Disney’s biennial fan convention D23 is underway in Anaheim, and the entertainment giant hosted a star-studded entertainment showcase to unveil all upcoming movies and streaming shows, as well as trailers and sneak peeks of the ones we already know about.

Along with Frozen 3, The Incredibles 3, the Marvel reveals and all the Star Wars news, here are the biggest surprises and everything else announced on Friday night. 

The Bluey movie: a keepy uppy teaser

A short teaser has finally been showcased for the upcoming feature film extension of the beloved Australian children’s show Bluey.

The brief trailer showed 3D-animated versions of Bluey and her sister Bingo playing their keepy uppy game, bouncing a balloon between each other until it hit the grass and they ran out of sight.

The teaser was very short, but the Bluey movie will be released a year from now, in Aug. 2027.

Creator Joe Brumm is stepping down from his role following the release of the movie, so for now, rewatching the first three seasons and the minisodes on Disney Plus is all we’ve got for the next year.

Zootopia 3 flies onto screens

It was a big day for Disney threequels as the third installment of the Zootopia franchise was a surprise announcement, coming less than a year after Zootopia 2 was released. 

Birds will be the new addition to Zootopia 3, with a teaser showing a feather floating on the breeze through the animal-inhabited metropolis.

Ginnifer Goodwin as Judy Hopps and Ke Huy Quan as Gary De’Snake are confirmed to be returning for the third Zootopia movie. 

Coco 2 announced

A sequel to the hugely popular 2017 Pixar film, Coco, was announced, with main character Miguel now a teenager, still playing music and still battling against former hero-turned-villain Ernesto de la Cruz.

Coco 2 will hit the big screen in Nov. 2029.

Kingdom Hearts IV release date and series

The Coco announcement also served as a segue into a trailer and release date for the fourth Kingdom Hearts game (late 2027), with Miguel’s world being added to the beloved franchise when it comes out.

Plus, a Kingdom Hearts cartoon series will be coming to Disney Plus “soon.”

First look at live-action Tangled

We got a brief teaser showing Teagan Croft as live-action Rapunzel, Milo Manheim as Flynn Rider and Kathryn Hahn as Mother Gothel, all in full costume.

Hahn, who thanked fans for manifesting her as the Tangled villain, appeared on stage at D23, introducing a video of Manheim and Croft detailing some of the filming locations across Spain where the movie is being shot, including monasteries and cathedrals.

Tangled will be released on March 31, 2028.

Percy Jackson season 3 gets a trailer

Ahead of its Nov. 20 release, Percy Jackson and the Olympians got a fresh, new trailer. Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson) was joined on stage by Ming-Na Wen (Hera) and Andra Day (Athena) to show off the new trailer.

Season 3 adapts the book The Titan’s Curse, and shows Percy fighting underwater and in arenas as a titan emerges.

Pixar’s Gatto trailers shows a cat among the pigeons

Pixar’s next animated feature film, Gatto, features a little black cat voiced by Mark Ruffalo. Set in Venice, Italy, with the same filmmakers behind Luca, Nero the cat makes a pigeon friend who helps him escape the clutches of mob boss Rocco (Laurence Fishburne).

The pigeon gives him a bird’s-eye view of a Venetian square, and what obstacles to avoid or use to his advantage when attempting to close in on a violinist street performer.

A second trailer was shown, with Gatto, Rocco and dozens of other stray cats roaming the streets of Venice — which Gatto describes as “a sinking death trap” — and stealing fish.

Gatto will be released on March 5, 2027.

The New Simpsons Movie

Season 38 of The Simpsons is about to kick off next month, but everyone’s favorite yellow cartoon family is also getting a second movie — two decades after the release of the first.

A “very rough” teaser was showcased during Disney’s biennial fan convention D23 in Anaheim on Friday night, featuring concept art sketches of Homer and his friends at a Springfield Isotopes baseball game.

Details are scant, but it looks like the Simpsons family and their friends will be back to their usual hijinks. The sketches showed Homer and all the beloved characters of the show rush to catch a ball as it bounced around all of Springfield before it got shot back to the stadium, where it landed right in front of Bart.

The New Simpsons Movie will be released on Sept. 3, 2027.

Hexed cast and trailer

Disney animated feature Hexed, which stars Hailee Steinfeld in the title role of  teenager Billie who discovers she’s a witch, got a trailer and new casting news just months before it comes out on Thanksgiving weekend. 

Steinfeld was joined on stage by Walton Goggins, who voices a three-eyed cat named Beef, and Jodie Foster, who voices the queen of witches. 

The new trailer showed Billie getting sucked inside a crescent moon-shaped portal to a secret realm of magic, filled with spellbooks, talking objects, a magical forest and a coven of witches. 

Ice Age: Boiling Point trailer – squirrels in lava

Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie and Peaches are back in a sixth theatrical Ice Age movie.

Queen Latifah (the voice of mammoth Ellie) and Dennis Leary (who voices saber-tooth tiger Diego) appeared on stage to introduce the first trailer for Ice Age: Boiling Point.

“We’re finishing up the movie right now, and it’s really funny and it’s scary,” Leary said.

The trailer showed squirrel Scrat and Baby Scrat pushing an acorn into the ice once more, but this time with the acorns falling through into the lava boiling below. Scrat rides the acorn through a sea of lava, until an enormous prehistoric squirrel grabs the prize at the end. 

The trailer briefly shows Manny, Sid and Ellie exploring a jungle-like setting nearby.

Original Ice Age animator Blue Sky Studios was acquired by Disney in 2019 and shut down and absorbed five years ago. A short series featuring Scrat and Baby Scrat was released on Disney Plus in 2022.

Ice Age: Boiling Point will hit the big screen in less than a year, on Feb. 5, 2027. 

Oswald miniseries on Disney Plus

Disney director and producer Jon Favreau introduced his passion project, Oswald — an original character created by Walt Disney 100 years ago — that will air as a three-part miniseries on Disney Plus next year.

“We only used hand-drawn 2D animation for Oswald,” Favreau said, adding that many old Disney animators were brought back to work on the project.

In a Roger Rabbit-esque series, Oswald will feature live-action settings, including Walt’s old office in Burbank and at Disneyland, where the 2D-animated Oswald runs around and explores the real world.

Clay, a new Disney animated film

Disney’s newly announced animated featured film, Clay, will see Flip, a stinky skunk voiced by Kieran Culkin, forced to become a mentor to a literal chunk of clay.

Clay will be released in 2028.

Pixar’s Ghost Market

A mysterious new Pixar feature film called Ghost Market (which the teaser said would be about “hungry ghosts”) will be released in spring 2028.

Lilo and Stitch 2: live action

Following the release of the live-action version of Lilo and Stitch, Disney has decided to continue by adapting the animated sequel into the live format. Lilo and Stitch 2 includes Angel, the pink, female version of the outer-space monster who debuted in the animated Lilo & Stitch: The Series.

Lilo and Stitch 2 live action will be released on May 28, 2028.

Romy and Michele 2

Back in 1997, Romy and Michele got together for their high school reunion. Now, 30 years later, Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino reunited once more on stage to announce Romy and Michele 2.

The ladies wore modern versions of their outfits from the ’90s cult classic, talking about their boutique in Beverly Hills and another reunion on the horizon.

Camp Rock 3 live performance 

The Jonas Brothers appeared on stage to talk about the old days and introduce the new, leading to a live performance featuring the new stars of the fresh new movie in the Camp Rock series.

It premiered Aug. 14 on Disney Plus.

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Dongfeng’s Voyah launched the Passion S electric SUV on Friday after promoting it with a stunt in which the car drove a full loop around a tunnel ceiling in Wuhan. Prices start at 229,900 yuan, about $33,800, for a car with 800V charging and Huawei’s latest driver assistance.

Dongfeng’s premium brand Voyah launched an electric SUV on Friday, and the reason anyone noticed is that it drove the car upside down. Footage shows the Passion S completing a full loop around the ceiling of a closed test tunnel in Wuhan, a deliberate restaging of the Mercedes SLS AMG advert from 2010.

The physics were tight. The car hit the ramp at about 130km/h with 16 degrees of steering lock, and Voyah says a few kilometres per hour slower would have dropped it.

The company insists it was real, using a standard production car with no effects, and has released uncut footage. A leaked clip of an earlier attempt, in which the car falls from the ceiling, is oddly the most persuasive evidence that nobody rendered this.

Strip away the theatre and the car is the story. The Passion S launched in three trims from 229,900 to 279,900 yuan, roughly $33,800 to $41,200.

For that money the buyer gets an 800V platform with an 81 or 98kWh battery, CLTC range of 630 to 740km, and 5C charging that takes it from 20 to 80% in ten minutes.

The dual-motor version produces 637hp and 765Nm. Voyah quotes a 0 to 62mph time of 4.5 seconds and claims 93.8% drivetrain efficiency from its silicon carbide system.

The driver assistance comes from Huawei. The Passion S runs Qiankun ADS 5.0 with a dual-path 896-line lidar and five 4D millimetre-wave radars, covering assisted driving on city roads and motorways and automated parking.

None of which would matter here except that Voyah is coming. Stellantis agreed in May to a European joint venture to sell the brand’s cars, and Voyah already retails in the Netherlands and Norway.

The ground is prepared. Chinese brands have taken a record share of Europe’s electrified market, and they are arriving from a home market where a price war has pushed specification up and prices down at the same time.

That is also why the stunt exists. When new models arrive weekly, driving a car around a tunnel ceiling is a rational marketing expense.

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‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s afternoon’ is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it 

In an effort to “watermark” text that Claude has generated and comply with the EU AI Act, Anthropic ib Friday unveiled a plan on Friday to modify its bots’ choice of words in a way that would be detectable as the product of an AI.

Traditional watermarks are patterns or images overlaid on currency, postage, or official documents as an assertion of authenticity. In the digital realm, the term is more flexible and can refer to a variety of techniques for applying an identifier to electronic data.

Anthropic’s approach involves influencing inconsequential word choices made by its models, a technique introduced in Google DeepMind’s SynthID-Text paper.

To oversimply things, large language models are fancy autocomplete engines which work by predicting the next word in a sequence of words. Anthropic explains that while composing sentence output like “The weather today was cold and…” a model like Claude might respond with words like “cold” or “gray” and would be unlikely to respond with a word like “sugary.”

That’s the theory, but when actually asked to complete that sentence, Claude Opus 4.8 went a bit overboard: “…crisp, the kind of cold that nips at your fingertips and turns your breath to little clouds. The sky was a pale, washed-out blue, and everything felt sharp and clear.”

And then it checked to see if users thought that was useful, asking “Want me to take it somewhere specific — cozy, gloomy, cheerful? Or keep going with the same tone?”

But remove whatever training has been applied to promote engagement and simulate literary style, and that’s basically what Claude is doing here – predicting the next word in a sequence.

Anthropic asserts that in most cases, the example sentence could be completed by either “cold” or “gray” and “the meaning of the sentence is largely the same either way.”

The watermark gets generated by deviating from the predicted word to something else. A different source of randomness is used and that can be detected with a digital key.

As Google DeepMind researchers explain in their paper: “Generative watermarking works by carefully modifying the next-token sampling procedure to inject subtle, context-specific modifications into the generated text distribution. Such modifications introduce a statistical signature into the generated text; during the watermark detection phase, the signature can be measured to determine whether the text was indeed generated by the watermarked LLM.” 

Anthropic insists this will be done with low-stakes passages in a way that won’t alter the meaning. “In internal testing, we’ve seen no impact of watermarking on the content, level of creativity, or readability of Claude’s text,” the company said, adding that in a controlled study, human raters saw no difference in quality between watermarked and unwatermarked answers.

That assumption hinges on not applying the watermark to any consequential text. As Anthropic puts it, “Watermarking is sparser on factual passages where there are fewer choices that can be made without decreasing the accuracy of the text.” The biz goes on to say that the situation is similar with code – the watermarking algorithm can’t simply start swapping method names.

In the context of literature, the notion that some words are interchangeable is likely to raise a few hackles. While it may be a satisfying thought experiment to imagine Claude emitting, “It was the best of times, it was the least of times…” or “Telephone me Ishmael”, anyone trying to pass off generated text as serious writing probably should face whatever social backlash watermarking may entail.

On the plus side, Anthropic’s flavor of watermarking isn’t excessively intrusive. It doesn’t involve any personally identifying information and only serves to indicate that Claude was probably involved at some stage of the creation of the marked text.

What’s more, the technique is expected to be only semi-effective. In its FAQs, Anthropic points out that some amount of editing should erase the watermark.

“Light editing probably won’t remove the watermark completely; a complete rewrite where every word is replaced will,” the company said. “In the latter case, of course, it’s arguable whether the text can any longer be described as AI-generated.”

In all likelihood, Anthropic doesn’t care if its watermarking scheme can be defeated. The company’s post makes clear that it is implementing it to demonstrate its attempts at compliance and has chosen a solution that doesn’t raise costs.

“Watermarking has a negligible impact on the speed of models, and because it produces no extra tokens, the model is the same price to serve and use,” the biz said.

Hey Claude, what’s another word for performative compliance? ®

• Volume and spend on tokens for Anthropic’s AI solutions made it more revenue than any of its competitors in July 2026, cementing its position as the top LLM provider
• This success is despite Anthropic’s tokens being more expensive than its competitors
• The data was collated by Vercel’s AI Gateway, an API service that routes LLMs for easy AI provider swapping

Monthly analysis of the AI industry has revealed a number of surprises for July 2026, not least the continued growth of Anthropic both in terms of revenue and token use.

This is despite the company charging a higher rate for tokens, AI’s computational data currency.

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On March 13, Nine PBS reportedly sent a letter to Iron Mountain stating that it would “pay any reasonable costs associated with” accessing the data.

After allegedly being unable to communicate with OSS, Nine PBS eventually won a default judgment against the company in the St. Louis Circuit Court, which found that Nine PBS had the “immediate right to possess the data,” according to the complaint. The court also ruled that OSS must return the data “and/or facilitate its transfer to a new vendor,” the complaint says.

However, Iron Mountain refused to give Nine PBS the data because it only has a contract with OSS and, according to Nine PBS’ complaint, because OSS owns “the physical services housing the data.”

Iron Mountain’s spokesperson told Ars that the company only provides physical infrastructure, such as the building, network connectivity, power, and environmental controls.

“Our customers rent space for their servers and other hardware. These are the client’s assets. We don’t have access to the data on the hardware/servers because they belong to our customers,” the company said.

Iron Mountain said the company would violate basic data privacy protocols, breach its contract with OSS, and “potentially [expose] confidential data belonging to other clients of OSS” if it granted “unauthorized access to third-party hardware without a court order.”

Ars asked Nine PBS if it had any backups of the data and what the station would do to prevent this from happening again, but we didn’t receive answers as of publication time.

Nine PBS VP and chief communications officer Leah Freeman shared a statement reading:

We appreciate the Court’s thoughtful decision establishing a path forward to access and recover our archival materials, which the Court confirmed that Nine PBS rightfully owns. These archives represent an important part of our region’s history, and we look forward to ensuring their preservation and protection through the Court-approved process.