AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner

Nikon disqualified Ning Xu's Small World in Motion entry over AI use and named Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam the new winner for a video of a roundworm and a single-celled organism. Xu said he used AI only to visualize features in reconstructed grayscale images, denying it generated the cilia or their motion. The remaining winners each moved up one place.