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.
Nano Banana in Google Earth Can Generate Fake Satellite Images
Researchers showed how a text prompt turns real Google Earth satellite data into convincing disinformation. Google says its images carry a SynthID digital watermark.
Google Pulls AI Satellite Image Editor From Google Earth Less Than a Day After Launch
The Nano Banana 2 feature let users rework real satellite imagery from a text prompt, and a researcher quickly generated refugees at a border and a bomb crater near…
Google Pulls Earth AI Less Than a Day After Launch Over Disinformation Risk
Google disabled its AI tool for overlaying generated images on Google Earth maps less than a day after release, citing the risk of spreading disinformation.
Token Saver: open-source MCP extension cuts Claude's token use on PDFs by 90-99%
Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3: up to 20 seconds of video with sound from a single model
Apple-π: A Benchmark That Tests Whether Video Models Understand Physics or Just Copy the Picture
Moke Storms WorldArena's Top Ranks With a Robot World Model Trained on 32 Zhenwu 810E Chips
VAST at SIGGRAPH 2026: Chinese 3D Startup Gives Keynote Alongside NVIDIA and Disney
China's VAST, maker of the Tripo generative 3D models, gave a keynote at SIGGRAPH 2026 alongside NVIDIA and Disney, won Real-Time Live! Best in Show and had five…
Physical AI and Brain Waves: Why YouTube Video Is No Longer Enough to Train Robots
Frontier physical AI models have outgrown YouTube clips. TechCrunch reports they now need multi-angle footage, dense annotation and, soon, brain wave readings.
Meta AI Comes to Threads DMs: The Chatbot Is Now Available in Private Messages
Pangram raises $9M to detect AI-generated content, releases Pangram 4 model
xAI Sues Minnesota Over Law Targeting AI Undressing in Grok
Nvidia Is Sending Its GPUs to the Moon: AI Accelerators Head for Space
Shexu (设序科技) closes Series B — 300 million yuan raised in total for industrial AI design
Chinese startup Shexu, which builds industrial AI for engineering design, closed a Series B of more than 100 million yuan, bringing its total funding to 300 million…
Hybrid Training for VLA Models: Online-RL Quality at Half the Compute
Researchers show that adding offline regularization to online RL lets VLA models stay robust outside the training distribution while training roughly twice as fast.