regional elections in Spain almost four more months, but Irene Larraz and her team at Newtral are ready to hit. Every morning, half of Larras’s team at the Madrid media company schedules political speeches and debates, in preparation to test politicians’ claims. The other half, who debunks misinformation, scans the Internet for viral lies, and...

Armed Believing in the generative potential of technology, a growing faction of researchers and companies are seeking to address AI bias by creating artificial images of people of color. Proponents argue that AI-powered generators can fill gaps in the diversity of existing image databases by supplementing them with synthetic images. Some researchers are using machine...