Microsoft Releases New AI Models That Can Generate Images, Audio and Transcribe Text

In a newsroom post, the tech giant introduced the three new large language models (LLMs). All of them are currently available via Microsoft Foundry and the MAI Playground. The biggest highlight is the ...

Google now allows you to control avatars through prompts in its Vids app

Google has upgraded its Vids app with prompt-based avatar control, allowing users to create and customise videos using simple ...
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Photoshop tutorial: How to burn images and text onto toast!

Photoshop cc 2017 tutorial showing how to create the look of burnt images and text onto toasted bread.

Iran-Linked Hackers Breach FBI Director Kash Patel’s Email, Leak Messages Online

Iran-linked hackers breached FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email, leaking older messages in a retaliatory cyberattack with no classified data exposed.
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Photoshop tutorial: How to make a horrific, gothic text image

Photoshop cc tutorial showing how to make a nightmarish, Gothic-looking image of rusted text over an old wood wall with ...
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"It is meant to be lived in" - grand strategy game Riftborne offers "months" of galactic scheming and no actual graphics

"Patience, planning, and scale" - Riftborne is a sci-fi grand strategy game played through a text-based terminal interface.
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A Coding Guide to High-Quality Image Generation, Control, and Editing Using HuggingFace Diffusers

In this tutorial, we design a practical image-generation workflow using the Diffusers library. We start by stabilizing the environment, then generate high-quality images from text prompts using Stable ...
VentureBeat

Z.ai's open source GLM-Image beats Google's Nano Banana Pro at complex text rendering, but not aesthetics

The two big stories of AI in 2026 so far have been the incredible rise in usage and praise for Anthropic's Claude Code and a similar huge boost in user adoption for Google's Gemini 3 AI model family ...
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Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology

A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person’s mental images into accurate, descriptive sentences. While there has been progress in ...
MIT Technology Review

DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI’s ability to remember

Instead of using text tokens, the Chinese AI company is packing information into images. An AI model released by the Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI ...
Forbes

The Surprising Idea That Generative AI Might Be Better Off Using Visual Images Of Text Rather Than Pure Text As Tokens

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. For anyone versed in the technical underpinnings of LLMs, this ...
Digital Trends

Microsoft AI debuts its Nano Banana rival, and it’s already a top text-to-image model

What’s happened? Microsoft AI has unveiled the slightly clunkily named MAI-Image-1, its in-house text-to-image system. The pitch is straightforward, generate useful pictures quickly, not flashy demos ...