ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright complaints began piling up.

A hands-on comparison between the two shows how the latest image models differ on price, speed, and creative control.

Netflix sends cease-and-desist to ByteDance over Seedance AI video tool, alleging willful copyright infringement.

As Microsoft announced, the Python Environments Extension for Visual Studio Code is generally available after a one-year preview phase. It is intended to make the workflow for managing Python ...

ByteDance launches Seedream 5.0 with advanced image editing and lower pricing. Alibaba unveils Qwen-Image-2.0, supporting 1K-token prompts and 2K images. Both models directly challenge Google’s Nano ...

Inspired by the shape-shifting skin of octopuses, Penn State researchers developed a smart hydrogel that can change appearance, texture, and shape on command. The material is programmed using a ...

Bowing to pressure, the company said it would restrict X users from generating explicit images of real people in jurisdictions where such content is illegal. By Ali Watkins The social media platform X ...

X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise. X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise. is a London-based reporter at The Verge ...

Grok, the AI chatbot on Elon Musk’s social media platform X, is limiting image generation and editing capabilities to paying subscribers amid a global outcry from officials and users over the tool ...

When Ashley St. Clair asked Grok, the generative artificial intelligence reply bot built into the X platform, to stop creating sexually suggestive pictures of her, Grok said it would stop. But it didn ...

X users have used Elon Musk's Grok image generator to create sexualized images of women without their consent. Some of the AI image requests involved photos of minors. The French authorities are ...