The New York Times

Meet a U.S. Start-Up Trying to Break China’s Rare-Earth Monopoly

Companies like Phoenix Tailings, which recently began producing metal in New Hampshire, are using new processing methods to compete with Chinese suppliers. By Rebecca F. Elliott Reporting from Exeter, ...
Newsweek

Is Photo of Donald Trump Using a Walker Real? What to Know

A photo is circulating on social media that appears to show President Donald Trump using a walker, but it is AI-generated. The image was originally posted on X by Democratic strategist Keith Edwards, ...
Reuters

Meta in talks to spend billions on Google's chips, The Information reports

Nov 25 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab is in talks with Google to spend billions of dollars on the Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab-owned company's chips for use in its data ...
Ars Technica

Google says new cloud-based “Private AI Compute” is just as secure as local processing

Google’s current mission is to weave generative AI into as many products as it can, getting everyone accustomed to, and maybe even dependent on, working with confabulatory robots. That means it needs ...
The Raw Story

GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers'

Adam Nichols is Raw Story's Editor-in-Chief. He has more than 25 years of journalism experience, which includes working for the New York Daily News, the New York Post and DNAinfo, a startup site that ...
MIT Technology Review

US investigators are using AI to detect child abuse images made by AI

Though artificial intelligence is fueling a surge in synthetic child abuse images, it’s also being tested as a way to stop harm to real victims. Generative AI has enabled the production of child ...
TechCrunch

Snapchat’s new Lens lets you create AI images using text prompts

Snapchat is launching a new Lens that lets users create and edit images using a text-to-image AI generator, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The new “Imagine Lens” is available to Snapchat+ ...
Digital Trends

I asked 4 AI’s to generate the same image and here are the results

Many AI companions are able to generate images from text prompts. Jasmine Mannan / Digital Trends AI image generation is becoming increasingly popular with so many AI companions now being able to take ...
BGR

Someone Used Google's Nano Banana AI To Colorize Old Photos, And The Results Are Stunning

Users have been testing Google's new image editing model "Nano Banana" — aka Gemini 2.5 Flash Image – for a few days, with some testers posting samples of images generated with the new AI model or ...
The Verge

Nothing busted using professional photos as Phone 3 samples

A photographer confirmed to The Verge that Nothing had licensed their image via a stock photo marketplace. A photographer confirmed to The Verge that Nothing had licensed their image via a stock ...
The Atlantic

YouTube’s Sneaky AI ‘Experiment’

Something strange has been happening on YouTube over the past few weeks. After being uploaded, some videos have been subtly augmented, their appearance changing without their creators doing anything.