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 has released Canva Craft, its first self-developed image generation model, built by its research team with contributions from Leonardo.ai researchers acquired in 2024. The model generates images up to 2K resolution in 30 aspect ratios using a two-stage process that first plans layout and text placement, then renders the image, and it is trained on Canva's design templates rather than photographs.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-22
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
Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6-billion-parameter open weights model for text-to-image generation, image editing and multi-reference generation using up to 10 reference images. The release includes a base model, a step-distilled low-latency version, and FP8, INT8 and NVFP4 builds made with NVIDIA, all under the FLUX Kommunity License. The company says internal evaluations place it ahead of larger open models and some closed models like Ideogram V4.5 and FLUX.2 [pro] despite having fewer parameters.
bfl.ai
· 2026-10-16
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
Google introduced Nano Banana 2.1, a new image generation model succeeding its prior versions. The company says the model improves on visual design, mask-based editing, subject consistency, and produces more natural-looking images, and has made it available for testing.
twitter.com
· 2026-10-06
OpenAI said it will begin showing clearly labeled visual display ads next to images generated by ChatGPT, starting later this month with a limited group of advertisers in the U.S. only. The company said these ads won't affect ChatGPT's answers, and it is also expanding its ad measurement tools and partnerships with firms including AppsFlyer, Triple Whale and DoubleVerify to help advertisers track performance and brand suitability.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-05
OpenAI says it will begin testing a new ad format in the US this month that displays images of sponsored products when users generate images in ChatGPT. The company first introduced text-based sponsored links to ChatGPT in February, and says the new visual ads will stay separate from generated content and won't appear for Plus, Pro, or Enterprise subscribers.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-05
OpenAI will begin testing a new ad format that displays visual ads while users generate images in ChatGPT, starting later this month with a limited group of US advertisers. The company says these ads will be clearly labeled and kept separate from generated images, and insists ads will not influence ChatGPT's responses. OpenAI is also adding measurement and brand-safety tools, partnering with firms including Hightouch, LiveRamp, AppsFlyer, DoubleVerify, and Integral Ad Science.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-05
A generated image attributed to the FLUX 3 model depicts a fictional 'Festival du Soleil' scene, combining a large parabolic concrete dome, silhouetted swimmers in dark water, and a distant coastal town at dusk, with elegant cream-colored French text overlaid. The output is described through structured annotation data specifying bounding boxes and descriptions for each visual element.
bfl.ai
· 2026-10-01
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