Meta circulated a memo to staff yesterday (Thursday) informing them that the company plans to lay off 10 percent of its workforce in May. That's roughly 8,000 jobs. On top of that, Meta says it will not fill the thousands of jobs it was advertising for.
Meta has announced a new "Account" system that allows users to log in and manage their settings across Instagram, Facebook, Threads, AI smart glasses, and its other apps.
The Minnesota House has passed a landmark bill to ban AI nudification apps and websites that create explicit images of people, mostly women, without consent.
Instagram is launching a new standalone app called “Instants” that allows users to share unedited, disappearing photos that can only be viewed once and remain available for 24 hours.
Framework arrived on the scene with its debut Laptop 13 back in early 2021, touting its modularity, customizability, and extreme repairability. The company arrived with big dreams of totally disrupting the "incredibly broken" computing market. While this dream remains in progress, Framework has left its mark, and its brand-new, redesigned Framework Laptop 13 Pro carries the torch forward in interesting ways, doubling down on the goals of its predecessor.
AI facial recognition company Clarifai says it has deleted the three million user photos dating app OKCupid shared with it without users' consent.
Google has marked Earth Day 2026 today (April 22) with a Doodle of six aerial photographs from around the world that spell out the search engine’s name.
Are photographers competing against AI? It's a question posed by a recent Vogue article after photographer Jack Davison questioned his Instagram followers on whether it is increasingly becoming an issue.
OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Images 2.0, a significant update to its image generation system that expands its role from a creative tool into a more fully realized visual workflow platform. Available across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API, the new model is designed to handle more complex, real-world tasks with greater accuracy, flexibility, and control.
Nearly four in ten American households now use a video doorbell and about one in three have an outdoor smart camera, according to new research.
Google Photos is rolling out a new feature that can help to beautify someone by "subtly" improving features like skin texture or even whitening teeth.
Google has announced “personalized” image generation that allows users to connect their Google Photos library to its Gemini AI image generator and photo editor Nano Banana.
A recent survey of 1,458 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 found that most of them do not see social media platforms affecting their mental health.
A realtor has been ordered to pay a $3,600 fine after flying a drone into an active wildfire zone in British Columbia, where it distracted a helicopter pilot battling the blaze.
Apple and Google are helping users find apps that create deepfake nude images, according to a new investigation.
More than 70 advocacy organizations are calling on Meta to halt reported plans to introduce facial recognition technology into its Ray-Ban smart glasses, warning of serious risks to privacy and public safety.
When PetaPixel editor-in-chief Jaron Schneider saw Sony's cutting-edge XYN immersive display technology at CP+ 2026 in Yokohama, Japan, he described it as being like seeing through an Apple Vision Pro, but without any of the headgear. But XYN goes far beyond a single display device; XYN is an end-to-end spatial capture solution.
The new Huawei Pura 90 series has a never-before-seen feature in a smartphone: "AI pose suggestions," which gives pointers on how to sit for a photo.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been criticized for using artificial intelligence in a series of posts paying homage to female icons in American history.
Mark Zuckerberg has been referred to as the "Eye of Sauron" by his employees, and now the Meta CEO is taking that moniker a step further by building a photorealistic AI clone of himself.
You might have seen an amusing photo of a Pikachu running away from police in Turkey. It was recently shared to popular Instagram page History Reported, where it has received millions of views and over 200,000 likes.
Golf fans are calling for smart glasses to be banned at the Masters after it emerged that some patrons used the devices to record footage despite strict rules prohibiting cameras and electronic equipment.
Reliable Apple insider Mark Gurman has shed some light on Apple's upcoming smart glasses. Among the most eye-catching features is the camera system that's currently under consideration.
YouTube Shorts is rolling out a feature that lets users create AI avatars that look and sound just like them for use in their videos.
Google Maps has rolled out new features centered on photos, including one that can scan photos and videos on a user's phone to find the most relevant images for a particular location.
Just a couple of weeks after PetaPixel wrote about the juvenile culture overseen by Sam Altman at OpenAI, the New Yorker has written a damning article about Altman questioning his trustworthiness.
Oklahoma lawmakers are considering a bill that would let officials use aerial photos and satellite images to assess property taxes instead of visiting properties in person.
As smart glasses become more and more popular -- increasingly looking like a competitor to the ubiquitous smartphone -- the contentious feature is the camera. It's been at the center of a string of controversies, from creeps clandestinely filming people to tech workers reviewing users' intimate footage.
A former Meta employee is under criminal investigation after allegedly downloading around 30,000 private photographs from Facebook while working at the company.
Most Americans are worried about how their personal data is being collected and used, but many never read the privacy policies they sign, according to new research.
The family of Chuck Norris has urged fans not to trust or share AI-generated images circulating online following his death.
The Governor of Texas Greg Abbott shared an AI-generated photo that falsely depicts a U.S. pilot who was rescued from Iran.
YouTube will stream Coachella live in 4K, allowing viewers to switch between multiple stages, and even follow a vertical feed shot on Google Pixel.
A new study revealed that U.K. social media users are less active due to the dominance of short-form video on the most popular platforms -- in a trend that's likely reflected across the Western world.
Minnesota lawmakers are reportedly close to outright banning AI nudification apps that create explicit images of people, mostly women, without consent.
Dating app OkCupid shared nearly three million user photos with a facial recognition company without informing users, according to a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
A politician in the Netherlands who won a council seat in a local election has denied that her publicity photograph was AI-generated.
Students in China are reportedly renting AI smart glasses for up to $12 per day to cheat on their exams.
Meta has introduced two new Ray-Ban smart glasses designed for people who need prescription lenses.
Camera traps captured an Iberian Lynx bathing their prey in a water trough -- in the first instance of pre-soaking behavior being recorded in carnivores.
Australia has warned it could take legal action against major social media companies, accusing them of failing to enforce a national ban on users under 16 and allowing children to remain on their platforms.
Photography is among the best and most fun ways to enjoy nature. However, for many, the physical demands of outdoor adventures can be too much, forcing people to stay home or stick to only the most accessible, often overcrowded, photo spots. That's where Vastnaut comes in with the Vastnaut One, the world's first AI-powered 4x4 wearable exoskeleton. It works with your body to reduce stress and enable you to go farther and explore places that you otherwise couldn't.
The C2PA software championed by Adobe to verify real photos could be hacked, at least that's according to researchers from ETH Zurich who have proposed an alternative system.
The London Camera Exchange has announced the winners of its LCE Photographer of the Year 2026 (LCE POTY) competition.
In March 2004, Australian photographer Robert Edwards asked a simple but meaningful question on Rob Galbraith's now-defunct photography forums: "Could Adobe make a RAW format?" The answer was very much "yes," and Adobe announced the DNG format, or Digital Negative, later that same year. Now, more than two decades later, DNG is now the official standard under the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
In January, Meta revealed it was pausing international rollout for its new Ray-Ban Display Glasses, citing supply concerns. That might not be the only issue.
Sam Altman has always cut a strange figure to me; like a teenager in many ways. Even his Twitter bio, "AI is cool I guess," is a sullen and petulant remark.
A Los Angeles jury has found that Meta and Google are liable for harm caused to a young woman who says she developed an addiction to their platforms as a child, awarding her a total of $6 million in damages.
Photographers would be forgiven for thinking that Panasonic is no longer committed or interested in developing new Micro Four Thirds products, but as the company told PetaPixel at CP+ 2026 in Japan, it is still very much interested in developing new MFT products that capitalize on the format's core strengths.
This week, ON1 announced Restore AI for its Photo RAW MAX software. The company says the goal is to give photographers the ability to restore old photos using a "powerful new AI photo restoration module," but what it appears to do instead is dramatically change the photos into AI hallucinations.