Midjourney

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. An AI image lab just bought an astrology app, and I think it’s one of the more quietly useful signals of the year. The Verge reported that Midjourney acquired Co-Star, the app whose daily horoscopes people actually read. Founder Banu Guler stays in charge of Co-Star while also becoming Midjourney’s chief design officer, and her team’s job is to build Midjourney’s first real apps, including one dedicated to image generation, as the company outgrows its Discord-and-browser home. Terms weren’t disclosed; the deal reportedly closed in spring. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? I spent last weekend feeding the same prompts into every AI image generator I could find. Same subject. Same style. Same lighting instructions. The results ranged from “I can’t believe this isn’t a photograph” to “why does this person have six fingers and a third eye.” Here’s what I found — ranked by what actually matters, not by which one has the prettiest marketing page. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Generating images for blogs used to be a dead end: stock photos look generic, and custom design costs $50–$200 per image. I ran the same set of detailed prompts through five top generators to see how they compare on quality, speed, and practical use cases in 2025. ...