Generative AI

Adobe has integrated its Firefly Upscale Image feature directly into Photoshop and Lightroom, allowing photographers to enlarge images by 2x or 4x without leaving their editing software. The AI-powered tool is optimized …

Adobe has integrated its Firefly AI-powered Upscale Image feature directly into Photoshop and Lightroom, allowing photographers to enlarge images by 2x or 4x without leaving their editing workflow. The tool, optimized fo…

Adobe Firefly's AI image generator now offers multiple models—Adobe's Firefly Image 4, Image 4 Ultra, and Image 5 Preview, plus partner models GPT Image 2, Gemini 3 with Nano Banana, and Flux 1.1 Pro—inside one environme…

Adobe launched Firefly Image 4, Image 4 Ultra, and Image 5 Preview, alongside partner models GPT Image 2, Gemini 3 with Nano Banana, and Flux 1.1 Pro, in its Firefly AI image generator, which is integrated into Photoshop…

Adobe's Firefly AI Video Generator integrates top AI video models—Google Veo, Runway, Kling, and Adobe's own Firefly Video Model—into one environment, offering precise controls and a built-in editor with multi-track time…

Adobe has launched Firefly AI Video Generator, a free tool that integrates top AI video models—Google Veo, Runway, Kling, and Adobe's own Firefly Video Model—into one environment, offering precise controls like camera an…

Makestreame's Paper Tunes project stores a 2.9 MB MP3 file on a single sheet of paper using eight QR codes and transmits it over LoRA, compressing the audio to 21.44 kB with Meta's EnCodec neural codec. The project demon…

A blog post by TimHolus discusses various topics including a car resembling a Karen, Ethernet network issues, broken pads, and AI-generated content. The post mentions that AI artifacts are visible in a video, and predict…

Spotify began labeling AI-generated artist profiles with an 'AI Persona' badge on August 11, 2026, and will remove them from default recommendations in mid-September, after deleting over 75 million spammy AI tracks in th…

A new arXiv paper models the web corpus as a common-pool resource and proves that generative search engines degrade its volume, quality, and lifetime, potentially causing extinction. The authors show that a myopic engine…

Alibaba launched HappyShrimp 1.0, an AI music model that converts emotions, stories, or memories into complete music tracks via natural-language prompts, moving the project from an earlier report to a publicly available …

A new analysis of thousands of NSF and NIH grant applications, including confidential rejected submissions, reveals that generative AI is increasingly used in writing grant proposals, raising concerns about its impact on…

Een golf van racistische AI-video's op Chinese sociale media, waarin witte en zwarte mannen en Indiërs als boosdoeners worden neergezet, wordt nauwelijks gecensureerd door de Chinese overheid. Volgens onderzoeker Han Ron…

Vyral, an open-source, local-first contract layer and runtime for applications needing records, retrieval, durable work, and agent-facing AI, has been released. It enables provider-portable capabilities across SQLite, Po…

On May 25, 2026, AI consultant Ashutosh Shrivastava posted a Gemini Omni Flash clip demonstrating a synthetic version of himself, highlighting Google's personal avatar workflow within Gemini Apps. Google introduced Gemin…

SenseTime, a Hong Kong-listed artificial intelligence company, expects to report a first-half 2026 profit of between RMB500 million and RMB700 million, reversing a loss of about RMB1.489 billion in the same period last y…

Alibaba has officially launched HappyShrimp 1.0, an AI music model that can turn emotions, stories or memories into complete music tracks through natural-language prompts. The launch moves HappyShrimp from an earlier rep…

Spotify removed 75 million spammy tracks last year, and YouTube researchers wiped 130,000 low-quality channels in six months, as tech giants including Google, Meta, and LinkedIn ramp up efforts to purge AI-generated slop…

Major foundation model vendors, including Anthropic and Google, deployed statistical text watermarking and cryptographic metadata standards to comply with the EU AI Act Article 50, which took effect August 2, 2026. Anthr…

The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, under the Korea Heritage Service, and the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) concluded a monthlong campaign by the second cohort of the 'Global AI Cultural Heri…