AI Slop Ad Backfires For McDonald's
msmash / slashdot - McDonald's has pulled an AI-generated Christmas commercial from YouTube after viewers pushed back on what they called a distasteful, "AI slop"-filled take on the holidays. The 45-second ad, titled "It's the most terrible time of the year," was a satirical…
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Meta hires away Apple’s top design exec
Hunter Schwarz / fastcompany - Apple just lost a top design talent.Meta has hired Alan Dye, who was the head of Apple’s human interface design team. The company is filling his position with Stephen Lemay, who CEO Tim Cook told Bloomberg “has played a key role in the design of every maj…
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Back to Top / Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 4:20 pm / permalink 16533 / 13 stories in 3 months
New Runway Gen-4.5 AI Video Model Dethrones Google Veo 3 and OpenAI Sora 2
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Runway has released Gen-4.5, a new AI video model that has claimed the top spot on independent benchmarks, outperforming Google's Veo 3 and OpenAI's Sora 2 Pro.The post New Runway Gen-4.5 AI Video Model Dethrones Google Veo 3 and OpenAI Sora 2 appeared fi…
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‘Avatar’ director James Cameron says generative AI is ‘horrifying’
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Apple’s New Holiday Ad Misses the Mark, and Fans Aren’t Impressed
Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Apple has released its annual holiday ad, and it’s not as good as the videos from the past. The new spot, called “A Critter Carol,” features a group of handmade woodland puppets who find a lost iPhone 17 Pro, film themselves singing a friendship song, and…
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OpenAI is launching group chats in ChatGPT
Emma Roth / theverge - OpenAI is widely rolling out group chats inside ChatGPT, allowing you to invite up to 20 other people to your conversation with the AI chatbot. The feature is now available globally to all logged-in users, following a short pilot earlier this month. OpenA…
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Google releases Nano Banana Pro, its latest image generation model
Ivan Mehta / techcrunch - Google is upgrading its image generation model with new editing chops, higher resolutions, more accurate text rendering, and the ability to search the web.
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Back to Top / Thursday, November 20, 2025, 9:21 am / permalink 16141 / 29 stories in 3 months
GPT-5.1 debuts with new Instant and Thinking models
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - OpenAI announced an upgrade to its flagship model today, November 12, 2025, releasing GPT-5.1. The new version, which powers ChatGPT, is split into two models: GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking. According to OpenAI, GPT-5.1 Instant, the most-used model…
Back to Top / Thursday, November 13, 2025, 5:21 am / permalink 15919 / 10 stories in 3 months
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine are licensing their voices to AI
techspot - Actors Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine are partnering with AI audio company ElevenLabs to produce virtual replications of their voices. The collaboration lets both actors explore new ways to share stories while giving creators and companies controll…
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Apple Announces Next Swift Student Challenge Ahead of WWDC 2026
Joe Rossignol / macrumors - Apple today announced it will accept submissions for the 2026 Swift Student Challenge from Friday, February 6 through Saturday, February 28.The annual Swift Student Challenge gives eligible student developers around the world the opportunity to showcase t…
Back to Top / Thursday, November 6, 2025, 4:21 pm / permalink 15746 / 3 stories in 4 months
Stability AI’s legal win over Getty leaves copyright law in limbo
Robert Hart / theverge - Stability AI, the creator of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, was largely victorious against Getty Images on Tuesday in a British legal battle over the material used to train AI models. The case originally looked set to produce a landmark ruling on A…
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Studio Ghibli and other Japanese publishers want OpenAI to stop training on their work
Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - OpenAI's approach to working with copyrighted content is to ask forgiveness, not permission.
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Apple Invites Users to Design Digital Christmas Trees for Battersea Power Station Display
Hartley Charlton / macrumors - Apple today announced a campaign inviting people across the United Kingdom to design digital Christmas trees on iPad, with the winning artworks to be projected onto the chimneys of London's Battersea Power Station in December.The "Your Tree on Battersea" …
Back to Top / Monday, November 3, 2025, 7:20 am / permalink 15609 / 5 stories in 4 months
Universal Music and AI song tool Udio settle lawsuit and partner on new platform, sparking backlash
techxplore - Universal Music Group and AI song generation platform Udio have settled a copyright infringement lawsuit and agreed to team up on new music creation and streaming platform, the two companies said in a joint announcement.
Back to Top / Thursday, October 30, 2025, 3:22 pm / permalink 15557 / 4 stories in 4 months
Canva’s new ‘Creative Operating System’ is actually a marketing workspace
Jess Weatherbed / theverge - Canva is introducing new digital marketing and video-editing tools, built around what the company is calling a “world-first” design-focused AI model. These launches are part of an overhaul to the design platforms Visual Suite workplace products, which Can…
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Back to Top / Thursday, October 30, 2025, 1:22 pm / permalink 15551 / 14 stories in 4 months
After teen death lawsuits, Character.AI will restrict chats for under-18 users
Benj Edwards / arstechnica - AI companion app faces legal and regulatory pressure over child safety concerns.
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OpenAI adds reusable ‘characters’ and video stitching to Sora
Jess Weatherbed / theverge - OpenAI’s Sora app will now let you turn almost anything into a reusable avatar for its AI-generated videos. These “character cameos” are one of several new features that have been added to the Sora 2 video generator, alongside clip stitching and leaderboa…
Back to Top / Thursday, October 30, 2025, 8:22 am / permalink 15537 / 10 stories in 4 months
Adobe Unleashes Firefly 5 Image Model and Major AI Upgrades for Photoshop and Premiere Pro as Creator Adoption Soars
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - At Adobe MAX 2025, Adobe has unveiled its Firefly 5 Image Model and new AI tools for Photoshop and Premiere Pro, and other products.The post Adobe Unleashes Firefly 5 Image Model and Major AI Upgrades for Photoshop and Premiere Pro as Creator Adoption Soa…
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Back to Top / Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 10:22 am / permalink 15484 / 17 stories in 4 months
Tantalizing clue hints at Pixelmator Pro and more coming to iPad soon
appleinsider - Newly-discovered App Store IDs suggest that Apple may bring popular Mac apps including Pixelmator Pro and Motion 5 to iPadOS.Pixelmator Pro on a MacWhen Apple acquired the Pixelmator company in November 2024, the fear was that it would asset-strip it the …
Back to Top / Monday, October 27, 2025, 10:20 am / permalink 15457 / 5 stories in 4 months
Gemini Can Now Create Presentations Among Other Features As Part Of Gemini's October Drops
bgr - Google's Gemini AI can now create presentations for you with a single prompt, among other features that are part of the October feature drop.
Back to Top / Monday, October 27, 2025, 8:23 am / permalink 15443 / 2 stories in 4 months