Putin claims landslide victory in Russia as the West condemn ‘pseudo-election’ | BBC News

From BBC News. Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed a landslide victory in Russia’s presidential election, with election officials giving him more than 87% of the vote. However, Western countries have condemned the election as a sham, with no credible opposition candidate allowed. There was some symbolic opposition with the "Noon against Putin" initiative backed…

How AI and deepfakes are changing politics | BBC News

From BBC News. Politicians including US President Joe Biden and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan have found themselves victims of deepfakes. These are fake images or audio recordings generated by artificial intelligence and have spread rapidly across social media. Although, there are politicians across the world who have not only embraced this technology but used…

OpenAI and Figure AI develop humanoid robot | BBC News

From BBC News. Open AI and the startup robotics firm Figure AI have released a video demonstrating the capabilities of a new visual language model. Figure 01 uses in "speech-to-speech" analysis via OpenAI’s multimodal model, VLM, to understand images and texts. The robot relies on another voice conversation to craft its responses, as compared to…