AI Image Generators
AI image generators create pictures from a text prompt: Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, FLUX, DALL-E and Nano Banana turn a description into an illustration, photo or artwork in seconds. The quality now rivals professional design work, while courts sort out copyright. Here is all our coverage of image generation: model releases, comparisons, pricing and legal battles.
NEWHacker News AIOpen-source Hob brings Claude Cowork-style workflows to your laptop, no cloud required
Jiqizhixin (机器之心)XREAL launches 1 Pro+: on-device 2D-to-3D conversion at 60 frames per second
Жемал Хамидун · Авторская колонкаFrom Prompting to Context Engineering: 6 Working Techniques That Save Hours of Fine-Tuning Answers
Jiqizhixin (机器之心)COCO Matrix Releases CO01: A Robot That Learns From a Demo, a Mistake, or a Phrase
vc.ruGetty Images Says It Will File for Bankruptcy to Go Private; Shares Fall 68%
vc.ruGetty Images files for bankruptcy to restructure as shares crash 68%
RB.RUGetty Images prepares to file for bankruptcy: shares plunge 68% as owners put in $533 million
OpenAI BlogPollo AI Builds an Ad Production Pipeline on GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra and GPT-Image-2.5
Getty Images Says It Will File for Bankruptcy to Go Private; Shares Fall 68%
Getty Images says it will file for bankruptcy to restructure and become a private company. Its shares plunged 68% on the news, leaving the stock-photo market alone…

Getty Images files for bankruptcy to restructure as shares crash 68%
One of the world's largest stock photo agencies has announced a bankruptcy filing to restructure and go private. Getty Images shares lost 68% on the news.

Getty Images prepares to file for bankruptcy: shares plunge 68% as owners put in $533 million
Getty Images will file for bankruptcy in the US to restructure its debt. It will go private, with the Getty family and Koch investing $533 million. Shares fell 68%.

OBB-PBD teaches LocateAnything-3B to find rotated objects: rotIoU jumps from 0.125 to 0.303

October 2026 Video Model Rankings: Luma Ray 3.14 Wins on a Single Prompt for 5 Tokens

Lovable Teaches Its AI to Promote Apps: Google and Meta Ads From the Chat

Shadow AI in the Enterprise: Why 90% of Security Officers Break Their Own Bans and How a 3-Zone Traffic Light System Works

Simon Willison releases web-edit 0.1a0, a web file editor for agents that runs over Tailscale
Simon Willison built a small Python app with Codex. It opens a folder's files in a browser over Tailscale, so you can edit secrets from your phone without routing…

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5: 43 points on the AA index and a price of $0.10 per million tokens
Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 43 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, drops to $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens and gets 1M context, but uses three times the…

SATE-Bench: Multimodal Models Give Up on Scene Exploration Too Soon

Meta releases Muse Wonder and Wonder Full: intelligence index rises from 48 to 56

Artificial Analysis launches AA-3D: Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads with 1194 Elo

Moonshot AI Unveils Kimi K3.1 Pro, the First Pro Model in the Lineup, After the Kibitz Test

The First Complete UV Sky Map: How Claude Science Filled 50 Years of Observation Gaps
Brice Ménard of Johns Hopkins University worked with Claude Science to create the first complete sky map in ultraviolet light (154 nm and 232 nm). A third of the…

Qwen-Image-PE Teaches Neural Networks Design: Prompt Enhancer Adds +7.81 Points
The Qwen team trained a prompt enhancer on design principles: the 397B version added 7.81 points to original queries, and the 9B model is already on Hugging Face.









