AI creative tools startup Krea has released the weights of its new image generation model Krea 2 as two public downloads: Krea 2 Raw and Krea 2 Turbo. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that both models are available on Hugging Face and target a growing frustration in creative industries: AI-generated imagery that looks generic, predictable, …
Brands are using AI-generated influencers to mimic authentic customer experiences on social media, often without any disclosure to consumers. Sarah Marsh reports for The Guardian that an investigation identified several companies posting AI-generated videos and photos designed to look like real user-generated content (UGC). Examples include a video of an apparently AI-generated bride praising a …
Researchers at Xiaomi have built an AI framework that automatically rewrites the software layer connecting an AI model to its tools and environment. Ben Dickson reports for VentureBeat that the system, called HarnessX, treats this software layer, known as a harness, as something that can be modified and improved automatically rather than remaining a fixed, …
Google has built computer use directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, its latest AI model. Mateo Quiros writes for The Keyword, Google’s official blog, that the capability was previously only available as a separate standalone model. It is now integrated into the main Flash model, making it accessible to a much broader range of developers and …
Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, a product that places its AI model inside Slack as a permanent, shared team member. Unlike earlier AI integrations, Claude Tag is not a chatbot that answers individual questions. It participates in channels, remembers past conversations, takes on tasks autonomously, and proactively flags information it considers relevant. The product is …
Mistral AI announces the release of OCR 4, a document extraction model that goes beyond converting pages into plain text. The new model returns structured output including bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores for every extracted element. What OCR 4 actually does Traditional OCR tools extract text. OCR 4 also identifies where each …
Newsletter platform beehiiv has integrated Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control tool directly into its dashboard, giving writers a straightforward way to decide whether AI crawlers can access their content. Duncan Riley reports for SiliconANGLE that the feature is rolling out to beehiiv’s roughly 135,000 publishers starting today. Until now, blocking AI bots meant editing robots.txt files …
Samsung Electronics is rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to a large portion of its global workforce. OpenAI writes that the agreement covers all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea and all employees in its Device eXperience (DX) division worldwide. The company describes the deployment as one of its largest enterprise launches ever. Samsung plans to …
OpenAI used its debut at the Cannes Lions advertising festival to pitch ChatGPT as a new kind of ad platform, one built around user intent rather than keyword targeting. Peter Adams reports for Marketing Dive. The company told brand marketers and agencies that digital advertising is shifting from an attention economy to what it calls …
Researchers at the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a framework called Self-Harness that allows AI agents to automatically rewrite the rules governing their own behavior. Ben Dickson reports for VentureBeat that the system delivered performance improvements of between 33 and 60 percent on a standard benchmark. The key concept here is the “harness”: the …