OpenAI has a new website where you can check if an image is real or AI slop

OpenAI is teaming up with Google to make AI-generated images easier to spot using invisible watermarks, metadata, and a public verification tool you can use right now.

Google Search will now tell you if an image is AI-generated and talk about it in detail

Google is expanding its SynthID technology into Search, Chrome, and Android to help users identify AI-generated or AI-edited images more easily.
MediaPost

Google Battles SerpApi Over Scraping

Google is pressing to proceed with a lawsuit accusing the Texas-based company SerpApi of violating federal law by circumventing attempts to prevent it from scraping search results. "SerpApi believes ...
CNET

I 'Vibe Designed' a Website in Minutes Using Google Labs' Stitch Tool

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...
9to5google

Google Messages for web removing QR code pairing

Today, you can use Google Messages for web using QR code pairing or Google Account sign-in. The original login method will soon go away. Opening messages.google.com ...
Android Police

Google is killing the best way to use Google Messages for web on public computers

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...
Android Authority

Google's killing QR code sign-ins for Messages on the web

The Google Messages web app won’t allow users to pair using QR codes for much longer, according to a new warning. Users will instead have to sign in using their Google account credentials. We don’t ...
Search Engine Roundtable

How Google Search & Google Discover Picks Image Thumbnails

Google updated its image SEO best practices and Google Discover documentation to clarify how Google picks a preferred image thumbnail for Google Search and Google Discover. Google wrote it "uses both ...
Wired

Hands-On With Nano Banana 2, the Latest Version of Google’s AI Image Generator

Google just debuted Nano Banana 2, an updated version of its AI image generator. It combines the abilities of Google’s previous release, Nano Banana Pro—like text rendering and web searching—with ...
Android

SerpApi Says Google Doesn't Own the Internet, Files Motion to Dismiss Web Scraping Lawsuit

SerpApi, a company that scrapes data, has asked a court to throw out a DMCA lawsuit that Google filed against them. SerpApi says that Google Google lacks standing as it doesn’t own the copyrights to ...
Forbes

Google Ships WebMCP, The Browser-Based Backbone For The Agentic Web

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Google has shipped WebMCP through Chrome 146 Canary, a new protocol that lets websites ...