Technology

Hundreds of thousands of people have fallen for a hoax that claims to deny Meta the right to use their photos for training the company's AI.

A YouTuber had his voice cloned via AI technology by a company which then used it to narrate videos on its channel.

Google Earth is getting new historical imagery added to it with some pictures dating back to the 1930s.

At the Meta Connect event yesterday (Wednesday), Mark Zuckerberg's company announced that AI images might start appearing in people's Facebook and Instagram feeds. While some may react in horror to that news, what's even creepier is the AI images may be representations of the users themselves.

Meta unveiled its first pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses "Orion" as well as updates to the company's Ray Ban smart glasses and Meta Quest headset at the company's developer event.

Today at Meta Connect, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads showed off a technology that is capable of fully recreating influencers as AI figures that can be spoken to as if they were the real person.

The United Nations (UN) says it wants to treat AI with the same urgency as climate change and the organization plans to take a more active role in monitoring the technology.

Legendary filmmaker James Cameron has joined the board of directors of Stability AI.

Google is introducing new video editing tools in the Google Photos app, including AI-powered capabilities aimed at simplifying the video editing process.

A mayor in Australia has been tripped up by generative AI after posting concept images of new parks containing humans with floating limbs and twisted bodies.

A lawsuit has already been filed against California's new laws designed to curb AI images and deepfakes.

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump shared a doctored photograph falsely showing rival Kamala Harris with Sean "Diddy" Combs but later deleted it.

A report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has found that major social media and video streaming have been engaged in ‘vast surveillance,’ including of children.

AI video company Runwway has announced a partnership with Lionsgate that will see a custom video model trained on the Hollywood studio's extensive catalog.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed two bills into law that will protect actors and performers from unauthorized AI clones.

Snap Spectacles are back with a new design and new software for another swing at a daily augmented-reality wearable.

Snapchat has reserved the right to put its users' faces on ads and personalized sponsored content with its "My Selfie" feature.

A study has found that the majority of recruiters prefer AI headshots to real headshots but only when they don't know that the picture's been AI-generated.

The iPhone 16 family has arrived and includes many new features, some of which Apple has played very close to its vest. One such improvement is the inclusion of JPEG XL file types, which promise improved image quality compared to standard JPEG files while delivering relatively smaller file sizes.

California passed a new law that makes it illegal to create deepfakes related to the 2024 election -- the toughest law on political AI-generated content in the U.S. yet.

Google is planning to incorporate the Content Authenticity Initiative's (CAI) C2PA provenance technology into its Search and Ads systems to better identify if an image is straight out of camera, edited, or created by AI.

The Chinese internet authority has proposed strict regulations for AI images requiring them to be clearly labeled and have embedded metadata.

Swedish company LC-Tec specializes in liquid-crystal optical technologies, including optical shutters and variable neutral density filters. Its latest innovation is the world's first -- an Electronic Variable Diffusion (EVD) filter system for cinema lenses.

Earlier this year, Meta -- parent company of Facebook and Instagram -- said it would be adding a notification to images uploaded to its platforms that were made with AI. That rollout went poorly, and now the company is making another update to how it displays that notification, it's second in three months.

Adobe previewed its generative video tools earlier this year, but details were relatively scarce. Today, Adobe shared much more information, including actual videos created in its Adobe Firefly Video Model.

Pop megastar Taylor Swift endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President immediately following last night's Presidential Debate on ABC, citing Donald Trump using AI-generated images to falsely claim that Swift had endorsed the former President.

Yashica has announced its new Explorer device, a full-color night vision goggle/viewfinder with a 4K OLED screen that allows users to switch between different viewing angles.

Governments worldwide are grappling with generative artificial intelligence (AI) and how to deal with it. In the United States, movement has been generally slow and limited. A group of Senators have joined to urge the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate generative AI products for antitrust violations.

The new Apple Intelligence feature on the iPhone 16 has been built "from the ground up" to understand language and images.

Instagram is adding new photo editing features and capabilities to direct messages (DMs).

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump made an extraordinary suggestion that a photo of him and E. Jean Carroll -- the writer he was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming -- was AI-generated.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says that it cracked down on unsafe drone pilots with over $340,000 worth of fines in the last two years.

With the Paris Olympics done and dusted, the next Summer Games will be held in Los Angeles in 2028. This gave one filmmaker pause for thought: What would an L.A. Olympics look like 1,000 years in the future?

Late Alien actor Ian Holm was brought back to life with AI technology for the new movie Alien: Romulus.

A federal judge has ruled that social media companies can't be forced to block certain types of "harmful" content from teens.

The open-source LAION-5B dataset used to train AI image generators has been re-released after it was pulled last year when child sex abuse material (CSAM) was discovered among the billions of pictures.

Inaccurate skin tones have been an issue in photography for as long as photography has existed. Even as camera technology has improved by leaps and bounds, skin tone issues persist. Two technology companies may solve the problem once and for all, albeit inadvertently.

An alleged pedophile was arrested after he used a GoPro to film kids at Disney World in order to create thousands of AI child abuse images.

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has posted a series of AI images over the Labor Day weekend, leaning on the technology to drive home his message to voters.

Scientists at the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center in Menlo Park, California, have found a surprising way to improve lithium-ion battery lifespan by 50%.

AI image generator company Midjourney is teasing a piece of forthcoming hardware but leaving fans guessing as to what it is.

Google will once again allow users of its Gemini AI service to generate images of humans after a debacle earlier this year when it was accused of “erasing” white people.

Journalists in Venezuela are under increased scrutiny amid a shift towards dictatorship under President Nicolás Maduro -- but they aren't giving up. Instead, they're deploying AI stand-ins to report the news while avoiding the spotlight.

AI is among the most significant concerns for photographers. Whether worried about AI taking their jobs or AI models being trained illegally using their work, the technology is at the forefront of many's minds. Enter Overlai, an app that aims to keep photographers' work safe from AI scraping.

Adobe, OpenAI, and Microsoft have backed a bill in California that requires tech companies to clearly label AI-generated content.