
Sexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe
An analysis of 160 deepfake websites reveals politicians in 22 countries appear on them. Nearly all of them are women.
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An analysis of 160 deepfake websites reveals politicians in 22 countries appear on them. Nearly all of them are women.
University of Washington students put Ai2’s AutoDiscovery to the test, showing how AI can surface promising scientific leads while making human judgment, domain expertise, and rigorous validation more important than ever.
OpenAI's new model, GPT-6 Astra, has begun rolling out to users. Here's how you can get it and pitfalls to avoid.

It comes as the AI firm's boss has called for the technology's development to be slowed down, citing "serious" risks.

cuTile Rust (cutile-rs) is a tile-based system for safe, idiomatic GPU kernel authoring in the Rust programming language. Extending the Rust ownership model to...

The robotics industry is still waiting for their breakthrough into day-to-day life. Nvidia's Les Karpas has an answer as to why at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register before September 25 to save up to $200 on your pass.

SK Hynix told TechCrunch the company hasn't finalized any plans or arrangements yet.

The ad regulator said it had "zero-tolerance" for ads promoting AI tools that could sexualise or objectify women.

I'm working on a simulation of a motor that is attached to a wing (Later, this will also have a real-life counterpart once I'll assemble all the components in our lab), and I can control the forces/torques that the motor applies. I want to use RL and find an o

Beijing’s response is to ‘firmly grasp technological sovereignty’ and broad regulations
I read prompt tuning and prefix tuning are two effective mechanisms to leverage frozen language models to perform downstream tasks. What is the difference between the two and how they work really? Prompt Tuning: https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.243/ Pr

Federated learning (FL) projects often begin with a straightforward setup: one server, a few clients, and one dataset at each site. As those projects grow, the...

“Hello, I’m an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”
There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable

In the biggest-ever legal action against harmful deepfake websites, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized 12 sites that collectively targeted around 1,200 victims.

Learn how Ninth Wave built Compass, a multi-agent AI onboarding assistant on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that validates bank APIs against Financial Data Exchange (FDX) standards, scores compliance, and compresses open finance onboarding from weeks to minutes whil

Foundation models made catalog-wide demand forecasting easy; the hard part is now acting on the forecast. This post builds a closed detect-decide-act loop on Databricks and Amazon Quick that reconciles demand surges against live supplier availability and place
Model-makers move too fast and don’t care when they break things
Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models.