It’s that time again in New York: the leaves are turning, the air is getting crisp, and the November general election is fast approaching. But this year, there’s a new kind of shadow hanging over the ballot box, and state Attorney General Letitia James wants voters to be ready. As New Yorkers gear up to cast their ballots, they’re facing something their parents and grandparents never had to deal with—a flood of artificial intelligence-generated misinformation that can look and sound startlingly real. James has stepped up with a clear warning: AI-generated videos, images, and audio recordings have become so sophisticated…

It’s hard to wrap your head around $25 billion. That’s more than the annual budgets of many small countries, enough to buy thousands of private jets, and a number so large it almost doesn’t feel like real money. But for Meta, the company behind Facebook, it just became very real. A judge in New Mexico has ordered the tech giant to pay that staggering amount after a jury found the company had systematically misled consumers. The case traces back to the now-infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal, a chapter in tech history that still haunts the company years later. In the 2010s,…