Early this week, I pulled a colleague into a video chat and shared my screen with him, asking if he was familiar with Apple Photos. He said yes, and proceeded to let me continue. That was when I told him what he was looking at wasn't Apple Photos.
New horror movie Heretic, which debuted in theaters over the weekend, has been praised for featuring a disclaimer in its end credits that "no generative AI was used in the making of the film."
The AI image generator Flux by Black Forest Labs founded by a group of disgruntled Stable Diffusion researchers has released a "raw mode" in its 1.1 version.
The Canadian government ordered the shutdown of TikTok's business in the country, citing national security risks.
The latest-generation Mac mini sports a fresh and improved design and Apple's newest M4-series processors. The facelift and performance bump close the gap between the Mac mini and Apple's fantastic Mac Studio desktop in multiple ways, making the new Mac mini an extremely compelling choice for photographers and video editors alike.
Leica’s swanky new home projector offers 4K resolution, HDR and Dolby Vision, and features premium Leica optics.
In a digital age when the line between truth and authenticity often blurs, the Click camera app brings a powerful tool to verify the reality behind images.
Robert Downey Jr. warned that he will sue filmmakers who use AI to recreate his likeness after he dies -- as the actor makes his Broadway debut in a play about the dangers of the technology.
Police are investigating two middle school boys who are accused of using AI technology to create nude photos of multiple classmates.
Fears that artificial intelligence will replace creatives came to pass in Poland recently after an entire radio station was replaced by bots.
Smartphone company Tecno has launched its #ToneProud campaign, which seeks to end skin tone bias in imaging technology, an increasingly important issue with the rise of generative AI.
Generative AI can produce credible imitations of popular artworks when trained on as few as 200 images.
Runway has added a precise camera control feature to its video platform allowing editors to pan, track, and zoom around AI subjects.
Apple is getting back into imaging software as the tech giant is acquiring photo editing app developer Pixelmator. This is the latest in a series of steps demonstrating Apple's renewed commitment to imaging at large, and it's a big deal.
Pixelmator, a Mac-centric photo editing application, announced that it has been acquired by Apple. It marks the first time that Apple has chosen to dip a toe into the professional editing space since it ceased development of Aperture in 2014.
A little-known iPhone feature can check if any malicious apps are spying through your camera or microphone.
When Adobe debuted the Firefly-powered Generative Remove tool in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw in May as a beta feature, it worked well much of the time. However, Generative Remove, now officially out of its beta period, has confusingly gotten worse in some situations.
A mysterious AI image generator that beats all other models in benchmark tests has revealed itself. Initially known as "red_panda", it is actually called Recraft.
An AI-infused camera app for iOS that turns photos into different universe styles, such as Ghibli, Lego, and Minecraft, has been released.
Apple's busy week of announcements continues. Following the M4-powered iMac on Monday, the M4 Pro's debut in the redesigned Mac mini yesterday, and the new MacBook Pro notebooks today, Apple's M4 chip family has taken shape, now comprising three chips: the M4, the M4 Pro, and the M4 Max.
The co-founder and CEO of Runway Cristóbal Valenzuela has compared the current state of artificial intelligence to the invention of daguerreotypes in the 19th century.
Researchers have developed a smartphone app that captures full-body motion without the need for special cameras or expensive equipment.
Apple's diverse family of products is now smarter and more capable, thanks to the highly anticipated launch of Apple Intelligence. Available across compatible iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices, Apple Intelligence features an improved Siri, writing tools, and Clean Up. This AI-powered image editing tool removes distractions while preserving realism.
A man who used AI to create child abuse images using photographs of real children has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Instagram lowers the video quality on less popular posts that aren't amassing as many views.
Earlier this month, the star of the new Wicked movie Cynthia Erivo shared that she was livid with a fan-edited film poster that more closely resembled the poster for the popular Broadway musical show of the same name.
This week, Canon showcased a 250-megapixel APS-H CMOS image sensor that is housed in a box-like body and available in both RGB and monochrome configurations. It perhaps serves as a good example of Canon's sensor technology but don't expect to find it deployed into a consumer camera.
Safari is becoming more spatial on Vision Pro. Starting later this year, web developers will be able to easily add spatial photos and videos to their websites.
A few weeks ago, I tried on a Vision Pro for the first time. The one aspect of the technology that really caught my breath in my throat wasn't the immersive movie Submerged, it wasn't browsing the internet, nor was it trying out the digital workspaces. No, it was looking at my spatial photos.
An artificial intelligence researcher who worked at OpenAI as recently as August says the company violates copyright law.
The advancement of AI technology has raised a question that once had an easy answer: What is a photograph?
Stability AI has clapped back at its critics by announcing its latest AI image model Stable Diffusion 3.5 with a picture of a woman lying on grass.
The AI video platform Runway has unveiled a remarkable new tool that transforms a person into a computer-generated character.
The Android 15 update is causing unexpected bricking of Google Pixel 6 devices -- leaving them unusable.
Apple wants to keep smartphone photos true to reality and doesn't want to go as far as some of its competitors, such as Google's Magic Editor.
Paul Simon once sang about Eastman Kodak's color reversal film Kodachrome and Ed Sheeran wrote about preserving love in pictures in the song Photograph. But now AI can make a song about any image presented to it.
Google will soon restrict apps that request access to all the photos and videos on a user's smartphone.
The AI image generator Midjourney has begun rolling out a web tool that lets anyone upload images and make "powerful" edits.
Meta will use facial recognition technology to fight the rise of deepfake celebrity ads and help social media users recover their accounts.
Police in Iceland have fallen foul of the apparent universal unpopularity of AI images after one force vowed to stop using the computer-generated pictures.
Software company Glass Imaging develops incredible technology that dramatically improves image quality, especially when dealing with small image sensors and lenses like those featured in smartphones. At this week's Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Glass Imaging demonstrated in real-time what its GlassAI tech can achieve, and the results are remarkable.
Canva continues its torrid pace, announcing Dream Lab, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool, alongside significant upgrades to Canva's Visual Suite, content library, and solutions for small businesses and students.
At Adobe MAX last week, Adobe, Frame.io, and Leica announced new Camera to Cloud (C2C) capabilities for the Leica SL3 full-frame L-mount camera. Alongside this news, Leica announced that Camera to Cloud integration won't stop with the SL3 -- C2C is coming to additional Leica models.
While the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) has made significant progress in recent years with Content Credentials and C2PA standards for still images, video has remained a slightly more challenging beast. However, YouTube, the largest video platform in the world, is now utilizing the C2PA standard to attach helpful information for some videos on YouTube.
Easily missed in Adobe's giant dump of news out of its MAX creativity conference was Nikon's announcement that the Z6 III, Z8, and Z9 would get Frame.io integration through the NX Mobile Air app.
Nikon announced that it is preparing a firmware update that will bring the Content Authenticity Initiative's (CAI) C2PA content credentials to the Z6 III camera which will be ready to deploy by mid next year.
Adobe unveiled its Firefly Video Model last month, previewing a variety of new generative AI video features. Today, the Firefly Video Model has officially launched in public beta and is the first publicly available generative video model designed to be commercially safe.
Everyone takes photos but sharing them in the modern age is a bit of a conundrum. A new app called Swsh aims to help by using artificial intelligence.
Intel announced its new Intel Core Ultra 200S series processor family that promises to improve efficiency and power while ushering in a new generation of AI-powered desktop PCs.
In a move that is lowering the creative barrier, Meta is giving advertisers the ability to make a moving image from a still one with new AI tools.