SCROpenAI’s new text-to-video tool, Sora 2, allows users to create realistic videos of deceased public figures, leading to widespread criticism and distress among their families. Tatum Hunter and Drew Harwell report for The Washington Post that a wave of crude, disrespectful, and racist AI-generated clips has spread across social media since the tool’s launch. The …
Large language models consistently claim that a seahorse emoji exists, even though no such emoji has ever been part of the Unicode standard. Theia Vogel reports on her website about this peculiar behavior and its technical causes. When asked about the existence of a seahorse emoji, models like GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Gemini 2.5 …
OpenAI generated $4.3 billion in revenue during the first half of 2025 but posted a net loss of $13.5 billion, according to financial disclosures to shareholders reported by TechInAsia based on coverage by The Information. More than half of the loss stems from the remeasurement of convertible interest rights. Research and development costs dominated expenses …
OpenAI is rolling out its affordable ChatGPT Go subscription plan to 16 new countries in Asia. TechCrunch reports that the tier costs under $5 and provides users with higher daily limits for messages and file uploads, as well as twice the memory of the free plan. According to OpenAI, the expansion follows a fourfold increase …
Microsoft AI has announced MAI-Image-1, its first text-to-image generator developed entirely within the company. The model has already secured a position in the top 10 on LMArena, a public benchmark platform where human users compare and vote on the quality of outputs from different AI systems. According to the official post, MAI-Image-1 is designed to …
Slack is testing a major update that turns its Slackbot into a comprehensive AI assistant. The new tool can understand natural language to search for information, summarize conversations across channels, and create project plans. The Verge reports that the goal is a “personalized AI companion,” according to Rob Seaman, Slack’s chief product officer. The assistant …
Google has integrated its Nano Banana image generation model into several products, including AI Mode search, Google Lens, and NotebookLM. The model, officially called Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, allows users to create and edit images through text prompts. In Google’s AI Mode search interface, users can now access image generation through a new plus icon …
Adobe has released a new set of artificial intelligence agents designed specifically for business to business (B2B) marketing professionals. These agents aim to automate complex sales processes by helping companies identify key decision makers and manage marketing campaigns. According to a report by Silicon Angle, the new tools address the unique challenges of B2B sales, …
Google Cloud has introduced Gemini Enterprise, a new AI platform designed to bring artificial intelligence tools to everyday employees across organizations. The company is positioning the platform as what Google Cloud’s CEO Thomas Kurian calls “the new front door for AI in the workplace.” The platform costs $30 per user per month and aims to …
Google DeepMind has launched a new specialized AI model that allows software agents to interact with graphical user interfaces. In an official post, Google DeepMind reports that the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model enables AI to perform tasks on websites and mobile apps by clicking, typing, and scrolling just like a human. The model works …