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  • 🇷🇺 Russia, China increasingly using AI to escalate cyberattacks on the US

  • 💻 More AI News

  • Easy Cloud News

  • 💫 Christian Business Spotlight

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have sharply increased their use of artificial intelligence to deceive people online and mount cyberattacks against the United States, according to new research from Microsoft.

This July, the company identified more than 200 instances of foreign adversaries using AI to create fake content online, more than double the number from July 2024 and more than ten times the number seen in 2023.

The findings, published Thursday in Microsoft’s annual digital threats report, show how foreign adversaries are adopting new and innovative tactics in their efforts to weaponize the internet as a tool for espionage and deception. Read more

AI News

  • 🤖 World’s first Robot Phone by Honor looks and acts like a pocket-sized ‘Wall-E’ (link)

  • 🎒 AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking (link)

  • 🫧 What if AI is the next dot-com bubble? (link)

  • 🤔 Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla’s unsold Cybertrucks (link)

  • 🇰🇷 South Korea scraps AI textbook programme (link)

Easy Cloud News

  • Easy Cloud’s Services (link)

  • 🗞 Easy Cloud’s Latest News (link)

  • 👆 The Way Up - A podcast to help you level up in leadership, wellness, relationships, and career (link)

  • 🐳 Easy Cloud’s Latest Product: Beluga AI (link)

  • 🦁 Executive Coaching - Faith-based Life & Executive Coach for people looking to level up (link)

  • 🛡 Easy Cloud Security - IT services for schools, healthcare offices, and growing businesses (link)

Christian Business Spotlight

👆 The Way Up - A podcast to help you level up in leadership, wellness, relationships, and career. It starts where you are. One step, one choice, one day at a time.

🐳 Beluga AI - An extremely fast and highly accurate AI-powered service that provides transcriptions, closed captions, summaries, and translations.

🦁 Executive Coaching - Faith-based Life & Executive Coach for people looking to level up. The best you is waiting for you in Christ Jesus.

🛡 Easy Cloud Security - Best Managed Service Provider (MSP) in Southern CA. IT services for schools, healthcare offices, and growing businesses.

AI Tools

  • 🎉 PleaseRSVP: Generate custom party invitations with AI (link)

  • 📽 AIAI: Create or edit videos and images from text prompts (link)

  • 👨 Buzz Cut: Visualize buzz cuts using AI on personal photos (link)

  • 🤝 Snov: Sales engagement on autopilot - we reach, you seal the deal (link)

  • 📱 Replit: An integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you code, build, and deploy apps (link)

  • 🐳 Beluga: Christian sermon and lecture transcripts, translations and more (link)

  • 🧰 Google Workspace: A suite of online productivity and collaboration tools designed for businesses and organizations (link)

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