The design industry faced a crossroads. Pay a fortune each month to be locked into a vendor’s ecosystem, or take back control. Open Design responded to that question in eleven days. It's not just a tool; it's an argument. And the argument is that the future design infrastructure should not be owned by anyone other than you. The question is no longer whether open source can match the commercial alternatives. The question is how long the commercial alternatives will still have a reason to exist.
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Forget gift cards and jars of candy. Create a unique gift to show your ultimate appreciation. A hand-painted oil painting based on an AI-generated artwork is the gift that hangs on the wall for ten years. Here’s the whole process: from creating the image in Midjourney and ordering a hand-painted piece from an artist in Dafen Village, China, to framing with Frame It and even a quicker alternative with Canvas from Photowall.
Midjourney 8 is out in alpha testing and it's changing the game for AI image generation quite a bit. Five times faster image generation, 2K resolution in HD mode, and a model that actually understands what you mean with a detailed prompt. Moreover, V8.1 has just been rolled out with even cheaper and faster rendering. Is this finally the version that will make you abandon Photoshop for good?
OpenAI's hardware chief Caitlin Kalinowski left the company in protest when the company's AI was deployed on the Pentagon's classified network before security measures had been defined. Sam Altman defends the deal and points to built-in safety locks, but the question is whether that is enough. What happens when an AI company puts business before principles?
This is a personal text, and it is partly painful to write it. I have used ChatGPT since almost day one. Defended it when people complained, advocated for it when
Producer AI is a major investment from Google to take more control in the application part of AI. It is really good and definitely worth trying.
Anthropic refused to let the Pentagon use Claude without security guarantees. Trump responded by banning the entire government from using Anthropic's technology and Hegseth labeled the company a national security risk, a label previously reserved for Russia and China. Can an AI company really stand up to the president and win?
Google has upgraded its AI studio Flow with Nano Banana 2 built directly into the core, free image generation, and a new interface designed to make creating images and videos smoother than ever. But is it enough to take the lead in an increasingly heated AI race against OpenAI and Adobe? What really happens when AI takes over the entire creative toolbox?
Google has just taken AI image generation to the next level with Nano Banana 2, a model that promises Pro quality at Flash speed and is free for everyone. Nine concrete new features make this one of the most important AI releases of the year, and competitors OpenAI and Adobe have every reason to be concerned. But what does it really mean for you who create content every day?
The Pentagon has given the AI company Anthropic an ultimatum. Remove all safety locks or lose the military contract. The problem is that the military can hardly manage without them. What happens when an AI company refuses to become a weapon and why should that actually concern you?
