Artificial Intelligence (AI) can now create amazing images in seconds. It feels like magic, but there’s an energy cost behind each picture. We often don’t think about how much power these tools use.

The latex legends are back — and this time they’re on YouTube. Spitting Image returned on Friday (19 September, 8pm) with the first full series of its latest incarnation, The Rest Is Bulls!t* — a ...

Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI’s chatbot to be “politically neutral.” His actions say otherwise. By Stuart A. Thompson Teresa Mondría Terol Kate Conger and Dylan Freedman Reporters queried Grok and other ...

NotebookLM is by far the best AI project Google has piloted, and you can’t convince me otherwise. Sure, there are flashier examples, but none match the practical, everyday usefulness of this research ...

Elon Musk’s AI company has officially rolled out Grok Imagine, xAI’s image and video generator, to all SuperGrok and Premium+ X subscribers on its iOS app. And true to form for Musk, who positions ...

I would like to use Difix3D with my own dataset. I have already completed sparse reconstruction with COLMAP, so I have an images/ folder and a colmap/sparse/0/ directory containing the COLMAP model ...

If you think SNL is too in these times of chaos and terrible people in the public eye, you might like the crass, childish, puerile meanness of Spitting Image Present: The Rest is Bulls*!t, which ...

Why it matters: For decades, JPEG, PNG, and GIF have remained among the most popular image formats, even as newer options like WebP and AVIF have emerged. Now, PNG is getting its first meaningful ...

Today, most generative image models basically fall into two main categories: diffusion models, like Stable Diffusion, or autoregressive models, like OpenAI’s GPT-4o. But Apple just released two papers ...

Apple stealthily introduced Apple Sparse Image Format (ASIF), a new sparse disk image format for Apple Silicon, at WWDC; among other features, it might also help Macs remain the best PCs on which to ...