AI image generation is becoming increasingly popular with so many AI companions now being able to take a text prompt and provide you with a picture, exactly as you described. However, with so many options to choose from, it can be hard to determine which is best at creating images so I decided to actually put them to the test. …
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Ask Google’s AI Gemini to generate a deepfake photo of a politician or an image containing copyrighted material, and the chatbot will flat out refuse. But when Google added more photo editing capabilities with Flash 2.5, it also briefly opened up a dangerous loophole that gave the AI platform more potential for abuse. When I started testing Gemini’s new photo …
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Google is piloting a new AI-powered coding tool called Opal, designed to help users build mini web applications by describing what they want to create in plain language. The tool, now accessible in the United States via Google Labs, is the latest in a growing wave of so-called “vibe-coding” platforms targeting both developers and non-technical users, as reported by TechCrunch. …
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In brief The Ether Machine is debuting on the Nasdaq with a $1.5 billion stash of Ethereum. The company plans to leverage staking and decentralized finance. At 400,000 Ethereum, the company’s holdings would be the largest among entities that have joined a so-called Strategic Ethereum Reserve. Another firm dedicated to generating Ethereum is making its Nasdaq debut, starting with a …
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The Republican tax bill signed into law earlier this month could result in a significant death toll for people seeking treatment for opioid addiction, according to a group of health economics researchers. Specifically, cuts to Medicaid could result in large numbers of the program’s beneficiaries losing access to medications for opioid use disorder, per the new estimate, which was published …
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