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IT teams that want Microsoft Teams to catch a cloned voice or a face-swapped video in a meeting will need an outside vendor to do the catching. Microsoft plans to start rolling out support for certified third-party deepfake detectors in mid-November, and its admin notice spells out who does the work: “Synthetic media detection is

Late penalties on new AI data center leases have climbed about fivefold since spring. Tenants negotiating new leases are asking developers for more than $5 million for each day that power and buildings aren’t ready, The Information reported Sunday, and they justify the figure with lost-revenue estimates that run higher still. The Information’s account starts

Revenue per worker is climbing at the seven biggest tech companies and going nowhere at the other 493 members of the S&P 500. Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, put that gap at the center of a note posted Saturday, and his read on it was blunt: “the technology has delivered zero financial

A few days after Linux kernel maintainers dropped the requirement to disclose AI use in kernel work, the moderators of Reddit’s r/opensource went the other way. Any project that “uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI” is no longer welcome in the forum, which lists close to 392,000 members. Moderator Wolvereness

An attack tool captured by Symantec researchers was built to run on other people’s AI models, using any unprotected model endpoint it could find as the brain that plans its break-ins. The owner of that endpoint would pay for the computing. The servers it then hit would lose their data and end up mining cryptocurrency.

Capcom’s breach disclosures put the exposed CAPCOM ID records at 11.7 million, mostly email addresses, but a much smaller number points to the more direct harm. Of the 196 CAPCOM ID accounts whose passwords an intruder changed, 19 were then used to reach customers’ account pages on e-Capcom, the company’s online store in Japan, where

TikTok’s American joint venture has been sounding out deals for several gigawatts of computing capacity, two people familiar with the discussions told CNBC for a report published Friday. One source put the target at four gigawatts by the early 2030s. The company didn’t confirm a number. A spokesperson told CNBC the venture “runs primarily on

Three words came out of Pennsylvania’s AI advertising bill on the state Senate floor in June: “knowingly, recklessly or willfully.” The version without them is now law, and companies that put AI-generated or heavily AI-edited images, video or audio in front of Pennsylvania shoppers have until Dec. 21 to work out what it asks of

“AI has created effectively unlimited demand for insights, and we want to define the future of AI analytics,” Alex Schultz, Meta’s chief data officer, wrote on LinkedIn. His Friday post announced that Meta has bought Sundial, an AI analytics startup founded by two former Meta employees. The deal brings Sundial’s team and software inside Meta,

Britain set up its AI Security Institute in 2023 to probe the risks in frontier models. The country’s newest AI body has a different brief, putting those models to work against biological threats, and as much as two-thirds of its backing comes from the companies that make them. The AI Biosecurity Lab gets £100 million