How to Keep AI Characters Consistent Across Images
Keeping the same character looking like the same character across dozens of AI images is the hardest part of AI illustration. Here is the 2026 workflow to lock a face once and reuse it.
Adobe Firefly AI Assistant Goes Agentic
Adobe expanded its Firefly AI Assistant with agentic capabilities that run multi-step creative tasks across its apps.
Midjourney Draft Mode: 24 Cheap Previews on V8.1
Midjourney added a Draft Mode to V8.1 that generates 24 low-resolution images for about half the fast-hour cost of a standard job.
Meta Adds AI Photo and Video Editing to Facebook
Meta is rolling out generative photo and video editing tools inside the Facebook app, letting you swap clothing, hair, and accessories.
Midjourney V8.1 Is the New Default: How It Compares
Midjourney made V8.1 its default model on June 11, 2026, with sharper prompts, better text, and an HD mode at roughly 4x the resolution of V7. Here is how it compares to the 2026 image-gen field.
Microsoft MAI Foundry vs Nano Banana 2, FLUX.2: Compared
MAI-Image-2.5 hits No. 3 on Arena and edits past Nano Banana 2. We compare the new MAI Foundry stack against Google, BFL, Ideogram, and ElevenLabs on price, identity preservation, and bundled-stack ROI.
Nano Banana 2 and Pro Go GA on Vertex AI Enterprise
Google Cloud put Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro into general availability on Vertex AI on May 29, 2026, with 1K and 2K standard, 4K in preview, and a new video-file input mode for creator teams.
Midjourney Voice Mode Adds Image Prompts and HD Rerun
Midjourney shipped a web update on May 27, 2026 that adds image prompts and style references to voice mode, plus HD Rerun for upscaling older generations.
Krea 2 Lands in ComfyUI: Style Control via Partner Node
Krea 2 became available as a ComfyUI partner node on May 28, 2026, giving workflow builders native style control through Krea API integration.
Control Diffusion Models Without Text Using DINO Reps
A new technique from Linköping University trains diffusion models on DINO self-supervised representations instead of text prompts. The model discovers semantic variation directions in image data without any labels.
Google Flow Android Beta: Agent, Tools, and Gemini Omni
Google launched Flow for Android in beta at I/O 2026, alongside Flow Agent, Flow Tools, and Gemini Omni Flash updates for video and music creators.
Sony Xperia 1 VIII Adds AI Camera Assistant for Creators
Sony's first flagship phone built around an AI Camera Assistant. Xperia Intelligence reads scene, subject, and weather to suggest Alpha-derived Creative Look settings, lens choices, and bokeh effects. EUR 1,499 in Europe; June ship.
DALL-E Shuts Down May 12: GPT Image 1 Migration Guide
OpenAI shuts down the DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 APIs on May 12, 2026. Step-by-step migration to gpt-image-1 with code snippets, prompt recalibration, pricing changes, and a fallback provider list.
Grok Imagine Pro Retires May 15: Upgrade to Quality Mode
xAI is retiring grok-imagine-image-pro and 7 other Grok models on May 15, 2026. The new grok-imagine-image-quality model delivers better realism and text rendering -- here is how to migrate.
Luma Uni-1.1 API: Top-3 Model Hits 8 Creator Tools
Luma's Uni-1.1 API hits 8 launch partners with a top-3 model, 9-reference generation, and native non-Latin script rendering at sub-half-price economics.
Grok Imagine Agent: xAI Bets on Multi-Step Creative AI
xAI quietly shipped Grok Imagine Agent on April 30, 2026, giving Heavy and Super Grok subscribers an autonomous AI that decomposes project briefs into planned multi-asset generation runs.
Midjourney vs Flux vs DALL-E 2026: Which Image Generator Wins?
Midjourney V8.1 vs OpenAI GPT-Image-2 vs Black Forest Labs FLUX in 2026. Head-to-head comparison: aesthetic ceiling, text rendering, customization, pricing, and the right pick for working designers.
AI Image Generation 2026: The Complete Guide for Creators
The complete creator guide to AI image generation in 2026: leading commercial models, open-source FLUX stack, ComfyUI workflows, brand-tuned generation, and the legal landscape.
Topaz Labs Next-Gen: 6 New AI Models in One Release
Topaz Labs ships 6 new AI models on April 28: Wonder 3, Denoise Max, Super Focus 3, High Fidelity 3, Starlight Precise 2.5, and Astra 2.
Alibaba Launches Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro at $0.075 per 2K Image
Alibaba launches Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro on April 25 with native 2K output, multilingual text rendering, and $0.075 per image API pricing. Arena Text-to-Image rank 9 globally.
fal Opens GPT-Image-2 API: No Waitlist, 4K, Commercial
fal launched a no-waitlist enterprise API for GPT-Image-2 on April 21, 2026. Developers get immediate 4K access with two endpoints, pay-per-use pricing from $0.01/image.
Adobe, NVIDIA, WPP Tune Firefly to Brand IP at Scale
Adobe expanded its NVIDIA partnership at Adobe Summit on April 20, 2026 with Firefly Foundry custom-tuned models, 3D digital twins on Omniverse, and CX Enterprise Coworker agents. Launch partners include WPP, CAA, WME, and UTA.
Google AI Studio Adds Nano Banana Pro for Paying Subscribers
Google AI Studio is now giving Pro and Ultra subscribers access to Nano Banana Pro, the company's most capable image generation model, along with higher usage limits across Gemini models.
MegaStyle Trains FLUX on 1.4M Styled Images
Researchers from Tongji University, Tencent, and five other institutions released MegaStyle, a 1.4-million image dataset for style transfer alongside a FLUX-based model.