Indonesia's copyright rewrite puts Google, AI platforms on noticeIndonesia has proposed sweeping changes to its copyright law to recognise AI-assisted works with human involvement, while excluding fully A...
17 Jul, 2026, 04.09 PM IST
Inside Telegram’s leak economy; Flipkart employees’ latest windfallNon-consensual image rings are turning small UPI transfers into tickets to abusive, closed Telegram groups. This and more in today’s ETtech...
07 Jul, 2026, 08.26 AM IST
India emerges as AI opportunity hub, but UN panel warns of gaps in infrastructure, talent and safeguardsA UN-backed panel's initial report highlights India's AI healthcare successes but warns of a growing 'AI divide'. While India possesses tal...
02 Jul, 2026, 10.22 AM IST
How Canada's draft chatbot law stacks up on global sceneCanada's proposed law requiring chatbot providers to protect users from "harmful" content is the latest step by global governments to regul...
11 Jun, 2026, 10.19 PM IST
Mark a fake for legal protection's sakeIn a groundbreaking initiative, India will soon require all AI-generated content on social media to be clearly labeled. This regulation aim...
23 Oct, 2025, 11.11 PM IST
Tech firms fight to stem deepfake delugeUsed on social networks to hijack the notoriety of celebrities or other high-profile figures, sometimes for disinformation, deepfakes are a...
20 Mar, 2025, 09.05 AM IST
ByteDance launches ultra-realistic human videos AI OmniHuman-1 amid TikTok controversy — Features, capabilities & moreAmid the TikTok controversy in US, ByteDance has silently launched a new artificial intelligence model OmniHuman-1.
09 Feb, 2025, 10.38 PM IST
From Russia with Love: Why so many Russian women are seeking Chinese husbandsCybersecurity analysts note a surge in Chinese cyber operations targeting global powers, including the US and India, with the use of AI-gen...
15 May, 2024, 09.36 PM IST
Explainer: What risks do advanced AI models pose in the wrong hands?Biden administration takes steps to safeguard U.S. AI from China and Russia by regulating advanced models. Concerns arise over deepfakes, m...
09 May, 2024, 09.52 PM IST
ET Explainer: All you need to know about Microsoft’s new image-to-video AI model VASA-1Microsoft's VASA-1 AI model produces hyper-realistic talking faces from a single photo and speech track. Capable of handling various inputs...
23 Apr, 2024, 01.20 PM IST
Detecting deepfakes should not be the sole responsibility of platforms: Sam GregorySam Gregory, executive director of Witness, a global human rights organisation, which uses video and technology to expose human rights abus...
03 Mar, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
Bollywood star or deepfake? AI floods social media in AsiaWhile digitally manipulated images and videos of women were once easy to spot, usually lurking in the dark corners of the internet, the exp...
14 Dec, 2023, 09.06 AM IST
Huawei, Alibaba among firms seeking Chinese deepfake approvalsThe firms, according to a list published on Friday by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), are seeking the approvals to comply wit...
01 Sep, 2023, 03.57 PM IST
Deepfaking it: America's 2024 election collides with AI boomThe Clinton and Biden deepfakes - realistic yet fabricated videos created by AI algorithms trained on copious online footage - are among th...
30 May, 2023, 04.22 PM IST
The thing that’s keeping Sundar Pichai up at nightGoogle has been among the leaders in developing and implementing AI across its services. But the pace of deploying this technology across i...
24 Apr, 2023, 01.07 AM IST
As deepfakes flourish, countries struggle with responseIn most of the world, authorities can't do much about it. Even as the software grows more sophisticated and accessible, few laws exist to m...
26 Jan, 2023, 06.31 PM IST
Deepfake anyone? AI synthetic media tech enters perilous phaseHow increasingly sophisticated technology is applied is one of the complexities facing synthetic media software, where machine learning is ...
13 Dec, 2021, 01.57 PM IST