Campaign Middle East rounds up the latest AI platform updates from OpenAI, Luma AI, Canva, and more from October 2026.
ChatGPT introduced audio uploads, allowing users to upload recordings, generate transcripts, summarise conversations and ask questions about the content. Users can turn interviews, meetings and lectures into structured notes or follow-up emails.
Additionally, iCloud users can now connect Mail and Calendar to ChatGPT. Users will be able to find their emails, catch up on their inbox, check schedules, and update calendar events.
Abu Dhabi Government and OpenAI have launched Machine-Readable Government (MRG), a key pillar of the emirate’s AI-native ambitions that translates a defined set of government policies and regulations into machine-readable form, enabling AI-powered systems to assist experts in navigating complex decisions.
Canva has introduced Canva Craft, first state-of-the-art image generation model, developed and trained by the in-house AI lab, Canva Research.
Craft is built to support a wide range of creative work, from polished marketing assets to imaginative visual exploration. It produces photorealistic images that bring together the detail, depth, and soft transitions of real-world imagery with design.
Pinterest has launched Beauty Guides, a new AI-powered experience that turns hair and nail Pins into personalised, actionable guides. These guides are designed to help people recreate the looks that they discover on Pinterest.
Luma has added Kling 4.0, an AI video generator built for fast action and big camera moves. The model is available to every Luma customer and is designed for shots where the performance, the camera and the environment all have to hold together.
Google is expanding its SynthID Detector globally in English, so anyone can check whether an image, video, or audio clip was generated with AI. Alongside built-in verification tools in Search, Chrome, and the Gemini app that regularly handle over a million requests each day, SynthID Detector also identifies AI content from industry partners like OpenAI, NVIDIA, Kakao, and Apple.