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US Intelligence pursues the goal of safe AI amid China tech competition; YouTube takes down 1,000 plus AI-generated celebrity scam ads amid deepfake concerns; Indian Publishers push for copyright protection amid rising AI concerns; Shahid Kapoor talks AI's future impact while promoting sci-fi love story- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. US Intelligence pursues safe AI edge amid China tech competitionUS intelligence agencies are turning to AI for an edge against global rivals like China, but face…

Image Source : FILE Representational Image YouTube, owned by Google, has taken down over 1,000 scam ad videos featuring deepfake technology, where AI is used to make it appear as if celebrities like Taylor Swift, Steve Harvey, and Joe Rogan are promoting Medicare scams. These videos, viewed nearly 200 million times, were removed after a 404 Media investigation exposed…

Image Source : FILE Ram Mandir Inaugration and WhatsApp scam As the nation eagerly awaits the inauguration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22, so are the cybercriminals who have already started working on the new scam. As per the reports, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) cyber wing has issued a stern warning for circulating fraudulent live-streaming links on…

Image Source : PIXABAY Gmail Google has recently introduced a new way to make it easier to unsubscribe unwanted emails from the Gmail account- on the web and smartphone. As per the reports, the tech giant has added the unsubscribe button to the hover actions in the thread list which is available on the web. In an official blog post, Google wrote, "When the…

A six-year-long ruse finally came crashing down when a school nurse discovered that a seven-year-old girl was not actually blind in her right eye as her mother Pamela Reed had claimed. Because Reed had said the blindness was the result of her daughter’s fight with leukemia, the nurse contacted the girl’s healthcare provider only to learn that AR, as the girl is referred to in court documents, “did not have cancer or leukemia, and she never had cancer or leukemia,” according to an affidavit filed in Noble County Court in…

Image Source : FILE Representational Image Delhi Crypto Scam: In India, online scams are on the rise, and a significant threat involves investment scams circulating on platforms like Telegram and WhatsApp. In a recent incident, Ankit Chaudhary, an engineer from Delhi, fell victim to this scheme, losing Rs 12 lakh.  Initially drawn in by a Telegram message…

AI-generated fake advertisements are making the rounds on social media again, this time using the voice and likeness of Taylor Swift promising free Le Creuset cookware sets. As any proper Swiftie knows, the “Hoax” singer is fan of Le Creuset. In the pop star’s 2020 documentary “Miss Americana,” she whipped up some pasta sauce in the brand’s blue dutch oven. And back in 2014, Swift surprised “superfan” Gena Gabrielle by attending her bridal shower with several gifts in tow, including two items from the luxury cookware…

Taylor Swift is not giving out free Le Creuset products in social media advertisements — though deepfakes of her voice would like you to believe otherwise. A series of posts have recently surfaced on TikTok and in Meta's Ad Library claiming to show Swift offering free Le Creuset cookware sets, the New York Times reports. The ads featured clips where Swift was near Le Creuset products and used a synthetic version of her voice. The scammers used AI to have the cloned voice address her fans, "Swifties," and produce other…

Bitcoin fraud: Cryptocurrency market is at best a volatile arena and at worst, often, it a fraudsters' paradise that stretches well beyond the segment itself and spans the wider web where fraudsters deploy ingenious methodologies to entrap and fleece users of their money via online scams. Having said that, Bitcoin itself has been doing rather well in recent months, having hit rock bottom and then climbing back up. Bloomberg reports that Bitcoin price rose 3% to break above $45,000 on January 2 and that was the for the…

Image Source : FILE Representational Image Mumbai UPI Fraud: In a recent incident, a woman successfully thwarted a potential scam involving UPI (Unified Payments Interface). Sharing her alarming experience on a platform called X (formerly Twitter), she aimed to warn others about the tactics scammers use. The Deceptive Call The woman, visiting her parents,…