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NY Passes Bill to Prevent “AI-Fueled Disasters”
How to edit your videos with Meta AI
Gina Acosta
June 16, 2025
Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
AI regulation has become an increasingly hot topic as the technology continues to advance at an alarming pace. Now, New York state lawmakers have passed a bill aimed at preventing “disaster scenarios.”
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
New York Passes Bill to Curb AI-Driven Disasters
Meta Files Lawsuit Against Maker of "Nudify" App Technology
AI Tutorial: How to edit your videos with Meta AI
AI Tools to check out
AI Findings/Resources
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI News
AI REGULATION
New York Passes Bill to Curb AI-Driven Disasters
New York lawmakers have passed the RAISE Act, a bill aimed at preventing catastrophic AI-related incidents, such as those resulting in over 100 deaths or injuries or more than $1 billion in damages.
Details:
The bill requires AI labs to publish safety reports, disclose incidents, and meet transparency standards for AI models trained with over $100 million in computing resources.
Companies failing to meet these standards could face civil penalties of up to $30 million.
The bill now awaits Governor Kathy Hochul’s decision to sign it into law, amend it, or veto it.
It was designed to avoid stifling innovation among startups and academic researchers, addressing criticisms of similar legislation in California. Despite that, tech giants and venture capitalists have criticized the bill, claiming it could hinder progress or lead companies to withhold their most advanced models from New York.
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META
Meta Files Lawsuit Against Maker of "Nudify" App Technology
Meta has filed a lawsuit against Crush AI, the maker of an AI-powered “nudify” app that creates fake, explicit images of real people without their consent.
Details:
Meta sued Joy Timeline HK, the company behind Crush AI, for bypassing ad review processes and running over 8,000 ads for its AI nudify services on Facebook and Instagram in early 2025, violating the company’s policies.
Crush AI used multiple advertiser accounts, frequently changed domain names, and even created a Facebook page to promote its services.
Meta has developed new technology to detect and remove similar AI nudify or undressing services, even if they don’t include explicit content.
It's not the only one that’s faced this problem. Platforms like X, Reddit, and YouTube have also struggled to moderate AI nudify apps, with millions of users exposed to related ads in 2024.
The lawsuit highlights the growing challenge of moderating harmful AI tools on social media, and while the company claims it is ramping up efforts to combat similar apps, there is a need for stronger industry collaboration and legislative action to ensure user safety.
AI Tutorial
How to edit your videos with Meta AI
Meta recently launched an AI video editing feature across the Meta AI app, the Meta.AI website, and the Edits app that allows users to easily edit short-form videos for free using a variety of preset AI prompts that can transform outfits, locations, styles, and more.
Note: It’s available in the US and in “more than a dozen” countries globally so far, so it might not be available to you yet.
Upload a video to the Meta AI app, the Meta.AI website, or the Edits app
Choose from over 50 editing prompts to transform your video
Once you’ve chosen a preset prompt, Meta AI will edit your video to match the selected scenario
You can share your edited videos directly to Facebook and Instagram from Edits and the Meta AI app. In the Meta AI app and on Meta.AI web, you can share it directly to the Discover feed.
While the feature is limited to presets for now, Meta has promised custom text-prompt editing later this year.
AI Tools to check out
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AI Findings/Resources
⭐ AI celebrity videos: an effective way to learn new concepts?
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🗣 Everyone is using AI for everything. Is that bad?
🖼 Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”
The latest in AI and Tech
It leverages both traditional filmmaking and DeepMind's Veo generative video AI model. You can watch it in full here.
Users on Plus, Pro, and Team plans can now access Deep Research and Voice Mode within projects, and share individual chats via link. ChatGPT can also reference earlier conversations within the same project, among other minor upgrades.
Alphabet’s Google, the largest customer of Scale AI, plans to cut ties with Scale after news broke that rival Meta is taking a 49% stake in the AI data-labeling startup
The company announced that it will now show ads from businesses in WhatsApp’s “Updates” tab and will begin monetizing the Channels feature through search ads and subscriptions.
The Vibe coding platform launched the challenge, offering $1,000 in v0 credits to those who get the best results using v0.
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