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Morgan Meaker Business Aug 9, 2023 7:00 AM This AI Company Releases Deepfakes Into the Wild. Can It Control Them? UK unicorn Synthesia offers clients a menu of digital avatars, from suited execs to Santa Claus. But it has struggled to stop them being used to spread misinformation. Illustration: traffic_analyzer/Getty …

By Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode Business Aug 9, 2023 7:00 AM Grimes Wants to Be Less Famous (and Replaced by AI) C, better known as Grimes, talks with us on Have a Nice Future about everything from AI-generated music and art to education and politics—and about the idea of …

Russia's first moon mission in 47 years failed when its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed into the moon after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit, underscoring the post-Soviet decline of a once-mighty space program. Country's 1st moon mission in 47 years fails ahead of planned landing on …

Jekyll and Simon keep showing up in all the same places — which is weird, because they are great white sharks. The apex predators are widely believed to be solitary creatures, not dependent on family networks or group dynamics to navigate the oceans. Jekyll and Simon have followed a surprisingly …

Joel Khalili Business Aug 8, 2023 6:00 AM Sex Workers Took Refuge in Crypto. Now It’s Failing Them Banks and payments companies have long penalized sex workers. Many thought crypto would be a solution, but now exchanges are dumping them too. Illustration: dinachi/Getty Images Save this story Save Save this …

Lily Hay Newman Security Aug 7, 2023 1:51 PM Microsoft’s AI Red Team Has Already Made the Case for Itself Since 2018, a dedicated team within Microsoft has attacked machine learning systems to make them safer. But with the public release of new generative AI tools, the field is already …

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at well-meaning but complicated efforts to create and certify plastic-free plastic and where things stand with the federal government's two-billion-trees pledge. Also: Another way to look at the 2023 Canadian wildfires Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This …

Fernanda Seavon Business Aug 7, 2023 8:00 AM AI Can Give You an NPC That Remembers. It Could Also Get Your Favorite Artist Fired As game developers wrestle with the challenges and opportunities of incorporating AI tools across the industry, those same tools continue to increase in complexity. Courtesy of …

How are our oceans being affected by rising global temperatures? From the threat of a disruption to a vital ocean circulation, to La Niña and El Niños, to the poles, we take a look at how they are changing. 'What happens in the oceans doesn't stay in the oceans,' says …

The day after California approved an expansion of driverless taxis, 10 of them came to a grinding halt on a busy San Francisco street, creating a gridlock that encompassed several blocks. 10-car back-up of autonomous taxis came blamed on wireless bandwidth issues during popular music festival The day after California …