Abrar Al-Heeti joins Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly! Google & Microsoft held developer keynotes the past few weeks, with Apple’s WWDC conference happening soon. The growing crisis of AI-generated deepfakes in schools. And China’s dominance in actuator manufacturing.
• Abrar & Mikah chat about the stretch of major tech conferences with Google & Microsoft’s tech conferences that happened in the past few weeks, as well as Apple’s WWDC that is right around the corner.
• Samantha Cole of 404 Media joins the show to talk about the disturbing rise of AI-generated deepfakes that are targeting students in schools and the ongoing challenges facing lawmakers, parents, and app stores in responding to the crisis.
• And Mikah looks into America’s growing actuator problem, with China dominating the market and the U.S. struggling to bring the manufacturing of actuators back home.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti
Guest: Samantha Cole
Tech News Weekly Episode 440
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