Google quickly disabled an AI image generation tool for Google Earth, hours after its global debut, citing policy violations and the potential for disinformation. Experts had immediately raised alarms about the feature's ability to create fake satellite imagery, which could be misused by journalists and researchers.
Google has rolled back a new AI image generation feature in Google Earth, which allowed users to create visualisations on satellite imagery, following a furious backlash from researchers and open-source intelligence experts over potential disinformation and policy violations.
Google quickly removed an AI image generation feature from Google Earth barely a day after its launch, following a swift backlash from journalists and open-source investigators who warned it could flood the internet with convincing fake satellite imagery.
Google quickly removed a new Google Earth feature that allowed users to create AI-generated satellite images, less than 24 hours after its unveiling. The rollback came due to concerns from researchers and open-source intelligence experts about the feature's potential for generating and spreading disinformation.
LimeWire, a generative AI platform, empowers creators to produce, share, and monetize AI-generated content, including images, with upcoming music and video tools, offering NFT minting, ad revenue, and royalty models.
A guide for 2025 highlights ten AI tools, including ChatGPT, Canva Magic Studio, and RunwayML, that aim to revolutionize content creation by enhancing efficiency and quality for marketers, businesses, and creators across various digital platforms.
Google launched Nano Banana 2 Lite, a faster and cheaper text-to-image model. While it excels in speed and cost-effectiveness, especially for text generation and spatial awareness, it shows a significant drop in realism and prompt adherence for detailed photographic outputs compared to Nano Banana 2.
Meta's new Muse Image AI tool allows users to generate images using photos from public Instagram profiles by default, raising privacy concerns among advocates who argue users must proactively opt out and that children's images are vulnerable.
Meta has launched Muse Image, its first AI image model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, available in the US via the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The model generates high-quality images from complex prompts, understands conversational edits, and can create functional QR codes with legible text.
Google DeepMind's new Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) offers a balance of speed and quality for AI image generation, available across Google's ecosystem. It's faster and cheaper than previous models, ideal for rapid prototyping, though it has limitations with text and consistency.
Proton's Lumo chatbot has been updated to version 2.0, introducing image recognition and generation, a thinking mode for reasoning, and deeper context. The update aims to make Lumo a competitor to ChatGPT and Gemini, offering enhanced AI capabilities while maintaining zero-access encryption for user privacy.
Google's Gemini app now offers its Nano Banana-powered personalized image generation feature for free to all eligible users in the U.S., previously exclusive to subscribers. The AI utilizes Google account data (Gmail, Photos, YouTube, Search) to create images reflecting user interests without explicit prompts.
Unconventional AI, led by Naveen Rao, introduced Un-0, an image-generation model built on a new oscillator-based computing architecture. This technology aims to reduce AI inference power consumption by up to 1,000 times, with plans for a full inference stack.
AI company Midjourney is launching Midjourney Medical, a new division focused on "Ultrasonic CT," a full-body imaging system combining ultrasound and AI. The technology aims to produce detailed 3D scans in about 60 seconds, with plans to deploy 50,000 scanners globally and conduct a billion scans monthly.
Google DeepMind has released DiffusionGemma, an experimental AI model that generates text in parallel, unlike traditional autoregressive models. This approach, similar to image diffusion, offers faster and more efficient text generation on local hardware, potentially improving tasks like in-line editing and Sudoku solving.
UK MP Jess Asato has launched legal action against Elon Musk's xAI at the High Court, alleging its Grok chatbot created fake, sexualized images of her. The lawsuit seeks damages and aims to establish company liability for AI system design flaws.
OpenAI launched GPT Image 2 with the largest ever Image Arena lead of 242 points, beating Google Nano Banana 2. Running on the GPT-5.4 backbone with native reasoning architecture, it achieves 99% character-level accuracy across multiple scripts and supports 4K resolution with batch consistency. Testing across eight categories shows GPT Image 2 winning realism, classical art, lettering, spatial awareness, and image editing, while Nano Banana 2 excels in anime illustration and complex prompt handling. Pricing undercuts Nano Banana 2 at $30 versus $60 per million output tokens.
The trademark applications aim to strengthen her ability to fight AI-generated deepfakes, as image generation tools advance.
ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.
