Turkey dinners and televised football games didn’t distract Americans much from gift shopping on Thanksgiving Day – at least online. So suggests the latest sales data from Adobe and Salesforce, which on Friday both weighed in with upbeat reports indicating that holiday shopping is off to a good start. It’s being fueled by widespread discounting … Read more
Adobe has new AI updates for its creative cloud subscribers — whether they like AI or not. Adobe announced last week that Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and other popular programs would get AI enhancements. A Friday report from The Verge shows that Adobe doesn’t plan to offer alternative versions of products without AI for artists who … Read more
Adobe Firefly can now generate videos from image and text prompts, as well as extend existing clips, Adobe announced on Monday. The new feature is currently rolling out to Premiere Pro subscribers. The video generation feature makes its debut in a number of new tools for Premiere Pro and the Firefly web app. PP’s Generative … Read more
Nobel Prize Organization It’s been another insane week in the world of AI. While Tesla CEO Elon Musk was debuting his long-awaited Cybercab this week (along with a windowless Robovan that nobody asked for), Google’s AI was helping researchers win Nobel Prizes, Zoom revealed its latest digital assistant, and Meta sent its Facebook and Instagram … Read more
After several years of exploring the possibility of introducing a digital currency in Canada, the central bank is shelving the idea. The Bank of Canada confirmed to CBC News it has shifted its focus away from the idea of introducing a digital Canadian dollar, which could be used for online purchases and money transfers. The … Read more
Adobe will unveil a new generative AI-powered video creation and editing tool in a limited release later this year, the software maker said on Wednesday, as it looks to beef up its suite of applications catering to creative professionals. Dubbed Adobe Firefly Video Model, the artificial intelligence tool will be released in beta and will … Read more
Is AI worth paying four times as much for a Canva subscription? Design software service Canva is increasing membership prices for users globally, with some U.S. users reporting on X that the cost of five-person team subscriptions has gone up from $120 per year to $500 per year. Canva reportedly told users in an email … Read more
The transition to supporting Windows on Arm has been a huge success this year. Despite previous failed attempts, Microsoft really put its muscle behind getting developers on board this year in support of Copilot+ PCs — and the result has felt like nothing short of a miracle. Today, you can pick up one of these … Read more
Adobe has announced a significant update to Illustrator’s generative AI features that designers should appreciate. The headlining new feature is Generative Shape Fill, which add vector to shapes using just text. Adobe demoed the feature in a briefing to the press, using the prompt “cute 3D robot” to fill in some basic shapes with vector … Read more
PicsArt For a hot second there, Adobe enjoyed a unique niche within the generative AI industry thanks to its Firefly AI and Stock image hosting platform, which was trained on the company’s proprietary and “commercially safe” dataset of licensed images. Now, Getty Images is getting in on the game and launching a rival model. On Thursday, … Read more
