deepfake detection
A 21-year-old founder is developing a deepfake audio detection startup that alerts users in real time during live phone and video calls, targeting the fast-rising threat of voice-cloning scams.
voice cloning
Sir Michael Caine has lent his iconic voice to a University of York research project probing voice cloning and deepfake audio, helping scientists understand how synthetic speech is perceived and detected.
AI Avatars
Harvard Innovation Labs is offering a $699 startup bootcamp featuring AI avatars of its human instructors, marking a notable step in synthetic media entering mainstream education and raising questions about authenticity and scale.
deepfakes
Robin Williams' daughter Zelda has reactivated his Instagram account to protest a wave of AI-generated deepfake videos and audio recreations of the late comedian, spotlighting the fight over synthetic media and posthumous digital likeness rights.
voice cloning
Sir Michael Caine has contributed his iconic voice to AI deepfake research, helping scientists probe voice cloning risks and build stronger detection tools for synthetic audio.
Social Engineering
A new arXiv study moves beyond static detection to evaluate how defensive LLMs hold up against AI-generated social engineering in live, turn-by-turn conversations—exposing gaps in real-time defenses against synthetic manipulation.
ByteDance
ByteDance Seed unveils SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual full-duplex LLM that watches, listens, and speaks simultaneously within a single model—pushing real-time multimodal interaction and synthetic speech generation forward.
AI Music
Rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have quietly abandoned denials that his viral track 'Rubberz' was made with AI, spotlighting how synthetic audio tools like Treblo are reshaping music authenticity debates.
AI Music
Signs point to rapper Fenix Flexin releasing tracks made with AI music generator Treblo, spotlighting how synthetic audio tools are quietly slipping into mainstream music and raising fresh questions about authenticity.
Audio Provenance
As voice cloning becomes indistinguishable from real recordings, building provenance into AI audio pipelines is now essential. Here's how watermarking, cryptographic signing, and metadata can prove what your voice app actually generated.
deepfake detection
Scam.ai and Modulate have partnered to combine image, video, and voice deepfake detection into a unified defense platform, merging visual forensics with audio authentication to fight increasingly convincing synthetic media attacks.
AI Music
The world's biggest record labels are pushing new disclosure and eligibility rules to keep fully AI-generated tracks off major music charts, raising fresh questions about synthetic media labeling and authenticity in the streaming era.