This week's creative industries news shows how AI agents are beginning to transform the way people create art, code, and physical products. An AI crafting agent called AImake made its debut at CES 2026, helping designers turn ideas into finished products without needing special training. Meanwhile, coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor continue to prove they can handle complex tasks that usually require human experts, growing into billion-dollar businesses. The creative world is also seeing major shifts in how AI-made content is treated legally and financially. Big entertainment companies and AI makers are finally making deals to use artists' work fairly, with Disney and OpenAI partnering on a $1 billion agreement to create AI-generated Disney characters for video. However, experts warn that 2026 will be a year of "reckoning" where the real value of human creativity becomes clearer, as the market tries to figure out what human-made work is actually worth in a world where machines can create "good enough" content nearly for free. The creative industries are learning that having an AI agent handle boring tasks is different from AI replacing human artists—and the technology is reshaping who gets to create and how they work.