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A model has filed a lawsuit against a fashion brand after the company used AI to generate images of her without permission. The case highlights growing legal and ethical tensions as brands increasingly turn to AI-generated visuals to cut production costs, often at the expense of the people whose likenesses or work previously fed those systems.
As AI-generated images grow indistinguishable from photographs, photography faces a deeper question about what authenticity actually means. Judges and seasoned experts are increasingly unable to tell the two apart, raising doubts about whether intent behind an image can serve as a meaningful dividing line. The crisis touches competitions, editorial standards, and how audiences relate to images.
Microsoft is preparing a set of new in-house AI models under the MAI brand for its Build 2026 developer conference. The lineup includes an image model, a transcription model, and a multilingual voice model. The announcements would mark a continued push by Microsoft to develop proprietary AI capabilities alongside its existing partnerships.
A short film produced by Darren Aronofsky and starring Chris Rock and Paul Rudd used Google's Veo video generation model to animate the layered glass sculptures of artist Dustin Yellin. The project, titled 'Goodnight Lamby,' premiered at Cannes in the Classics section. It represents one of the more high-profile uses of generative video in a festival-circuit film context.
Sellers on TikTok and other platforms are using AI-generated personas depicting Black women in emotional distress to market mass-produced dropshipped goods. The fake influencers are designed to exploit sympathy and identity, presenting factory items as handmade products from real small-business owners. The trend raises questions about platform enforcement and the harm done to actual Black creators.
Google has patched a billing bug in its Gemini app that caused a small number of Omni video generations to consume an entire usage quota. The fix also doubles the video generation allowance for Ultra subscribers and stops charging users for failed requests.
A startup called Shift is offering free home cleaning to New Yorkers - with a condition attached. The company films its cleaners working through ordinary household tasks, and that footage becomes training data for robotic systems. It is one of several efforts underway to capture the kind of mundane domestic labor that has proved difficult to teach machines.
Director Jorge R. Gutierrez has walked back plans to produce an AI-generated animated series called 'Punky Duck' for Amazon MGM following significant backlash from the animation community. Gutierrez said his original intent was to highlight artists using the technology, but the response made clear the project would not move forward in its planned form.
Google Cloud has moved Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro into general availability, bringing scalable image generation with 1K and 2K output resolution to production workloads. The models also include a preview feature for video input, expanding their range of supported media types.
Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant takes a different approach than most generative image tools - acting as a conversational agent that operates Adobe's design apps on your behalf rather than generating images from scratch. A hands-on beta test finds the concept genuinely interesting but the actual output underwhelming, somewhere between useful shortcut and frustrating limitation.
A 75-minute AI-generated film about the Iranian government's killing of protesters will premiere at the Tribeca Festival next month. Called Dreams of Violets, it was made for roughly $2,000 by two Iranian-born brothers using AI to recreate people and events drawn from journalistic records and eyewitness accounts.
Amazon MGM Studios and AWS are launching a "GenAI Creators' Fund" that gives filmmakers money and access to the in-house AI platform "Project Nara." Three animated series are already in production - the teams had five weeks for their pilots. Amazon says it now has the "only end-to-end AI content ecosystem in the industry." The article Amazon builds its own AI production platform and greenlights three AI animated series for Prime Video appeared first on The Decoder.
DiffusionBlocks converts residual networks into independently trainable blocks by interpreting layer updates as reverse diffusion denoising steps. The post Sakana AI Proposes DiffusionBlocks: a Block-wise Training Framework That Converts Residual Networks into Independently Trainable Denoising Modules appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Google's new Gemini Omni artificial intelligence (AI) model can do some wild things. The model's key promise is to create anything from, well, anything. [Read More]
Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 ranks third on Arena's text-to-image leaderboard, on par with Google's Nano Banana 2 but still behind OpenAI's Image-2. The model shows clear gains over its predecessor, especially in rendering text inside images and commercial visuals. The article Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 pulls even with Google's Nano Banana 2 on benchmarks appeared first on The Decoder.
YouTube will now automatically label videos that use significant photorealistic AI, instead of relying solely on creators to disclose AI-generated content themselves. It's also making AI labels more prominent.
Digital asset platform Artlist is launching Artlist TV, a streaming platform that appears to be exclusively populated by AI-generated shows. [Read More]
Post-processing has long been the most time-consuming part of a photographer's workflow, and the numbers back that up. According to the 2026 Zenfolio State of the Photography Industry report, about 70% of photographers spend between 26% and 75% of their working time on editing. Only 5% of photographers surveyed feel they are managing the stress of running their business well. [Read More]
Pope Leo has released an encyclical about artificial intelligence, urging authorities to regulate the technology and warning that AI image tools have become a "powerful amplifier" for those spreading disinformation. [Read More]
The New York Danziger Gallery displayed for sale an AI-generated version of Ansel Adams' photo "Moonrise Over Hernandez" without consulting the photographer's trust, effectively stealing the legendary artist's work and dramatically altering it with AI for the sake of profit. [Read More]
ByteDance's Intelligent Creation Lab has open-sourced Lance, a multimodal model that handles image and video understanding, generation, and editing within a single 3B-parameter framework. The unified architecture is designed to avoid the fragmentation of maintaining separate models for each task. Code and weights are publicly available.
Luma AI and Wonder Project have jointly launched Innovative Dreams, a production company aimed at using AI video tools for longer-form narrative content rather than short clips. The partnership reflects a broader shift among AI video companies toward working with professional production pipelines rather than pitching consumer tools directly to audiences.
Adobe is extending its Creative Cloud connector to Google Gemini, following a similar deal with Anthropic's Claude announced weeks earlier. The integration lets Gemini orchestrate Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and Express directly, with users describing what they want and the Adobe tools handling execution. Rollout is expected within a few weeks of Google I/O.
Google has added a remix option to YouTube Shorts that lets viewers restyle clips or insert themselves into other people's videos using Gemini Omni. Creators can disable the feature for their content, and all remixed output carries a SynthID watermark.
