deepfakes
One phone video now becomes a person you can orbit in 3D and time News
Ant Research released 4DAnyone, which takes a single handheld video of a person and generates enough consistent alternate viewpoints to reconstruct them as a moving 3D scene, with code and weights public.
Deepfake detectors for crisis video collapse once the clip gets reshared News
A benchmark of 17,886 crisis videos found that a single round of ordinary resharing dropped the best purpose-built AI-video detectors from catching 46 percent of fakes to catching 1.4 percent.
Content provenance and watermarking: how you tell whether a machine made it Lesson
Content provenance and watermarking are the two competing methods for answering 'did an AI make this?' - provenance attaches a signed record of where a file came from, while watermarking hides a statistical signature inside the pixels or word choices themselves. Provenance is robust but strippable; watermarking survives copying but degrades under editing, and neither works on a file that was never marked in the first place.
The EU AI Act's transparency rules start today. The high-risk rules do not. News
Article 50 of the EU AI Act applies from 2 August 2026, requiring chatbots to identify themselves and generative systems to mark their outputs as machine-detectable - but the much larger high-risk rulebook was pushed to late 2027 and 2028.