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OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and supporting legislation to combat deepfakes (Maria Curi/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 27, 2026

Marie Curi / Axios: OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and supporting legislation…

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French prosecutors are elevating an investigation into Elon Musk and X, focused on allegations of algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes, to a criminal probe (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: AI agents: mirage or real revolution? — With Dmitri Shevelenko The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Analysis: Nearly 90 schools and 600 students worldwide were affected by naked AI-generated deepfakes; North America has seen nearly 30 reported cases since 2023 (Matt Burgess/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 15, 2026

Matt Burgess / Wired: Analysis: Nearly 90 schools and 600 students worldwide were affected by naked AI-generated deepfakes; North America…

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After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on the Grok app, website and X, rarely resisting user requests (Robert Hart/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: A Child Psychologist’s Guide to Working with Difficult Adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy Interviews with world-class…

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Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before banning them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain active (James O’Donnell/MIT Technology Review)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: A Child Psychologist’s Guide to Working with Difficult Adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy Interviews with world-class…

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Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing risk of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, becoming the first country to block the AI tool (Fransiska Nangoy/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 10, 2026

Fransiska Nangoy / Reuters: Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing the risk of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, becoming the first country to…

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Google’s Nano Banana Pro and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Images can create non-consensual bikini deepfakes from photos of fully clothed women; Reddit banned r/ChatGPTJailbreak (Reece Rogers/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 23, 2025

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How brands stay visible when AI decides | James Cadwallader, CEO Deep Grit explores what it takes…

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The largest Deepfake porn site on the internet, Mr. Deepfakes, says that he stops permanently because a "Critical service provider" Arrested serving him (404 media)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 5, 2025

404 media:: The largest Deepfake porn site on the Internet, Mr. Deepfakes, says he stops permanently because a “critical service…

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The American house passes the act to withdraw to criminalize the publication of non-consensual sexual images of others, including Deepfakes, and requires platforms to delete them (Will Oremus / Washington Post)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 28, 2025

Will Oremus / Washington Post:: The American house passes the act to withdraw to criminalize the publication of non-consensual sexual…

Bangkok voters give Chadchart second term as governor by decisive margin – The Diplomat

Indonesia says tech companies have deleted 4.7 million children’s accounts since government ban – The Diplomat

ASEAN and Trump’s Section 301 Tariffs – The Diplomat

Pakistan wants the world to see it as a peacemaker. I want him to find my father. – The diplomat

Border towns light up at night as North Korea goes solar – Radio Free Asia

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President Mike Johnson admits he’s running a protection racket for Trump

Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security engineering, warns that EU DMA proposals to open up Android and search could lead to a significant increase in fraud within weeks (Matt Burgess/Wired)

AI is forcing consulting firms to move from hourly billing to fixed or results-based pricing, a transition that is proving slow and difficult for the industry (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)

DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and has been tested on Gemma and Qwen (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

Jefferies: Memory prices are expected to rise 40-50% in the third quarter of 2026 and 30-40% in the fourth quarter as Chinese memory makers are unlikely to provide significant relief in the near term (Hassan Mujtaba/Wccftech)

Austria is pushing the EU to consider hosting Anthropic within its borders, highlighting EU efforts to strengthen the bloc’s independence from US and Chinese technology (Marton Eder/Bloomberg)

Browsing: deepfakes

OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and supporting legislation to combat deepfakes (Maria Curi/Axios)

French prosecutors are elevating an investigation into Elon Musk and X, focused on allegations of algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes, to a criminal probe (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Analysis: Nearly 90 schools and 600 students worldwide were affected by naked AI-generated deepfakes; North America has seen nearly 30 reported cases since 2023 (Matt Burgess/Wired)

After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on the Grok app, website and X, rarely resisting user requests (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before banning them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain active (James O’Donnell/MIT Technology Review)

Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing risk of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, becoming the first country to block the AI tool (Fransiska Nangoy/Reuters)

Google’s Nano Banana Pro and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Images can create non-consensual bikini deepfakes from photos of fully clothed women; Reddit banned r/ChatGPTJailbreak (Reece Rogers/Wired)

The largest Deepfake porn site on the internet, Mr. Deepfakes, says that he stops permanently because a "Critical service provider" Arrested serving him (404 media)

The American house passes the act to withdraw to criminalize the publication of non-consensual sexual images of others, including Deepfakes, and requires platforms to delete them (Will Oremus / Washington Post)