semiconductors, managing clinical trials, orchestrating marketing campaigns. Each component is open source. Each is optimized for Nvidia hardware. The combination means that as AI agents proliferate across the corporate world, they will generate demand for Nvidia …

Adobe pays million to settle US lawsuit over termination fees, subscription cancellations

Adobe pays $75 million to settle US lawsuit over termination fees, subscription cancellations

Published by Sam Flores

March 13 : Adobe said on Friday it will pay $75 million to resolve a U.S. government lawsuit accusing the Photoshop and Acrobat maker of harming consumers by concealing hefty termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions. The San Jose, California-based company said it will also provide $75 million of free services to customers, in addition to making the $75 million payment to the U.S. Department of Justice. Court approval is required. In a June 2024 complaint, the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission accused Adobe of burying termination fees for its popular “annual paid monthly” subscription plan, sometimes reaching hundreds of dollars, in the fine print or behind text boxes and hyperlinks. They also said Adobe made cancelling subscriptions a hassle, forcing subscribers who wanted to cancel online to wade through numerous pages, and subscribers who wanted to cancel by phone to repeat themselves to multiple representatives and encounter “resistance and delay.” Adobe was accused of violating the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act, a 2010 law barring merchants from imposing charges, including for automatic …

DHS is using Google and Adobe AI to make videos

DHS is using Google and Adobe AI to make videos

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In a section about “editing images, videos or other public affairs materials using AI,” it reveals for the first time that DHS is using Google’s Veo 3 video generator and Adobe Firefly, estimating that the agency has between 100 and 1,000 licenses for the tools. It also discloses that DHS uses Microsoft Copilot Chat for generating first drafts of documents and summarizing long reports and Poolside software for coding tasks, in addition to tools from other companies. Google, Adobe, and DHS did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The news provides details about how agencies like Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, which is part of DHS, might be creating the large amounts of content they’ve shared on X and other channels as immigration operations have expanded across US cities. They’ve posted content celebrating “Christmas after mass deportations,” referenced Bible verses and Christ’s birth, showed faces of those the agency has arrested, and shared ads aimed at recruiting agents. The agencies have also repeatedly used music without permissions from artists in their videos. Some of the …

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries

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Adobe has been aggressively adding AI features to all its products in the last few years. The company is now adding more AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of files, create presentations, and a way for users to edit files using prompts. The company launched Adobe Spaces last year, which is a collection of files and notes that multiple users can access. Now, Adobe is allowing users to use the information stored in these files and notes to create a presentation using text prompts. For instance, if a user has financial details, product plans, and competitor analysis available in a Space, they can build a pitch deck for clients that focuses on why their product can solve problems better than rivals. Acrobat’s AI assistant first generates an editable presentation with points that the deck would cover. You can then use Adobe Express’s theme library, stock photos, or use your own images to build the presentation. Plus, you can easily apply your brand’s theme or edit individual slides using Express. Image …

Adobe Gives M To Filmmaker Fund, Partners With Amelia Dimoldenberg

Adobe Gives $10M To Filmmaker Fund, Partners With Amelia Dimoldenberg

Published by Daniella Wilson

Adobe is pledging close to $10 million in grants and product donations this year to support filmmakers, including funding creators directly for the first time.  The software company’s film and TV fund, which has created in 2024, will continue to support film and TV productions through community partners, as well as the newly announced support directly from Adobe, with recipients nominated by industry and community organizations. Community organizations that will receive funding from the 2026 Film & TV Fund include Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively’s Group Effort Initiative, USC Annenberg School of Communications, NAACP, Gold House and Sundance Ignite, as well as new partnership with Rideback RISE, which helps mid-career artists of color make commercial film and television projects, and “Chicken Shop” creators Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Dimz Inc. Academy. Dimoldenberg’s free summer program provides 18- to 24-year-olds from underrepresented backgrounds training in ideation, storytelling, production, video editing and more. After a one-week pilot last year, the program will now expand to a four-week workshop with continued support.  “I feel really fortunate that my experience in a …