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Spain’s main opposition party has posted a campaign video built with AI deepfakes. In it, likenesses of people linked to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists appear to confess to wrongdoing.
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The midterm elections are upon us, but before you use an AI tool to help you decide on your votes, you need to know these things.
Sam Altman says patching software flaws one by one will no longer keep up with AI-driven attacks. The OpenAI chief executive spoke to students at Stanford Graduate School of Business last week. Defenders will need a new kind of shield, he said, built with the same AI.
Mistral’s chief executive, Arthur Mensch, has warned that Europe will get “leftovers” if it stops building frontier AI models. Apps built on American or Chinese models would also give Europe a “big trade balance problem”, he said on 20 October.
Meta launched two share offerings worth about $35bn on Monday, as it looks for new ways to pay for its growing spending on AI. The larger offering is $22.5bn of Class A common stock sold through forward sale agreements.
The centrist parties behind Ursula von der Leyen split in the European Parliament on Thursday. The question was whether AI companies should answer for harm their models cause. Socialist and Green MEPs called for a new AI liability act. The centre-right said Europe needs less regulation, not more.
ChatGPT and Anthropic join DeepSeek in Swedish government AI ban.
San Francisco startup Colare has launched with $2.5M in pre-seed funding from Afore Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures. It tests hardware engineering candidates with simulations of real tasks, aiming to save senior engineers’ interview time. Half its clients are in aerospace and defence.
PHP has warned of a third flaw that could let an attacker run code on a web server, two days after its emergency fixes for the PHP2Shell bugs. This time it will not rush out a fix.
Most AI assistants live in a chat window. Stockholm-based Strawberry wants them to work where people already do their jobs: inside the browser, with access to the tabs, tools, and accounts they use every day.
Texas has taken OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, to court. The state accuses them of misleading Texans about ChatGPT and of failing to protect the young people who use it. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the 67-page petition in Collin County District Court on 23 October.
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