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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.

TIME Magazine recreated Lunch atop a Skyscraper -- one of the 20th century’s most iconic photos -- by replacing Depression-era construction workers with billionaires credited with driving the AI boom for its latest cover.

Google has updated its AI try-on feature, an app that allows people to virtually try on clothes by uploading a photo of themselves.

Another day, another Sony a7 V dynamic range update. Our initial speculation has proven correct, and the new a7 V is employing Dual Gain Output (DGO) to achieve outstanding dynamic range when using its mechanical shutter at base and low ISO settings. Further, building upon research by Adam Horshack, William "Bill" Claff of the excellent Photons to Photos has revised his a7 V testing to indicate that the camera is not using baked-in noise reduction with its RAW files. What initially appeared to …

Honcho, the Singapore-based real-time photo delivery platform, has reached an impressive milestone: more than 10 million photos delivered through its platform. The achievement underscores a broader shift in how event photography is captured, delivered, and experienced, as audiences increasingly expect instant access to visual content.

William "Bill" Claff of Photons to Photos has published his Sony a7 V photographic dynamic range (PDR) results. They are fascinating for multiple reasons, not the least of which is that the a7 V's dynamic range performance is superb, rivaling, at least on paper, medium-format cameras with much larger image sensors.

An Arizona police department has begun using AI-generated, photorealistic suspect images instead of hand-drawn sketches in what is believed to be a first in the U.S.

Adobe has brought tools from Photoshop, Adobe Express, and Acrobat into OpenAI's widely used conversational AI platform, ChatGPT. Adobe's new apps for ChatGPT promise to combine ChatGPT's straightforward conversational AI with Adobe's "industry-leading" creative tools. Adobe says it is now even easier for everyone to edit photos and transform documents, all without leaving ChatGPT.

McDonald's released an AI-generated Christmas ad featuring morphed faces and mangled bodies, but the filmmakers behind it insist they "hardly slept" for seven weeks while adding, "AI didn't make this film. We did."

After renaming his company to reflect its shift toward the metaverse in 2021 when he declared it as the next frontier, Mark Zuckerberg is now set to make big cuts to Meta's Reality Labs.

In October, Kohler announced it was getting into the photography game via a smart camera designed to be installed inside a toilet. The Dekoda was advertised as "end-to-end encrypted," but an engineer has shown this isn't true.

Micron, the maker of Crucial memory, including SSDs, has announced that it will shutter the Crucial brand and exit the consumer memory business to focus on supplying AI data centers.

Since the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max, smartphone photographers have had the option of also using Night mode while in Portrait mode, but iPhone 17 Pro users do not have that option anymore.

I recently installed iOS 26 on my iPhone. I'm slow, I know, but as I was swiping past my Photos widget, I noticed that one of my photos was in 3D. The image wiggled around as I moved my phone in my hand. "What the hell," I thought.

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation has announced the launch of the new Lytia 901 mobile image sensor. The 200-megapixel sensor is slightly smaller than the Lytia 900 found in many high-end smartphones, but promises many more megapixels and improved HDR.

An intriguing conceptual camera made by a group of former DJI engineers will launch on Kickstarter next month. The RocX made by Farseer can be plugged into a DSLR or mirrorless camera, as well as working on its own.

Google has released a more advanced version of its Nano Banana AI image model, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to spot the difference between real and AI-generated photos.

There is no such thing as a failproof storage device, which is why good backup workflows are so important. Even SSDs, as great as they are for many storage tasks, can (will) fail over time.

Instagram has introduced a series of updates to its Reels camera, including the ability to record videos up to 20 minutes long.

Google recently unveiled a new photo editing tool that users can control using only their voice. First on the Google Pixel 10 smartphone, and then later expanded the feature to a wider range of Android phones in the United States.

The U.K. government has indicated a potential change in its approach to AI and copyright, suggesting photographers and other creators should be paid when their work is used by AI companies.

Google has a new feature that allows users to find out whether an image is AI-generated or not -- a much-needed tool in a world of AI slop.