A WIRED investigation identified a network of more than 400 connected apps and domains, including apps posing as pet-portrait or fitness-coaching tools, that secretly offer AI tools for generating explicit deepfake images and videos from uploaded photos. The scenes include depictions of sexual assault, and the apps were promoted through ads on Meta's Facebook and Instagram, some of which contained AI-generated child sexual abuse material. Users could pay for the service through Apple and Google's payment systems, and the apps appeared in Apple's and Google's app stores despite platform policies against such content.
wired.com
· 2026-11-02
Canva unveiled Canva Craft, its first in-house AI image model, which plans a design before rendering it to improve accuracy on text and object placement. The model supports resolutions up to 2K and over 30 aspect ratios, and was trained on millions of templates from Canva's content library. It currently ranks fourth on the Design Arena leaderboard, behind three OpenAI models.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-22
An independent developer has published a guide to AI image generation based on hands-on experiments calling several image-generation providers from Python, including ChatGPT and API-based models. The guide covers how diffusion models work, pricing differences across providers, and practical advice on prompting and building image generation into code and agents.
danielball.com
· 2026-10-20
Krea has launched Krea 3, a new AI image generation model that the company says runs four times faster than Google's Nano Banana Pro. The release is accompanied by a set of example multi-image composition prompts showing the model combining and editing elements from several reference images into a single output.
krea.ai
· 2026-10-15
Getty Images announced it will begin Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the coming weeks as part of a restructuring that takes the company private. Under the plan, ownership and control will shift entirely to the Getty family and Koch Equity Development. The move follows years of financial pressure, a collapsed merger attempt, and rising competition from AI image-generation tools.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-13
Restaurants are increasingly using AI image generators to create advertising visuals for menu items, but the results are drawing criticism online for looking unnatural or unappealing. Examples cited include distorted renderings of dishes like chicken wings that bear little resemblance to real food.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-24
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Images 2.5, which includes a new Sketch feature allowing users to draw a rough doodle inside ChatGPT and have it converted into a polished image based on typed instructions. Users can invoke the tool by typing @Sketch, then annotate specific parts of the generated image with comments to request targeted edits, such as changing eye color. OpenAI says the update also improves lighting and texture quality, strengthens multi-turn editing consistency, and cuts image generation latency by up to 50% compared to the previous version.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-08
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