#generative-ai

#generative-ai

Abigail Wendling, 23, uses Pinterest to curate everything in her life, from recipes to wallpapers. At least until she saw a one-eyed cat when searching for a wallpaper. In another instance, a search for healthy recipes turned up a puzzling image showing a slice of cooked chicken with seasonings sprinkled inside it. These posts were created by generative AI, which is quickly overtaking the photo-first platform.

Today's Xbox Partner Preview had a bunch of big announcements and trailers like a new look at the upcoming 007 First Light and the reveal of a follow-up to Vampire Survivors, but one of the surprise standouts for me was Zoopunk, a new action game by F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch developer TiGames, starring a bunch of anthropomorphic animals in a sort of dark, science-fiction post-apocalypse.

Video Recaps uses AI to identify a show's important plot points and create a short but "theatrical-quality" summary video that combines a selection of clips with music, dialogue, and narration. The Video Recaps feature is being rolled out starting this week in beta on some English-language Prime Original series including Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Upload, Bosch, The Rig, and Fallout (ahead of season two's premiere on December 17th, 2025). Amazon says available recaps, including the text-based X-Ray Recaps it introduced a year ago, will be accessible through a recap button on the detail page when a "customer navigates to the next season of a supported series."

Data and analytics jobs really stand out, though. This sector had a Jobs Posting Index of 60, the lowest of all sectors Indeed tracked as of the end of October. That means there are 40% fewer data and analytics job openings than before the pandemic. Even worse: There is still a rising number of applications per job in this sector, according to Indeed.

With that dubious success rate in mind, CPG advertiser Reckitt has taken a strict approach to its own generative AI marketing projects, piloting specific use cases designed to save its staffers time and stress before rolling them out to its 700-strong marketing organization. The approach - which Bastien Parizot, Reckitt's svp of IT and digital calls "functional reinvention" of the marketing workflow - has delivered, speeding up creative asset adaptation by 30%.

"The transition to generative AI is transformational and necessary, supercharging existing applications and business models, and the transition to agentic and physical AI will be revolutionary, giving rise to new applications, companies, products and services," said Huang.

Grills don't need AI, but you might need an AI grill. When it debuted at CES early this year, the Brisk It Zelos-450 was advertised as being "the first grill with generative AI." That AI comes in the form of "Vera," an in-app feature that "creates customized recipes based on your input" and then sets the grill's temperature to cook them.

US research firm Gartner predicts that IT spending in Europe will increase by 11% to a total of $1.4 trillion in 2026. Growth is expected to be driven by AI, cloud computing and cybersecurity, despite limited IT budgets and few new hires. Spending on generative AI is expected to grow by 78%, while cloud investments will increase by 24% as companies increasingly move services to Europe for sovereignty reasons.

I guess we're past the era of " and that's what you missed on Glee." Amazon's Prime Video streamer is adding AI-generated "Video Recaps" to help viewers catch up between seasons of shows, the company announced on Wednesday. According to Amazon, the feature "utilizes generative AI to create theatrical-quality season recaps with synchronized narration, dialogue, and music." It will begin rolling out in beta on Wednesday for select Prime Originals, like "Fallout," "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan," and "Upload."

TikTok is testing a new feature that allows users to limit the amount of AI-generated content they see in their FYP feeds. Users will soon be able to head over to the "manage topics" page in their settings and use a sliding bar to choose to see fewer AI-generated videos. The feature, set to roll out in the coming weeks, reduces rather than eliminates AI content. It also does not impact videos on content pages other than the FYP within TikTok, like the "following" feed.

Adobe is acquiring Semrush for $1.9 billion. The creator of Photoshop and Acrobat wants to expand its marketing offering with SEO and AI search capabilities. The acquisition should help Adobe give companies better insight into their online visibility. Adobe is paying $12 per share, a premium of 77.5 percent over Tuesday's closing price. Semrush shares rose 55 percent before the market opened, a logical consequence of the news.

I tried to fool my brother, sort of. Next to him and his Pekingese on the couch, without context or introduction, I played an audio clip of me-deepfake audio of my voice that I'd asked cybersecurity startup Doppel to make. Fake Me's voice sounded distressed, stilted, and just persuasive enough that he narrowed his eyes, scrunched his nose, and asked: "That's AI, right?" My extremely online brother was far from fooled, but he was unsettled.

by Gene Kim, Steve Yegge " Vibe coding " is the practice of describing a software tool to a generative AI platform, which would then code it. The authors, veterans of leading tech companies including Tripwire, Google, and Amazon, cut through controversy to offer a groundbreaking look at "the good, the bad, and the ugly" of this transformational programming practice and how to unlock its potential.

The launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI in November 2022 marked a turning point in the AI landscape, igniting the broader AI boom. This generative AI tool demonstrated practical applications for everyday users, from content creation to coding assistance, sparking massive public interest and investment. Tech giants poured billions into AI development, while startups flooded the ...

The launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI in November 2022 marked a turning point in the AI landscape, igniting the broader AI boom. This generative AI tool demonstrated practical applications for everyday users, from content creation to coding assistance, sparking massive public interest and investment. Tech giants poured billions into AI development, while startups flooded the market, driven by the promise of transformative technology. Venture capital funding in AI surged, and stock prices for related companies skyrocketed amid hype around machine learning advancements.

In theory, the robots (by which I mean generative AI) talk just like us, given that their large language models (LLMs) have been trained on billions upon billions of statements you and I have made online. That Hacker News thread in which you waxed rhapsodic about JUST HOW WRONG someone is about Flash on the internet? It's now training data for someone's LLM-augmented doctoral dissertation. The LLMs have "learned" from all this online chatter to generate text that sounds like a human being.

When my daughter turned 16, I didn't hand her the car keys and hope for the best. She spent a few months in driver's ed, practicing parallel parking, checking blind spots, and learning to handle heavy traffic and bad weather. Like all new drivers, she needed guidance and practice before she could drive safely on her own. With generative AI tools, we all have something far more powerful than a car. And most of us aren't getting lessons at all.

First, consider writing. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and dozens of other AI tools can draft newsletters, create ads, or write search-engine-optimized copy. In a recent ecommerce project, I directed AI to generate product copy from this manufacturer's description: At less than 5″ wide, the incredibly slim and easy-to-use K-Mini® single-serve coffee maker makes anywhere perfect for great coffee. Before composing, the AI tool searched the web and considered SEO keywords. After a couple of research steps, it produced several versions, including this one:

For decades, Adobe's software tools, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, have been the universal language of visual communication, shaping how marketers, artists, and brands build the modern creative world. As artificial intelligence transforms the nature of work and how we define productivity, the 42-year-old creative tech company is reinventing itself once again, transforming the world's creative supply chains through its AI ecosystem.

"We see that [the] world model is just as big and exciting, if not more [than the previous eras]," Li, who is also CEO of the company, told The Verge in an interview.

In recent months, Google has promised to inject generative AI into the online shopping experience, and now it's following through. The previously announced shopping features of AI Mode search are rolling out, and Gemini will also worm its way into Google's forgotten Duplex automated phone call tech. It's all coming in time for the holidays to allegedly make your gifting more convenient and also conveniently ensure that Google gets a piece of the action.