Artificial Intelligence

Scare campaigns: Victoria’s major parties trade blows over AI-generated videos of leaders in election ads

The Guardian Technology Nov 5, 2026, 2:00 AM (2 hours ago)

Transparency and advertising experts say trust in politics could be further eroded as a result of ‘lies, deepfakes and AI-generated politicians’ Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast It’s the night of Halloween and Jess Wilson has appeared on social media feeds with a…

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Artificial Intelligence

I spent a morning with Meta VR Glasses and wish I never had to take them off

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Building AI factories at enterprise scale

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Artificial Intelligence

‘Super Mario Odyssey’ Can Now Run on Apple TV Thanks to AI

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Artificial Intelligence

The First AI Slop Election Is Over. The Slop Isn’t Going Anywhere.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI PACs spent millions trying to shape Congress. Here’s how they fared.

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I tried to find PHP2Shell with a local LLM before it was disclosed, and it almost got there

It got surprisingly close.

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Albanese government warned it’s ‘sleepwalking into another robodebt scenario’ over use of algorithms and AI

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‘Discontent and distrust’: annual social cohesion checkup shows exactly what’s making Australia angry

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