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.
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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.
Epic shifts to ‘AI-accelerated development’ for upcoming Disney game
Epic Games is moving to AI-accelerated development for an unannounced Disney game, directing staff to use tools like Anthropic's Claude for code and to generate all art via AI workflows.
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.
Pope Leo XIV is not a fan of AI-generated art
Pope Leo XIV voiced opposition to AI-generated art, arguing that algorithms lack what he called the spark of humanity present in work made by people.
What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings
The Verge examines how entertainment labor groups respond to existential AI warnings, arguing attention should stay on present-day impacts as studios adopt AI tools.
The 2.5-hour AI-generated Odyssey movie is 2.5 hours too long
Fountain 0 has released Odysseus: The Fall, a 2.5-hour film made entirely with AI, written and directed by cofounder Ash Koosha, and panned by The Verge.
Apple’s new iPhone camera mode promises to prove your photo isn’t AI
Apple plans to launch Reference Image with the iPhone 18 Pro lineup, using new camera sensors to sign pixel data and create an unalterable reference photo for authentication.
Recreating a 70-year love story frame by frame
Google DeepMind and filmmakers used AI to recreate an unrecorded 70-year love story in the short film "Love, Rendered."
ChatGPT Sketch turns your bad drawings into detailed AI images
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5, including a new Sketch feature that converts user doodles drawn inside ChatGPT into AI-generated images based on text instructions.
The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus
Restaurant owners using generative AI to create menus may end up with unappetizing results, as customers can perceive that something is wrong with the food imagery.
Try Google Pics: Easy image creation and editing in Google Workspace
Google has introduced Google Pics, an image creation and editing tool in Google Workspace powered by the Nano Banana model.
Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 arrives September 3rd and requires serious GPU horsepower
Nvidia is launching its DLSS 5 AI upscaling technology this week for RTX 50-series GPUs and GeForce Now, with NBA 2K27 as the only supported game at release.
You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks
Google is adding an option to remove visible 'sparkle' watermarks from AI-generated images, videos, and music in Gemini and Flow, while retaining invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata.
Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
Google is giving users the option to remove the visible watermark from its AI-generated content, though invisible markers used to identify such files stay active.
Google’s Gemini app surges to 1 billion users
Google's Gemini app has reached 1 billion users, with the company reporting 63% of users engage via voice and more than 150 million images generated daily.
How Pixieset achieved 35% AI feature adoption by solving the right problem with Amazon Bedrock
Pixieset built an AI-generated alt text feature on Amazon Bedrock, shipping it to millions of users in four months and reaching 35% adoption by automating image SEO work.
Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership
Merlin, representing more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, is backing Spotify's upcoming paid AI-powered remix and covers product, joining Universal Music Group.
As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it
AI detection startup Pangram raised $9 million to expand its software, launching a new text detection model, Pangram 4, and an image detection model in research preview.
Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star
Midjourney, known for AI image generation, has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star. The deal reportedly closed in spring, with terms undisclosed.
Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded
Runway has introduced the Media Router, which automatically picks the best generative model for image, video, or audio requests depending on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed, or cost.
Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s
Meta unveiled Content Seal, an invisible watermarking tool that flags images from its AI model, but the tool is seen as less accessible and reliable than existing options like SynthID and C2PA.
Adobe’s ‘natural look’ camera app embraces generative AI
Adobe is adding a generative AI suite called AI Playground to its experimental Project Indigo camera app, offered as an opt-out experiment to a small percentage of users.
AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs
Film studio Fountain 0 has announced an AI-generated reimagining of The Odyssey, timed to the buzz around Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of the classic.
The Google Images homepage will recommend photos even before you search
Google is updating the Google Images homepage to display a real-time, personalized gallery of images before a user searches, marking the platform's 25th anniversary.
How AI Image Generation Works: Diffusion Models Explained
AI image generators don't paint — they denoise. Here is how diffusion models turn random static into a picture that matches your prompt, explained without the math degree.
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
Meta pulled a controversial AI feature from Instagram after user backlash, saying in a blog post that the tool missed the mark and is no longer available.
Google will now tell you if an ad was made with AI
Google is introducing a label showing whether ads on Search, Discover, and YouTube were made or edited using AI, accessible through its My Ad Center.
Stable Diffusion: The Open Model That Democratized AI Image Generation
Stable Diffusion made high-quality text-to-image generation open and runnable on consumer GPUs, sparking a vast ecosystem of tools and fine-tunes. Here is what it is and why it mattered.
CLIP: Teaching AI to Connect Images and Words
CLIP learned to link pictures and language by studying hundreds of millions of image–caption pairs from the web. It quietly became the foundation for image search and generation.