Some of the most impressive tech that Adobe showcases at its annual Max conference each year is the experimental features it’s developing, and the latest of those tools are being announced today: they can transform images into explorable 3D scenes, design AI characters by talking to them, and turn photo editing into a copy/paste process. […]
Millions of people turn to Reddit for firsthand recommendations and reviews of consumer goods. Now, the platform is leaning into its role as a destination for shoppers in a challenge to more traditional outlets that publish product reviews and roundups. The company is launching Reddit Reviews, a built-in product reviews hub for consumer goods that […]
Adobe is expanding its Creative Cloud apps and Firefly AI platform with new capabilities that aim to make design and editing projects faster and less complicated. Some of the announcements from Adobe’s Max event today include features for automatically removing objects, blemishes, and other unwanted distractions in Premiere, Photoshop, and Lightroom, alongside new generative AI […]
Adobe is committing itself to the notion that chatbots and AI agents could be your next design assistant, or even automate creative workflows and repetitive tasks on your behalf. Some of the tools and features announced today at Adobe’s Max conference in Miami, Florida, include allowing your preferred third-party AI agents to access and change […]
After expanding its Edits app to macOS last week, Instagram’s next move is launching this Effect Builder that generates custom filters for your Stories posts with AI. Available now for US residents who are over 18, it has a prompt box for describing your filter idea to the chatbot, with an option to attach style […]
The Walt Disney Company has teamed up with Adobe to develop proprietary “artist-led” generative AI models to support Disney’s production pipeline. The multiyear partnership was announced today at Adobe’s MAX conference, and it will see Adobe providing Disney with early access to its latest technologies for everything from Disney’s theme parks and cruise line to […]
The European Commission claims TikTok broke its online platform rules by offering a recommendation algorithm that creates a “rabbit hole effect” on users. In an announcement on Friday, the regulators allege TikTok’s algorithm can harm users with “endless and repeated exposure” to content related to sadness, isolation, or body image. The findings come months after […]
TikTok has released a standalone app for TikTok Shop in a few countries, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. According to its App Store listing, the TikTok Shop app offers: – Personalized picks inspired by your interests – LIVE streams & short videos to see products in action – App-only deals, free shipping […]
Instagram’s standalone video editing app is now available on macOS, where you can plug in your AI agent of choice to assemble your videos. Instagram’s Matthew Simari, head of product management for Edits, said in an interview with The Verge, “One of the things we’re releasing with Edits Desktop is a MCP for all the […]
Discord is finally giving up on Electron, the cross-platform framework that lets developers build desktop apps using web technologies. Electron web apps are notoriously heavy on system resources, and Discord is now moving its desktop app fully to Rust – a modern programming language designed for speed and memory safety. “We’ve been early adopters of […]