Adobe announced new AI Photoshop tools powered by an updated version of its Firefly generative AI model amidst ongoing controversy about copyrighted training data.
Too many models | TechCrunch
How many AI models is too many? It depends on how you look at it… but 10 a week is probably a bit much. That’s how many we […]
Gamers Getting Paid In Fortnite Skins For Generating AI Porn
Salad, a cloud computing and AI tech company, is renting high-end graphics cards found in gamers’ computers and using all that power to create AI-generated pornography. In return, the gamers who lend the company their GPUs are paid in Fortnite skins, Minecraft cosmetics, Roblox bux, and other gaming-related gift cards…
Meta’s Oversight Board probes explicit AI-generated images posted on Instagram and Facebook
The Oversight Board, Meta’s semi-independent policy council, it turning its attention to how the company’s social platforms are handling explicit, AI-generated images. Tuesday, it announced investigations into two […]
Google Cloud Next 2024: Everything announced so far
Google’s Cloud Next 2024 event takes place in Las Vegas through Thursday, and that means lots of new cloud-focused news on everything from Gemini, Google’s AI-powered chatbot, to […]
Google open-sources tools to support AI model development
In a typical year, Cloud Next — one of Google’s two major annual developer conferences, the other being I/O — almost exclusively features managed and otherwise closed-source, gated-behind-locked-down-APIs […]
Google releases Imagen 2, a video clip generator
Google doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to image-generating AI. In February, the image generator built into Gemini, Google’s AI-powered chatbot, was found to be […]
Beyoncé’s new album ‘Cowboy Carter’ is a statement against AI music
Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” has only been out for a few days, yet it’s already obvious that we’ll be talking about it for years to come — it’s breaking […]
Fisker loses customers’ money, Robinhood launches a credit card, and Google generates travel itineraries
Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the notable happenings in tech over the past few days. This week, TC’s auto reporter Sean O’Kane […]