New GPT Image 1.5 allows more detailed conversational image editing, for better or worse. For most of photography’s roughly 200-year history, altering a photo convincingly required either a darkroom, some Photoshop expertise, or, at minimum, a steady hand with scissors and glue. On Tuesday, OpenAI released a tool that…
The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months. Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting complete and extended conversations from users’ AI conversations and selling them for marketing purposes, according to data collected from the Google and Microsoft pages hosting them. Security…
Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content. Like most tools, generative AI models can be misused. And when the misuse gets bad enough that a major dictionary notices, you know it has become a cultural phenomenon. On Sunday, Merriam-Webster announced that “slop” is…
The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker holy grail for decades. Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and recently faced blistering criticism…
Shenzhen-based Picea Robotics, its lender and primary supplier, will acquire all of iRobot’s shares. Roomba maker iRobot has filed for bankruptcy and will be taken over by its Chinese supplier after the company that popularized the robot vacuum cleaner fell under the weight of competition from cheaper rivals. The…
“The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex,” OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent. With the popularity of AI coding tools rising among some software developers, their adoption has begun to touch every aspect of the process, including the improvement of AI coding tools themselves.…
Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks. On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, its newest family of AI models for ChatGPT, in three versions called Instant, Thinking, and Pro. The release follows CEO Sam Altman’s internal “code red” memo earlier this month,…
Three-year deal lets users create AI videos of Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, and more. On Thursday, The Walt Disney Company announced a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and a three-year licensing agreement that will allow users of OpenAI’s Sora video generator to create short clips featuring more than 200…
Company raises its capital expenditure forecast as it doubles down on AI infrastructure bet. Oracle stock dropped after it reported disappointing revenues on Wednesday alongside a $15 billion increase in its planned spending on data centers this year to serve artificial intelligence groups. Shares in Larry Ellison’s database company…
Devstral 2 model scores 72% on industry benchmark, nearing proprietary rivals. On Tuesday, French AI startup Mistral AI released Devstral 2, a 123 billion parameter open-weights coding model designed to work as part of an autonomous software engineering agent. The model achieves a 72.2 percent score on SWE-bench Verified,…
