Barbara is a tech writer specializing in AI and emerging technologies. With a background as a systems librarian in software development, she brings a unique perspective to her reporting.

The Pixel 9 Pro can also create AI-generated wallpapers. It’s baked into Android 14, so will eventually be added to other manufacturers’ mobiles. You can pick from a bunch of themes, objects, ...

We torture-test a dozen of the most popular text-to-image AI tools with a series of prompts designed to highlight their strengths and weaknesses. Here's how they stack up. I've been writing about ...

The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Max's release, on the first day of the Lunar New Year when most Chinese people are off work and with their families, points to the pressure Chinese AI startup ...

Investors will be closely looking at the company’s growth with the growing momentum in artificial intelligence, the acceleration in its Red Hat business ... software and AI business for the ...

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek has made waves in the market with its new AI model, R1, which it claims rivals those of OpenAI despite relying on less advanced computer chips ...

The two 15-year-old boys took photos from five female classmates from social media and used an AI program to create new images. Police were made aware of the images on Jan. 13 by a school ...

Taking its name from "one of the deadliest poisons known to man" from The Princess Bride, Iocaine is jokingly depicted as the "deadliest poison known to AI." While there's no way of validating ...

The emergence of "AI Debt" – the hidden costs arising from hastily deployed AI-generated code – in industry discussions highlights a crucial challenge: AI-generated code often requires ...

DeepSeek's latest AI models outperform OpenAI's on some advanced tasks and were much cheaper to build. © CFOTO/Getty Images The Chinese AI company DeepSeek exploded ...

One man was mostly to blame ... the possibility of the U.S. forfeiting its status as the global leader in AI and whether Nvidia's pricey chips would always be required to fuel AI innovation.