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.<\/p>\n
\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 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.<\/p>\n
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