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After ‘digital undressing’ criticism, Elon Musk’s Grok limits some image generation to paid subscribers

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has limited some of its Imagine image generation features to paid X subscribers, days after international uproar over the AI tool responded to user requests by “digitally ...

Z.ai's open source GLM-Image beats Google's Nano Banana Pro at complex text rendering, but not aesthetics

Furthermore, Nano Banana Pro still edged out GLM-Image in terms of pure aesthetics — using the OneIG benchmark, Nano Banana 2 ...
VentureBeat

Open source Qwen-Image-2512 launches to compete with Google's Nano Banana Pro in high quality AI image generation

When Google released its newest AI image model Nano Banana Pro (aka Gemini 3 Pro Image) in November, it reset expectations for the entire field. For the first time, uses of an image model could use ...
CNN

Apple’s best-tested iPad sold out before Christmas. Now it’s back at $50 off

Echoing the advice of my colleagues and tech experts Henry T. Casey and Mike Andronico, the best iPad that most people can buy just so happens to be the most affordable tablet Apple sells. The latest ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Geo-Refined Point Transformer: Coordinate-Aware Excitation and Positional Upsampling for 3D Scene Segmentation ()

The proposed Coordinate-Aware Feature Excitation (CAFE) module and Position-Aware Upsampling (Pos-Up) module both adhere to ...
CNN

January 1, 2026 — Switzerland ski resort fire

• Deadly blaze: About 40 people were killed and around 115 others injured in a fire at a New Year’s party in a Swiss ski resort bar, according to police. Multiple people are missing, including a ...