Normal Computing Corp., a startup that’s trying to reinvent the fundamental physics of artificial intelligence, said today it has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Samsung Catalyst ...

Two Illinois State University students were among six people wounded in a mass shooting in downstate Normal, Illinois, early Sunday. Normal police said on social media that at 2:40 a.m., they were ...

NORMAL, Ill. (WLS) -- Two Illinois State University students were among six people injured in an off-campus shooting in Normal early Sunday morning, police said. Normal police said officers responded ...

Microsoft unveiled MAI-Image-2, a new AI model that achieved third place on the Arena.ai text-to-image generation leaderboard. PCWorld reports that the model excels at creating photorealistic images ...

According to Microsoft, MAI-Image-2 offers improvements like “enhanced photorealism” and more reliable text generation in images. It’s rolling out now in Copilot and the Bing Image Creator. Follow ...

The second version of Microsoft’s in-house image model lands at #3 on Arena.ai’s leaderboard, behind only Google and OpenAI, and begins rolling out across Copilot and Bing Image Creator today. A year ...

Britta DeVore is a Senior Author for Collider who has been known to dabble with Reality News as well. When she isn't sitting behind her laptop bringing readers her hot takes on upcoming projects or ...

Google just debuted Nano Banana 2, an updated version of its AI image generator. It combines the abilities of Google’s previous release, Nano Banana Pro—like text rendering and web searching—with ...

Ahead of its March 5 launch event, Nothing has just revealed the first official image of the Nothing Phone (4a), and it looks surprisingly, refreshingly normal. Nothing’s design language has always ...

Bob Odenkirk must be enjoying his late-career pivot to action movies. Again teaming with Derek Kolstad, the creator of John Wick and Nobody, Odenkirk returns to the way of the gun in Normal, a ...

In director Ben Wheatley's latest, Odenkirk plays a small-town sheriff whose sense of quiet normalcy (duh) is upended by a botched bank robbery. These questions, and more, are on offer in the first ...