ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright complaints began piling up.

A hands-on comparison between the two shows how the latest image models differ on price, speed, and creative control.

Discover the best Nano Banana 2 prompts to test Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, from 4K mockups to multilingual text and character consistency.

ByteDance launches Seedream 5.0 with advanced image editing and lower pricing. Alibaba unveils Qwen-Image-2.0, supporting 1K-token prompts and 2K images. Both models directly challenge Google’s Nano ...

Inspired by the shape-shifting skin of octopuses, Penn State researchers developed a smart hydrogel that can change appearance, texture, and shape on command. The material is programmed using a ...

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has announced a change in policy that purports to offer more protections against sexualized deepfakes, at least on X. The new policy comes as California launches an ...

Grok's image generation restricted to paid subscribers after backlash Standalone Grok app and tab on X still allow image generation without subscription European lawmakers have urged legal action over ...

X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise. X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise. is a London-based reporter at The Verge ...

Grok, the AI chatbot on Elon Musk’s social media platform X, is limiting image generation and editing capabilities to paying subscribers amid a global outcry from officials and users over the tool ...

When Ashley St. Clair asked Grok, the generative artificial intelligence reply bot built into the X platform, to stop creating sexually suggestive pictures of her, Grok said it would stop. But it didn ...

X users have used Elon Musk's Grok image generator to create sexualized images of women without their consent. Some of the AI image requests involved photos of minors. The French authorities are ...