Computer Vision

Meta announced a suite of AI tools for Facebook, including a chatbot called AI Mode that answers questions using data from Groups and Reels, photo-editing features with collage cutouts and video montages, and AI presets …

Artificial intelligence and GPS tracking are revealing the secret lives of animals, from hummingbirds to pumas, showing their sophisticated behaviors and sense of place. These technologies are aiding wildlife conservatio…

Walmart launched an Onn Outdoor Floodlight Camera for $77 that integrates with Google Home, offering a 1080p camera, 2,500 lumens of brightness, and free 3-hour cloud recordings, undercutting Google's own Nest Cam with F…

The visual-effects team behind Peacock's Ted used AI-based face replacement to transform Seth MacFarlane into Bill Clinton for a Season 2 episode, after prosthetics and traditional CGI failed to achieve a convincing like…

Facebook rolled out new AI-powered features including AI Mode for search, AI editing tools for photos and videos, and AI-generated wardrobe changes. The tools aim to help users find answers, create content, and express t…

Mohammad Norouzi, CEO of Ideogram, stated that AI model effectiveness depends on use case suitability rather than general quality, and that open-source models enable new design capabilities with precise control over imag…

Meta is testing facial recognition software from Rank One Computing, a firm that sells surveillance tech to U.S. government and police, for its smart glasses. License documents show Meta is authorized to use Rank One's f…

BYD has patented an AI system that detects living beings under parked vehicles before drivers move, using baseline imaging and change detection to address a dangerous blind spot. The system, described in patent CN1222007…

The VFX team for Peacock's 'Ted' used AI to transform Seth MacFarlane into Bill Clinton for Season 2, overcoming challenges with prosthetics and CGI. The AI tool, provided by Deep Voodoo, anchored MacFarlane's performanc…

Costco is introducing scanning technology and digital membership cards to speed up checkout, addressing member frustrations. The pre-scan feature has improved checkout speed by up to 20% in early-adopting warehouses. The…

Photo Organizer AI Premium 4.7.5 was released on June 15, 2026, with a file size of 425.3 MB. The update introduces automated event album clustering, duplicate detection, and quality-based culling using local ONNX classi…

Adobe released a major Creative Cloud update introducing AI-powered tools across Lightroom, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator, including Assisted Culling, Select Subject v5, Photo to Video, AI Sharp…

China has deployed a domestic AI-driven marine welding system at a smart manufacturing base in Tianjin, developed by Offshore Oil Engineering Co. The system handles 30-ton components, cuts steel up to 70 millimeters thic…

Tecton Forge AI launched an AI-powered design tool that generates photorealistic architectural images from text prompts, offering interior, exterior, floor plan, and elevation designs with instant rendering and Vastu com…

A developer warns that selfies, especially peace sign gestures, can expose fingerprints that AI tools can extract and replicate, enabling presentation attacks on biometric systems. Historical cases include the 2013 defea…

Pokémon Go players' voluntary 3D scans trained Niantic Spatial's AI models for GPS-free navigation, which are now being combined with defense contractor Vantor's software to guide military drones when satellite signals a…

Cutback launched Selects, an AI tool that automates long-form video editing prep, including sync, organization, and draft editing from a single prompt. The tool reduces prep time by 60% and integrates with Adobe Premiere…

The 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America is the most data-driven sporting event ever, with AI-powered balls, 3D player tracking, and biometric border controls. A 2013 speculative newspaper, 'Winning Formula,' accurately …

For the first time, an Earth observation satellite has used a vision-language model in orbit to autonomously identify areas of interest from natural language queries, without human analysts. The milestone, achieved in Ap…

Liberty Mutual Reinsurance and ICEYE launched a parametric wildfire insurance product that uses ICEYE's SAR satellite constellation to classify individual properties as destroyed or undamaged after a wildfire, enabling p…