Creative Industries Weekly AI News
October 27 - November 4, 2025The creative industries are experiencing major changes through AI technology this week. Sora 2, OpenAI's new video creation tool, can now make professional-looking videos with sound and realistic movement. The tool became so popular that it got over 1 million downloads in just five days on iOS.
Adobe MAX 2025 showed off big AI improvements for creative work. Adobe brought in AI tools that can help designers work faster by handling boring tasks and giving smart suggestions. The company also partnered with Google Cloud to add Google's powerful AI models into Adobe programs like Photoshop and Premiere.
A major company called Mondelez is using AI to make advertisements 30% to 50% faster and cheaper. This company is already using AI to create social media posts for popular snacks like Chips Ahoy in the United States and Oreo worldwide.
Meta is planning to add lots of AI-generated content into the feeds where people see posts. The company's Vibes app has already created over 20 billion pictures using AI. This means you might see more AI-made pictures and videos when you use Meta's apps.
Google updated its Gemini tool to automatically make complete presentations from documents or simple notes. Instead of starting with blank slides, Gemini now creates full slide decks with pictures and charts.
Figma, a popular design tool, launched a new feature called Weave that lets designers use multiple AI tools together in one place. This helps creators test different AI tools side-by-side to find the best result.
However, not everyone is happy about AI's role in creativity. In a recent survey, 81% of designers said they believe AI actually reduces creativity rather than helping it. This is higher than other creative workers—only 63% of writers and journalists shared the same concern.
PayPal and OpenAI partnered this week to let people shop directly inside ChatGPT using AI agents. This shows that agentic AI—AI that can make decisions and complete tasks on its own—is becoming bigger in how people buy things. The creative world is changing fast with AI.