Technology

The parent company of TikTok, ByteDance, has debuted a new text-to-video AI app, Jimeng AI, in China, paving the way for a future where TikTok features a bevy of AI-generated videos.

Photographers will never be left out of a group photo again with Google Pixel's new "Add Me" tool.

With concerns over AI being misused, most companies are putting guardrails in place to curb the technology's worst excesses. Not so at Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter).

Fans of the English Premier League will know what a fuss the video-assistant referee (VAR) has been over the last few seasons. The good news is that the system's being replaced -- by a swarm of iPhones.

A free deepfake AI tool that lets you become anyone during a video call with a single photo is going viral online.

A bill introduced in the California state senate aims to prevent the dangers of artificial intelligence. Critics, including Google and Meta, say the bill could stifle innovation and even kill California's significant tech industry.

At today's Made By Google Event, Google unveiled new AI integration to Android OS that lets users accomplish tasks just by talking.

Free users of ChatGPT can now generate up to two images per day with DALL-E 3 after the AI image generator was previously exclusive to ChatGPT Plus subscribers.

A new website lets New Yorkers use the Department of Transportation traffic camera network to capture unusual selfies on the streets.

Google is reorganizing the "Library" on the Google Photos app into "Collections" as it prepares to launch its Gemini AI-powered “Ask Photos” function.

It has been a tumultuous year for Intel. Beyond the company's dire financial performance and the resulting slashing of 15,000 jobs, the company has been mired in a controversy with its 13th and 14th gen CPUs, which are irreparably damaged in some cases.

American 3D geospatial company Cesium has released Cesium Moon Terrain, a comprehensive, exceptionally accurate, and publicly accessible 3D dataset of the Moon.

Amazon has launched a second iteration of its in-house AI image generator for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers.

Scientists attached cameras to endangered sea lions so that they could help them map unexplored seabeds and learn more about the animals' behavior.

A new Instagram filter warns visitors in the U.S. when they are getting too close to wild animals while taking a photo.

Samsung says it has seen an uptick in sales of its Galaxy Z Flip 6 smartphones after Olympic winners captured "victory selfies" with the devices on the podium.

A couple who visited a glacier in Switzerland 15 years apart were so shocked by its exceptional retreat that it made them cry.

Nvidia has been caught using videos from YouTube, Netflix, and other sources to build an AI model, according to a leak obtained by 404 Media.

Sony has released a new video highlighting its novel stacked image sensor technology that the company believes will improve smartphone image quality for mobile photographers.

A new AI image generator called FLUX.1 from the same researchers who developed Stable Diffusion and invented the latent diffusion technique promises high fidelity and claims it even does hands right.

Researchers have developed mind-reading AI technology that can reconstruct the images that a brain is seeing with unprecedented accuracy.

Chinese scientists have developed a tiny, solar-powered drone that is by far the smallest and lightest of its kind.

After reports arose yesterday that Intel would slash jobs in an attempt to cut costs and recoup overall value, the company made these anticipated moves today alongside releasing horrible second-quarter financial results.

OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, has taken to social media to say that United States regulators will be provided with early access to OpenAI's next foundational AI model.

Some Instagram users discovered that their photos had been permanently deleted this week and the images were unable to be recovered.

Intel's rough times have gotten worse. Intel is cutting thousands of jobs to reduce its costs in hopes of instigating a market share value rebound.

Google's highly publicized Circle to Search feature now allows users to leverage Google's AI tech to instantly learn more about an image, including information about metadata, its source, and whether it is legitimate.

AI-enabled drones are being used to monitor shark activity under the waves and alert beachgoers in the U.S.

Instagram now lets users create AI versions of themselves which can talk to their followers on their behalf.

The web-based design platform Canva, a competitor to Adobe, has announced it is buying generative AI company Leonardo.

Getty Images has given an upgrade to its AI image generator which is trained solely on the photo agency's vast library.

The director behind Here, the new movie starring Tom Hanks, has revealed that the camera never moves once during the entire film.

After 11 years, Electronic Arts (EA) has released a college football game that uses photos and AI to bring 11,000 real players into the game.

Elon Musk, the owner of X (the platform formerly known as Twitter), shared a misleading AI-generated video of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Shortly after Intel said it had isolated the issues causing CPU instability on 13th and 14th Gen CPUs, the company has offered more details, including explaining that any damage related to the voltage control issue is permanent.

Meta must do more to address AI-generated explicit images after it fell short in its response to non-consensual, nude deepfakes of two female public figures on its platforms, according to a report.

Since Adobe released its text-to-image generative AI tool, Firefly, last year, the company had to grapple with diverse new challenges. Adobe Stock, perhaps as much as any of Adobe's platforms, had to adapt quickly.

The AI video generator Runway used hundreds of YouTube videos to train its latest Gen-3 model with, according to a 404 Media investigation.

Intel, one of the world's largest chip makers, has been dealing with instability issues with some of its CPUs since 2022. The company believes it has finally found the root cause and will be able to address the issue through a patch next month.

Meta has introduced its new AI-generator "Imagine Me" which allows users to create images based on their photos.

A French startup called Presti is promising to do away with costly product photo shoots by harnessing AI technology to turn a single image into multiple photos.

Scientific and technological ideas can sound outlandish until they suddenly aren't. Many things people take for granted today were once considered impossible. However, nearly a decade after being revealed, the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot interstellar space project still seems more like a pipe dream than anything else.

Training data for generative AI models like Midjourney and ChatGPT is beginning to dry up, according to a new study.

A report by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has found that generative AI models are being used to create deepfakes of real child sex abuse victims.

The Razer Blade 16 is a big laptop in size and capability, though it also comes with some compromises. However, Razer frames its Blade laptops, and they cater to gamers first, a subset of consumers notoriously fickle about performance. Creators aren't far behind with their demanding needs, which Razer knows. They've told me, "We believe gamers are creators, and creators are gamers."

As with any laptop review at PetaPixel, we run through various benchmarks to gauge overall performance. The Razer Blade 16 (2024) and Lightroom Classic proved to be something of a mystery in the process, yielding unsatisfactory results that required further investigation.

A strange new surveillance camera aims to stop companies from collecting identifiable photos and videos of people by turning them into stick figures.

Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and Salesforce have all been caught using YouTube data to build their AI models with.

European fashion brand Mango has unveiled an AI-generated picture campaign for its limited edition Sunset Dream collection of its youth line.