Apple has announced a major overhaul of Image Playground that adds photorealistic image generation via a new model on Private Cloud Compute, plus expanded editing tools and iOS integration. The update includes automatic SynthID watermarks on all AI images and opens the features to third-party developers through a new API.
All generated images will automatically carry a hidden SynthID watermark to identify them as AI-generated.
In addition to Messages, generated images can now be used as Lock Screen wallpapers and Contact Posters.
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Apple has cut some engineers' daily AI spending caps from $300 to $200 and is considering $100, Bloomberg reports. Many non-engineering groups already sit at $100 a day, with some teams eyed for $25, while some senior executives are exempt and Apple declined to comment.
Google says it is launching a Knowledge Work layout in Antigravity for research, documents, and other non-code work, on the same agent as the coding interface.
Adobe and Disney announced a multi-year alliance on November 9, including custom generative models in Adobe Firefly Foundry trained on Disney properties.
Nvidia's board says it is opening an independent investigation after reports that CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. It says it has no reason to believe secrets were compromised, and Huang has said he will cooperate.
Meta has released Muse Ember, which it calls its smallest and most efficient AI model for agent subtasks such as tool calls and coding. It is available as muse-ember-1.0 at $0.10 per million input tokens.
