xAI faces lawsuit over AI-generated sexual content

AutoFigure is a toolkit that takes text descriptions and research paper content as input and produces publication-ready scientific figures. A new tutorial from MarkTechPost walks through the full setup process, from configuring an API-backed workflow to exporting styled diagram galleries. The piece is aimed at researchers and developers looking to automate the visual documentation side of document intelligence pipelines.

Police in the U.K. and Ireland have had to issue public statements clarifying that images and videos depicting a "Cat in the Hat Serial Killer" are AI-generated and not real. The content, which spread widely online, showed a figure resembling the Dr. Seuss character in apparent crime-scene scenarios. Authorities were direct in their messaging, telling the public that "Cat in the Hat was not in your driveway."

xAI has filed a lawsuit against an Arkansas photographer accused of using the Grok AI platform to generate sexually explicit images of minors from his client photographs. The company's legal action positions the user - not the platform - as the party responsible for the resulting material. The case raises pointed questions about liability in AI-generated content involving child exploitation.

Samsung's new My FanCam feature uses AI to automatically track and center a selected subject within a video, keeping them in focus even as the action moves around. The tool is aimed at everyday moments like school performances or sports events, where a wide shot is necessary but you still want a clean close-up. Here is how to get started with it.

Upscaling a video to 4K is more nuanced than simply increasing a file's resolution setting. Modern software uses increasingly sophisticated techniques to fill in missing detail, but the results are not always perfect. Here is a look at how the process actually works and what limitations remain.