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ChatGPT broke photo editing. One prompt, no Photoshop, no skills — and most people have no idea it can do this.
I ran 10 real editing challenges through ChatGPT, Gemini (Nano Banana) and Canva: removing people, swapping backgrounds, restoring old photos, faking shallow depth of field, upscaling, watermarks and more. You’ll see exactly which tool wins each task — and the one thing none of them can do yet.
The camera market is shifting as AI technology begins to impact sub-$1,500 models. Learn what this means for your next gear upgrade.
We analyze how the production industry is adapting to new automation capabilities. This discussion focuses on the practical implications for photographers who rely on affordable, high-quality tools, and we examine two specific mirrorless cameras currently in development that illustrate these trends. By understanding these shifts, you can better anticipate how hardware manufacturers will integrate smarter features moving forward.
Additionally, we look at the potential influence of Apple Reference Image technology on color science and workflow consistency. Watching this breakdown will help you determine if current equipment limitations are temporary or if a larger shift in photographic standards is underway.
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Leaked proposals from Meta suggest that plans to replace a majority of their workforce with AI have fallen apart, exposing the limitations that AI currently has and its impact on work more generally. So what does the future hold in Big Tech and beyond?
Real-time AI video just got REAL: MiniMax H3 MAX (running on fal, built from the open-source H3) can generate a 5-second clip — with audio — in under 3 seconds. That’s faster than you can watch it. And the internet needed exactly one weekend to turn it into infinite AI TV channels, a 24/7 AI news station, and games you play by prompting. In this one: the breakthrough, the wild projects, how to try it yourself for FREE (no GPU required) — plus what it actually costs to run, and whether H3 MAX will be open-sourced.
Tech CEOs are quietly cancelling their AI plans, and the reason isn’t that artificial intelligence stopped working. It’s that companies are discovering how expensive, legally risky, and difficult to control these systems become once they move from demos into the real world.
This video examines why billions of dollars in enterprise AI projects are being abandoned, from hallucinating customer-service bots and fabricated legal citations to insurance companies excluding AI-related claims from coverage. We also explore why Fortune 500 companies increasingly classify AI as a material business risk even while Big Tech pours hundreds of billions into data centers and NVIDIA hardware.
The deeper problem is economics. GPU prices are collapsing, infrastructure is depreciating faster than expected, AI projects often fail to produce measurable returns, and companies are borrowing enormous amounts to keep the buildout going. At the same time, the AI systems actually succeeding tend to be narrow, measurable tools where mistakes are caught immediately.
The AI revolution isn’t disappearing, but the dream of autonomous systems replacing entire departments may already be getting quietly dismantled behind closed doors.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates argued on Wednesday that artificial intelligence needs significant limits or else the harm to humans will outweigh any potential good.
“AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice,” he said in a 6,000-word essay, entitled “The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.”
China’s ultrashort-drama boom built a sprawling live-action industry of actors, directors, crews, and filming bases. Now, as AI drives down production costs, shoots are disappearing and companies are cutting staff. In Zhengzhou, filmmakers reckon with the slowdown; in Wuxi, former film and animation workers are building AI production systems that can turn scripts into finished videos with only a handful of people. Sixth Tone follows both sides of the shift to see how AI is changing not just how short dramas are made, but what filmmaking work itself is becoming.
GPT-6 Astra achieves state-of-the-art results on benchmarks for long-running computer-use tasks across professions and desktop apps, which means anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you, fast.
It’s also the best model for software engineering to date and our most aligned model yet, with improvements in honesty and reductions in deceptive behavior.
GPT-6 Astra is rolling out today for enterprises and customers in our Trusted Access Program, with broad availability in ChatGPT Work and Codex coming to Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise plans, and API and AWS customers in the next few days.
To experience Astra at its best, use the ChatGPT desktop app.
“Put That There” clip courtesy of MIT Media Laboratory, Chris Schmandt, and Eric Hulteen.
I’ve seen Claude Trading videos absolutely dominate YouTube for the past few months. And while Claude and AI in general is a very powerful software, I’m witnessing traders use it in a way that won’t actually help their trading. So I’m covering the mistakes I see traders like you making, and more importantly, how you can actually use AI to improve your trading.
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A fatal gas explosion occurred at Watson Grinding, killing three people and destroying hundreds of homes. 3M hired an expert from Nighthawk Engineering for $90,000 to produce an expert report proving 3M was not liable regarding the maintenance of gas detectors.