How Microsoft shipped a production-optimized image model in under a month. The speed of this release deserves attention.

Microsoft unveiled MAI-Image-2, a new AI model that achieved third place on the Arena.ai text-to-image generation leaderboard. PCWorld reports that the model excels at creating photorealistic images ...

The second version of Microsoft’s in-house image model lands at #3 on Arena.ai’s leaderboard, behind only Google and OpenAI, and begins rolling out across Copilot and Bing Image Creator today. A year ...

Public Image Ltd. are going to be booked and busy until 2027. The band is prepping the 2026 spring release of Alive, a new live album recorded during their 2025 tour, and will later embark on a ...

Prepare to see massive star power at the 57th NAACP Image Awards this weekend. Celebrities such as "Sinners" director Ryan Coogler, "Paradise" actor Sterling K. Brown, singer and actress Halle Bailey, ...

Google just debuted Nano Banana 2, an updated version of its AI image generator. It combines the abilities of Google’s previous release, Nano Banana Pro—like text rendering and web searching—with ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In the age of big data, we are generating more images than we can actually process. Autonomous vehicles, medical scanners, and quality control systems rely heavily on ...

The Trump administration will stop issuing immigrant visas to people from 75 countries, the State Department announced Jan. 14, saying the immigrants "extract wealth" from American taxpayer money once ...

President Donald Trump speaks to the press upon returning to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on January 13, 2026. Editorial Fellow The State Department is indefinitely halting the processing of ...

The field of optical image processing is undergoing a transformation driven by the rapid development of vision-language models (VLMs). A new review article published in iOptics details how these ...

Apple researchers have developed an AI model that dramatically improves extremely dark photos by integrating a diffusion-based image model directly into the camera’s image processing pipeline, ...