Google Just Ruined One of Its Most Important Tools

Google Earth was a boon for researchers—and then came the deepfakes.

Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky

Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities ...

Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics

“Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that ...

fal Launches Seedream 5.0 Pro API, Bringing ByteDance’s New Image Model to Developers

Seedream 5.0 Pro is now available on fal, giving developers day 0 production-ready access to ByteDance’s newest visual ...
USA Today

Don’t want Meta using your IG photos for AI? Here’s what you can do

Editor's note: The Meta Image feature allowing Instagram users to easily use public images and videos for AI generation was disabled after backlash on July 10. A new AI image generator is available on ...
The New York Times

How to Prevent Meta From Using Your Instagram Images in A.I.

The company’s new A.I. image generator has a surprising twist: It allows people to use images from public Instagram accounts. By Eli Tan Reporting from Seattle See more of our coverage in your search ...
The Verge

Meta’s new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos

Users can ’@ mention’ accounts in their prompts. Users can ’@ mention’ accounts in their prompts. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more.
CNBC

Meta enters AI image model race in bid to court advertisers and subscribers

Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang, is releasing its first artificial intelligence model for image creation. Dubbed Muse Image, Meta is hoping to attract creators and advertisers. Meta ...
Wired

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

Update, July 10 at 9 pm EDT: Meta rolled back the ability for users to tag public Instagram accounts for AI generations three days after the feature’s release. In a statement released Friday, Meta ...
TechCrunch

Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users

Google announced on Monday that the Gemini app is now offering its personalized Nano Banana-powered image generation feature to a broader audience. Starting today, all eligible users in the U.S. can ...
GitHub

LingBot-Map: Geometric Context Transformer for Streaming 3D Reconstruction

🗺️ Meet LingBot-Map! We've built a feed-forward 3D foundation model for streaming 3D reconstruction! 🏗️🌍 LingBot-Map has focused on: lingbot-map-long robbyant/lingbot-map Robbyant/lingbot-map ...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court permits Alabama to use congressional map struck by lower court as racially discriminatory

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Updated on June 3 at 9:40 a.m. The Supreme Court on Tuesday night cleared the way for Alabama to use a congressional map in ...