The Trump administration just directed the FCC to ban imports of new Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots, alongside connected power inverters. Officials claim the hardware poses cybersecurity and data theft risks to the U.S. AI buildout. The move aims to wall off critical data center supply chains while forcing manufacturing back stateside.
The FCC just banned the use of AI-generated voices in robocalls, ruling that voice-cloning tech falls under existing federal consumer protection laws. State attorneys general now have the authority to prosecute robocallers solely for deploying AI voices, giving regulators immediate legal teeth after high-profile political deepfakes.
The FCC just proposed officially declaring AI voice cloning in robocalls illegal under existing consumer protection laws. Spurred by deepfaked calls mimicking President Biden in New Hampshire, the ruling would treat cloned voices as prohibited artificial speech, making it much easier for regulators to prosecute fraudsters without waiting to prove secondary crimes.
