Apple could unveil Gemini-powered Siri in Feb. A good prompt goes a long way. ChatGPT is available on both iOS and Android. Since March 2025, ChatGPT has been capable of generating images. Following a period where it briefly wasn't available to free users, you now don't even pay for one of OpenAI's subscriptions to use this feature.

Midjourney's tool, which creates images from text prompts, has 20 million users on its Discord server, where users type their inputs. In the lawsuit, the two movie-making giants share examples in which Midjourney is able to create images that uncannily resemble characters each company owns the rights to, such as the Minions, controlled by Universal, or the Lion King, owned by Disney. They also say Midjourney "ignored" their attempts to remediate the issue prior to taking legal action. Midjourney did not immediately respond to New Scientist's request for comment. The lawsuit has been welcomed by Ed Newton-Rex at Fairly Trained, a non-profit organisation that promotes fairer training practices for AI companies.

Paedophiles, scammers, hackers and criminals of all kinds are increasingly exploiting artificial intelligence (AI) to target victims in new and harmful ways, a senior police chief has warned. Alex Murray, the national police lead for AI, said that the use of the technology was growing rapidly because of its increasing accessibility and that police had to "move fast" to keep on top of the threat. "We know through the history of policing that criminals are inventive and will use anything they can to commit crime. They're certainly using AI to commit crime now," he said. "It can happen on an international and serious organised crime scale, and it can happen in someone's bedroom … You can think of any crime type and put it through an AI lens and say: 'What is the opportunity here?'"

It is the most popular messaging app for millions of users all around the world. And now, WhatsApp may soon receive an AI-powered tool that give users even more ways to communicate. The Meta-owned messaging service is reportedly working on a feature that will allow users to make personalised avatars of themselves in any imagined setting. By uploading a collection of photographs WhatsApp users will be able to train Meta's AI to create realistic digital renders in their likeness. However, early screenshots of the new update bear a striking resemblance to Apple's similar'Image Playground' tool announced last month.

Meta AI is consistently unable to generate accurate images for seemingly simple prompts like "Asian man and Caucasian friend," or "Asian man and white wife," The Verge reports. Instead, the company's image generator seems to be biased toward creating images of people of the same race, even when explicitly prompted otherwise. Engadget confirmed these results in our own testing of Meta's web-based image generator. Prompts for "an Asian man with a white woman friend" or "an Asian man with a white wife" generated images of Asian couples. When asked for "a diverse group of people," Meta AI generated a grid of nine white faces and one person of color.

Google was forced to turn off the image-generation capabilities of its latest AI model, Gemini, last week after complaints that it defaulted to depicting women and people of color when asked to create images of historical figures that were generally white and male, including vikings, popes, and German soldiers. The company publicly apologized and said it would do better. And Alphabet's CEO, Sundar Pichai, sent a mea culpa memo to staff on Wednesday. "I know that some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias," it reads. "To be clear, that's completely unacceptable, and we got it wrong."

After promising to fix Gemini's image generation feature and then pausing it altogether, Google has published a blog post offering an explanation for why its technology overcorrected for diversity. Prabhakar Raghavan, the company's Senior Vice President for Knowledge & Information, explained that Google's efforts to ensure that the chatbot would generate images showing a wide range of people "failed to account for cases that should clearly not show a range." Further, its AI model grew to become "way more cautious" over time and refused to answer prompts that weren't inherently offensive. "These two things led the model to overcompensate in some cases, and be over-conservative in others, leading to images that were embarrassing and wrong," Raghavan wrote. Google made sure that Gemini's image generation couldn't create violent or sexually explicit images of real persons and that the photos it whips up would feature people of various ethnicities and with different characteristics.

But Google's Gemini has been accused of being racist towards white people. The tool uses artificial intelligence to create images from prompts within seconds. But users claim the AI bot refuses to create images of Caucasian people, after testing it with requests for Popes, Vikings, and country music fans. 'New game: Try to get Google Gemini to make an image of a Caucasian male. I have not been successful so far,' one user wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

The world of gaming is being rocked by an AI controversy that could upend the multi-billion dollar industry. Sexual predators are using a powerful new tool to exploit children -- AI image generators. Users on a single dark-web forum shared nearly 3,000 AI-generated images of child sexual abuse in just one month, according to a recent report from the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation. Unfortunately, current child sexual abuse laws are outdated. They don't adequately account for the unique dangers AI and other emerging technologies pose.

Microsoft is injecting a ton of generative AI-powered features into Windows 11, but it's not all about the Copilot assistant. The company has started to update a string of apps with new AI functions, including Paint, Clipchamp, Snipping Tool and Photos. Microsoft released an update for Windows 11 2023, known as 23H2, on October 31. That update expanded access to Copilot and other AI features. Microsoft is rolling out the AI updates gradually, so you may not have access to everything just yet.