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California guv signs laws to crack down on AI-created election deepfakes

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed three bills Tuesday to crack down on the use of artificial intelligence to create false images or videos in political ads ahead of the 2024 election. A new law, set to take effect immediately, makes it illegal to create and publish deepfakes related to elections 120 days before Election Day and 60 days thereafter. It also allows courts to stop distribution of the materials and impose civil penalties. "Safeguarding the integrity of elections is essential to democracy, and it's critical that we ensure AI is not deployed to undermine the public's trust through disinformation - especially in today's fraught political climate," Newsom said in a statement. "These measures will help to combat the harmful use of deepfakes in political ads and other content, one of several areas in which the state is being proactive to foster transparent and trustworthy AI." Large social media platforms are also required to remove the deceptive material under a ...

AI-led dating platform Schmooze raises $4 million series A round

In just 10 months since its launch in India, Schmooze said it has attracted over 1 million users and witnessed 900 million meme swipes

Lenovo begins AI server production in India, opens R&D lab in Bengaluru

The PC maker's production plant will be based in Puducherry, which will manufacture 50,000 enterprise AI servers and 2,400 high-end GPU units annually

OpenAI's safety committee to oversee security practices as independent body

The launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 sparked a significant wave of interest and excitement around AI

Cobalt serves as a funnel for Infosys' AI-led deals under Topaz platform

Even as the company launched Topaz, its AI-first offering last year, Cobalt has been preparing clients for their next big jump in adopting AI

Salesforce unveils 'Agentforce' AI agents to enhance employee productivity

The low-code tools in Agentforce enable organisations to easily build and deploy custom agents, said the company

India well-poised to benefit from new jobs emerging with AI: Meta India V-P

India is well-poised to take advantage of new jobs that emerge from advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), according to Meta India Vice President Sandhya Devanathan. In an interview to PTI, Devanathan weighed in on raging debate around AI and its impact on jobs, saying she is of the firm belief that AI would now lead to new opportunities for India. "I think that India is potentially well-poised to take advantage of new jobs that could come up with AI," she said. Devanathan said that the nature of jobs may change, however. "I think it offers opportunities for new kind of jobs to get created...jobs may change in terms of what they look like, but there will be new things that could end up coming up as a result of that (AI)...and it would lead to new opportunities for us as a country," she said. The views assume significance in the backdrop of persistent debate in tech circles and civil societies on whether AI will augment the labour market or displace workers. The Economic Survey i

Zomato bans AI-generated images from food menus to preserve authenticity

Effective from Monday (September 16), restaurants that fail to comply with the new rule against AI images will be removed from Zomato

Fact-checking, research: A case for taking AI's assistance in the law

AI tools can read every single judgment available in a database to ensure that lawyers 'miss nothing'

AI fabrication raises existential questions about photography's reality

It poses risks of misuse, such as undermining the integrity of legal systems with AI-generated evidence that could lead to wrongful convictions

Indians make up 20% of TIME 100 AI list, but their impact in India unclear

Most of the country's AI efforts have been funnelled through its "IndiaAI" initiative, managed by Mr Vaishnaw's ministry

Seven GenAI startups from India selected for AWS Generative AI Accelerator

Amazon Web Services on Friday announced that seven generative AI startups from India have been selected for its global Generative AI accelerator program. The selected Indian startups -- Convrse, House of Models, Neural Garage, Orbo.ai, Phot.ai, Unscript AI, and Zocket, are among the 80 companies selected by AWS worldwide for their innovative use of AI and their global growth ambitions, according to a release. The Indian cohort also marks the highest number of startups selected from a country in the Asia-Pacific region for the AWS Global Generative AI Accelerator programme. As part of AWS's USD 230 million commitment to drive the creation of applications worldwide, the AWS 'Generative AI Accelerator program' provides startups, especially early-stage companies, with AWS credits, mentorship, and education to further their use of AI and machine learning technologies. "Selected startups will gain access to AWS compute, storage, and database technologies, as well as AWS Trainium and AWS

Opportunity or big threat? How AI will impact Indian regional languages

He says AI provides a huge opportunity for Indian languages to expand their reach

CCI selects Management Development Institute to conduct market study on AI

Fair trade watchdog CCI has selected the Management Development Institute Society (MDIS) to conduct a market study on artificial intelligence and competition that will examine various aspects, including potential competition issues in the AI ecosystems. In April this year, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) had issued a request for proposal to conduct the market study on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Competition. The Gurugram-based MDIS has been engaged to conduct the study that will seek to understand certain key AI ecosystems, including stakeholders, resources, value chains, market structures and parameters of competition, CCI said in a release on Friday. It will also examine the emerging and potential competition issues in these markets/ecosystems as well as look at the scope and nature of AI applications/use cases, and assess associated opportunities, risks and ramifications from a competition standpoint. Among other aspects, the study will focus on the existing and .

How insurance industry is adopting technology to assist customers

Artificial intelligence, data analytics help companies to improve claims processing, solve complaints

OpenAI presents new series of AI models with 'reasoning' abilities

The models, dubbed o1 and o1-mini, can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous models in science, coding and math, the AI firm said

Google introduces AI-driven podcast feature 'Audio Overview' in NotebookLM

NotebookLM, which was launched last year, has been enhanced with this new feature to offer a more interactive experience for users managing their notes and research materials

Google's AI model faces EU scrutiny from watchdog over privacy rules

European Union regulators said Thursday they're looking into one of Google's artificial intelligence models over concerns about its compliance with the bloc's strict data privacy rules. Ireland's Data Protection Commission said it has opened an inquiry into Google's Pathways Language Model 2, also known as PaLM2. It's part of wider efforts, including by other national watchdogs across the 27-nation bloc, to scrutinize how AI systems handle personal data. Google's European headquarters are based in Dublin, so the Irish watchdog acts as the company's lead regulator for the bloc's privacy rulebook, known as the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. The commission said its inquiry is examining whether Google has assessed whether PaLM2's data processing would likely result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals" in the EU. Large language models like PaLM2 are vast troves of data that act as building blocks for artificial intelligence systems. Google uses PaLM2 t

Govt, pvt sector should think of mid-term AI consequences: CEA Nageswaran

He said that labour should be treated as a resource and asset since it involves humans with emotions

IBM shares near record level as company shifts focus to software, AI

International Business Machines Corp. is up 26 per cent this year, beating tech giants like Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc