From eWeek: Google appears to be gearing up to release a new, more efficient version of its image generation tool, tentatively named Nano Banana 2 Flash.

According to a report from TestingCatalog, Nano Banana 2 Flash will be the next lightweight model within the Gemini ecosystem. It is expected to...

From CNET: Travelers visiting the US may be required to disclose five years of their social media history under a proposal filed on Tuesday by the US Customs and Border Protection agency. The Department of Homeland Security said in a notice that visitors from several dozen countries would be...

From ExtremeTech: Microsoft has cut its sales targets for its agentic AI software after struggling to find buyers interested in using it. In some cases, targets have been slashed by up to 50%, suggesting Microsoft overestimated the potential of its new AI tools. Indeed, compared with ChatGPT and...

From The Verge: Reddit is starting to test verified profiles, the company announced today. Users who are verified as part of this “limited alpha test” will have a gray checkmark next to their username “across profiles, communities, feeds, post detail pages, and search results.”

For this “initial...

From TechCrunch: After a string of disturbing mental health incidents involving AI chatbots, a group of state attorneys general have sent a letter to the AI industry’s top companies, with a warning to fix “delusional outputs” or risk being in breach of state law.

The letter, signed by dozens of...

From PC World: A new study from the Pew Research Center shows that three in 10 American teens use AI chatbots every day, Techcrunch reports. Four percent say they do so almost constantly.

Among respondents, 59 percent say they use Open AI’s ChatGPT, more than twice as many as runner-up Google...

From The Verge: WhatsApp says it’s making “voicemails a thing of the past” by introducing a new feature that pretty much works like voicemail. Missed call messages are rolling out as part of WhatsApp’s latest feature drop, which makes it easier for you to leave voice or video notes in chats after...

From Tom's Hardware: TSMC is mulling upgrading the capabilities of its yet-to-be-built Fab 23 phase 2 in Japan in a bid to make chips on its N4 process technology (4nm-class) there, according to Nikkei. Advancing fab capabilities is hardly something unexpected for foundries like TSMC, as they tend...

From CNET: Three Adobe apps -- Photoshop, Adobe Express and Acrobat -- are coming to ChatGPT, the company announced on Wednesday. The integration means anyone can edit their photos in the chatbot using the editing tools native to Adobe's apps, no ChatGPT or Adobe subscription required.

The Adobe...

From The Verge: Figma is launching three new AI-powered creative tools to help users edit their images without jumping to another platform. The new tools are available in Figma Design and Figma Draw, and can be used to quickly remove objects from an image, isolate objects so they can be repositioned...