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1 day ago | zdnet.com | Webb Wright

gleitfrosch/GettyBefore ChatGPT, there was DALL-E -- the first iteration of OpenAI's now-famous text-to-image AI model. It was released in January 2021, giving the world an early taste of the future of AI-generated imagery that was soon to come. Today, there's a long roster of image-generating AI tools to choose from. Companies like OpenAI, Google, Midjourney, Stability AI, Ideogram, and Black Forest Labs all offer their own models, each with its own particular strengths and weaknesses.

1 day ago | zdnet.com | Webb Wright

NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty ImagesAI models improve in a positive feedback loop: Every user interaction provides more data to sharpen the model's output, leading to a better user experience and more frequent prompting, which in turn leads to better outputs, and so on. Gemini, Google's flagship generative AI model, has been riding this upward curve for quite a while. Now, some new updates to the model are signaling that Google is becoming a more confident competitor in the AI race.

2 days ago | zdnet.com | Webb Wright

klenger/Getty ImagesLike many radically transformative technologies throughout history, the rise of AI is creating shockwaves of excitement and dread. This is especially true for businesses, for which AI simultaneously promises huge productivity gains and seismic disruptions.

2 days ago | zdnet.com | Webb Wright

yuanyuan yan/GettyHugging Face wants to use AI to make building spreadsheets a little less miserable. The company, which helps developers build and launch AI-powered apps, announced Thursday that it has created a new spreadsheet-building platform called Sheets. This is not to be confused with Google Sheets. The new tool from Hugging Face is built with generative AI at its core and is designed to be accessible for even the most non-tech-savvy users.

3 days ago | japan.zdnet.com | Webb Wright

アプリケーション開発において、AIの役割はますます重要になっている。一方で、開発者たちはエージェントを含む新たなAIツールの急速な進化に翻弄（ほんろう）されそうになっている。こうした状況の中で、Workdayはこの変化の波をうまく乗りこなせるよう開発者たちを支援したいと考えている。 同社は米国時間6月2日に開幕した年次開発者イベント「Workday DevCon 2025」で、新たなAI機能の数々を発表した。これらの発表は、Workday内で増え続けるAIツールを顧客がより効果的に管理できるように設計された、新しい開発者向けツールセットに焦点を当てたものになる。 ツールセットには「Agent Gateway」と呼ばれる機能が含まれており、開発者はサードパーティー製のAIエージェントをWorkdayの新たな「Agent System of Record（ASOR）」に統合できるようになる。ASORは、仮想的な従業員チームにタスクを割り当てたり、協働作業を管理したりするための基盤となるプラットフォームと位置付けられている。...