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Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked #3 on the text-to-image Arena leaderboard behind models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/361791/microsoft-mai-image-2-text-image-model-review

Microsoft Launches MAI-Image-2 Text-to-Image Model—And It's Better Than Expected
Microsoft's AI image generator offers impressive realism and text rendering, but strict content limits and 1:1-only output hold it back.

Generative "AI" has no idea what it is doing, a story in four images.
The first image is my original drawing (a Venn diagram) with a white background. The second is the same image after I removed the background using GIMP, i.e., made the background layer transparent. The third image is an effort by the "AI system" that is offered as part of my Wordpress setup to create a transparent background. In fact, it has created a new background that is a grey and white grid, a…

Imax partners with Apple TV to show five 2026 Formula One races across at least 50 US Imax locations, as Imax continues to push into live events (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/imax-f1-races-12…

Imax to Bring Real F1 Races Live to U.S. Screens After ‘F1: The Movie’
The partnership with Apple TV will see five races from Miami to Monza screen in 50 locations nationwide later this year.

Me dragging an image into the Teams PWA UI, and given no option to add alt text.
Me attaching image into Teams PWA UI, still no option.
Me pasting the image. Yeah, sure, Teams lets me add alt text.
Who is the fucklechuck who came up with this UI?

“When you care about animals, it breaks your heart when the law requires you to do this.” - Former Lab Worker #AnimalRights

TOXICITY.inc—End Animal Toxicity Testing
Lab workers are sounding the alarm on animal toxicity testing. See the evidence. Act now.

RE: https://social.stuetzle.cc/@ingo/116263398452625622
Evas Ausführungen zu Phantombesitz helfen auch, die sexualisierte Gewalt von Männern zu verstehen - gerade in Partnerschaften bzw. Trennungen

Dank zwei Zufällen: Hubble fotografiert unerwartet zerbrechenden Kometen
Nur weil das eigentliche Beobachtungsziel nicht ins Visier genommen werden konnte, hat Hubble einen anderen Kometen fotografiert – mit spektakulärem Ergebnis.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 is available globally to ChatGPT and Codex users, with a more powerful version for paying subscribers; its knowledge cutoff is December 2025 (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-beefs-up-chatgpts-image-generation-model/

OpenAI Beefs Up ChatGPT's Image Generation Model
The ChatGPT Images 2.0 model is here. Our testing shows it's better at creating more detailed images and rendering text, but it still struggles with languages other than English.

OpenAI says ChatGPT Images 2.0 comes in Instant and Thinking variants and can generate images of up to 2K resolution and in multiple aspect ratios (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/21/openai-unveiling-chatgpt-images-2…

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Images 2 image-gen model capable of magazine design - 9to5Mac
OpenAI is announcing its upgraded ChatGPT image generation model with ChatGPT Images 2. The company is also scaling up Codex...

Adobe launches Firefly Custom Models in public beta, letting users train AI image generators on their own assets; the custom models are private by default (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/897243/adobe-firefly-ai-custom-models-ima…

Adobe’s AI image generator can now be trained on your own art
Adobe is launching customizable AI image generators that can mimic specific artistic styles and character designs.