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.

TikTok parent ByteDance has unveiled its latest generative artificial intelligence image model that it says undercuts the popular Nano Banana image editor from Alphabet’s Google, a fresh development ...

A new AI-driven trend is sweeping social media, with people around the world sharing cartoon-style portraits of their lives and workplaces generated using ChatGPT. The trend involves uploading a ...

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 ...

At the time, I was working as the head of user experience at a consumer AI image generation startup, spending up to nine hours a day prompting early generative systems to help improve our models. I’d ...

After upgrading ChatGPT with its latest GPT-5.2 model last week, OpenAI has rolled out a major improvement for the chatbot’s image generation capabilities, positioning it as a strong competitor to ...

Law enforcement agencies across the country responded to the recent "TikTok AI homeless man prank," which led to a slew of false reports and panic. Apps are allowing users to insert AI-generated ...

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...