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A whirlwind of AI news today includes the unsettling report of a sophisticated deepfake attempt to impersonate Senator Marco Rubio, raising concerns about political disinformation. In other news, the American Federation of Teachers has announced a partnership with AI giants Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI to develop AI training resources for educators. Meanwhile, Hugging Face has unveiled SmolLM3, a new small language model. Finally, Apple’s AI executive, Ruoming Pang, is reportedly leaving the company to join Meta, marking a significant talent shift in the competitive AI landscape. This roundup was inspired by discussions on Reddit’s r/artificial subreddit.