Google Labs launches Mixboard, an experimental AI-powered visual brainstorming tool in public beta across the U.S., enabling users to generate and edit images from text prompts using the new Nano Banana model for creative projects ranging from home decor to product development.
AI-generated artist Xania Monet, created by Telisha Jones using the Suno tool, lands a multimillion-dollar record deal and tops the charts with her debut songs hitting top positions on the Billboard charts.
Hackers from the LunaLock ransomware group threaten to poison AI training data with stolen artwork unless ransom demands are met, prompting artists to use tools like Glaze and Nightside to protect their creations from exploitation.
Influential leaders like Matthew Prince, Elon Musk, Natasha Lyonne, Refik Anadol, Mike Krieger, Stuart Russell, Fei-Fei Li, and Paula Ingabire drive AI innovation across tech, creativity, policy, ethics, and governance.
Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, a groundbreaking AI image editor, enables blending multiple images, maintaining character consistency, making targeted transformations using natural language, and leveraging world knowledge, now available via Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI.
AI has escalated competition by decreasing effort, creating a leverage paradox where creators must 'hundred-shot' their work through iteration and offer unique perspectives to stand out as 'purple cows' and stay competitive.
Qwen-Image-Edit, a groundbreaking image editing model, revolutionizes the field with its semantic and appearance editing capabilities, achieving state-of-the-art performance in tasks like object rotation, style transfer, and precise text editing while preserving original visual elements, allowing step-by-step chained editing for progressive error correction.
Krea unveils open weights for its FLUX.1 image model, promising superior aesthetics and image quality by curating data and calibrating outputs to address the 'AI look', with plans to expand capabilities and offer personalized aesthetics.
In a groundbreaking move, the Claude AI chatbot integrates with Canva, enabling users to create, edit, and manage designs effortlessly through natural language prompts, leveraging Canva's Model Context Protocol for secure access, revolutionizing design workflows as the first AI assistant with this capability.
The AI 'band' The Velvet Sundown, which went viral on Spotify in June, admits they are an 'artistic provocation' composed entirely with AI and guided by human creative direction.