Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Sarees

A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing.

Dark web users cite Grok as tool for making 'criminal imagery' of kids, U.K. watchdog says

The Internet Watch Foundation said it found topless images of girls that dark web forum users attributed to xAI’s Grok ...

Build a Smooth Apple Notes System with Folders, Tags, Scans & Tasks That Stick

Use Apple Notes to scan documents, record and transcribe voice, and drag in files, making projects clear and searchable in ...
TechCrunch

Perplexity to pay Snap $400M to power search in Snapchat

Snap said on Thursday that it has signed a deal to integrate Perplexity’s AI search engine directly within Snapchat. As part of the deal, Perplexity will pay Snap $400 million in cash and equity. The ...
The New Yorker

Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound

When Nick Watkins was a child, he pasted articles about space exploration into scrapbooks and drew annotated diagrams of rockets. He knew this because, years later, he still had the scrapbooks, and ...
ZDNet

You can try Google's viral image editing tool right in Search now - here's how

Google unveiled Nano Banana in Google Search and Notebook LM. It will release the AI image editor in Photos soon. The tool offers new styles for illustrations and Briefs. Nano Banana, Google's ...
BGR

Nano Banana AI Image Generator Is Now Available In Google Search: Here's How To Use It

Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash AI image generation model was known as Nano Banana during pre-release testing when it first went viral. The name stuck after Google released Nano Banana in late August. The ...
Engadget

Google's Nano Banana AI-image editing is coming to Search, NotebookLM and Photos

Google's Nano Banana AI image editor became something of a viral sensation when it launched last month. Now the tool is being integrated into a bunch of pre-existing Google products, like Search, ...
Digital Trends

Google brings its AI Image Magic to Search, NotebookLM, and soon Photos

Why is this important: So, what’s the real story here? Google is trying to make creating with AI feel as casual as, well, Googling something. What’s next: The next stop for this AI is Google Photos, ...
InfoQ

GitHub Introduces New Embedding Model to Improve Code Search and Context

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
The Verge

Google’s AI Mode image search is getting more conversational

Users in the US can now shop for products using natural language descriptions and reference images. Users in the US can now shop for products using natural language descriptions and reference images ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google AI Mode Gets Visual + Conversational Image Search

Google adds visual search to AI Mode, letting you use images and natural language in one conversation. Rolling out in U.S. English. Google AI Mode is getting a visual search upgrade. Search with ...