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By Daniel Dale, CNN

(CNN) — Senate Republicans released an online ad this week in which a real-looking but fake version of a Democratic candidate, fabricated with artificial intelligence, appears to speak directly into the camera for more than a minute.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s deepfake of James Talarico, the Democratic nominee in the US Senate race in Texas, is only the latest in a series of AI-generated creations from the national GOP campaign organization in the past year. But it’s the first featuring a phony version of a candidate talking in a lifelike manner for so long – an example of how far AI technology has come in a short time and an indicator of the direction attack ads may be heading.

“The face and voice are very good. There is a slight misalignment between audio and video, but otherwise this is hyper-realistic and I don’t think that most people would immediately know it is fake,” Hany Farid, a University of California, Berkeley professor specializing in digital forensics, said in an email.

The use of AI deepfakes in campaign advertising raises a host of ethical questions. It has also prompted some bipartisan calls for federal legislation or regulation on the practice, though those ideas have also faced pushback on First Amendment grounds.

The 85-second ad depicts an AI-created “Talarico” appearing to proudly read excerpts from 2021 tweets in which the real Talarico made statements on transgender issues, race and religion and a 2013 tweet in which he recalled having attended a Planned Parenthood event as a teenager. In addition, the ad depicts the fake “Talarico” making new self-praising comments that there is no evidence the real Talarico actually made – praising the past tweets by “saying” things like “oh, this one is so touching” and “oh, I love this one too.”

The ad begins and ends with a narrator describing it as a “dramatic reading,” and an “AI GENERATED” disclosure appears on screen for almost the entire ad. But the disclosure text is small, mostly faint and confined to a bottom corner of the screen – and the fake “Talarico,” shown wearing a blazer and open-collared shirt, looks uncannily like the actual candidate.

A source familiar with the NRSC’s thinking described AI as a “consistently effective” way to highlight opposing candidates’ statements and said, “These are Talarico’s real words … all we have done is visualize them for voters using a modern tool, within all legal and ethical parameters.” The source, however, said they did not have a comment to offer on the additional “Talarico” commentary the ad appears to have invented.

NRSC communications director Joanna Rodriguez asserted in an email that Democrats are “panicking after hearing James Talarico’s own words.” Talarico campaign spokesperson JT Ennis asserted in a text message that it is the candidates in the ongoing Republican primary who are “scared of James Talarico,” adding, “While they spend their time making deepfake AI videos to mislead Texans, we are uniting the people of Texas to win in

By Sam Peters, CNN

(CNN) — Twenty-one people, including a 60-year-old British tourist, have been charged under the United Arab Emirates’ cybercrime laws for filming and sharing videos of Iranian missile and drone attacks, according to an organization that provides legal assistance to those arrested in the UAE.

The British man was arrested in Dubai on Monday under a law that prohibits the publishing or sharing of images that might incite panic or spread rumors, the organization, Detained in Dubai, told CNN.

CNN has reached out to the Dubai government for comment.

The United Kingdom’s Foreign Office told CNN: “We are in contact with the local authorities following the detention of a British man in the UAE.”

According to Detained in Dubai, the man was charged alongside 20 others as the UAE clamps down on people sharing videos of Iran’s missile and drone strikes on its territory.

The people were all charged on the same indictment, Radha Stirling, the CEO of Detained in Dubai, told CNN. Under UAE’s cybercrime laws, people who repost or even comment on a video can be charged.

“One video can quickly lead to dozens of people facing criminal charges,” Detained in Dubai said in a statement.

The British tourist, who has not been named, filmed a missile passing overhead but “deleted it immediately” when asked to by police, Stirling told CNN. He was then arrested, she said.

The penalty for breaching cybercrime laws in the UAE is a minimum of two years in prison, as well as a 200,000 UAE dirham (around $54,000) fine. Stirling said that multiple charges can be stacked.

The charges against the British national are “very vague,” Stirling said.

Detained in Dubai says the people who were charged “are alleged to have used an information network or information technology tool to broadcast, publish, republish or circulate false news, rumours or provocative propaganda that may incite public opinion or disturb public security.”

In a separate incident, Stirling said, an Indian student at Dubai University was arrested after he filmed a missile attack on Palm Islands. She said he had shared the video with his family group chat, and that he remains in custody.

She also said two French nationals had been arrested for filming missiles earlier in the conflict, but were released without being charged.

CNN has reached out to the French and Indian Consulates in Dubai for comment.

According to Detained in Dubai, plainclothes police officers have been arresting people seen filming missile strikes.

In an interview on UK radio station LBC, the UAE’s ambassador to the UK, Mansoor Abulhoul, said the “United Arab Emirates is very safe.”

He said: “The guidelines and regulations are there in the UAE to ensure people’s safety” and that the UAE was discouraging people from filming so that they wouldn’t be hit by “falling debris.”

Last Friday, the Attorney General of the UAE warned people against circulating photos or videos showing the sites of attacks, or inaccurate information that might cause panic.

Another government warning, circulated by via emails, text messages and public information announcements, said: “Photographing or sharing security or critical

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Por Casey Tolan, Charbel Mallo y Jeff Winter, CNN

Una semana antes del ataque perpetrado el jueves contra una sinagoga en Michigan, los dos hermanos del sospechoso y dos de los hijos de estos murieron en un ataque aéreo israelí en el Líbano, según declaró a la CNN el alcalde de la aldea libanesa donde residían.

El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional informó que Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, de 41 años, condujo un vehículo cargado de explosivos hacia el Templo Israel, situado en el municipio de West Bloomfield, cerca de Detroit. El vehículo luego se prendió fuego, en lo que el FBI calificó como un “acto de violencia dirigido específicamente contra la comunidad judía”. El FBI señaló que la agencia continúa investigando el ataque.

Ghazali murió después de que los agentes de seguridad de la sinagoga se enfrentaran a él y “neutralizaran la amenaza”, declaró el jueves Dale Young, jefe de policía de West Bloomfield. Un agente de seguridad resultó herido en el ataque, y al menos 30 agentes del orden público recibieron atención médica por inhalación de humo, informaron las autoridades.

Iskandar Barakeh, alcalde de Mashghara (Líbano), relató en una entrevista telefónica que los hermanos de Ghazali —Kassim e Ibrahim— murieron en un ataque aéreo israelí en la zona el pasado 5 de marzo, junto con los hijos de Ibrahim Ali y Fatima. Las esposas de ambos hermanos y los padres de Ghazali también sufrieron heridas, añadió Barakeh.

Recientemente, tres ataques aéreos israelíes han impactado en la aldea —situada a unos 50 km al sureste de Beirut—, incluido un ataque contra una institución financiera vinculada a Hezbollah (respaldado por Irán) que causó daños en una escuela cercana, según Barakeh. Si bien algunos residentes abandonaron la aldea en un primer momento, muchos han comenzado a regresar recientemente, afirmó.

Mo Baydoun, alcalde de Dearborn Heights —el suburbio de Detroit donde residía Ghazali—, también declaró en un comunicado que Ghazali había perdido a varios familiares en el Líbano a consecuencia de un ataque israelí. “Todo ser humano merece ejercer su culto en paz; por ello, debemos condenar inequívocamente cualquier ataque contra un lugar de culto o contra las personas que se encuentren en su interior”, expresó Baydoun.

Ghazali, nacido en el Líbano, llegó a Estados Unidos en 2011 tras obtener un visado en calidad de cónyuge de una ciudadana estadounidense, informó el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional en un comunicado. En 2016 adquirió la ciudadanía estadounidense por naturalización.

Trabajaba en un restaurante de comida de Medio Oriente en Dearborn Heights, según confirmó un empleado del establecimiento. Un gerente del restaurante declinó hacer más comentarios al respecto. La esposa de Ghazali solicitó el divorcio en agosto de 2024, y este se finalizó en marzo de 2025, según los registros judiciales del condado de Wayne.

Rob Kuznia y Blake Ellis, de CNN, contribuyeron a este reportaje.

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