Pikesville High School's principal Eric Eiswert was implicated in an audio recording making rounds on social media containing racist and antisemitic comments, but police say the voice was AI-generated.

Authorities arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director Dazhon Darien in connection with circulating a voice recording of the school’s principal Eric Eiswert, believed to be an AI-generated deepfake.

Dazhon Darien, an athletic director at a Baltimore high school, used AI to falsify a racist voice recording of the school's principal, police said.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai are among the more than 20 people who will now sit on the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board, the DHS announced on Friday. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will also serve on the board.

The CEOs of leading U.S. technology companies are joining a new artificial intelligence safety board to advise the federal government on how to protect the nation’s critical services from “AI-related disruptions.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is among a group of 22 representatives that are part of a new Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board organized by

Shares in Google-parent Alphabet were up over 11% in Frankfurt on Friday, while Microsoft shares rose nearly 5%. That contrasts with a more than 10% slide in Meta shares on Thursday, after the social media firm signalled its costly bet on AI could take years to pay off.

Alphabet and Microsoft ignited a rally in technology stocks on Friday with earnings that showed big AI investments were driving growth, allaying doubts that their costly bets would take time to pay off after a soft forecast from Meta Platforms.

Investors have pummeled Meta for its AI spending, but are rewarding Alphabet, Microsoft, and Snap for doing the same. Here's why.