Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work
President Trump shared edited photos of White House renovations on Truth Social. An AI detector flagged one photo as modified, highlighting discrepancies.
Generative Media
AI for images, video, audio, music, and 3D — models, creative tools, and how they are used in production.
Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social
Bluesky expanded its Attie AI tool, which originally built custom feeds, to let users generate small social apps—games, polls, and dashboards—from text prompts and share them as websites.
YouTube Music launches new labels as AI-generated music floods streaming platforms
YouTube Music is introducing labels that flag songs generated fully or partially by AI, shown on the player page, as AI-created music proliferates on streaming services.
Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI
Nikon stripped the first-place winner of its Small World in Motion contest after confirming the video used generative AI in post-processing, breaking the competition's rules.
Google’s AI note-taking app transcribes your meetings completely offline
Google launched Google AI Edge Foresight, a free experimental macOS app that transcribes and summarizes meetings offline using its on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model.
Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music
Sean Parker is said to be rebuilding Stability AI around music, now operating with support and funding from the music labels.
Google’s new Guided Vision feature can help you read the fine print
Google is launching Guided Vision in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices, using AI to give real-time audio descriptions of what the phone camera points at.
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia has a ‘newly refreshed’ design
Grokipedia, an AI-powered competitor to Wikipedia, released a v0.3 update featuring a new logo and redesigned homepage and live edits page.
Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music
Music startup Thoughtful Things has launched a Kickstarter for Engram, a sampler and groovebox that runs a local, custom-trained AI model to distort audio and hallucinate new experimental sounds.
I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it
A TechCrunch AI writer created an interactive digital avatar of themselves and trained it to discuss venture fraud, reflecting on the trade-offs of AI clones.
Meta opens early access program for new Muse features
Meta has launched an early access program for new features of Muse, inviting users to request participation.
Deploying real-time personalized speech with Qwen3-TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI
A guide to deploying the Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base text-to-speech model via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to a real-time endpoint, with voice cloning from short reference clips.