WinBuzzer

Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2 Cracks Arena Leaderboard Top Three but Ships with Tight Limits

Image-2, a text-to-image model ranking third on the Arena leaderboard, but daily caps and square-only output limit its appeal.

Claude Visuals Adds Interactive Charts & Flowcharts Inside Responses

Claude Visuals lets users prompt “Show me” to get interactive graphs and comparisons, with Opus delivering the strongest ...

Microsoft launched a second-generation version of its AI image model.

According to Microsoft, MAI-Image-2 offers improvements like “enhanced photorealism” and more reliable text generation in images. It’s rolling out now in Copilot and the Bing Image Creator. [Image: ...
Decrypt

Microsoft Launches MAI-Image-2 Text-to-Image Model—And It's Better Than Expected

Microsoft's AI image generator offers impressive realism and text rendering, but strict content limits and 1:1-only output hold it back.

In a world of AI text, speech still reigns supreme

According to some, artificial intelligence may end up amplifying something deeply human: our capacity to think through conversation. None of this means writing will disappear. Written records remain ...
Windows Report

Now You Can Generate Richer Alt Text in Word and PowerPoint for Mac

Microsoft has updated Word and PowerPoint for Mac with a new generative AI model that creates detailed, contextual alt text for images.
The Fast ModeOpinion

Autonomous Networks Need Shared Understanding: Why Telco Knowledge Graphs Will Matter in 2026

One theme cuts across the most credible 2026 predictions: autonomy will be driven less by bigger models and more by better ...
The Information

OpenAI’s Next AI Model Will Have ‘Extreme’ Reasoning

OpenAI’s next GPT model is coming—and soon, according to a person with knowledge of it.Among the highlights, the new model, GPT-5.4, will have more than double the context window of the current GPT-5.
TechCrunch

Google adds music-generation capabilities to the Gemini app

Google announced on Wednesday that it’s adding a music-generation feature to the Gemini app. The company is using DeepMind’s Lyria 3 music-generation model to power the feature, which is still in beta ...
Reuters

Chinese AI models festoon Spring Festival a year after DeepSeek shock

BEIJING, Feb 18 (Reuters) - As China celebrates the Lunar New Year holiday, rivals to DeepSeek have scrambled to release artificial-intelligence models a year after it burst onto the scene with its ...
The Verge

ByteDance’s next-gen AI model can generate clips based on text, images, audio, and video

Seedance 2.0 can take camera movement, visual effects, and motion into account. Seedance 2.0 can take camera movement, visual effects, and motion into account. is a news writer who covers the ...
EurekAlert!

PolyU develops novel AI graph neural network models to unravel interdisciplinary complexities in image recognition and neuroscience

As an emerging technology in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), graph neural networks (GNNs) are deep learning models designed to process graph-structured data. Currently, GNNs are effective ...