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Political consultant behind fake Biden robocalls posts bail on first 6 of 26 criminal charges 06/05/2024 09:59pm • LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — A political consultant who sent artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’s voice made his first court appearance Wednesday in New Hampshire, where he is charged with voter suppression and impersonating a candidate ahead of the state's first-i AI could supercharge disinformation and disrupt EU elections, experts warn 06/05/2024 09:40am • BRUSSELS (AP) — Voters in the European Union are set to elect lawmakers starting Thursday for the bloc's parliament, in a major democratic exercise that's also likely to be overshadowed by online disinformation. Experts have warned that artificial intelligence could supercharge the spread of fake New York magnet fisher catches safe full of soggy $100 bills, he says 06/04/2024 05:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) — James Kane has used a powerful magnet to fish all manner of junk from New York City waterways, but he says the stacks of $100 bills he pulled from a safe were something else entirely. Kane’s girlfriend, Barbi Agostini, was recording last Friday as he pulled a slimy safe out of a Baltimore Sun managing editor to retire months after the paper was sold 06/04/2024 03:46pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Sun’s longtime managing editor is retiring and will soon be replaced by another newsroom veteran — the first major staffing shakeup since the newspaper was sold to media mogul David D. Smith and his partner, conservative commentator Armstrong Williams, earlier th Wisconsin attorney general files felony charges against attorneys, aide who worked for Trump in 2020 06/04/2024 03:38pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Felony forgery charges were filed in Wisconsin on Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide who helped submit paperwork falsely saying that former President Donald Trump had won the battleground state in 2020. The state charges are the first to come in Wisconsin and follow sep Justice Department's 'deepfake' concerns over Biden interview audio highlights AI misuse worries 06/04/2024 02:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Releasing an audio recording of a special counsel's interview with President Joe Biden could spur deepfakes and disinformation that trick Americans, the Justice Department said, conceding the U.S. government could not stop the misuse of artificial intelligence ahead of this year' Why Poland says Russia and Belarus are weaponizing migration to benefit Europe’s far-right 06/04/2024 09:24am • POLAND-BELARUS BORDER, Poland (AP) — A Somali woman pushes her bandaged hand between two vertical bars of a thick metal barrier separating Belarus from Poland as she and four other women gaze toward the European Union. They nod gratefully as a Polish humanitarian aid worker calls to them across a Jo Adell scores the tiebreaking run in the Angels' 2-1 victory over the Padres 06/04/2024 12:40am • ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Jo Adell doubled and scored the tiebreaking run on two flyouts in the eighth inning, and the Los Angeles Angels snapped their five-game losing streak with a 2-1 victory over the San Diego Padres on Monday night. Tyler Anderson pitched into the seventh and Willie Calhoun had A grant program for Black women business owners is discriminatory, appeals court rules 06/03/2024 08:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. federal court of appeals panel suspended a venture capital firm’s grant program for Black women business owners, ruling that a conservative group is likely to prevail in its lawsuit claiming that the program is discriminatory. The ruling against the Atlanta-based Fearless Indonesia is to deport a fugitive to Thailand who is wanted on murder and drug trafficking charges 06/03/2024 12:56am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — One of Thailand's most wanted fugitives will be escorted home on a Thai air force plane after being arrested on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali following months on the run in connection with several killings and drug trafficking charges in his homeland, officials sai No. 1 Tennessee heads group of 4 SEC teams locking up NCAA regional titles; ACC also advances 4 06/03/2024 12:46am • Four teams from the Southeastern Conference and four from the Atlantic Coast Conference won regionals in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday and will take the next step in their bids to reach the College World Series. The Pac-12 will have its final baseball season extended at least another week with Orego Trump's attacks on US justice system after his conviction could be used by autocrats, say experts 06/02/2024 04:12pm • After his historic guilty verdict in his hush money case, Donald Trump attacked the U.S. criminal justice system, making unfounded claims of a “rigged” trial that echoed remarks from the Kremlin. “If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone,” Trump said Friday, speaking from his n Democrats wanted an agreement on using artificial intelligence. It went nowhere 06/02/2024 10:43am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic National Committee was watching earlier this year as campaigns nationwide were experimenting with artificial intelligence. So the organization approached a handful of influential party campaign committees with a request: Sign onto guidelines that would commit them Sexist tropes and misinformation swirl online as Mexico prepares to elect its first female leader 06/01/2024 08:40am • Mexican voters are poised to elect their first female president, a cause of celebration for many that has also touched off a flurry of false and misogynist online claims, blurring the lines behind fact and fiction. The two leading candidates, both women, have had to respond to demeaning attacks abou Google makes fixes to AI-generated search summaries after outlandish answers went viral 05/31/2024 02:29pm • Google said Friday it has made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to its artificial intelligence systems after its retooled search engine was found spitting out erroneous information. The tech company unleashed a makeover of its search engine in mid-May that frequently provides AI-gener