The Xiaomi 17 Ultra appears to have applied Moon enhancement software to photographs of a solar eclipse, adding crater-like surface details to the Sun. The incident highlights how AI image processing can produce convincing but inaccurate results when a camera system misidentifies its subject. Omar Belkaab reports for Frandroid that the problem emerged during tests …
Anthropic has introduced cross-session messaging for Claude Code, allowing separate AI coding sessions on the same computer to exchange short updates, findings and requests while work is in progress. The feature is available from Claude Code version 2.1.224 on macOS and Linux. It is designed for people running several sessions in parallel, for example on …
Mistral has introduced Mistral OCR 4.1, a public preview service designed to turn documents into machine-readable content while retaining information about their layout. The company announces in Mistral Docs that the model can identify paragraphs, assign labels to structural blocks and return confidence scores for each block. The model, called mistral-ocr-4-1, is part of Mistral’s …
Twitch plans to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon’s generative AI models, unless creators switch off a new setting. Amanda Silberling reports for TechCrunch that the policy has prompted strong criticism because creators are included by default. Recorded livestreams can provide Amazon with large volumes of video and audio, including footage …
AI software creation platform Lovable has raised $400 million in a Series C round that values the company at $13.3 billion. Lovable announces in an official blog post that Menlo Ventures leads the financing, while EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund co-leads it. The round brings in investors including Balderton Capital, Carmignac, Kaszek Ventures, Tencent and Regent. …
Text watermarks intended to identify AI generated content can be removed with simple editing or paraphrasing, according to an analysis of upcoming European rules. Sean Goedecke writes in his personal blog that this creates a basic challenge for providers preparing for the EU AI Act’s transparency requirements. The Act’s Article 50 is widely expected to …
Microsoft is beginning to merge its consumer Copilot app and Microsoft 365 Copilot into a single application called Microsoft Copilot. Todd Bishop reports for GeekWire that the move starts with selected Windows Insiders and will expand to mobile and web users in mid-August, followed by Windows and Mac desktop apps in mid-September. The company presents …
OpenAI is rolling out Computer History, an opt-in macOS feature that lets ChatGPT Work and Codex use recent computer activity as context. Frederic Lardinois reports for The New Stack that the feature is available to Pro, Business and Enterprise customers, with access in the EEA, UK and Switzerland due in the coming weeks. Computer History …
DeepSeek will sharply increase prices for its V4 AI models and introduce different rates for busy and quieter periods, with the changes taking effect on Aug. 16. Saritha Rai reports for Bloomberg that the Hangzhou-based company is moving away from a single low price as it seeks to manage demand for its computing capacity. For …
OpenAI has released a preview version of its ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, bringing ChatGPT Work, the Codex coding agent and an integrated browser to the platform. Frederic Lardinois reports for The New Stack that the app is available globally and supports Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43 and 44. Users …