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Microsoft markets its Copilot AI assistant as a productivity tool for consumers and businesses alike. However, the product’s terms of use tell a different story. According to these terms, which were last updated in October 2025, “Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely …
A free online tool called Gemini Watermark Remover, offered by the platform Quick Image Fix, removes the visible star-shaped watermark from Google Gemini images in seconds. The tool runs entirely in the user’s browser, meaning no image data is sent to any server. Every image generated by Google Gemini carries a semi-transparent star logo in …
Google has expanded its video creation tool, Google Vids, with several new AI-powered features. The updates cover music generation, customizable avatars, and direct publishing to YouTube. Users can now generate original music tracks directly inside Google Vids. Powered by Google’s Lyria 3 and Lyria 3 Pro models, the tool lets users type a text prompt …
Luma AI has released Uni-1, an image generation model that outperforms Google’s Nano Banana 2 and OpenAI’s GPT Image 1.5 on key reasoning benchmarks while costing up to 30 percent less at high resolution. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the model is part of a significant shift in how AI creates images. Unlike most …
Google has launched Gemma 4, a new family of open-weight AI models that the company describes as its most capable to date. The models are built on the same research and technology as Google DeepMind’s proprietary Gemini 3 system and are released under an Apache 2.0 open-source license, which allows developers to use and modify …
Slack has announced more than 30 new features for Slackbot, its AI-powered assistant. The update expands Slackbot from a basic chat tool into an agent that can take meeting notes, operate across the desktop, connect to external apps, and manage customer data. The most notable new feature is meeting intelligence. When activated by the user, …
Google has added Veo 3.1 Lite to its Gemini API, positioning it as the most affordable model in the Veo 3.1 family. The company says the model targets developers building high-volume video applications. According to Google, Veo 3.1 Lite costs less than 50% of Veo 3.1 Fast while offering the same generation speed. Pricing on …
Google Research has released TurboQuant, a new compression algorithm designed to reduce the memory demands of large language models. The company says it can shrink a model’s key-value cache by at least six times and speed up a core processing step called attention computation by up to eight times, all without retraining the model or …
Google has expanded its AI music generation capabilities with the launch of Lyria 3 Pro, a model that creates tracks up to three minutes long. Myriam Hamed Torres writes for Google DeepMind that the model understands musical structure, allowing users to prompt for specific elements such as intros, verses, choruses, and bridges. Lyria 3 Pro …
ByteDance has begun rolling out its new AI video and audio generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, inside its popular editing platform CapCut. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that the model lets creators generate, edit, and sync video and audio content using text prompts, images, or reference videos. The initial rollout covers Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, …