Image Residents in Suwa, a small city wrapped along the lake’s edge, always looked forward to the return of the Miwatari as a local rite of winter.Credit...Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times ...

The company’s chatbot can now create elaborate and unusual images. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Chatbots were originally designed to chat. But they can generate images, too.

Maria Azzurra Volpe is a Newsweek Life & Trends reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on everyday life topics and trending stories. She has covered Pet Care and Wildlife stories ...