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Synagogue arson suspect posted antisemitic cartoon on day of the attack

Stephen Spencer Pittman, who has been charged with setting fire to Mississippi’s oldest synagogue, recently launched a website promoting “scripture-backed fitness” and shared antisemitic content on ...
Wired

Hands On With Google’s Nano Banana Pro Image Generator

Corporate AI slop feels inescapable in 2025. From website banner ads to outdoor billboards, images generated by businesses using AI tools surround me. Hell, even the bar down the street posts happy ...
Engadget

Google's Nano Banana Pro image generator leverages Gemini 3 for improved visuals and text rendering

Google just unveiled its Nano Banana Pro image generation platform, which is also going by the name Gemini 3 Pro Image. The company promises this is an improvement over previous versions of the ...
CNN

Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology

A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person’s mental images into accurate, descriptive sentences. While there has been progress in ...
MIT Technology Review

DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI’s ability to remember

Instead of using text tokens, the Chinese AI company is packing information into images. An AI model released by the Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI ...
Forbes

The Surprising Idea That Generative AI Might Be Better Off Using Visual Images Of Text Rather Than Pure Text As Tokens

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. For anyone versed in the technical underpinnings of LLMs, this ...
ExtremeTech

Microsoft Launches MAI-Image-1, Its First In-House Text-to-Image AI Model

Microsoft has unveiled MAI-Image-1, its first text-to-image model fully developed in-house. MAI-Image-1 ranks among the top 10 models on the LMArena platform, meaning it delivers strong results when ...
BGR

Microsoft AI Unveils Its Own Image Generator, Says It's Faster Than Rivals

AI image and video generators are the kind of AI products that go viral frequently, effectively becoming marketing tools for their creators. OpenAI's 4o Image Generation model and the Sora 2 video ...
Digital Trends

Microsoft AI debuts its Nano Banana rival, and it’s already a top text-to-image model

What’s happened? Microsoft AI has unveiled the slightly clunkily named MAI-Image-1, its in-house text-to-image system. The pitch is straightforward, generate useful pictures quickly, not flashy demos ...
The Verge

Microsoft AI announces first image generator created in-house

The model has already secured a spot in the top 10 of LMArena. The model has already secured a spot in the top 10 of LMArena. is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, ...
Mashable

Here’s how to try Google’s hot new Nano Banana image generator

Google launched the Nano Banana image generator in late August, and it's been building momentum through word of mouth ever since. The new model, officially dubbed Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, actually shot ...