Adobe
Adobe is a software development company, founded by John Warnock
and Charles Geschke in 1982.
US sues Adobe for hiding termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions
In the complaint filed on Monday, the DOJ wrote that “Adobe has harmed consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing important plan terms.”
Adobe says the feature is up to the task, regardless of how complex of a background the object is set against.
Firefly, Adobe’s family of generative AI models, doesn’t have the best reputation among creatives. The Firefly image-generation model in particular has been derided as underwhelming and flawed compared to Midjourney,…
Adobe says it’s building an AI model to generate video. But it’s not revealing when this model will launch, exactly — or much about it besides the fact that it…
As deal rumors fly, Alphabet and HubSpot would be a strange pairing
Reuters reported on Thursday that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is exploring the possibility of buying Boston-based HubSpot, a CRM and marketing automation company with a market cap of over $33…
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India, grappling with election misinfo, weighs up labels and its own AI safety coalition
India, long in the tooth when it comes to co-opting tech to persuade the public, has become a global hot spot when it comes to how AI is being used, and abused, in political discourse, and specifically the democratic process. Tech companies, who built the tools in the first place,…
Adobe’s Firefly Services makes over 20 new generative and creative APIs available to developers
Adobe today announced Firefly Services, a set of more than 20 new generative and creative APIs, tools and services. Firefly Services makes some of the company’s AI-powered features from its…
Adobe’s GenStudio brings brand-safe generative AI to marketers
Brands want to use generative AI to personalize their marketing efforts — but they are also deathly afraid of AI going off message and ruining their brand. At its annual…
Adobe is making it easier to create social content on mobile with AI
Adobe is making it easier for users to create and publish social content on mobile, as the company announced today that it’s launching the latest version of the Adobe Express…
There are plenty of GenAI-powered music editing and creation tools out there, but Adobe wants to put its own spin on the concept. Today at the Hot Pod Summit in…
TikTok’s AI-powered Creative Assistant is now available directly in Adobe Express
Adobe and TikTok announced today that TikTok’s AI-powered Creative Assistant is now available directly within Adobe Express. The two companies say the integration will help businesses and creators make and…
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The eternal struggle between open source and proprietary software
Whenever chaos engulfs a proprietary technology relied on by millions, the default knee-jerk reaction from many seems to be: “Hey, let’s see what the open source world has to offer.” Case in point: X’s (Twitter) steady demise since Elon Musk took over last year led many to search for more…
Adobe has a big hole to fill after the $20B Figma deal falls through
Adobe and Figma ended their $20 billion acquisition dream this morning after regulators signaled it would continue to be rough going. Figma still gets a $1 billion consolation prize as…
Adobe and Figma end $20B acquisition plans after regulatory headwinds in Europe
Adobe’s $20 billion mega-bid to buy rival Figma is now officially dead, after the companies said today that regulatory pushback in Europe had caused them to put an end to…
Adobe launches Spectrum 2, a new design system for all of its apps
Adobe today launched an update to Spectrum, the design system the company has used as the basis for all of its app and web experiences for the last 10 years.…
CISA says US government agency was hacked thanks to ‘end of life’ software
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has warned that unknown hackers broke into the servers of a federal government agency by taking advantage of a previously known vulnerability in software that no…
More than a year later, the $20B Adobe-Figma deal is still stuck in regulatory limbo
More than a year after Adobe announced it was acquiring Figma for $20 billion, the deal remains stuck in regulatory limbo.
As part of its MAX conference, Adobe traditionally shows off some of its more forward-looking tech, which may or may not end up in its Creative Cloud apps at some…
At MAX, its annual conference for creatives, Adobe today announced that it has updated the models that power Firefly, its generative AI image creation service. According to Adobe, the Firefly…
Adobe Firefly’s generative AI models can now create vector graphics in Illustrator
Illustrator is Adobe’s vector graphics tool for graphic artists and it’s about to join the generative AI era with the launch of the Firefly Vector Model at Adobe’s MAX conference…
Adobe’s Project Stardust is a sneak preview of its next-gen AI photo editing engine
The latest version of Adobe’s Project Stardust AI photo editor already thoroughly leaked earlier this month, but at its MAX conference, the company now officially launched this project as a…
Google this morning launched a new category of Chromebooks called Chromebooks Plus. The laptops are productivity-focused devices with minimum spec requirements, including a full HD screen, 1080p camera and higher…
Adobe launches Photoshop’s web version with Firefly-powered AI tools
Adobe officially launched Photoshop for the web on Wednesday for all users with paid plans. The web version, which was in beta for almost two years, is now available with…
Adobe’s Firefly generative AI models are now generally available, get pricing plans
One hundred seventy-six days after launching its Firefly generative AI models into beta, Adobe today announced that Firefly is now generally and commercially available in its Creative Cloud, Adobe Express…
Adobe starts paying bonuses to Stock contributors whose content is being used to train Firefly
Now that Adobe’s Firefly generative AI models are generally available. One feature that always made Firefly stand out from a crowd of other image generation models was that the company…
Europe confirms in-depth probe for Adobe’s $20B Figma acquisition
The European Commission (EC) has confirmed that it’s opening an in-depth investigation into Adobe’s proposed $20 billion bid for digital design software rival Figma. The Commission said that the acquisition…
Adobe is building on Firefly, its family of generative AI models, with a feature in Photoshop that “expands images beyond their original bounds,” as the company describes it. Aptly called…
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AI didn’t invent creative remixing
Adobe Chief Strategy Officer Scott Belsky says that AI is not replacing creatives, so much as giving them more time to create.
Adobe today announced that its Firefly web service is now available globally with support for text prompts in 100 languages — including Klingon (both Latin and plqaD, in case you…
UK readies in-depth investigation into Adobe’s $20B Figma acquisition
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally concluded that Adobe’s proposed $20 billion bid for digital design rival Figma could result in a “substantial lessening of competition” in…