The 2026 midterms in the U.S. are turning out to be the first major test for elections in the age of AI-generated images and videos that have become so advanced that viewers are often left unsure about what they just watched.
Tag: AI
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AI PROTECTS A HANDFUL OF ECONOMIES FROM WIDESPREAD HARDSHIP
Of the world’s 195 countries, only 32 are responsible for 95 percent of the world’s economic growth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its annual meeting last week.
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ANTHROPIC OPENS ITS SECRETS TO INDEPENDENT REVIEWER
Following through on CEO Dario Amodei’s recent commitment, Anthropic is granting “employee-like” access to Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR), a California nonprofit that evaluates the safety rails and risk factors of frontier AI models.
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AN AI USING LIGHT SPOTS DEEPFAKE VIDEOS WITH 98-PERCENT ACCURACY
Engineers at the University of California Los Angeles have created an AI that uses light to analyze videos and spot deepfakes – videos that look real but were made by AI – correctly 98 percent of the time, Science magazine reported.
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BEWARE THE BOTNETS, ANTHROPIC WARNS
In a 12 October blog post, Anthropic raised the specter of a rogue AI assembling a botnet – a network of interconnected smart devices – that could expand at lightning speed, resist attempts to corral it, and hack into data centers to fuel its continued growth.
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SPECIAL REPORT: AI’S RISK TO FINANCIAL MARKETS
The world’s economy has become so narrowly balanced on the AI boom that a sharp reversal in AI stock values could spark a global financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund has warned in its latest Global Financial Stability Report.
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AI WILL CREATE GROWTH, MASSIVE DISRUPTION, IMF SAYS
AI’s ongoing buildout will increase global growth at 3 percent this year but, at the same time, will create upheaval jobs, taxation, and education, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on 12 October at the annual joint meeting of her agency and the World Bank.
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AMERICAN EXPRESS ADDS AI TO ITS CASHBACK CARD
American Express is linking its cashback card to an AI platform that can organize and manage expenses and eventually field agents to flow the expenses into and through accounts payable systems.
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CAN AI CEOs BE HELD LEGALLY LIABLE FOR THEIR AGENTS’ MISDEEDS?
After analyzing more than 300 legal complaints against AI, global insurance broker Aon concluded that insurers could be required to pay claims against policies covering crime, cybersecurity breaches, intellectual property violations, media liability, and technology errors and omissions.
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SPOTLIGHT: AI AND THE MARKETS
As the yields on treasury securities reached their highest in more than 20 years, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index barely dipped, and the NASDAQ actually gained 3 percent.