🧠 AI brain implant restores movement and touch

⚖️ San Francisco demands Apple and Google pull nudify apps

🦊 Disney quietly releases AI-made cartoon on YouTube

🕵️ TikTok will help creators find AI fakes of themselves

🇨🇳 Xi calls for global AI rules at Shanghai summit

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Researchers at Northwell's Feinstein Institutes restored hand movement and the sense of touch to Keith Thomas, paralysed from the chest down since a 2020 diving accident, according to results published in Nature Medicine.

Surgeons placed five microelectrode arrays in his brain during a 15-hour operation. AI decodes his movement intentions and stimulates his forearm muscles, while fingertip sensors trigger stimulation of the sensory cortex to recreate touch.

Many gains stuck around more than two years after the stimulation stopped, and his arms grew 86% and 62% stronger, so the system appears to have retrained the body rather than just replacing it.

San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google on Thursday, naming 13 apps that generate nonconsensual sexual deepfakes. The companies have 28 days to respond or face civil penalties.

California law criminalizes knowingly facilitating deepfake pornography, and a 2025 statute lets victims sue third-party facilitators. Chiu's office says both companies kept processing payments for these apps for nearly a year after receiving warnings.

Both companies moved fast once the letters landed. Apple pulled three apps and Google suspended five, though the Tech Transparency Project flagged the same problem back in January and again in April.

Disney Jr. and French studio Animaj dropped the first two episodes of Ozzy Fox on YouTube and YouTube Kids on Wednesday with no press release, and the musical preschool series pulled roughly 800,000 views in two days.

Animaj builds cartoons on an AI-assisted pipeline and says it reaches 240 million kids monthly. Neither company has explained what role those tools played in Ozzy Fox, and Disney picked up the studio through its 2025 Accelerator program.

Animaj actually positions itself against "AI slop" from unregulated content farms, which is a tricky line to hold when your launch strategy is releasing a show quietly and letting it speak for itself.

TikTok is testing an opt-in tool that scans the platform for AI-generated videos using a creator's face, then lets them review matches and report impersonating posts or accounts. Only some US creators have access.

Creators verify identity through Jumio with a live selfie scan and an ID check before scanning starts. TikTok says it keeps no ID documents and uses facial data only for likeness matching.

TikTok never announced this. A consultant spotted it and the company confirmed it afterward, which is a quiet way to ship a feature that answers a problem its own AI video tools help create.

Xi Jinping opened China's World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday with a keynote arguing AI development should not be a solo performance by one nation, and calling for a UN-centered global governance framework.

He backed open-source development and pledged capacity building for Global South countries, warning that the AI divide risks creating new historical injustice. He also opposed overstretching national security claims to restrict the technology.

That last point lands while US export controls choke China's access to advanced chips, which makes openness a convenient principle for the country currently on the wrong side of the blacklist.

A) Yes - 79% 🏆

B) No - 21%