Meta introduced Imagine, a new AI image generation feature.The feature uses Meta’s AI model, Llama 3, for sharper, high-quality images.The feature is part of a broader announcement Meta made last week. Meta wants users to let their imagination run wild, with an assist from its AI model.Meta announced a new image generation…

By Patricia Zengerle, Richard Cowan and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday is set to vote on, and expected to pass, a $95 billion legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, over bitter objections from party hardliners. More than two…

The first months of 2024 have been very satisfying for crypto airdrop hunters, who have celebrated the launches of Celestia, Altlayer, Dymension, Jupiter, Ethena, Polyhedra Starknet, Etherfi, Wormhole, Tensor, Saga and Omni Network. Now, however, many other token distributions are on the horizon: first of all zkSync, which could launch…

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. It was a week of unexpected developments in an unpredictable but consequential election year. Here are the surprise developments and what they could mean for the future: Unless you’ve…

Topline Former President Donald Trump appeared to fall asleep during his criminal hush money trial in New York on Friday, according to one reporter in the courtroom, just days after the former president appeared to doze off during jury selection, where he faces criminal charges for allegedly falsifying business records…

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The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee are pledging to deploy 100,000 volunteers and lawyers to monitor vote counting across battleground states this year – part of what officials describe as a stepped-up focus on “election integrity” by the national party. Officials describe the program, detailed in a news release Friday and first reported by Politico, as the “most extensive and monumental election integrity program in the nation’s history,” and it underscores how much former President Donald Trump’s relentless focus on baseless election fraud claims from 2020 is shaping the party’s agenda. As the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Trump now…

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Not even a beer at the movies is spared from shrinkflation, alleges a lawsuit against Cinemark. And one man is spearheading the fight against what he considers false advertising on his beer pour. The proposed class-action suit, filed this week in a Texas federal court, claims that the theater chain’s…

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