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 ...

Elon Musk has repeatedly expanded the boundaries of permitted speech on his social-media platform X. Child-safety watchdogs and international regulators say a recent update to its ...

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 ...

Grok, the flagship chatbot created by the Elon Musk-founded AI venture xAI and infused into X-formerly-Twitter — a platform also owned by Elon Musk — continues to be used by trollish misogynists, ...