For most of photography’s roughly 200-year history, altering a photo convincingly required either a darkroom, some Photoshop expertise, or, at […]
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Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora
An AI-generated version of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seen in a still capture from a video generated by Sora 2. […]
Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression
We saw 10 AI films and interviewed Runway’s CEO as well as Hollywood pros. A still from Total Pixel Space, […]
MIT student prints AI polymer masks to restore paintings in hours
MIT graduate student Alex Kachkine once spent nine months meticulously restoring a damaged baroque Italian painting, which left him plenty […]
In landmark suit, Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for AI character theft
The legal action follows similar moves in other creative industries, with more than a dozen major news companies suing AI […]
Midjourney introduces first new image generation model in over a year
AI image generator Midjourney released its first new model in quite some time today; dubbed V7, it’s a ground-up rework […]
OpenAI’s new AI image generator is potent and bound to provoke
The visual apocalypse is probably nigh, but perhaps seeing was never believing. A trio of AI-generated images created using OpenAI’s […]
Farewell Photoshop? Google’s new AI lets you edit images by asking
Multimodal output opens up new possibilities Having true multimodal output opens up interesting new possibilities in chatbots. For example, Gemini […]
New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise
These diffusion models maintain performance faster than or comparable to similarly sized conventional models. LLaDA’s researchers report their 8 billion […]