Adobe Firefly is a deceptively powerful AI playground to generate images, videos, and more. Here's how to make the most of it. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Adobe Firefly feels like the best-kept secret in software right now.

Adobe has launched a brand new Photoshop app for iPhones, which it's also releasing for Android later this year. While there's already a Photoshop Express for mobile, the company says the new app was "designed from the ground up" with more features and has an easy-to-use mobile interface. The app, which is free to download and use, comes with Photoshop's core imaging and design tools. Users can make selections, layers and masks in the app to combine or blend images. They can also replace parts of an image with the Tap Select tool, remove elements from a photo with the Spot Healing Brush and add new elements by using its generative AI tools, such as Generative Fill and Generative Expand.

Robot vacuums hold an undeniable allure: the promise to handle your floor cleaning while you kick back and relax. While premium models can cost well over 1,000, budget-friendly options starting under 200 make automated cleaning seem within reach for almost any budget. But are these wallet-friendly bots actually worth it, or are you better off saving up for a premium model? Read on for my advice, and be sure to browse our top robot vacuum and mop picks once you're ready to shop. Lower-cost robot vacuums will deliver basic cleaning capabilities, but your user experience may leave something to be desired.

Elon Musk has announced new changes to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) that will allow certain accounts to unlock free premium features. Posting on the platform Thursday, the 52-year old tech billionaire, and TIME's 2021 Person of the Year, said: "Going forward, all X accounts with over 2500 verified subscriber followers will get Premium features for free and accounts with over 5000 will get Premium for free." Previously, X Premium features would cost a user 8 per month and include the ability to share longer posts and video uploads, have larger reply prioritization, and see fewer adverts on their timeline. Meanwhile X Premium users have all the features of Premium with no adverts in the For You and Following timelines, as well as access to generative artificial intelligence chatbot Grok. These models are the only way users can now display a blue checkmark that once denoted a verified account before the Tesla and SpaceX CEO acquired Twitter Inc for 44bn in April 2022.

You could spend less, but the Creative Pebble Pro is worth the extra cash if you want premium features combined with clear, detailed audio in a small package. Plus, you get RGB accent lighting. We were smitten with the Creative Pebble from the start, for good reason--the petite speakers sounded great, yet cost only $25 at launch. Since then Creative has released several iterations of the Pebble, one of them being the Pebble Pro, which hit store shelves late last year. Further reading: This review is part of our roundup of budget computer speakers.

The OBSBOT Tiny PTZ 4K webcam offers an incredible array of premium features for a reasonable price, capped off by an AI-powered ability to physically track your face as you move. The OBSBOT Tiny 4K certainly ranks among the best webcams you can buy, 4K or not, period. It offers so much: 4K video, a 60fps option (albeit at 1080p), and the real magic: an automated gimbal that physically rotates and dips the webcam to center your face. The OBSBOT Tiny 4K (sometimes sold as the OBSBOT Tiny PTZ 4K) will soon be supplemented by the Tiny 2, with a larger sensor for improved video. That should help solve one of the Tiny 4K's only shortcomings: video quality is good, just not outstanding.

Microsoft is taking its superb AI art / visual designer tool, Microsoft Designer, and opening it up to the general public today. The company is also publicizing its intelligent features: AI-generated captions and hashtags, new image formatting for social media, and AI-powered editing tools. We called Microsoft Designer nearly an AI masterpiece when we went hands-on with the tool several months ago, and now you have a chance to try it out for yourself, too. While Designer doesn't fall into the category of the best AI art generator tools, it stands nearly alone with Canva and Adobe's design tools as a way to develop a holistic design from the ground up. You can try Microsoft Designer here.

"if something is popular, criminals will exploit it" -- strikes once again. This time, we're talking about the trending ChatGPT chatbot, developed by OpenAI, which has been all over the news of late. When OpenAI opened access to its AI chatbot (that is, a chatbot based on neural networks trained on a vast corpus of text), the internet changed beyond recognition practically overnight. Users all over the planet rushed to see what the chatbot is capable of -- and were not disappointed (and often positively astonished). ChatGPT can maintain a dialog in a way that feels like there's a real person at the other end.

An introduction blog post and lecture on reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) -- start here if RLHF is confusing (first page results on Google for RLHF). A paper on Measuring Data in machine learning, defining a future field of research that'll improve many ML systems. RLHF is being heavily bet on in industry and has some very different properties than other generative models that make it less suited to open-source: hard to get the data via expensive human annotations, hiring experts in multiple areas like deep RL, and strong potential for internal use-cases like search. As you all know, OpenAI release ChatGPT and it quickly rose to over 1 million users and is the leading talking point in OpenAI's new fundraising rounds. It is the company that stands to represent the closed-API business model.

Tinder says it will no longer charge older users more to use Tinder, following a new report questioning the dating app's practice of charging older users "substantially more." The report, from Mozilla and Consumers International, detailed just how much Tinder pricing can vary based on users' age. The report relied on "mystery shoppers" in six countries -- the United States, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Korea, India and Brazil -- who signed up for Tinder and reported back how much the app charged for the subscription. According to the report, Tinder users between the ages of 30 and 49 were charged an average of 65.3 percent more than their younger counterparts in every country except Brazil. Tinder's age-based pricing for Tinder, which gives users access to premium features like unlimited likes, has long been a source of controversy for the dating app.