Dramatic rise in publicly downloadable deepfake image generators
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This month, we’re focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), a topic that continues to capture attention everywhere. Here, you’ll find the latest research news, insights, and discoveries shaping how AI is being developed and used across the world.
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 5-Nov-2025 04:11 ET (5-Nov-2025 09:11 GMT/UTC)
New Oxford study uncovers explosion of accessible deepfake AI image generation models intended for the creation of non-consensual, sexualised images of women.
Around the world, artificial intelligence and Automated Decision-Making (ADM) tools are playing increasingly significant roles in handling immigration and homeland security data.
Migration experts in Australia weighing up the opportunities and risks of such technologies warn that more transparency, monitoring and regulation are required to oversee the use of these tools.
Groundbreaking device instantly detects dangerous street drugs, offering hope for harm reduction
A portable device that instantly detects illicit street drugs at very low concentrations, thereby highlighting the risks they pose, has been developed at the University of Bath in the UK. The device has the potential to address the growing global problem of people unknowingly taking drugs that have been mixed with undeclared substances, including synthetic opioids such as fentanyl and nitazenes.POSTECH research team led by Professor Keehoon Kim develops disinfection robot combining physical wiping and UV-C sterilization.
This research shows that 20 μm of the LAF is the most appropriate modification layer thickness.
This study highlights how an online dialogic teaching approach in a university media literacy class fostered students’ global awareness, critical solidarity, and a sense of community when the media provided conflicting narratives of us versus them during the COVID-19 pandemic.