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iOS 26 Brings Major Improvements to Image Playground

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[ad_1] Image Playground is Apple’s image generation app that launched last year. Most people may not have a lot of use for the cartoonish images that it produces in iOS 18, but you’re going to want to take another look at it in iOS 26 because Apple has improved its algorithms. People look more natural in the images generated by the app, with more realistic eyes and more variation in hair that better matches sample photos. As a quick recap, ‌Image Playground‌ lets you type in any phrase to generate an image in one of three non-realistic styles. You can also select pre-determined scenes and props that Apple suggests, and generate images featuring your friends and family. It’s these images where you will see the biggest difference in ‌iOS 26‌, because the content generated based on images of people has changed quite a bit. Animation In ‌iOS 18‌, photos generated using the Animation style have blunt hair with little variation, lots of contrast, and unnatural looking faces, but in ‌iOS 26‌, features are softer, hair …

Miley Cyrus wears ‘modest’ swimsuits due to past body image struggles

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[ad_1] Miley Cyrus wears “modest” swimsuits because she is “still so insecure” about her body. During an interview for the latest episode of the Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky podcast, the Flowers singer recalled how she was targeted by online trolls around the time of her infamous performance alongside Robin Thicke at the 2013 MTV VMAs. “People were putting my head on different, very unattractive things,” she said. “I still see that when I put on a bathing suit to this day. I wear very modest bathing suits.” Miley went on to describe how on a recent girls’ trip she opted to wear shorts while “everyone else had on a string bikini”. “I don’t even know if people wear tankinis anymore. I was wearing like a tank top,” the 32-year-old continued, while host Monica added: “You’re bringing them back.” “My sister goes, ‘You’re you, so this is cool. I guess this is in now. You’re making this cool. But, like, you know this is what a grandma wears to the beach.’ It just hit me, like, …

OpenAI updates its new Responses API rapidly with MCP support, GPT-4o native image gen, and more enterprise features

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[ad_1] Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI is rolling out a set of significant updates to its newish Responses API, aiming to make it easier for developers and enterprises to build intelligent, action-oriented agentic applications. These enhancements include support for remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, integration of image generation and Code Interpreter tools, and upgrades to file search capabilities—all available as of today, May 21. First launched in March 2025, the Responses API serves as OpenAI’s toolbox for third-party developers to build agentic applications atop some of the core functionalities of its hit services ChatGPT and its first-party AI agents Deep Research and Operator. In the months since its debut, it has processed trillions of tokens and supported a broad range of use cases, from market research and education to software development and financial analysis. Popular applications built with the API include Zencoder’s coding agent, Revi’s market intelligence assistant, and MagicSchool’s educational platform. The basis and purpose of the Responses …

Benevolent Orca Pods Are Adopting Baby Pilot Whales in an Apparent Effort to Clean Up the Species’ Image

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[ad_1] As so-called “killer whales” have made news over the past few years for violent boat attacks in European waters, marine biologists have noticed a far sweeter behavior in Iceland’s frigid waves: the adoption of a baby whale from an entirely different species. In interviews with Scientific American, scientists described their shock at observing a pilot whale calf that traveled with an Icelandic pod of orcas over a period of years. One of those researchers, Chérine Baumgartner, said she and her colleagues at the Icelandic Orca Project initially couldn’t believe their eyes. “At first, we were like, ‘Oh my god, this killer whale calf has a problem,’” the researcher said of the bulbous-headed baby she and her team first spotted back in 2022. It looked at first glance like a malformed orca — until they realized it was no killer whale at all. The next day, when Baumgartner and her colleagues were witnessing the same pod again, the baby pilot whale was absent. Eventually, however, they started seeing baby pilot whales with orca pods throughout 2022 …

Star Wars fans point out telling detail in new AI image of Trump from the White House

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[ad_1] Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Star Wars fans have rushed to point out a crucial detail in the latest AI-generated image of Donald Trump posted by the White House. The computer-generated picture shows a heavily-muscled version of President Trump clutching a lightsaber in front of a backdrop featuring US flags and a pair of bald eagles. It was posted to mark Star Wars Day, celebrated on May 4th as a nod to the film series catchphrase: “May the force be with you.” The caption posted to the White House’s official X account reads: “Happy May the 4th to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting so hard to to bring Sith Lords, Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, & well known MS-13 Gang Members, back into our Galaxy. You’re not the Rebellion—you’re the Empire. May the 4th be with you.” However, fans of the sci-fi film and television franchise …

Image of boy mutilated by Israeli airstrike wins World Press Photo

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[ad_1] Palestinian photojournalist Samar Abu Elouf has won 2025’s World Press Photo award for her image of a Gazan boy whose arms were mutilated by an Israeli airstrike. Abu Elouf took the photo of Mahmoud Ajjour, then aged nine, for The New York Times. At the award ceremony in Amsterdam on Wednesday, she said that the image makes her think of her own four children. “When I see Mahmoud, I think of him as if he was my own son,” she said. Like her subject, Abu Elouf is from Gaza. She was evacuated from the territory and now resides in the same Doha apartment complex in Qatar where Mahmoud lives with his family. “I used to see him looking at the children playing, and I used to feel his pain,” she said. After Ajjour agreed to have his photo taken, Abu Elouf asked his mother to contact her when the sun was shining into their apartment. The way in which the boy’s head and shoulders are illuminated by the light gives the impression of a …

First ever confirmed image of a colossal squid in the deep ocean

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[ad_1] A colossal squid — the largest invertebrate on the planet — has been filmed alive in its wild habitat for the first time. For decades, the Kraken-like colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) was more myth than reality: scientists had only a vague sense of its appearance from fragments of its remains found in the stomachs of the whales that eat the molluscs. In fact, it was through those remains that the species was officially described by zoologists in 1925. Finally, in 1981, fishers in Antarctica accidentally reeled up a live colossal squid in their fishing nets. Since then, the animals have sometimes been killed as fishing bycatch, or have washed ashore dead. Last month, a vessel from the Schmidt Ocean Institute, a US-based non-profit organisation, was surveying the Southern Ocean near the South Sandwich Islands and live-streaming the footage from their remotely controlled deep-sea cameras, when an online viewer flagged that they might have just filmed a colossal squid. Acting on the tip, the researchers sent the high-resolution footage to independent squid experts. The experts …

OpenAI’s New Image Generator Is Incredible for Creating Fraudulent Documents

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[ad_1] Fake receipts. Phony prescriptions. Bogus passports. And more. Got the Receipts OpenAI’s latest image-generating 4o model is surprisingly good at generating text inside images, a feat that had proved particularly difficult for its many predecessors. And that makes it a powerful tool for generating images of fraudulent documents, as users have found. Case in point, Menlo Ventures principal Deedy Das tweeted a photo of a fake receipt for a lavish meal at a real San Francisco steakhouse, as spotted by TechCrunch. “You can use 4o to generate fake receipts,” Das wrote. “There are too many real-world verification flows that rely on ‘real images’ as proof. That era is over.” Doc Holiday The image itself, at first blush, is pretty convincing and includes a breakdown of a multicourse meal, a correct subtotal, and even a tip calculation. Another user even managed to edit the image further by adding a realistic filter and food stains — the perfect way to commit expense fraud, if you were so inclined. And that’s the tip of the iceberg. Das also …

OpenAI’s new image generator is now available to all users

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[ad_1] OpenAI’s new image generator, powered by its GPT-4o model, is now available to all users, CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X. The feature was until now available only to paying users of ChatGPT. While it is not clear how many images users on the free tier can generate, Altman last week had mentioned a limit of three images per day. OpenAI’s image generation tool took off instantly after launch, with Altman saying the demand was so high, the company’s GPUs were “melting.” The tool quickly also gained notoriety for being used to convert pictures into the style of Japanese animation firm Studio Ghibli, raising concerns around copyright and training data used by the company as well, given the similarity in style. Some people also used it to generate fake receipts, such as restaurant bills. An OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch that all these images have metadata indicating that ChatGPT generated them, and that the company “takes actions” if the images violate the company’s guidelines. Meanwhile, OpenAI today said it raised $40 billion …

ChatGPT’s Latest Image Generation Update Is Wild—But Some Users Have to Wait

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[ad_1] OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT update is one of its best, bringing a massive upgrade to GPT-4o image generation. Now, instead of switching to DALL-E 3, you can generate extremely high-quality images with GPT-4o without starting a new chat. However, there’s a catch for ChatGPT’s free users—at least, there is for now. ChatGPT’s Image Generation Receives an Enormous Upgrade OpenAI’s GPT-4o model is the go-to for most default conversations on ChatGPT. It works for a huge range of questions, with OpenAI labelling the model “Great for most questions.” And it is; it hits a wide range of information with speed and accuracy—but only text. Following its March 25, 2025, update, GPT-4o can generate high-quality images with amazing detail, exceeding the quality of the model it basically replaces (DALL-E 3). Furthermore, GPT-4o can now perform editing and image adjustments far beyond the capabilities of DALL-E 3. Image editing, color and style adjustments, subtle changes, foreground and background objects, and more are all possible. Text generation is also startlingly improved. DALLE-3’s text generation was never a strong point …