Chinese artificial intelligence companies have overtaken their American counterparts in AI-generated video, establishing a clear lead in one of the most competitive areas of generative AI. Eleanor Olcott reports for the Financial Times that platforms like ByteDance and Kuaishou now outperform US rivals in quality and ease of use. The advantage stems largely from data. …
Google has launched a new image creation and editing tool called Google Pics. The app is built on Google’s Nano Banana AI model and combines generative AI with detailed editing controls. The tool allows users to create images from scratch or edit existing photos. Key features include: Google says the app is designed to give …
Google has announced a series of updates to its AI-powered creative platforms, Google Flow and Google Flow Music. The changes were revealed at Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, and include a new AI model, an agentic assistant, custom tool-building and mobile applications. Google Flow is an AI creative studio that lets users generate, …
Canva has launched an integration with Google Gemini, allowing users to create and edit designs directly within the AI assistant’s chat interface. Canva reports that the new connection is powered by its MCP Server and enables users to generate designs, search existing content, edit text and images, and resize layouts for different platforms, all without …
Stability AI has released Stable Audio 3.0, a new family of generative audio models trained on fully licensed music data. The release includes four models designed for different devices and use cases, three of which are available as open-weight models that anyone can download and modify. The four models are: The small and medium models …
AI chatbots from some of the world’s biggest tech companies can be manipulated into spreading misinformation through a simple technique. Thomas Germain reports for the BBC that a single, well-crafted blog post published almost anywhere online can be enough to influence what tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews tell the public. Germain …
Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and former head of AI at Tesla, is joining Anthropic. Karpathy announced the move on X (formerly Twitter), writing that he is “very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D.” At Anthropic, Karpathy will join the pretraining team, which handles the large-scale training runs …
Google has overhauled its lineup of AI subscription plans, introducing a new lower-cost Ultra tier and lowering the price of its most expensive option. The changes were announced at the company’s I/O developer conference. The new entry point into the Ultra tier costs $100 per month. Google says it targets developers, technical leads, and advanced …
Google has announced Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent that runs continuously in the cloud and completes tasks without requiring the user to be present. The company unveiled the product at its annual I/O developer conference. Spark is powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash and connects directly to Google Workspace apps including Gmail, Docs, and Slides. …
Google has launched Gemini Omni, a new artificial intelligence model that accepts text, images, audio, and video as input and produces video output. The company describes it as natively multimodal, meaning a single model handles all content types rather than passing tasks between separate systems. The first release in the family, Gemini Omni Flash, is …