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Fake AI clips spread worldwide, each debunked a different way
A West Bank olive grove video, an Indian Army officer and India's NSA were all targeted by clips fact-checkers and detectors flagged as fake.
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Microsoft Teams and Zoom will flag deepfakes on calls
Microsoft lists certified detection bots for Teams from mid-November, while Zoom's own deepfake risk detection arrives in December 2026.
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Mississippi AG tells Colom to pull fake AI video of Hyde-Smith
Attorney General Lynn Fitch said the posts appear to violate a 2024 deepfake-election law and warned of an injunction if they were not removed.
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EU Socialists draft a bloc-wide ban on harmful deepfakes
The group's tech objectives, seen by POLITICO, would put the duty to stop deepfakes on platforms and AI providers, and name no mechanism for the ban.
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Midterm AI ad spending jumps to $137 million from $80 million
The Wesleyan Media Project counted 220 AI-made ads through Oct. 11, but only 27 percent carried a disclaimer and only 30 states require one.
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How to tell if a video is AI-generated, and where the checks fail
Provenance data, detector models and a court's reliability test each catch different fakes, and the newest research says the pixels alone are getting harder to read.
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Arizona court tosses 10.5-year sentence over AI victim video
The Court of Appeals held that a video of a shooting victim, scripted by his sister and voiced by AI, was not reliable enough for sentencing.
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GetUp posts a fake AI video to push a political ad ban
The advocacy group's petition to ban lifelike AI-generated depictions of people or events that never existed had more than 17,300 signatures as of October 16.
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Nudify apps stayed open to a 13-year-old, report finds
The Tech Transparency Project says test accounts downloaded 135 apps that strip clothes or generate explicit video, parental controls or not.
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World ID for banks launches with no bank customer named
World ID for Zoom is now generally available through the Zoom Marketplace, with Bain Capital, Pantera Capital and VanEck Funds among five design partners.
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Audit finds 46 women MEPs targeted by sexual deepfakes
The EU's nudifier ban takes effect December 2, but 119 MEPs say it needs enforcement and the research finds no removal deadline for platforms.
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OpenAI and Meta warn judges deepfakes evade detection
The Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules is weighing a draft Rule 901(c) after a March survey found just 15 of 931 responding judges had faced a deepfake challenge.
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OmniHuman 2.0 generates 5-minute avatar video at $0.07 a second
BytePlus says the model reads tone, emotion and words in the audio and cut the per-second price from $0.12 to $0.07.
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Delhi High Court orders Meta to remove AI deepfakes
Justice Vikas Mahajan gave Meta 72 hours to take down the identified posts, reels and channels, and restrained unauthorized use of the actor-politician's likeness.
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Oversight Board calls Meta's AI deepfake rules inadequate
The Board overturned Meta in two cases and ordered two videos removed; Meta said it will comply within seven days.
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Germany's cabinet approves a bill criminalizing sexual deepfakes
The draft adds new crimes for damaging deepfakes, fake profiles and covert tracking, and lets courts order platforms to remove content and block accounts.
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India will publish an AI regulation paper within a month
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the paper will focus on safety, deepfakes and a human-first approach, with industry carrying most of the responsibility.