KSA AI Mecca
Sara Zouiten, Morocco World News, Saudi Arabia Integrates AI Technology to Enhance Visitor Guidance at Grand Mosque, 4 Jan 2024. “The General Authority for the Affairs of the Two...
Malaysia Qur’an AI
Benson Mawira, Scholars and Innovators Collaborate to Transform Quranic Understanding with AI, 16 Dec 2023 “The announcement was made during the Quran recitation ceremony as part of the ‘Jom...
AI Imran Khan Voice Clone
Deutsche Welle, Pakistani ex-PM Imran Khan uses AI ‘voice clone’ from jail, 18 Dec 2023 “The former Pakistani prime minister is in jail over charges of leaking classified documents....
Ministry of Digital
Hadi Azmi, SCMP, Malaysia’s tech hub ambition takes major leap with new ministry spearheading digital transformation, 15 Dec 2023 “A key factor behind the shake-up announced on Tuesday is...
Alternative Browsers
Reece Rogers, Wired, The Rise of AI in Alternative Browsers—and What’s Next, 4 Dec 2023 “Developers at smaller companies have been adding new ways to experience the internet with...
Deepfake Issues
Alexandra Barinka, Bloomberg, TikTok Struggles to Take Down Deepfake Videos of Hamas’ Victims, 4 Dec 2023 “Bloomberg reviewed dozens of deepfake videos on TikTok portraying victims of tragedy in...
Israel ‘AI‘
Harry Davies, Bethan McKernan and Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian, ‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza, 1 Dec 2023. “The slowly emerging picture of how Israel’s military...
‘Chatbot Honeypot‘
Remaya Campbell, Scientific America, Chatbot Honeypot: How AI Companions Could Weaken National Security, 17 July 2023 “This artificial affection, and the radical openness it inspires, should provoke serious concern...
Machine Unlearning
Shubham Agarwal, New Scientist, With privacy concerns rising, can we teach AI chatbots to forget?, 31 Oct 2023, (paywalled/Apple News) “With concerns that AI-powered chatbots could reveal private data,...