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In a year when several countries, including India and the US will have elections, addressing artificial intelligence-generated misinformation that could deceive voters is an urgent global threat that requires various stakeholders such as the governments and the technology industry to come together, said Dana Rao, executive vice president and chief trust officer at software major Adobe. Rao, however, cautioned that regulations should not stifle innovation."Government and industry have to work together in order to have a…

This week, Adobe revealed an experimental audio AI tool to join its image-based ones in Photoshop. Described by the company as “an early-stage generative AI music generation and editing tool,” Adobe’s Project Music GenAI Control can create music (and other audio) from text prompts, which it can then fine-tune in the same interface.Adobe frames the Firefly-based technology as a creative ally that — unlike generative audio experiments like Google’s MusicLM — goes a step further and skips the hassle of moving the output to…

Although for the past several months it seemed like most of the legal action taken against big tech companies, like Google, Meta, and Apple, was taking place in the European Union. (It’s why those, and other big tech companies have been making plans to try and defuse the EU's legal strategy.) However, it would be a mistake to think that U.S. government agencies were not interested in making their own investigatinons into big tech. In fact, this past Wednesday, the tech world discovered that the U.S. Federal Trade…

the normal monthly subscription price for one full year. In the US, that's $30 a month, instead of the normal $60. The deal expires Nov. 24, so don't wait to buy.For that price, you get access to more than 20 Creative Cloud apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Acrobat Pro. The plan also includes 100 GB of cloud storage, access to Adobe Fonts, and a batch of credits for using the generative AI features powered by Adobe Firefly.Also: Best Black Friday deals so far: Live updatesBe aware that…

Adobe is now facing tighter scrutiny of its $20 billion Figma acquisition. The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an in-depth investigation of the deal after Adobe declined to make concessions that would resolve antitrust concerns. The "phase 2" probe will have a group of independent experts determine whether or not the merger will reduce competition in design software. The CMA has until December 27th to complete the review. We've asked Adobe for comment. The company rejected the CMA's claims when…

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) plans to perform an in-depth probe into Adobe’s acquisition of Figma, the agency announced today (via The Wall Street Journal). Citing concerns about “a substantial lessening of competition” for screen design software, it plans to move into a “phase two” investigation. However, it’s giving the companies five business days to “offer legally binding proposals” to address the concerns; if their response doesn’t satisfy the CMA, the probe will begin. Adobe announced its plans…

Adobe’s pending purchase of Figma, the popular online graphics editing and interface design application, is facing yet another challenge. The European Union Commission plans to begin an in-depth investigation into the acquisition, according to a report from The Financial Times, attributed to four sources familiar with the matter.Back in February, the EU Commission noted that it had received numerous requests to review the business deal. The international watchdog announced that it would need to clear the proposed merger,…

European antitrust regulators are preparing to launch a formal investigation into software giant Adobe's $20 billion buyout deal for cloud-based designer platform Figma later this year, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.EU authorities plan to push forward with a detailed investigation, over anti-competition concerns, which could take many months and may ultimately derail the deal altogether, FT said, citing people with knowledge of the move. The report comes after Britain's competition watchdog said last month that…

Adobe’s Photoshop has grown to become an incredibly capable and powerful image editing tool, but its ever-increasing complexity also makes it harder for new users to learn how to use it. That could change later this year, however, as Photoshop will soon introduce some new AI-powered tools that allow users to perform complex edits by simply asking the app to do it for them.In March, Adobe revealed its AI image generation tool, called Firefly, which stood out from similar tools with a promise that it wouldn’t infringe upon…

Depending on who you ask, AI can be mesmerizing, terrifying or some combination of both. But Adobe’s accessibility-focused artificial intelligence is a use case that (I hope) any reasonable person can get behind. The company’s new Auto-Tag API can remove the tedium from making accessibility-friendly PDFs for people with disabilities. PDFs have built-in metadata providing structural information — headings, paragraphs, lists and tables — in documents for assistive tech like screen readers. But tagging digital documents for…