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Microsoft's Paint and Photos apps have been quietly doing more than meets the eye. Developer Xusheng Li discovered that both applications embed invisible GUID watermarks into AI-generated images, alongside the visible Copilot logo. It's a significant transparency move, raising real questions about how platforms track and attribute machine-made content going forward.
Staying with artificial intelligence, a growing concern in the security community centers on AI-assisted coding. Generative tools have compressed development timelines from weeks down to hours, which sounds like pure progress until you examine the risk profile. Speed without scrutiny means vulnerabilities can scale just as fast as the features they're buried inside, putting software integrity under serious pressure.
And from China's AI landscape, Z dot ai has confirmed that its Ox Alpha model belongs to the GLM series, and the company says it will release the model's weights publicly. The stealth model had been drawing comparisons to DeepSeek, and open-sourcing the weights could accelerate that competition considerably, giving developers worldwide direct access to probe what it can actually do.
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