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Midweek Roundup: Deep Fakes Enabling Fraud, Santos Pleads Guilty, and More

Hundreds of thousands of artificial intelligence-powered deep fake videos of Elon Musk, Warren Buffet and Jeff Bezos have misled countless victims into "investing" billions of dollars into fraudulent companies set up by scammers, The New York Times reported. More Former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identity theft as part of a plea deal that includes two years of prison time, Roll Call reported. More The U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, also known as FinCEN, has withdrawn a dormant proposal from 2020 that would have imposed recordkeeping and reporting requirements on unhosted, self-custodial digital...

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