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Legislators in two dozen states are working on bills, or have passed laws, to combat A.I.-generated sexually explicit images of minors.

Avatars are addressing voters by name, in whichever of India’s many languages they speak. Experts see potential for misuse in a country already rife with disinformation.

OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.

China’s tech firms were caught off guard by breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence. Beijing’s regulations and a sagging economy aren’t helping.

The start-up is sharing the new technology, called Sora, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand the potential dangers.

The state attorney general said the calls, which used a voice that sounded like President Biden’s to discourage voting, originated with a company called Life Corporation.

The shift is indicative of the importance of new artificial intelligence technology to Silicon Valley and Wall Street investors.

A wave of elections coincides with state influence operations, a surge of extremism, A.I. advances and a pullback in social media protections.