
Adobe is rolling out an AI-heavy update for Photoshop that includes a new "optional" interface dedicated to its AI tools. Launching in beta, the "AI Assisted Editor" view will show all of Photoshop's AI features in a single toolbar, including its prompt-based image editor, background remover, an AI image extender, and more. There are also new ways to refine edits with AI, including a "markup" feature to draw directly on an image to show Photoshop's AI assistant what you'd like
Adobe is rolling out an AI-heavy update for Photoshop that introduces a new optional interface called the "AI Assisted Editor," which consolidates AI tools into a single simplified toolbar. The update includes new ways to interact with AI editing features, such as a markup tool that lets users draw directly on images to indicate desired changes, and an improved feature that uses natural language prompts to edit masked areas of images. The new Firefly Image 5 model can now understand the full context of an image, reducing the need for users to manually mark every area they want to edit before making changes.

While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.
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ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.

Most teams building a shopping assistant or agent rebuild the same scaffolding: an agent loop, a tool layer over the catalog, an approval gate, and an eval suite. Anthropic has now released that scaffolding as code. This week, they published anthropics/commerce-agents, a reference blueprint containing a shopping agent and a merchant agent, along with four runnable verticals: retail, travel, telecom and entertainment. It ships alongside two write-ups: a product announcement and an engineering de
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