Generative AI news and analysis on Web Pulse: 12422 curated articles tracking the latest Generative AI developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
The Court of Justice of the European Union has been asked to rule on whether Google's Gemini chatbot violated EU copyright law by reproducing and communicating to the public substantial parts of a Hungarian news publishe…
Google's Gemini Report: Southeast Asia 2026 reveals that Gemini adoption in Southeast Asia is the fastest among Google apps, with 40% of its 900 million global monthly active users under 25. Nearly 70% of prompts in the …
A survey of 677 generative AI users published in BMC Psychology found that individuals with pronounced narcissism are more prone to problematic use of generative AI. In women, this association was fully mediated by verti…
A developer building a faceless Shorts pipeline found that standard success checks (no crashes, valid outputs) did not catch creative failures like inconsistent visual direction. They implemented four review gates—direct…
A coalition of book publishers and authors, including Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and novelist Scott Turow, filed a class action lawsuit against Google in the U.S. District Court for the Southern Dis…
Scanwayy launched a tool that uses AI to generate branded QR codes from any link, allowing users to add a logo and style prompt to create scannable designs. The company says each variant is checked with a real decoder fo…
Iconic Games, a team of AI researchers and game-makers, has released Pressure Point, the first public showcase of its Digital Actor technology, which uses a cascade of ASR, LLM, and TTS models to enable real-time, improv…
Meta abruptly removed a feature on July 10 that let users generate AI images using other people's public photos without notification, after the feature was rolled out on July 7 and faced heavy criticism over privacy conc…
Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse is now valued at over $2 billion after an extended Series C round, signaling that investors still see room for another winner in the AI video generation space.
Google is expanding Gemini in Chrome to desktop users in the UK and will roll it out to iOS users next month, the company announced in a blog post. The feature gives users a dedicated 'Ask Gemini' button that opens the A…
A new article from Wonder Tools outlines five tactics for using AI to sharpen thinking rather than outsourcing it, including using AI as an intellectual sparring partner and employing voice AI tools for bionic dictation.…
Video generation startup PixVerse raised $439 million from Alibaba and other investors to develop AI-powered video creation tools aimed at transforming the entertainment industry.
Indonesia is the most creative user of Gemini-based AI in Southeast Asia, generating nearly nine million custom images daily, according to Google's inaugural Gemini Report: Southeast Asia 2026. Google Vice President for …
OpenAI has rebranded its Codex product under the ChatGPT banner, raising questions about the company's commitment to the chat category. The move consolidates OpenAI's offerings and may signal a strategic evolution toward…
OpenAI has refashioned Codex as the new ChatGPT, raising questions about whether the company is abandoning the chat category it pioneered. The move integrates code generation capabilities directly into the conversational…
Researchers have developed the SPQR benchmark to test whether text-to-image diffusion models maintain safety alignment after benign fine-tuning techniques such as LoRA personalization or style adapters. SPQR, which stand…
Google is redesigning Chrome's bottom navigation bar on Android to embed a Gemini shortcut, enabling the AI to access multiple open tabs at once, a feature already available in Chrome for desktop. The update, spotted by …
Google has rolled out Chrome's Gemini AI features to Mac and PC users in the UK, adding an 'Ask Gemini' button with a sparkle icon in the browser's upper right corner. The AI can work across multiple tabs, integrate with…
Deluxe Corporation successfully migrated from a 50-plus-year-old mainframe to a cloud environment in about 12 months using AI, saving approximately $4.9 million annually. The company's chief technology and digital office…
Coura AI, a new online tool, lets users generate realistic outfit photos by uploading a portrait and a garment image or selecting a style, then applying AI clothes changing to adapt the clothing to the user's body shape …