• Longtime AI critic Gary Marcus calls AI a ‘Shakespearean tragedy’ as widespread scraping of copyrighted data comes to light in bombshell report

    Six years ago, Marcus warned that AI developers would need so much data they would bend the law to get it. A bombshell New York Times report says that’s exactly what's happening.

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    Baidu releases new AI tools to promote application development

    One year after Chinese tech firm Baidu released its ChatGPT-like Ernie bot, the company announced tools to encourage locals to develop AI applications.

  • Adobe's new generative AI tools for video are absolutely terrifying

    Adobe has released a video showing how its new generative AI tools, including adding and removing objects, will work in Premiere Pro.

  • Adobe explores OpenAI partnership as it adds AI video tools

    Adobe is in the early stages of allowing third-party generative artificial intelligence tools such as OpenAI's Sora and others inside its widely used video editing software, the U.S. software maker said on Monday. Adobe's Premiere Pro app is widely used in the television and film industries. The San Jose, California, company is planning this year to add AI-based features to the software, such as the ability to fill in parts of a scene with AI-generated objects or remove distractions from a scene...

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    Google introduces Vids, an AI-assisted video tool for Workspace

    Google has launched Vids, a new video creation tool designed to make creating business videos as easy as creating a slideshow. Powered by Gemini, Vids generates initial storyboards, scripts, and more.

  • Adobe's generative AI video tools are coming soon to Premiere Pro

    Adobe is expanding its AI offerings in video, including generative AI tools for Premiere Pro as well as creating a video model for its Firefly model collection. Adobe Premiere Pro's generative AI can remove items from a scene Adobe has been increasing its use of AI in its creative tool suite, providing artists and designers with ways to use the fast-developing technology for images. Now, Adobe is turning its attention more towards video. In a preview of its AI changes on Monday,...

  • Spotify is developing tools that would let users remix songs, screenshots show

    Spotify is working on mixing tools that would allow users to remix songs on the streaming service, according to screenshots captured by tech veteran and app researcher Chris Messina. While music aficionados use software like Adobe Audition or Ableton Live to create mixes of their favorite songs, the new capabilities would allow people to do […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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    Adobe is buying videos to train its new AI tool, but is it paying enough?

    Adobe is recruiting help from its network of photographers and videographers to train its new AI text-to-video generator, but is the company paying enough?In an effort to catch up with other AI video generators like Google's Lumiere and OpenAI's Sora, Adobe is purchasing videos that show people engaging in everyday activities like walking, running, using a cell phone, and working out, and other videos showing emotions like sadness, excitement, or rage. Adobe is also requesting simple videos of...

  • Google Photos is making its AI photo editing tools available for all users

    Google announced is AI photo editing tools like Magic Eraser and Magic Editor will be available to anyone with a Google Photos account. Previously these features required a Pixel 8 or Pixel 8 Pro or paid Google One subscription.

  • Google Photos expands AI editing tools to all users without a subscription

    Today Google has announced that the AI-powered tools inside Google Photos will be available to anyone using the app, without any subscription required. We are talking about Magic Eraser, Photo Unblur, and Portrait light. This will happen from May 15, which, coincidentally or not, is the day after Google's annual developer conference. As always, expect the rollout to take a few weeks after that date, since that's the way Google likes to do things. The three aforementioned features will also be...

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    Adobe brings new Sora-powered AI video tools to Premiere Pro

    Adobe is bringing new generative AI tools to Adobe Premiere Pro later this year. Features include the ability to generate video content from text prompts using Firefly and third-party AI and more.

  • Google Photos AI image-editing tools expands to iPhone on May 15

    Google is going to provide all users of Google Photos access to its AI-powered editing tools on the iPhone, and without requiring a subscription for most users. Google Photos tools Google's smartphones like the Pixel have benefited from intelligent AI-based features that can dramatically change a user's photographs. Now, Google is opening up the tools to more people, including iPhone users. In a Wednesday announcement, Google said it will be making a number of its AI-powered image...