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AI-powered scams are surging, and regulators and consumers alike are struggling to keep up. Fraudsters are deploying voice cloning, deepfake video, and convincing chatbot personas to deceive people at a scale that was simply impossible just a few years ago. The technology has lowered the cost of deception dramatically, and the human toll is real.
Shifting to a story that could reshape corporate law in ways few anticipated, Argentina is moving to allow artificial intelligence systems to legally own companies. That raises genuinely hard questions about accountability — if an AI-owned business causes harm, who answers for it? Legal scholars are still working out whether existing frameworks can even begin to handle the idea.
And on a quieter but deeply relatable note, readers and developers are pushing back on Kobo e-readers rejecting perfectly valid ePub files. The culprit appears to be Adobe's digital rights management layer interpreting the standard in its own peculiar way. It is a reminder that open formats are only as open as the proprietary gatekeepers sitting in front of them.
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