OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Images 2.5, an update to its April image generation model that promises sharper detail, more natural lighting, and better consistency when editing across multiple prompts. The company says generation latency has dropped by up to 50% compared with the original Images 2 model, and it's adding a sketch-to-image feature plus templates and prompt-sharing tools. Developers also get two new API models, GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and Sunburst, aimed at different levels of editing precision and speed.
NVIDIA's new DLSS 5 neural rendering technology launches with NBA 2K27, adding finer skin texture and improved shadow detail to player and crowd models. Testing on an RTX 5090 at 4K showed the feature nearly halved frame rates, dropping from 240fps to 150fps, while offering little visible improvement in wide-angle gameplay shots.
The UK government says Apple and Google failed to meet a three-month deadline to make it impossible to capture, view, or share child nudity images on their devices. In response, officials are introducing what they call world-first legislation that would impose fines and potential criminal liability on executives at companies that don't build these protections into phones and tablets sold in the UK.
AI tools now let non-engineers build custom software in a fraction of the time it once took, shifting the classic 'build vs. buy' debate from a question of technical capability to one of strategic risk. An Entrepreneur contributor argues that while AI has made building nearly frictionless, companies still take on ongoing burdens like reliability, maintenance and security that vendors traditionally absorbed.
Amazon has reduced the price of Netgear's Orbi 770 Series tri-band Wi-Fi 7 mesh system from $549.99 to $449.99, an 18% cut. The system spans 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz bands on one unified network, offers combined speeds up to roughly 11 Gbps, and covers about 5,500 to 8,000 square feet depending on the bundle size.
Google DeepMind has launched AlphaGenome Atlas, a publicly available database that uses its AlphaGenome AI model to predict the likely effects of every possible single-letter mutation across the human genome, covering both protein-coding and regulatory regions. The tool is free for non-commercial research use starting immediately, with a paid licensing option for commercial users, including DeepMind's own drug-discovery affiliate Isomorphic Labs, expected to follow via Google Cloud.
Meta is rolling out a redesigned insights panel for Threads that uses AI to summarize how individual posts and overall accounts are performing, comparing metrics like views, likes and reposts to a user's recent activity. The update also identifies which interest-based communities are driving engagement on posts and profiles, though link-click data remains absent from the analytics.
A research team reports developing a pretraining method that matches DeepSeek V4 Pro Base's performance using roughly 50 times less compute, at an estimated cost of about $0.5 million on GB200 chips. Scaling the same recipe up 10x further, to roughly $4 million, reportedly surpassed all publicly available open base models on perplexity benchmarks.
Following a €460 million DMA fine over self-preferencing in travel and shopping searches, Google has altered its European search results to comply with EU rules. Instant hotel and flight pricing and availability are being removed, replaced by links to specialized search engines and a carousel ranked purely by Google's algorithm rather than business partnerships.
Also, Rivian's micromobility spinoff, has pushed back deliveries of its software-controlled TM-B e-bike from spring to summer and now into fall without shipping to any customers. Product manager Saul Leiken posted a lengthy apology on Reddit, blaming supply chain shortages of printed circuit boards and integrated circuits, partly driven by AI-related demand, along with battery-related engineering challenges.
Scientists in China have developed a new aluminum-based material modeled on the microstructure of eggshells, aiming to better protect spacecraft from high-speed debris impacts. The work, published in the Journal of Applied Physics, builds on decades of research into how an egg's curved geometry gives it surprising rigidity despite its thinness and fragility.
Google Cloud and Accenture are forming the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, a joint unit that will place trained engineers directly inside client companies to help them adopt Google's AI tools. Google plans to train up to 1,000 Accenture engineers for this 'forward-deployed' role, following similar moves by OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon.
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