From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Image generation has become one of the most popular AI functions in 2026. From art style trends to social media slop, creating unique images from simple text prompts is as common as phishing scams on ...

OpenAI just unveiled a brand new image generator that it claims can churn out smarter and more precise slop than ever before. ChatGPT Images 2.0 is going to be a “renaissance” in AI image generation, ...

A crisp couch, a monolithic chair and a playful pouf highlight the ways designers are reimagining how we recline. By The New York Times This article is part of our Design special report previewing ...

Microsoft is positioning MAI-Image-2-Efficient and its flagship MAI-Image-2 as complementary tools rather than replacements for each other — a tiered pairing designed to cover the full spectrum of ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Canva’s new AI tool, launching today, is going to save time, money, and headaches for so many people. Called Magic Layers, it turns any flat bitmap image into a fully editable Canva project, ...

Google just debuted Nano Banana 2, an updated version of its AI image generator. It combines the abilities of Google’s previous release, Nano Banana Pro—like text rendering and web searching—with ...

The last year has been big for Google’s AI efforts. Its rapid-fire model releases have brought it to parity with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic and, in some cases, pushed it into the lead. The Nano ...

Forgive me, for I am an avowed Terminator sequels hater. Would that I were granted access to time displacement equipment, I would use it to time travel back to the late '90s and find a non-violent ...

A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions with more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor. The ...