Apple’s Image Playground doesn’t suck anymore
TechCrunch AI6 days agoReleaseApple announced improvements to Image Playground at WWDC 2026, positioning the iPhone’s built-in AI image generator as a more capable tool. The update emphasizes natural-language photo transformations, multi-person image use, flexible output dimensions, and integrations across lock screens, iMessage backgrounds, and contact posters. TechCrunch has not tested it yet, but the presentation suggests Apple Intelligence apps may become more practical.
Google’s Dreambeans will turn your life into a cartoon
TechCrunch AI10 days agoNew ToolTechCrunch reports that Google’s Dreambeans is a new AI tool with an unusually quirky name. Its core idea is to turn a user’s life into cartoon-like, AI-illustrated stories. Based on the provided article text, Dreambeans builds those curated stories from personal data in the user’s Google account, raising both consumer-content possibilities and privacy questions.
FTC Fines Cox Media Group $1M Over Fake AI "Active Listening" Ad Claims
Simon Willison's Weblog23 days agoRegulationThe FTC has settled with Cox Media Group and two other firms for $1 million over deceptive "Active Listening" marketing claims. Although the companies pitched that they used AI to listen to real-time conversations via smart devices, the FTC revealed they actually just resold marked-up email lists. The FTC also clarified that burying voice-data consent in standard Terms of Service is legally inadequate.
Vercel Web Analytics 正式啟用，為開發者提供隱私友善的即時網站分析
Vercel Changelog1,152 days agoReleaseVercel has officially announced that its web analytics tool, "Vercel Web Analytics," has exited Beta and is now Generally Available to all users. This tool…