Meta has shut down an AI image feature that let users manipulate photos of people by simply tagging their public Instagram account, just days after launching it. Corbin Bolies reports for Variety that the company faced immediate backlash over the tool’s design. The feature was part of Meta’s new Muse Image model, introduced on Tuesday. …
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the AI company of orchestrating a systematic theft of trade secrets to build its own hardware device. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, names OpenAI’s Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan and former Apple engineer Chang Liu as defendants, alongside …
OpenAI has rolled out a redesigned ChatGPT app for Mac, and the change is drawing sharp criticism. M.G. Siegler writes for Spyglass that the new “Super App” merges ChatGPT with Codex, OpenAI’s coding tool, and defaults to the new “ChatGPT Work” mode instead of the familiar chat interface. According to Siegler, the app now opens …
Google will soon let users see whether an ad was created or edited with artificial intelligence. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that the feature expands to all ads on Search, YouTube and Discover, not just political ones. Businesses increasingly use AI to generate product images, place items in different settings, and cut costs on traditional …
Slack has launched a major integration that lets its built-in AI assistant, Slackbot, tap directly into Salesforce’s CRM data, Tableau analytics, Data 360 customer profiles and dozens of third-party apps, all from a single chat message. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the feature relies on dedicated Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers connecting Slackbot to …
Amazon is developing a new Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, designed to let its voice assistant complete several tasks from a single request. Eugene Kim reports for Business Insider that internal planning documents describe the project as enabling “multi-request” engagements, such as booking a ride and texting a friend in one interaction. Moonraker builds on Alexa+, …
Meta is previewing a web-based detection tool that identifies images and videos created with its newest AI model, Muse Image. Karissa Bell reports for Engadget that the tool checks for invisible watermarks called Content Seal, which Meta says remain intact even after cropping, compressing, resizing or screenshotting an image. Content Seal marks a shift from …
Anthropic is rolling out a beta feature that lets Claude users track and review their own usage of the AI assistant. Anthropic announces in an official blog post that the tool responds to a question many users raised in interviews: how exactly should AI fit into daily life and work? The new reflection dashboard sits …
Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B round led by Theory Ventures, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells Julie Bort of TechCrunch. The funding follows a $15 million Series A led by Benchmark’s Peter Fenton, bringing the company’s total funding to $88 million. Ollama, launched in 2023, lets developers run open-weight AI models on …
Character.AI is moving into microdramas, and it wants to make the format interactive. Ivan Mehta reports for TechCrunch that the company, known for letting people chat with customized AI avatars, now produces its own short form dramas using AI tools. The twist: users over 18 can chat directly with the shows’ characters, ask them questions, …