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Google's Flow Sessions fourth cohort showcased short films made with its AI video generator, with filmmaker Andrew Nethery's 'Nothin' Beats a Cheeseburger' blending live-action and AI-generated elements, using 20 live-ac…
Google rolled back its Nano Banana 2 AI image-generation feature in Google Earth on Friday, a day after launching it, following concerns that it could create realistic deepfake satellite images for misinformation. The fe…
Boy George was removed from the London Palladium production of *Jesus Christ Superstar* after releasing an AI-generated pro-Israel song, "We Will Dance Again," on July 27. His manager, Paul Kemsley, announced the decisio…
Google shut down its AI-powered satellite image editing tool, Nano Banana 2, within 24 hours of launch after digital ethics researcher Henk van Ess demonstrated that it could generate convincing deepfakes of real-world l…
Google shut down the Google Earth feature launched Thursday that let users edit satellite images with AI text prompts, after users generated deepfakes such as a bomb crater near a hospital in Gaza. Digital Digging's Henk…
GitHub Copilot's stacked sessions feature enabled a developer to modernize a personal dashboard app written in React 15, Less, and react-bootstrap from 2014, a task previously abandoned as a multi-week nightmare. The dev…
Google has integrated its Nano Banana 2 image generator into Google Earth, enabling users to place AI-generated events and objects onto real satellite imagery, but BBC Verify tests found that the company's invisible wate…
A video report from YouTube explores how iconic characters and symbols could address Hollywood's challenges with artificial intelligence, highlighting potential solutions for the entertainment industry's AI integration.
Argil, the Paris AI-video startup founded by Laodis Menard and Brivael Le Pogam, has integrated MiniMax H3 into its AI-avatar social video workflow, making H3 a footage-generation option within its production system. Min…
Starting August 2, 2026, the European Union's AI Act mandates that providers and deployers of generative AI systems label AI-generated content, with fines up to €15 million or 3% of worldwide annual turnover for non-comp…
Google removed an AI image generation feature from Google Earth after users, including open source intelligence researcher Hank Van Ess, used it to create fake satellite images depicting war zones and disasters. The tool…
Google's Gemini-powered image generator Nano Banana in Google Earth can create photorealistic composites of real map data with no visible marker distinguishing synthetic overlays from real imagery, a flaw Digital Digging…
Google announced that its AI image generation model, Nano Banana 2, can now be used to create custom images and 3D renderings inside Google Earth, but the feature is drawing criticism from digital investigator Henk van E…
Google Earth's AI can fabricate realistic satellite images, enabling on-demand generation of training data for agricultural monitoring and environmental simulations, but raising concerns about misuse in property disputes…
A developer has compiled a list of eight open source tools for developers, including AI-powered summarization, multi-LLM desktop apps, and agentic workflow platforms. The collection features projects like Summarize, Open…
Google launched a Google Earth web feature on July 30 that lets users generate images from satellite, aerial, and 3D map views using a text prompt, but NPR, AFP, and open-source researchers documented prompts that produc…
OpenAI released GPT-5.2 on July 31, 2026, introducing a new 'vibe coding' mode that lets developers generate full applications from natural language descriptions, according to a daily AI news brief for vibe coders. The u…
Derek Sivers, an author and programmer, states that he uses generative AI tools like OpenRouter.ai and the llm command-line tool for programming assistance but never allows AI to write as him, ensuring nothing claiming t…
Nathan has released a free daily HTML5 remake of the game Slope, served in under 100kb with no ads, lags, or logins, and featuring setting sliders for player control. The URL serves a new track every day, and the project…
Google's new Nano Banana AI image generator in Google Earth can create realistic satellite and aerial images that are ripe for misuse, as demonstrated by Digital Digging's Henk van Ess, who generated images of refugees n…