Higgsfield says its on a $200 million annual revenue run rate. So it opened its previous Series A round back up and sold another $80 million in shares.

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $80 million in new funding, valuing the company at over $1.3 billion, it told Reuters, as investors rush to develop the sector amid booming demand for the new technology.

There are signs that the crisis of AI-generated child sex abuse will worsen. While more and more nations, including the United Kingdom and the United States, are passing laws that make generating and publishing such material illegal, actually prosecuting criminals is slow. Silicon Valley, meanwhile, continues to move at a breakneck pace.

Hyper-realistic videos of the cast mimicking a man's expressions and gestures are circulating on social media.

AI-generated videos are more common than ever. These videos have invaded social media from cute animal videos, to out-of-this world content and they're becoming more realistic by the day. While it might have been easy to spot a "fake" video a year ago, these AI tools have become sophisticated enough that they're fooling millions of people.

TruthScan, a deepfake detection software, aims to protect both consumers and enterprises from AI-related fraud attacks. TruthScan’s AI-fraud prevention suite includes audio, video, image, and text analysis tools that detect AI-generated content.

After the Trump administration captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, images and videos that claimed to show the aftermath went viral on social media. "Venezuelans are crying on their knees thanking Trump and America for freeing them from Nicolas Maduro," the caption of one Jan. 3 X post read.

After Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro was seized by US special forces, an AI-generated video was shared in posts falsely claiming it showed a member of parliament in the United Kingdom asking why it was considered "impossible" to capture Israeli's leader and bring him to an international court.