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Lesser-known tech companies were rewarded by changing headwinds outside the West this year. India’s homegrown EV industry, a ...

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For this year’s Day of the Dead, a Mexican funeral home and a beer company used AI to create animated photos of deceased people. The use of AI on images of the dead is unregulated in the country.

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