NBC News Friday February 27, 2026
US ice hockey star Brady Tkachuk says he does not appreciate a doctored TikTok video shared by the White House that made it look like he was disparaging Canadians after winning Olympic gold. The video includes fabricated audio of Tkachuk referring to Canadians as “maple syrup eating (expletive),” with the expletive bleeped out. The video carries a note saying it “contains AI-generated media,” notes NBC News. Tkachuk, captain of the NHL Ottawa Senators, called the video “clearly fake.” Tkachuk was among the 20 US men’s players who visited President Donald Trump at the White House after their Olympic victory and attended Tuesday’s State of the Union address. The Trump White House has shared a number of fake videos over the past year. Read the full Story >>
International Garden Photographer of the Year Friday February 27, 2026
British landscape and astrophotographer Mark Hetherington is the top honor of the International Garden Photographer of the Year 19 competition for “Grange Fell Last Light,” an image depicting a lush landscape in England’s Lake District. Hetherington’s HDR shot, made from four separate exposures, is “a stunning landscape vista, full of plant life, with layers of color and tactile textures,” note Tyrone McGlinchey, the competition’s head judge and managing director. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Friday February 27, 2026
AI thrives on data, a lot of it scraped from the internet. Now, notes PetaPixel, a new initiative is turning everyday photographers into paid collaborators, one original image at a time. The Ronia Raw Photo Collection, hosted on the DataForce Community platform by TransPerfect, is inviting photographers to contribute unedited RAW images for use in training advanced computer vision and machine-learning systems. Rather than licensing or just stealing images, Ronia directly pays contributors for each accepted submission. Read the full Story >>
MACK Books Friday February 27, 2026
Larry Sultan was one of the most important and celebrated photographers of the 20th century: Over a career that began in the 1970s and lasted until his death in 2009 at the age of 63, he was a keen observer of American domestic life and culture, noted The Guardian recently. Sultan also had a less known commitment to writing, notes MACK Books, which is bringing out Water Over Thunder: Selected Writings, the first publication devoted to Sultan’s wide-ranging use of writing as a personal, artistic, and pedagogic tool. Read the full Story >>
