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News Articles: Technology

TikTok researchers and users say there is yet another type of deception to look out for on the hit video app: deepfake videos that copy the exact words of a real creator but in a different voice. In this case, the screenshot on the left is from the original TikTok video; on the right is a copy using an apparently AI-generated persona.

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  • Technology

This TikTok video is fake, but every word was taken from a real creator

TikTok researchers and users say there is yet another type of deception to look out for on the hit video app: deepfake videos that copy the exact words of a real creator but in a different voice.

July 10, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn and
  • Shannon Bond
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell arrives at a gathering of Donald Trump supporters near Trump's residence in Palm Beach, Fla., on April 4, 2023. On July 7, 2025, Lindell's lawyers were fined thousands of dollars for submitting a legal filing riddled with AI-generated mistakes.

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  • Law

A recent high-profile case of AI hallucination serves as a stark warning

MyPillow creator Mike Lindell's lawyers were fined thousands for submitting a legal filing riddled with AI-generated mistakes. It highlights a dilemma of balancing technology and using it responsibly.

July 10, 2025
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, formerly Twitter, at a trade show in Las Vegas on Jan. 7, 2025. Yaccarino announced Wednesday that she is stepping down from X after two years running the social media platform.

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  • Technology

Linda Yaccarino steps down after a turbulent two years leading X

Yaccarino, a traditional business executive, was in many ways a strong foil to the mercurial and controversy-courting Musk. She did not cite a reason for her departure.

July 10, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
A person holds a telephone displaying the logo of Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI  and its chatbot, Grok.

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  • Technology

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, started calling itself 'MechaHitler'

On Sunday, the chatbot was updated to "not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated." By Tuesday, it was praising Hitler.

July 09, 2025
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By:
  • Lisa Hagen,
  • Huo Jingnan,
  • and 1 more
The MingKwai typewriter's keys enable the typist to find and retrieve Chinese characters.

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  • Asia

How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s changed modern computing

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.

July 08, 2025
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By:
  • Emily Feng
Phillip McKenzie, who was paralyzed from the neck down in a fall in 2012, uses a brain-computer interface developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh to navigate complex virtual tasks that simulate everyday activities,

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  • Science

Click, speak, move: These brain implants are poised to help people with disabilities

People who can no longer move or speak may soon have a new option: an implanted device that links their brain to a computer.

July 02, 2025
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
A sign is posted in front of the 23andMe headquarters on February 01, 2024 in Sunnyvale, California.

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  • Technology

Judge OKs sale of 23andMe — and its trove of DNA data — to a nonprofit led by its founder

The DNA data of millions of people who used 23andMe's services won't be sold to a pharmaceutical company. A bankruptcy judge greenlighted the sale of the remnants of the firm, including its wealth of genetic data, to a nonprofit led by co-founder Anne Wojcicki.

June 30, 2025
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By:
  • John Ruwitch
Smoke billows from an explosion at the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) building in Tehran after an Israeli strike hit the building, cutting off live coverage, on June 16.

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  • Middle East

Alone in Tehran, a young Iranian turns to ChatGPT and video games for comfort

A young shop manager living alone in Iran's capital was panicking during the war with Israel. Her family wasn't nearby. Her therapist had fled. So she turned to an AI chat bot.

June 30, 2025
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
A satellite photo of Iran's Fordo fuel enrichment facility taken on June 24 shows debris (grey) from a U.S. strike employing several bunker-busting weapons. The Israeli Air Force destroyed additional roads and surface facilities in a subsequent strike.

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  • National Security

Obliterated? Damaged? Inoperable? What's known about Iran's nuclear facilities

Iran's nuclear program has been dealt a blow, here's an overview of the current state of its facilities.

June 29, 2025
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel,
  • Brent Jones,
  • and 1 more
An AI-generated image of a fighter plane shot down in Iran that was published on a parody account on X. Users repeatedly asked the platform's AI chatbot, Grok, if the image was real.

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  • Technology

As Iran and Israel fought, people turned to AI for facts. They didn't find many

AI-generated videos of fighting between Iran and Israel went viral, and people asked chatbots if they were real. "What we're seeing is AI mediating the experience of warfare," said one researcher.

June 29, 2025
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By:
  • Huo Jingnan and
  • Lisa Hagen

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  • Politics

The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system

The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

June 29, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block and
  • Miles Parks
Generative AI is transforming the publishing industry. Authors are pushing back on a variety of fronts, most recently with an open letter to publishers asking them to curtail their use of the technology. (Getty stock photo.)

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  • Arts & Life

Authors petition publishers to curtail their use of AI

The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines" garnered more than 600 signatures within a few hours.

June 28, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit is prepared for operations ahead of "Operation Midnight Hammer" at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, June 2025.

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  • National Security

Why America's giant bunker-busting bombs may have failed to reach their target

Reaching Iran's most fortified nuclear enrichment site is a challenge, even for the world's biggest conventional weapons.

June 26, 2025
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
The Anthropic website and mobile phone app are shown in this photo on July 5, 2024. A judge ruled in the AI company's favor in a copyright infringement case brought last year by a group of authors.

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  • Arts & Life

In a first-of-its-kind decision, an AI company wins a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors

The ruling opens a potential pathway for AI companies to train large language models on copyrighted works without authors' consent — but only if copies of the works were obtained legally.

June 26, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
The Trump administration is trying to get access to data held by states, such as information about people who have been enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides food aid to people.

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  • Politics

The Trump administration is making an unprecedented reach for data held by states

States hold troves of sensitive personal data that were previously never shared with the federal government or across federal agencies. The Trump administration is trying to change that.

June 26, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block
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