An Indian-origin man has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison and ordered to pay $2.6 million in restitution for being convicted of mail fraud and embezzlement (theft of employer's funds). Dinesh Shankar, 41 of San Jose, California was sentenced to 33 months in prison as a result of the mail fraud conviction for embezzling from a medical device company. Details here.
AI has not only given us capable technologies but also some problems to worry about. Case in point: deepfakes that are created with machine learning algorithms and used for harassing celebs. They are a major problem, but a group of Indian researchers has come up with a solution to detect them.