Technology

TikTok, which is under new ownership in the U.S., says that its service has been restored after the app was beset with week-long technical problems and user complaints.

Acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky has raised eyebrows by releasing a series of AI-generated short films called 'On This Day… 1776' that mark the semiquincentennial anniversary of the American Revolution.

Google has begun rolling out Project Genie, a generative AI model that can create virtual worlds from text prompts or just a single photo.

Apple’s latest quarterly earnings show that iPhone sales reached a record high in the final three months of last year, driven by demand for the new iPhone 17 range.

As generative AI technology proliferates, making it easier for people to manipulate real photos or create convincing fake ones from scratch, photography's ability to depict reality has come under increasing attack. A recent Washington Post opinion is among the most notable assaults on the institution of photography yet, garnering strong rebuttals from veteran photographers.

VSCO has added a new prompt-based image editing tool to its app, allowing photographers to simply describe the edits they want to see in natural language.

After a $77 billion disaster in his adventures creating the metaverse, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has laid out his new vision for the future: everyone wears AI smart glasses.

Maingear, maker of performance PCs, has released a new limited-edition PC that is sure to tickle the nostalgia muscle of gamers and creatives who got their computing feet wet in the 1990s. The new Retro98 tower looks like it was transported to 2026 through a time machine, but the inside is undeniably modern.

South Korea has introduced a landmark set of laws regulating artificial intelligence, including rules that require companies to clearly label AI-generated content.

First it came for photos on Instagram, then it came for videos on YouTube, now vertical videos are set to appear on Netflix, too.

After the Grok debacle on X, which saw people -- mainly women, and even minors -- undressed with Elon Musk's AI chatbot, the platform's owner has now announced it is rolling out a label on misleading pictures.

Apple is being sued by Reincubate, which makes the Camo smartphone webcam app. It has filed a lawsuit against Apple in a U.S. federal court in New Jersey, accusing the company of anticompetitive conduct and patent infringement.

After Google gave users the ability to turn their still images into six-second videos, Google Photos is now expanding on the generative AI feature by giving users even more controls.

A new app called Phozzle turns a user's iPhone photos into daily sliding puzzles, offering a simple way to revisit images that may otherwise be forgotten.

Meta is preparing to test paid subscriptions across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, including premium access to AI tools such as its Vibes video feature.

Google has introduced a new meme-creation feature inside Google Photos called "Me Meme", expanding its use of generative AI in consumer photo tools.

TikTok has completed a deal to create a new U.S.-based joint venture, resolving years of uncertainty over whether the app would be banned in the United States.

Photographers and filmmakers have joined forces with well-known Hollywood stars in a new anti-AI campaign.

Google's recently released Veo 3.1 AI video generation model has received a significant new update, promising even better, more realistic AI-generated video.

Building upon the 105-megapixel Sony IMX927 square global shutter image sensor unveiled in September, Sony Semiconductor Solutions has announced two sibling sensors, the IMX928 and IMX929, offering fewer megapixels across smaller sensors. However, the promises of exceptional speed remain the same across the entire series.

Two companies are collaborating to create the “world’s first full AI-based image signal processor” to replace the hardware-based ISPs that have been core to digital imaging for decades. Chips&Media, a Korean IP provider for image processing, is working with Visionary.ai, an Israeli startup focused on low-light image processing, to develop this new ISP.

This week in Missouri, a band of vervet monkeys and a single goat were spotted roaming the streets of St. Louis. But while it made international headlines, it was further complicated by an avalanche of AI-generated photos.

A court has sided with Pinterest in a case brought by a photographer over his copyrighted photos being shown in email and push notifications outside of its platform.

British, Southeast Asian, and other regulators are moving against X and its owner Elon Musk over Grok, the platform’s AI chatbot, after it generated and publicly posted large volumes of sexualized images of real people, including women and children, without consent.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope used its sophisticated aperture mechanism to capture unprecedented images of the heart of the Circinus Galaxy, providing astronomers with data unlike anything previously obtained and completely upending the understanding of super-bright infrared regions surrounding supermassive black holes.

Nintendo has been forced to deny that it used AI to create a series of marketing photos after speculation grew that the company didn't use a real photographer and models.

Canon showcased a prototype Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) sensor at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, promising extraordinary dynamic range and low-light capabilities while offering a tantalizing glimpse of how digital capture might evolve over the next decade, especially in environments where conventional sensors struggle.

Higgsfield AI has released a new feature called Relight, allowing the user to reimagine the lighting for a photo or video.

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has restricted the image generation and editing functions of its Grok chatbot on X to paying subscribers, following a backlash over the tool’s use to undress women.

The Meta Ray-Ban Displays are getting a new teleprompter feature, allowing the user to read notes while speaking.

A group of 18 film, television, and media professionals has formed the Creators Coalition on AI, an industry-backed effort aimed at shaping how AI is adopted in Hollywood.

Leica is working on developing its own image sensors again, an exciting and interesting development in an industry where there is not all that much diversity in image sensor technology.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri has shared some end-of-year thoughts on the state of photos on social media amid an avalanche of AI slop, and has said "camera companies are betting on the wrong aesthetic."

At the beginning of this week, PetaPixel reported that Elon Musk's X had rolled out a controversial new feature allowing users to edit any photo on the platform without asking permission. Within days, the new tool has been abused -- and it is women who are being targeted.

A new AI-powered photography app promises to coach users to frame their shots better, and it even helps out with the editing.

Google Photos is coming to Samsung TVs in 2026, giving users a native way to view their photo and video libraries on the big screen for the first time.

A series of investigative reports sent shockwaves through the tech and privacy communities when it was revealed that dozens of Flock Safety’s AI‑powered surveillance cameras were left streaming live footage to the open internet, unprotected and accessible to anyone who knew where to look.

AI is now able to generate images of faces that many people mistake for real photographs, but new research suggests that five minutes of training can improve detection.

Elon Musk has announced a controversial new feature on his X platform, one that allows any user to edit any image without asking permission.

A study has found that when left to their own devices, AI image generators converge on a limited set of photo styles no matter what the original prompt is.

As part of Germany's rearmament, the army is recruiting an unusual creature for warfare: a giant Madagascar hissing cockroach.

A follow-up to the infamous AI-generated McDonald's Christmas ad poignantly shows how corporations have no control over their creation when using the technology.

ChatGPT has announced a new AI image generator, which can not only create pictures from scratch but can also make precise edits to photos.

Instagram is testing a new app that allows users to watch Reels on their television, beginning with Amazon Fire TV in the U.S.

An astrophotographer is urging X owner Elon Musk to introduce controls that would allow photographers to limit how their work is embedded on the platform, after footage he captured of the Geminids meteor shower was widely reused without his approval.

Some iPhone users running iOS 26 are reporting a bug that causes photos taken on Android devices to turn red when zoomed in within Apple’s Photos app.