What’s new

A line has a Border color, not a Fill. Select a line and the toolbar now shows Border, with the line's color and its thickness. Before, it showed Fill like any shape, and on many lines, such as the rules from an imported document, changing it did nothing. The Border color you pick is the color the line is drawn in, on the slide and in exports. With several lines selected it changes all of them, and it leaves any boxes or circles in the selection alone.

Lines are easier to click. A thin line used to be a target a pixel or two tall, so the usual move was to drag a box around it. Every line now has a click area about ten pixels wide on screen, however far you are zoomed in or out. It makes no difference to how the line looks.

Select similar in the Select menu. Right-click a widget, open Select, and choose Select similar to pick everything that looks like it, even where the match is not exact. For a line, that is lines of a close color, about the same thickness and running the same way, whatever their length, which is how you grab the rules of an imported table in one go. For text it is the same font at a similar size and color. For shapes and pictures it is the same kind with a close color or the same proportions. The other Same rows in the menu still match exactly, and Only this slide applies to this one too.

Ultra research now works the question for you. Pick Ultra research in the web menu and a research agent spends several minutes on your question: who is moving into a place and how its population is ageing, the city's budget and bond programmes, percent-for-art and other public-art money, how its arts economy measures up, and where homes or venues are in short supply. It checks each figure against the page it came from, then hands the evidence to your brief.

The brief leads with the demand signals. An Ultra brief opens with the measured signals it found, each one cited, before the opportunities, the buyers, and how to get in. Where the evidence says a date or a selection isn't confirmed yet, the brief says so.

It keeps going if you leave. An Ultra run carries on if you close the tab or open another chat. Come back to the chat and the brief finishes there, without starting or charging for a second run.

Ultra research costs about 510 credits. The price is shown next to Ultra research in the web menu before anything runs. Deep research is unchanged.

Go further with Ultra from a Deep research brief. Under a finished Deep research brief, Go further with Ultra starts an Ultra run from what the brief already found: the organisations it named and the pages it read. The research agent checks those against their sources and goes past them, then the brief is rewritten over both, with each citation pointing to the right page. It costs the same as Ultra research from the web menu, about 510 credits.

Client research searches cost less. The web search behind researching a person, their company, or a firm's competitors from a client profile now costs about a third less.

Right-click finishes a pen shape. While drawing with the Pen, right-click anywhere to finish the shape, just like pressing Enter, so you no longer have to reach for the keyboard after every shape. Right-clicking used to throw the drawing away. Right-click also finishes editing a shape's points, the same as Done or Esc. Everywhere else, right-click opens the usual menu.

No more error on the Connectors page for members. If you're a member of a workspace rather than an owner, Settings → Connectors now simply says that your workspace's owners connect and manage the CRM, instead of showing an error with a Try again button.

FLUX 3 Max joins the video models. It sits beside FLUX 3 in the model picker wherever you generate video: in a deck, in Previs, and in a chat on the prompt page. It's FLUX 3 tuned to follow your prompt more closely and for a cleaner picture. Make a clip from a prompt alone, or attach a first frame to animate a still. In a deck or in Previs you can also add a last frame so the shot ends exactly there, and choose 5 to 20 seconds at 720p or 1080p, with sound if you want it.

Approving a connection happens on a page with nothing else on it. When Claude sends you to Foveate to connect your account, the approval page now shows only the request: what Claude is asking to do, with Approve and Deny. The Foveate header, its sign-in buttons and the sidebar no longer appear around it, so the choice you came to make is the only thing on the screen.

3D models have their own icon. A 3D model in your Library, such as a GLB, a GLTF or a scan, now shows a cube on its tile with the label 3D, the same cube that marks the 3D filter and sits beside the file name. Before, these files showed the plain document icon labelled FILE, so a model looked like any other file you had not opened yet.

Teammates' changes appear as they save. When several people work in the same deck, each person's changes show up in everyone else's deck within a moment of being saved, with no refresh. Two people can work on the same slide, and even on the same widget, and both changes are kept. Only when two people change the same thing at the same moment does the later change win.

Undo is your own. Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on a Mac) undoes only your own edits, never a change a teammate made in the meantime, and your undo history stays intact when their changes arrive.

See where teammates are working. When a teammate has a widget selected, you see a thin outline in their colour around it, with their name, and the slide list shows whose initials are on each slide. There are no moving cursors. For a deck, the Team Access panel has a switch, Show where teammates are editing. Only the deck's managers can change it.

What a teammate is working on stays theirs. If a teammate is already typing in a text box or a text flow, a double-click tells you who it is and leaves that box to them until they have finished. A widget a teammate has selected is theirs while they are working on it: clicking it tells you who has it and leaves your own selection as it was, and selecting several widgets at once, by dragging a box around them, Select all or Select similar, picks up the rest and tells you how many were left out and who has them. The widget frees up as soon as they select something else, close the deck or move to another browser tab, or after about a minute without a click or key press from them. Only selections of up to three widgets are held this way, so a large selection never holds up anyone else. All of this works while Show where teammates are editing is on.

Shortcuts that behave as expected. Ctrl+X (Cmd+X) cuts selected widgets. Ctrl+Shift+Z redoes on Windows as well as Ctrl+Y, and shortcuts keep working with Caps Lock on. Ctrl+S (Cmd+S) saves straight away and confirms it, instead of opening the browser's save dialog.

Resizing a text box re-wraps its words. Text brought in from a PDF kept the PDF's own line breaks, so narrowing the box ran the words past its edge, and widening it never brought them back up. Now the first time you resize such a box, its words flow to the new width: narrow it and the lines wrap, widen it and they join up. Paragraphs and bulleted lists keep their breaks, and the box grows or shrinks to fit the text. Undo returns the original layout.

Vertical alignment for text. Open a text box's settings and, under Text, pick Top, Center or Bottom to set where the words sit inside the box. Top puts the tops of the capitals on the box's top edge, and Bottom puts the last line's baseline on its bottom edge, so the words meet the edges rather than floating below the line spacing. The same choice carries through to presenting and sharing. Boxes you haven't aligned keep their current spacing, so existing decks look the same.