What happened: Recent controversies include Ajinomoto's official X account posting an AI-edited image and a restaurant menu sample image made with generative AI, both drawing backlash.


Heritage Auctions' sale of Disney art last weekend generated $3.43 million across 1,346 lots

A hobbyist built a system that reads a water meter using the Makerfabs ESP32-P4 board with autofocus camera

A developer created a tiny image generation model, a latent flow transformer with 12 layers, that runs fully o…
A new episode of an AI image benchmark compares 33 image models from 8 providers, including Meta Muse Image 1.…

Since August 13, Cara, an image-sharing app for artists, was hit by three major scrapes

AWS announced an integration where Amazon Quick, an agentic AI workspace, connects to fal's generative media p…

Adobe is rolling out an AI-heavy update for Photoshop, including a new "optional" interface called the "AI Ass…

Apple researchers introduced Luce, a 3D representation that combines geometry and PBR materials into a voxeliz…

AI-generated animal videos and pictures, from polar bear rescues to found pets, are so prevalent that viewers…

Netflix's upcoming film 'Hamnet' has been accused of using AI due to an apparent error in a promotional image…

Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, raised $76 million in Series B funding, bringing its total…

Apple researchers have introduced STARFlow2, a new model built on the Pretzel architecture that combines a fro…

Asics announced it will begin offering an AI-powered bear-detection app (AI-App クマ検知) starting September 1

A software engineer created By-Its-Cover, a recommendation system that suggests books based on their cover ima…

LINE Yahoo has added a feature called "Shopping Lens" to its AI agent Agent i, enabling users to search for pr…

DeepSeek unveiled V4 Flash Vision Exp, a multimodal model derived from its V4 Flash algorithm released in Apri…
Alibaba released Qwen Image 3.0 Pro, a text-to-image API that converts natural-language prompts into images fo…

A new analysis found that different AI models are producing increasingly similar outputs when asked to generat…

OpenAI is previewing transparent background support for GPT-Image-2 through its API, allowing users to generat…

Coca-Cola faced consumer backlash in late 2024 for releasing fully AI-generated holiday ads designed to echo i…

Adobe is releasing three AI audio tools — Generate Music (royalty-free music for videos), Generate Speech (scr…

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory found that generative AI models t…

A study examining AI-generated images found that many cannot be reliably traced back to their original trainin…

A developer created pagedMark, a tool designed to remove AI provenance markers—both visible labels and invisib…

A developer trained a diffusion model (a type of image generation AI) on a Shrike lite microcontroller with on…

ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) have reached an agreement to strengthen copyright safeguard…

The Litter-Robot 5 Pro, Whisker's premium model launched late last year, promises AI-powered cat facial recogn…

Higgsfield, a generative AI platform for creating video, images, and audio, raised $400 million in Series B fu…
Viral AI-generated wildlife images—such as an orangutan cradling leopard cubs in Malaysia and a pink dolphin i…

Valentino released a fully AI-generated handbag ad in late 2025 that drew criticism on Instagram for being "ch…

Canva slashed its expected revenue growth rate to 20% from its prior forecast, citing unexpectedly high costs…

Twitch has added a toggle in its Security and Privacy settings that lets streamers opt out of having their con…

NiceShot AI, a Python tool using YOLO and OpenCV, automatically detects, tracks, and clips key gameplay events…

A NIMO desktop PC featuring an Intel Core i5-14400F CPU, RTX 5070 Ti GPU, 32GB DDR5 RAM, and 1TB NVMe SSD is n…

GlyPho, an AI SVG generator, lets users create logos, icons, illustrations, and other vector graphics by writi…

Following a magnitude-7 earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture late last month, a resident used generative AI to bu…

xAI launched Imagine Image 2.0 as a new Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and in Grok's iOS and Android apps, w…

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Scam.ai announced Halo, a deepfake detection model that runs directly on Qualcomm's Snapdragon NPU (on-device…

A developer shared their tested shortlist of uncensored AI image generators after field testing multiple tools

Businesses are now using AI agents and automated branding platforms—like Loopa AI—to handle repetitive creativ…

LINE Yahoo added a "Shopping Lens" feature to its "Agent i" shopping agent, allowing users to find products by…

Google released Lyria 3.5, a music generation model that produces more natural-sounding melodies, better lyric…

Google announced that its SynthID watermarking technology, now used by OpenAI, Runway, and Nvidia, can survive…

Yatsen Holding, a Chinese beauty company, used artificial intelligence to compress a product development cycle…

Researchers at AI Forensics tested image editing tools on Hugging Face and found that 7 of 9 top tools easily…

Jack Conte, the founder of Patreon, shared views on how artificial intelligence will shape the future of creat…

Midjourney, an AI image-generation startup, acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star in a deal that clo…

Midjourney, an AI lab known for image and video generators, has acquired the social astrology app Co-Star

Black Forest Labs announced FLUX 3, a unified multimodal model trained in a single architecture that handles i…

Tuziyo, a new creative workspace, lets users generate images and videos using multiple AI models (GPT Image, N…

Flux 3, an AI visual intelligence tool, is now available on the Textideo platform, enabling users to generate…

Director Neill Blomkamp unveiled Nightborne, a 13-minute sci-fi short created entirely with ByteDance's Seedan…

Disney's new preschool cartoon series Ozzy Fox, launched on YouTube with minimal promotion, has drawn widespre…

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Image-3.0, an image generator that accepts prompts up to 4,500 tokens, rende…

Cloak, a free web tool created by Timothy via Claude Code, layers invisible noise onto images to make AI model…

OpenAI publicly rolled out GPT-5.6 (including Sol and Luna variants) and rebranded its desktop agentic coding…

Adobe is expanding its experimental iOS camera app Project Indigo with new AI features, including LLM-powered…

Adobe has updated its Indigo camera app with an "AI Playground" suite of generative AI tools — including style…

Scientists are warning that AI-generated and AI-enhanced images of birds are contaminating popular citizen sci…

Disney Jr. has launched a new animated series called 'Ozzy Fox' in collaboration with Animaj, an AI-focused ki…

Sony unveiled the RX10 V, a compact all-in-one camera combining a Zeiss 24–600mm Vario-Sonnar T lens, AI-power…

Kimi K3, a new AI model from China, has scored 57 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index—one point ahea…

Apple researchers have introduced Visual Concept Inference from Sets (VICIS), a task that evaluates whether AI…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has introduced generative AI technology designed to improve how guests interact…

Netflix produced 17 minutes of AI-enhanced footage for the documentary The American Experiment (featuring Mart…

Netflix revealed in its second-quarter earnings report that roughly 300 titles on its platform have used gener…

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos revealed the company now uses AI in about 300 productions, primarily in post-produ…

Blur & Unblur AI is a web tool that detects faces in photos, lets users remove incorrect detections or draw ma…

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the streamer produced 17 minutes of AI-enhanced footage for its five-episode…

Meta launched Muse Image on July 7, an AI tool that generates images and joins its other AI offerings like Mus…

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