The Lab · 2026-03-25 16:57:20 · Google
Google is escalating its push into AI-generated audio with the launch of Lyria 3 Pro, a significantly upgraded model designed to produce longer and more customizable musical compositions. This move signals a deeper integration of generative AI into creative workflows, positioning Google to compete more directly in the ...
The Stage · 2026-03-28 22:56:53 · ZeroHedge
Retired adult film stars are licensing their digital likenesses to AI platforms, creating a new revenue stream that operates independently of their physical presence or retirement status. British startup OhChat has signed deals with industry veterans Lisa Ann and Cherie DeVille, allowing the company to generate custom,...
The Network · 2026-03-29 18:26:48 · Deadline
A hyper-realistic, AI-generated video depicting the catastrophic destruction of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier spread across social media at viral speed, demonstrating a new front in the U.S.-Iran information war. The fabricated footage, showing missiles striking the carrier and fighter jets exploding, was sh...
The Lab · 2026-04-09 11:26:53 · The Verge
YouTube is directly placing powerful deepfake creation tools into the hands of its users, rolling out a new AI feature for Shorts that lets creators generate a realistic digital clone of themselves. This move intensifies the platform's central tension: aggressively pushing generative AI features while simultaneously ba...
The Lab · 2026-04-09 20:27:05 · Decrypt
YouTube is handing creators the tools to generate their own synthetic media, embedding AI deepfake technology directly into its Shorts platform. The new feature allows users to produce short videos using a realistic digital replica of their own face and voice, effectively turning every creator into a potential source o...
The Stage · 2026-04-13 20:52:33 · The Verge
Coachella has become ground zero for a new wave of digital deception, as AI-generated influencers seamlessly infiltrate social media feeds from the festival. Scrolling through posts reveals uncannily attractive figures in glitzy outfits, posing in perfectly staged photographs with celebrities—except these content creat...
The Lab · 2026-04-15 11:52:27 · The Verge
Apple privately threatened to remove Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, from its App Store in January. The trigger was the app's failure to control a flood of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes spreading on its parent platform, X. This behind-the-scenes pressure from one of tech's most powerful gatekeepers came as the public sc...
The Lab · 2026-04-16 22:52:23 · The Verge
A journalist's attempt to fool her own parents with a deepfake clone of her voice failed almost instantly, highlighting the current practical gaps in AI-powered impersonation. In a personal experiment, the cloned voice called her father, but the poor connection and background noise during an overseas lunch rendered the...
The Lab · 2026-04-20 15:22:57 · TechCrunch
Deezer has exposed a startling new reality for the music streaming industry: nearly half of all songs uploaded to its platform each day are now generated by artificial intelligence. This massive influx of synthetic content represents a fundamental shift in the content creation landscape, forcing platforms to deploy sop...
The Lab · 2026-04-20 18:22:45 · The Verge
AI-generated music is flooding streaming platforms at an unprecedented scale. Deezer reports it now receives nearly 75,000 AI song submissions daily, a staggering figure that accounts for roughly 44% of all new uploads to its service. This deluge of synthetic content has forced the company into a defensive posture, cla...
The Lab · 2026-05-01 14:24:08 · Ars Technica
A group of women have initiated legal action against individuals accused of scraping their Instagram content to construct AI-generated pornographic personas, marking a significant escalation in the emerging legal battle over non-consensual use of personal images in synthetic media. The plaintiffs—several women from Ari...