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Jess Weatherbed

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    Move over Ninja Cat, the Microsoft Edgehog has arrived.

    Congrats to the Microsoft social media intern on a marketing coup, now please make Edgehog the web browser’s official mascot. We’d love to share in the pun fun, but getting a “Verget monkey” in the office would be chaos.

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Adobe’s text-to-image Photoshop beta goes global.

    The popular Generative Fill tool being tested in the public Photoshop beta isn’t limited to English speakers anymore — now, the app supports text prompts in over 100 languages.

    Adobe has also added a new ‘Generative Expand’ experience that uses the crop tool...in reverse. Instead of cropping, users can drag to extend the canvas, and then automatically fill that space — with or without a text prompt.

    A GIF demonstrating the new Generative Expand feature in Adobe’s Photoshop beta.
    Generative Fill allows you to expand images in a similar way, but this new Expand feature is more efficient.
    Image: Adobe
    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Big AI really wants to convince us that they’re cautious.

    Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic have teamed up to launch the Frontier Model Forum — a new industry body to promote responsible AI development.

    The forum will establish an advisory board over the coming months to ensure AI models are developed safely, and plans to “consult with civil society and governments” regarding how it’ll operate.