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Cybersecurity Expert Shares Tips to Spot AI-Powered Scams

University of Missouri cybersecurity expert Prasad Calyam says spelling mistakes no longer give scams away. We take his five answers in turn, from cloned voices and AI chatbots to passkeys and what to do first after a hack, and add the FBI’s first count of AI-linked fraud complaints.

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Tavus Launches Limited Preview of Griffin Lite and Updates Developer Platform

Tavus has opened a limited research preview of Griffin Lite, a real-time video AI that sees, hears and talks back with a generated face and voice. In Tavus’s study, 26 of 54 people thought it was human after a one-minute call. We explain how it works, what the NVIDIA VideoFDB scores show, what changed on the Tavus developer platform in September, and the deception risks Tavus itself flags.

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Japanese Anime Actor Fights TikTok Over AI Voice Cloning

Japanese anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda, known for Jujutsu Kaisen and Yu-Gi-Oh!, has taken TikTok to court over videos he says used AI voice cloning to copy his voice, with the Tokyo District Court due to rule on 30 September 2026. This article sets out the timeline, the account’s reported earnings, TikTok’s “generic male voice” defence, Japan’s publicity-rights and unfair competition tests, the justice ministry’s August guideline, the likely outcomes and how other countries treat cloned voices.

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New California Law Mandates AI Performer Disclosure in Ads

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1050 on 16 September 2026 at SAG-AFTRA’s Los Angeles headquarters, making California the second state to require a disclosure when an advertisement prominently features an AI-generated performer. We work through the statutory text of new Business and Professions Code section 17610, the three-pronged prominence test, the prescribed disclosure wording, the five construction carve-outs, the court-ordered takedown duty it places on broadcasters and platforms, and the eight ways it diverges from New York’s law.

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Nudification Ban Stands as xAI Loses: Essential Warning

Nudification technology lost its most serious legal challenge to date on 4 September 2026, when a federal judge in Minneapolis refused to block Minnesota’s first-in-the-nation ban while the constitutional case against it continues. Elon Musk’s xAI had asked for a preliminary injunction. It did not get one. United States District Judge Donovan Frank issued a […]

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