Google's Flow Sessions program unveils short films blending real actors with AI-generated worlds, revealing both the creative acceleration AI offers filmmakers and the ethical tensions surrounding non-consenting artists whose work may have trained the models powering it.
Google pulls a newly launched AI Google Earth feature just one day after release after a researcher exposes how it can generate convincing deepfake satellite images of real-world locations, including fabricated scenes of refugees and a bomb crater near a Gaza hospital, raising serious misinformation concerns.
Google wraps its fourth Flow Sessions cohort, unveiling AI-powered short films created by artists who spent six weeks collaborating with Google Flow, the tech giant's generative AI creative studio.
FaceSwap, an open-source AI face-swapping tool, surpasses 56,700 GitHub stars as its developers champion strict ethical guidelines, limiting use to legitimate purposes like filmmaking and AI experimentation while explicitly condemning non-consensual applications.
Runway launches Media Router, a developer tool that automatically selects the best AI image, video, or audio generation model based on quality, speed, or cost priorities, signaling a strategic pivot toward AI infrastructure orchestration as competition from Google, ByteDance, and Alibaba intensifies.
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3, a groundbreaking multimodal AI capable of generating images, video with audio, and robotic action predictions from one unified model, but its gated early access, absent pricing, and lack of production SLAs leave enterprise buyers unable to fully evaluate it against already-available rivals like Google's …
Microsoft is ditching OpenAI's image-generating models in favor of its own proprietary AI technology across PowerPoint and Bing, with model chief Mustafa Suleyman claiming the switch delivers faster, cheaper, higher-quality results and better user retention.
Google Images is getting a major Pinterest-style overhaul, introducing a personalized 'For You' gallery, collections, and AI-powered image generation directly within Search, transforming the 25-year-old platform from a simple search tool into a full visual discovery and inspiration destination.
Meta pulls its new AI image feature from Instagram after users erupt in outrage over a default opt-in setting that allowed anyone to generate AI images of real people using public accounts, with no consent, no notifications, and no way to delete the results.
Meta pulls a newly launched Instagram AI image feature that allowed users to generate images by tagging public accounts, after immediate backlash from critics including the National Center on Sexual Exploitation and SAG, who warn it enables sextortion and abuse.