This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.

Tencent has released and open-sourced HunyuanImage 3.0, an 80-billion-parameter native multimodal image generation model. The ...

To develop knowledge beyond text and videos, AIs must have realistic virtual playgrounds where they can make mistakes and learn.

Most critically, GenAI models are running out of human-produced training data. Every scrap of freely available text has ...

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) is placed 8th on our list of the best stocks to buy. On August 4, Alibaba launched Qwen-Image, a large 20B MMDiT model that yields better results in handling ...

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image enables targeted transformation and precise local edits with natural language, Google said. For example, the model can blur the background of an image, remove a stain in a ...

Luigi Mangione is sooo last season. Shein is investigating after a photo on the e-commerce powerhouse’s website appeared to show the suspected CEO killer modeling its clothes. Consumers looking to ...

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

Google is upgrading its Gemini chatbot with a new AI image model that gives users finer control over editing photos, a step meant to catch up with OpenAI’s popular image tools and draw users from ...

Researchers have developed a novel attack that steals user data by injecting malicious prompts in images processed by AI systems before delivering them to a large language model. The method relies on ...

Ben Khalesi covers the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday tech at Android Police. With a background in AI and data science, he enjoys making technical topics approachable for those ...