AI Regulation
A new Chinese regulation targeting AI girlfriend and companion services triggered the removal of roughly 8 million AI agents from the country's largest AI app, signaling a major shift in how synthetic personas are governed.
audio watermarking
Neural audio watermarking is emerging as a key defense against voice cloning and synthetic audio. Here's how the technology fits into the broader audio security and content authenticity landscape.
Meta
Instagram head Adam Mosseri says users who dislike AI-generated content should be able to keep it out of their feeds, signaling Meta's evolving approach to synthetic media curation and content controls.
deepfakes
New figures reveal deepfake-powered AI scams cost victims $893 million in a single year, highlighting the escalating threat of synthetic media fraud and the urgent need for detection and authentication tools.
voice cloning
Savi's new consumer app aims to shield people from realistic AI-driven scams, including voice-cloned ransom calls and virtual kidnapping schemes powered by synthetic media.
deepfake detection
New research finds that a single hour of structured training can double a person's accuracy in spotting AI-generated deepfake faces, offering a low-cost human-centered defense against synthetic media threats.
deepfake detection
Reality Defender has been named a Market Shaper in Gartner's new deepfake detection startup quadrant, signaling that synthetic media authentication has matured into a recognized enterprise security category.
deepfake detection
iProov's 2025 study reveals just 0.1% of people correctly distinguished real images and video from AI-generated fakes — while remaining roughly 60% confident regardless of whether they were right.
voice cloning
Netflix is using an AI-generated recreation of the late Gene Wilder's voice in its new Willy Wonka reality competition, reigniting debate over voice cloning of deceased performers and synthetic media consent.
EU AI Act
The EU AI Act introduces binding transparency and watermarking obligations for generative AI. Here's what providers and deployers of synthetic media must implement to mark AI-generated content and avoid penalties.
deepfakes
New research shows that brief, targeted training can meaningfully improve people's ability to distinguish AI-generated faces from real photos, offering a practical human-side defense against deepfake fraud.
AI Music
TIDAL is cracking down on AI-generated music by removing monetization from synthetic tracks, joining a growing wave of streaming platforms grappling with the flood of AI audio and questions of authenticity.