TECH NEWS

Google's SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/SynthID-1-1152x648.jpg

Last year, Google added support for SynthID detection in the Gemini app. You can upload the suspect content and ask the chatbot if it’s AI-generated. This should work reliably with all those billions of Google AI images and audio clips from the past three years. A few ambitious tinkerers have claimed to find methods for removing the hidden SynthID patterns. Google contends that none of these bypasses actually work.

More SynthID in more places

Even if no one has been able to crack SynthID, that doesn’t matter for the vast majority of AI images on the Internet—only Google’s AI models apply SynthID. That’s going to change soon, though.

Google has announced that it has partnered with several companies to add SynthID to their systems. Nvidia will implement SynthID in its Cosmos world foundation models, and OpenAI will use SynthID in its GPT 2 images. Kakao and ElevenLabs will also begin...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to arstechnica.com. To see the full text click HERE

Read more

https://www.eu-startups.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Untitled-design-2026-05-19T165310.544.jpg

Berlin-based bunch, an AI-native platform for managers and institutional investors to manage the entire fund lifecycle, raised a €30.1M Series B led by Portage

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data