The winner of a prestigious scientific photography competition has been disqualified after organizers concluded that his use of generative AI broke the rules. Ning Xu was named the winner of the ...

A hot potato: It seems that the once-popular trend of entering AI-generated content in competitions made for humans hasn't gone away. The winner of one of the world's most prestigious scientific ...

The winning entry of the prestigious Small World in Motion microscopy competition has been disqualified after scientists raised concerns about its creation using artificial intelligence. On 9 October, ...

Ning Xu's winning entry to Nikon Instruments' Small World in Motion competition was ineligible due to AI, a spokesperson for the contest told Gizmodo. Reading time 2 minutes The organizers of Nikon’s ...

A scientific photography contest just ran headlong into the AI era. Nikon has stripped the top prize from a winning microscope video after concluding it relied on generative AI in a way that violated ...

Nikon says that Dr Ning XU’s work, above, “did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI.” The winner of the Nikon Small World in Motion competition has been disqualified after ...

According to a BBC report, some researchers expressed concern that Xu’s video had structural abnormalities and that cell features appeared and disappeared in a way one would not see in actual cellular ...

On September 30, 2026, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 690 into law, enacting a widely anticipated amendment to the California Invasion of Privacy Act ...