Anthropic has launched Claude Design, a new product that lets users create visual work through conversational prompts. The tool produces designs, interactive prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, and marketing collateral. It is available in research preview for paid Claude subscribers (Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise) and is rolling out gradually. Claude Design is powered by Claude …
Gemini is the label for Google’s AI offerings. The company has developed a dazzling array of tools and services under it. In combination, they are arguably the best AI has to offer today. Even considered on their individual merits, they are often best in class. But Google’s Gemini universe is so vast, that it is …
Adobe has unveiled the Firefly AI Assistant, a new tool that lets users control multiple Adobe Creative Cloud applications including Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, and Lightroom through a single conversational interface. Users describe what they want in plain language, and the assistant executes multi-step workflows across the relevant apps. The assistant is the commercial release of …
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 …
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 …
Adobe has launched Firefly Custom Models in public beta, allowing creators and businesses to train AI image generators using their own visual assets. The tool lets users teach the AI to recognize and reproduce specific styles, character designs, color palettes, lighting conditions, and stroke weights. The goal is to help teams produce large volumes of …
Anthropic has updated its Claude AI chatbot to generate charts, diagrams, and other visualizations directly within chat conversations. The feature is available to all users and is turned on by default. Unlike Claude’s existing “artifacts” feature, which opens created content in a side panel for sharing or downloading, the new visualizations appear inline in the …
Canva has released a new tool called Magic Layers that converts flat, static images into editable, multi-layered designs inside the Canva editor. The tool is available in public beta in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. The core problem Magic Layers addresses is straightforward. When an image is exported or generated by an …
Google has launched Nano Banana 2, its latest image generation model. Technically called Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, the model aims to combine the image quality of the existing Nano Banana Pro with the speed of Google’s Flash model tier. Google first released Nano Banana in August 2025. The model generated widespread interest, particularly in countries …
Black Forest Labs has introduced a new series of AI image generators called FLUX.2 [klein]. This model family focuses on high speed and low hardware requirements. The company states that these models unify image generation and editing within a single architecture. According to the announcement, the systems produce images in less than one second on …