How to Check if an Image or Video Was Created or Edited with Meta AI 🔍

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

It’s becoming harder to tell whether a photo is real or was made with AI. Like Google’s SynthID Detector, Meta offers a free online tool that checks images, videos and audio for its own invisible Content Seal watermark, which can indicate whether its AI was used to create or edit the file.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• U.S. Bans Chinese AI DeepSeek From Government Agency IT Systems

• Yelp’s AI Agent Can Now Call Restaurants To Check Wait Times for You

• AI Tutorial: How to Check if Media Was Created or Edited with Meta AI

• AI Tools to check out

• AI Findings/Resources

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

DEEPSEEK

U.S. Bans Chinese AI DeepSeek From Government Agency IT Systems

The U.S. has ordered all AI technology from the Chinese firm DeepSeek to be removed from most government systems over national security concerns tied to the company’s operations in China.

Details:

• The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has banned all use of DeepSeek within civilian government agencies, including any technology built with its AI models.

• The order cited concerns about DeepSeek’s handling of user data, warning that sensitive information from U.S. government users could be accessible to Chinese authorities under Chinese law.

• It also warned that the models may contain malware or other security vulnerabilities.

• The DHS made the order public on Monday, although the ban has been in effect since the end of July.

The move comes as DeepSeek’s powerful, low-cost, open-weight models gain traction globally and AI becomes a key battleground in the intensifying rivalry between Washington and Beijing.

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YELP

Yelp’s AI Agent Can Now Call Restaurants To Check Wait Times for You

Yelp is introducing an AI voice agent that can call restaurants on users’ behalf to check wait times, alongside new features for restaurant discovery, bookings and personalized recommendations.

Details:

• The new Check for Me feature lets users enter their party size and phone number on a restaurant’s Yelp page. An AI agent calls the restaurant to ask about wait times, then texts the results so users can decide whether to visit.

• Yelp is also integrating OpenTable into its AI assistant, allowing users to book restaurants without leaving the app.

• Users can now ask the assistant to create custom reminders, such as sending weekend activity suggestions every Friday.

• For businesses, Yelp is launching Smart Lead Reply, a paid AI product costing $30 per month. Business owners can configure how the agent responds to customer inquiries and qualifies potential leads.

Yelp initially debuted its AI Assistant in 2024, but these new integrations and features show how the company is adapting as AI tools become more adept at actually doing things, not just telling you things.

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AI Tutorial

How to Check if Media Was Created or Edited with Meta AI

1. Open Meta's AI Identification website.

2. Upload the image, video, or audio file you want to check. If the file is online, you can also paste its URL.

3. Wait for the file to upload and the tool to process it.

4. Review the result to see whether Meta detects its Content Seal watermark.

This tool checks only for Meta’s own watermark, not media from every AI system. If it doesn’t detect a Content Seal, that doesn’t prove the file is authentic or that AI wasn’t used to create or edit it. For a second check, you can also use Google’s SynthID Detector, which can identify media made with AI from Google or its partners, including OpenAI and NVIDIA. Checking with both gives you better odds of catching AI-made media.

AI Tools to check out

🎮 Google Playground: Create custom games in minutes using simple text prompts, no coding experience required.

🧠 Beacon: An open-source memory layer for AI coding agents that learns from your work across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, and 20+ other harnesses.

📹 TwelveLabs: AI that truly understands video. Uses multimodal models (Marengo/Pegasus) to search, analyze & generate text from video content at scale.

📧 Inbox Zero: AI email assistant that organizes your inbox and calendar, drafts replies in your voice, and gets you to inbox zero fast.

AI Findings/Resources

👩‍💼 I'm a CEO and a mom. I built AI agents to help run my household — and save hours every week

🤖 Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?

👀 It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains

📌 As AI dominates conversations, here are key terms to know

❄️ This man reverse engineered his AC and vibe coded a little status bar app so he never has to find the remote again

The latest in AI and Tech

Microsoft warns that frontier AI models cannot be trusted

Microsoft Security executive Hayete Gallot says frontier AI models should not be trusted regardless of their origin, echoing CEO Satya Nadella’s earlier warning that AI models should be treated as potentially compromised. The company is introducing Project Perception, an agentic security system designed to help cybersecurity teams monitor, secure and control AI agents as their use expands.

CNN, Axios and Financial Times join Google’s AI news program

Google has expanded its AI news program to more than 400 publications worldwide, including CNN, Axios and Forbes, which will license content for generative AI features and explore new ways to reach audiences.

fal launches FLUX 3 Max, claiming 22× faster AI video generation

fal has launched FLUX 3 Max, a video generation model developed with Black Forest Labs that reportedly creates a 10-second clip in 12.45 seconds, compared with 277.8 seconds for Seedance 2.5 in fal’s benchmark.

US prosecutors allege Saudi links in case against former OpenAI engineer

US prosecutors say former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, who is accused of planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room, appears to have received support from Saudi-linked individuals, including a military official who allegedly paid for his family’s one-way flight to Saudi Arabia.

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