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A nonpartisan AAAI study examines deepfake creation and engagement around the 2024 US presidential election, quantifying how synthetic media spread and impacted political discourse during the campaign cycle.
AI Policy
President Trump has postponed signing an AI security executive order, citing concerns about hindering American leadership in artificial intelligence development.
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A North Korea-linked threat group is deploying AI-generated deepfakes in spear-phishing operations against South Korean officials, marking another escalation in nation-state weaponization of synthetic media for espionage.
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MIT Technology Review examines the harrowing rise of nonconsensual deepfake pornography and the legal, technical, and platform mechanisms victims must navigate to remove synthetic intimate imagery from the internet.
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The American Medical Association is sounding the alarm on deepfake threats targeting healthcare, signaling a new front in identity verification, clinician impersonation, and patient trust as synthetic media tools become widely accessible.
AI Licensing
A coalition of A-list actors and SAG-AFTRA is backing RSL's new Human Consent Standard, a machine-readable licensing framework designed to control how AI models train on and replicate human likenesses, voices, and performances.
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore has issued a formal alert to financial institutions on the escalating risks from deepfake-enabled fraud, urging stronger detection, authentication, and customer protection measures across the sector.
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Synthetic deepfakes are driving a wave of financial fraud, pushing banks to deploy new biometric and liveness detection systems as customer funds face escalating risk from voice cloning and face-swap attacks.
EU Regulation
European Union lawmakers have agreed to prohibit AI tools designed to create non-consensual sexualised deepfakes, marking one of the most significant regulatory moves yet against synthetic media abuse.
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New research finds 76% of UK organizations have faced deepfake attacks, yet most lack the detection tools, training, and incident response plans needed to defend against synthetic media threats targeting executives and finance teams.
AI Policy
AI policy experts raise concerns about the Trump administration's approach to AI safety testing, warning of gaps in evaluation methodology, oversight, and enforcement that could undermine synthetic media safeguards.
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Deepfake incidents impersonating US government officials are accelerating, with synthetic voice and video being deployed in social engineering attacks against senior figures and federal staff.