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With AI image generators now widely available online and more sophisticated than ever, it’s harder than ever to tell if an image is real. But on Tuesday, OpenAI announced two new measures to address this issue. The company is working on an open standard called C2PA that would add clear signals to metadata that an image was generated by AI. OpenAI will partner with Google to include an invisible watermark called SynthID. This makes it harder to detect, but also harder to erase if malicious actors try to cover their tracks. The new protections only apply to images generated by…

Beijing — Chinese President Xi Jinping praised relations with Russia as a force for “calm in chaos” during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Beijing on Wednesday, days after Xi hosted US President Donald Trump. Mr. Xi hinted at the increasingly difficult international situation and launched a veiled attack on the United States as he met with President Putin at the Great Hall of the People to begin the Russian leader’s nearly 24-hour state visit to the Chinese capital. “The international situation is characterized by an intertwining of chaos and change, but at the same time, a trend of…

After a bad fight with Carolyn, John checks into a hotel.When Carolyn is clearing the table after a dinner party that John has organized for “her friends,” the couple gets into a big fight when Carolyn objects to that description, insisting that they are “our friends.” The arguments include that John was lucky he didn’t introduce Carolyn to his mother, that “my mother would never have encouraged that,” and that Carolyn only spoke to her mother “to keep the peace.” Because, she added, “I find it painful to see how unhappy you make me.” It’s an all-out destructive exchange, with…

home depot On Tuesday, the company said its core homeowner shopper remained resilient in the face of rising gas prices and plummeting consumer confidence, prompting the retailer to reaffirm its full-year outlook after beating expectations for the fiscal first quarter. “Homeowners are relatively financially protected, probably more so than other customer groups, and we continue to see engagement,” Finance Director Richard MacPhail said in an interview on CNBC. Still, these shoppers remain committed “up to a point,” McPhail said, amid rising geopolitical tensions, plummeting consumer confidence and a collapsing housing market. “They keep telling us they’re going to defer spending…

At Google IO 2026, the company announced Google Antigravity 2.0, a new version of its agent coding app with an updated desktop app, CLI tools, and SDK for custom workflows. Last year, the company released its Antigravity tool as a response to agent coding software such as Cursor. The company says its new desktop app allows users to coordinate multiple agents and perform tasks simultaneously. Additionally, you can design custom subagent workflows and schedule tasks that can run automatically in the background. The new app also lets you easily integrate your projects with Google AI Studio, Android, and Firebase. Google…

U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance speaks during a press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on May 19, 2026 in Washington, DC. Heather Deal | Getty ImagesVice President J.D. Vance on Tuesday defended President Donald Trump in response to questions about the large number of stock trades revealed in the president’s latest financial disclosures. The contents revealed that transactions totaling hundreds of millions of dollars were made in just three months.”The president is not sitting in the Oval Office buying and selling stocks on a computer like a Robinhood account,” Vance said at a White…

Sweden has ordered four naval warships from France in a $4 billion deal, tripling its air defense capabilities, the Nordic country announced Tuesday morning. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at a press conference in Stockholm that the investment would be Sweden’s biggest defense investment since the 1980s.The purchase of the French Defense Intervention (FDI) frigate from Naval Group is worth approximately 40 billion Swedish crowns ($4.25 billion), with first deliveries scheduled for 2030.”This is three times as much Swedish air defense capability as we have today, which says something about the scale of this decision and the importance of the…

When Google launched Gemini three years ago, the goal was to build a multimodal large-scale language model: a single neural network that can be trained on text, images, audio, and video and generate content in any of these formats. Today, the company took a concrete step toward its Gemini Omni goal at the Google I/O developer conference. Gemini Omni is a new family of multimodal models that, according to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, “can create anything from any input.” Omni starts with a video. Users can now combine images, audio, video, and text, and instead of simply splicing these inputs…

Omar Marquez | Light Rocket | Getty ImagesPolymarket is moving deep into private markets, and this deal ties into a company that most investors can talk about but can’t actually buy yet.The company is launching prediction markets related to private company milestones, including valuations, IPO timing, and secondary market activity for companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.Nasdaq Private Market acts as the exclusive resolution data provider and provides the information that determines whether these contracts are payable.These event contracts may solve one of the biggest frustrations for many investors. Many companies generate tremendous value and brand recognition before going public,…

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