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Google now allows users to turn off visible watermarks on AI-generated images, videos, and music through a new 'Media watermark' setting in Gemini and its AI video generator Flow, while still embedding invisible SynthID …
Andrew Tate's defense attorney Joe McBride is posting AI-generated images on X depicting Tate and his brother Tristan in filthy prison conditions, claiming their treatment violates their rights, while prosecutors say the…
Spotify will begin tagging artists on its platform as AI-generated and will not promote them, according to a New York Times report. The move signals a potential tipping point where platforms start algorithmically rejecti…
Researchers from an undisclosed institution introduced Hybrid Domain Knowledge Fusion (HDKF), a relighting-specific training framework that fuses physics, reflectance, and realism priors from synthetic, One-Light-at-a-Ti…
Researchers propose HorizonRelight, a diffusion transformer-based framework that reframes long-horizon video relighting as temporally conditioned latent domain translation, using masked target-domain self-conditioning an…
Google announced on Friday that users can now remove visible watermarks from AI-generated images, videos, and songs, while preserving invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata. The toggle will be available in Gemini…
The AI Corner published a guide detailing a 'Fundraise Prompt Stack' for using Anthropic's Claude to prepare for venture capital fundraising, citing Carta data that the median gap between seed and Series A rounds reached…
Researchers propose V-RAE, a video representation autoencoder that builds compact generative latents on top of frozen vision foundation model representations, achieving 2.13 rFVD on K600 and outperforming all evaluated l…
Mark Carrigan is ending his year-long experiment in which language models, including ChatGPT and Claude, reviewed his blog, with a final post written by ChatGPT. The July and August reviews show the experiment reaching i…
Google's Gemini app has replaced 3.6 Flash with 3.7 Flash in the model picker across Android, iOS, web, and macOS, following the model's launch on August 13, 2026. The update brings improved reasoning and accuracy for fi…
Magic Find Ventures, a venture capital fund co-founded by Fangda Wan and Shao Yun, has raised $30 million toward a $50 million target for its first fund, Magic Find Ventures I, to invest $500,000 to $2 million in pre-see…
Nathan Gardels, editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine and senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute, argues that AI must incorporate public feedback at scale to tame the chaos of social media, drawing on historical parallels…
Klaviyo co-founder and co-CEO Andrew Bialecki said at SaaStr AI that the company, which reported $370.6M in Q2 '26 revenue, up 26%, and raised full-year guidance to $1.526B-$1.534B, required all 2,300 employees to reach …
DeepSeek announced the general availability of DeepSeek-V4-Pro on August 13, 2026, across its app, web, and API, with the model name deepseek-v4-pro unchanged. The release includes MIT-licensed weights (~893 GB) on Huggi…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-27B, a 28-billion-parameter image-text-to-text model, on Hugging Face, with an FP8 quantized version also available. The model is part of the Qwen3.8 collection, which includes the 2.…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-27B on August 14 under the Apache 2.0 license, a 27-billion-parameter dense vision-language model with a 262,144-token native context window and downloadable weights. Qwen's own bench…
An employee at an unnamed immigration law startup resigned after the company mandated Claude use and repositioned itself as an 'AI-First' platform, citing ethical concerns about data sourcing, model training bias, enviro…
Tyga accused Doja Cat of making a 'demonic album' after she called him 'a penis' for his AI-generated album 'Starface' in a TMZ interview. Tyga defended the album, saying he used 'AI-assisted things' for production but w…
Canva Pty Ltd has cut its valuation by $10 billion, from $40 billion to $26 billion, in a secondary share sale, reflecting a sobering reassessment of its growth prospects amid intensifying competition from AI-powered des…
Tech-industry layoffs in 2026 have surpassed the total for all of 2025, reaching 126,305 by mid-August, according to the layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi. This exceeds the 122,606 jobs lost across 278 global tech companies in …