Google Photos integrates new AI tools for editing with text prompts

Google is enhancing its Photos app with three new artificial intelligence features for easier and more realistic image editing. The tools are powered by Nano Banana, an image-editing model from Google DeepMind that specializes in preserving the likeness of people and pets during alterations. As Elyse Betters Picaro reports for ZDNet, the “Help me edit” …

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Adobe announces major AI updates for Firefly and its creative apps

At its annual MAX conference, Adobe announced a wide range of new artificial intelligence features for its Creative Suite, focusing on its generative AI platform, Firefly, and flagship applications like Photoshop and Premiere Pro. The company is expanding the capabilities of Firefly, its generative AI tool for images and video. Individual users can now train …

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Filmmaker creates popular sci-fi universe with AI tools

Filmmaker Josh Kerrigan has created a successful sci-fi web series called Neural Viz using a variety of generative artificial intelligence tools. Christopher Beam reports for Wired that the project is considered one of the first examples of high-quality AI filmmaking. The series stands out in a field often associated with low-effort content. Kerrigan’s project, known …

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Microsoft AI announces its first in-house text-to-image model

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 …

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Google expands Nano Banana image generation to multiple products

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 …

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Google’s Gemini Enterprise wants to compete for workplace AI market

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 …

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Google shares tips for its image model Nano Banana, now generally available

Google has made its image model, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, also known as Nano Banana, generally available for production use. According to the company, new features include support for ten different aspect ratios for various formats, from cinematic to vertical, and the option to specify image-only output. In a post, Google provided several tips for …

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New Qwen3-VL model aims to understand and act in the digital world

The QwenTeam has released a new series of open-source vision-language models called Qwen3-VL. According to the team’s official announcement, the models are designed not just to see images and videos but to understand context, reason about events, and perform actions. The flagship model, Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B, is available in two versions. The developers claim the “Instruct” version …

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Qwen3-Omni is an open-source model for text, image, audio, and video

The Chinese technology company Alibaba has released Qwen3-Omni, a new generative AI model that can process a combination of text, images, audio, and video. The model is notable for its “omni-modal” capabilities and its open-source license, positioning it as a direct competitor to proprietary models from U.S. tech companies like OpenAI and Google. According to …

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Google rolls out conversational AI photo editing to more Android users

Google is making its conversational photo editing feature available to all eligible Android users in the U.S. The tool, powered by Google’s Gemini AI, allows people to edit photos by describing changes with voice or text commands. According to an official company post, this avoids the need to switch between different tools or adjust sliders. …

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