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Midjourney has released V7 Alpha, its first new AI image generation model in nearly a year, featuring voice prompting capabilities and a faster draft mode. The launch comes a week after OpenAI debuted a new image generator in ChatGPT that quickly gained popularity. According to Midjourney CEO David Holz, V7 represents a “totally different architecture” …
OpenAI has reversed its decision to cancel the consumer release of its o3 reasoning model. CEO Sam Altman announced on X (formerly Twitter) that both o3 and a next-generation successor, o4-mini, will launch in “a couple of weeks.” According to Kyle Wiggers reporting for TechCrunch, this change relates to OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5, which will incorporate …
Microsoft is rolling out its Copilot Vision feature to Windows and mobile platforms, extending the AI assistant’s capabilities beyond web browsers. Previously limited to Edge webpages, Copilot Vision can now analyze real-time video from mobile cameras and interact with content across Windows applications. The expanded vision capabilities allow Copilot to provide practical assistance such as …
Oumi has released HallOumi, an open-source claim verification model designed to detect and prevent AI hallucinations. According to Sean Michael Kerner of VentureBeat, the tool analyzes AI-generated content on a sentence-by-sentence basis, providing confidence scores, specific citations, and human-readable explanations. Led by ex-Apple and Google engineers, Oumi aims to build an unconditionally open-source AI platform. …
Researchers from Sentient, the University of Washington, Princeton University, and UC Berkeley have introduced Open Deep Search (ODS), a new open-source framework designed to match the capabilities of proprietary AI search solutions. The system combines reasoning agents with web search tools to enhance the performance of large language models. According to the research team led …
Google has added a new “Discover sources” feature to NotebookLM that searches the web for relevant content. As reported by Abner Li, this update allows users to find information without manually adding files and links. After clicking the new button in the Sources pane and entering a topic of interest, NotebookLM delivers up to 10 …
Adobe has released version 25.2 of Premiere Pro, featuring new AI-powered tools including Generative Extend. This feature, powered by Adobe’s Firefly AI model, allows editors to extend video clips by up to two seconds and ambient audio by up to ten seconds. As Jess Weatherbed reports, the tool is free for a limited time before …
YouTube has suspended the monetization privileges of two popular channels specializing in AI-generated fake movie trailers. According to an investigation by Jake Kanter at Deadline, the channels Screen Culture and KH Studio will no longer earn advertising revenue from their content. The Google-owned platform cited violations of its monetization policies, which require creators to significantly …
OpenAI has closed a historic $40 billion funding round, marking the largest private tech investment ever recorded. The deal, led by SoftBank with a $30 billion commitment, values the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, placing it among the world’s most valuable private companies alongside SpaceX ($350 billion) and ByteDance. The investment syndicate includes Microsoft, Coatue, …
OpenAI intends to release its first “open” language model since GPT-2 in the coming months, according to a feedback form published on the company’s website. Kyle Wiggers reports that OpenAI is inviting developers, researchers, and community members to provide input on what they’d like to see in this new model. The company plans to host …