A hands-on comparison between the two shows how the latest image models differ on price, speed, and creative control.

ByteDance launches Seedream 5.0 with advanced image editing and lower pricing. Alibaba unveils Qwen-Image-2.0, supporting 1K-token prompts and 2K images. Both models directly challenge Google’s Nano ...

Inspired by the shape-shifting skin of octopuses, Penn State researchers developed a smart hydrogel that can change appearance, texture, and shape on command. The material is programmed using a ...

Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women. By Kate Conger Dylan Freedman and Stuart A. Thompson ...

California's Department of Justice opens investigation into Elon Musk's Grok, for its use in creating sexual images of women and young girls. For weeks, xAI's Grok has been used to digitally harass ...

Simon Thorne does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Jan. 12 (UPI) --The British government on Monday launched an investigation into X after its artificial intelligence tool, Grok, was found to be creating sexualized images of women and girls without ...

Grok's image generation restricted to paid subscribers after backlash Standalone Grok app and tab on X still allow image generation without subscription European lawmakers have urged legal action over ...

Elon Musk has repeatedly expanded the boundaries of permitted speech on his social-media platform X. Child-safety watchdogs and international regulators say a recent update to its ...

X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise. X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise. is a London-based reporter at The Verge ...

On Dec. 31, xAI’s Grok was prompted by a user on X to write a "heartfelt apology note" after the chatbot had generated and shared an image of two young girls in sexualized attire based on a user’s ...

When Ashley St. Clair asked Grok, the generative artificial intelligence reply bot built into the X platform, to stop creating sexually suggestive pictures of her, Grok said it would stop. But it didn ...