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Anthropic has begun watermarking text and images generated by Claude to comply with EU AI transparency regulations. The method embeds an undetectable pattern during word selection that can be decoded via API, without affecting output quality, speed, or cost.

Anthropic is rolling out a watermark detection API that lets third-party developers check whether text was generated by Claude. The move stems from EU AI Act compliance requirements and uses a variant of Google DeepMind's SynthID Text method.

Google VP Josh Woodward announced a new toggle that lets users remove visible sparkle-icon watermarks from AI-generated content made with Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria. The invisible SynthID watermark and C2PA metadata will remain unaffected, and the toggle won't roll out in the EU or South Korea where visible labeling is legally required.

Google now lets users toggle off the visible "sparkle" watermark on content generated with Gemini and Flow, including Nano Banana and Omni model outputs. Invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata still remain embedded, according to Google Labs VP Josh Woodward.

Google announced users can now toggle off visible watermarks on AI-generated images, video, and songs from its Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria models. Invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata remain in place for transparency.

Gemini 3.7 Flash has replaced 3.6 Flash in the Gemini app's model picker on Android, iOS, web, and macOS, following its debut in the Spark agent a day earlier. The app also now lets users turn off visible corner watermarks on AI-generated images, video, and music.

Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image, a text-to-image model that generates 1K resolution images in approximately 4 seconds — 2.7× faster than Gemini 3.1 Flash Image. The model is priced at $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $1.50 per 1M output tokens, with a 66K context window and knowledge cutoff of January 2025.

Google has released Gemini Omni Flash, the first model in its new Gemini Omni family designed to generate video content from text, images, video, and audio inputs. The model is available now to AI Plus subscribers, with free access coming to YouTube Shorts and YouTube Create later this week.