The earpiece in that viral trial photo was never there.
A Philippine impeachment court says a viral earpiece photo was AI-generated, XPENG raises $900 million for a human-shaped robot, and Claude starts hiding an invisible watermark in everything it writes.
That earpiece photo was AI-generated
Presiding officer Sen. Francis Escudero told Vice President Sara Duterte's impeachment trial that a viral photo of witness Lemuel Ortonio wearing an earpiece on the stand was AI-generated and simply false. Ortonio was wearing an ear piercing.
A humanoid robot maker raised $900 million
Carmaker XPENG raised more than $900 million for its robotics business, a round led by IDG Capital that values that arm at over $6.3 billion, with Tencent and Alibaba joining as strategic investors.
Claude now watermarks everything it writes
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, the first Claude models to hide an invisible watermark in every text and file they produce, designed to survive copying and light editing.
OpenAI says its next AI can break in alone
OpenAI says its unreleased model Astra is the first it has rated Critical for cyber ability, meaning that with the right tools and access it can find unknown security flaws and build working attacks without a person guiding each step.
Google built a Canva rival you type into
Google launched Google Pics, a design tool where you describe a poster or a social post in words instead of laying it out, and it starts appearing inside Docs and Slides today.