Technology

AI images are spoiling Google Image search results, at least that's according to some creatives who have been sharing screenshots of AI images mixed in with real photos on Google.

Multiple U.S. states have sued TikTok over claims that the video app is designed to be addictive to kids and harms their mental health.

Adobe, a major player in the content authenticity movement and the founder of the Content Authenticity Initiative (CA) in 2019, announced Adobe Content Authenticity. This new, free web app enables creators to attach Content Credentials to their digital work easily.

The thermal hurdles engineers must overcome become even more significant as cameras get increasingly more robust video recording features. A new Canon camera patent hopes to overcome these concerns through a relatively compact active cooling system to keep internal recording media cool.

Apple's Machine Learning Research team created a new AI model that promises significant improvements concerning computer vision models and how they analyze three-dimensional within a two-dimensional image.

Nikon applied for a revised patent in Japan for a hybrid image sensor design the company has worked on since at least 2016.

Meta has previewed its AI video generator called Movie Gen by showing some impressive-looking examples, but there's no word on a release date.

Donald Trump and Taylor Swift are some of the most deepfaked people of 2024, according to a study.

YouTube Shorts will now allow creators to upload videos up to three minutes in length -- as the company takes on TikTok’s domination in terms of short-form video.

Google Lens will now let people search the internet via video as well as still images thanks to a set of new features just announced.

Harvard students have demonstrated the terrifying power of AI smart glasses by making a pair that reveals anyone's personal information by just looking at them.

When asked this week if Meta is using photos taken on Ray-Ban smart glasses to train its AI, company representatives refused to deny or confirm.

Despite being declared dead in 2017, Microsoft Paint has defied the odds. It continues to receive Adobe Photoshop-style AI features the latest being Generative Fill and Generative Erase.

California governor Gavin Newsom has signed two bills that will make it illegal for people to possess or distribute AI-generated deepfake nudes of children.

Raspberry Pi, the company that sells small, single-board computers, released the Raspberry Pi AI camera which utilizes Sony's IMX500 Intelligent Vision Sensor.

Meta was fined more than $100 million for a security breach that saw the company store some users' passwords in plain text.

Researchers have made an AI bot capable of beating image-based CAPTCHAs 100 percent of the time, according to a new scientific paper.

The world's first museum of AI arts will open at The Grand in Downtown Los Angeles, California next year. The museum, called Dataland, is being spearheaded by Refik Anadol whom the Los Angeles Times characterizes as a "leader of AI-generated art."

A U.S. Senator had a Zoom call with a scammer using deepfake technology to pose as a top Ukrainian official.

An artist who infamously duped an art contest with an AI image is suing the U.S. Copyright Office over its refusal to register the image's copyright.

Runway has allocated $5 million in cash to help fund up to 100 original films that use the company's AI video generator in some way.

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.