Amazon wants to change how dubbed movies look, and the change happens on the actors' faces. The company is deploying AI to rewrite the mouths of performers so their lip movements match whatever language a viewer has selected on Prime Video. On the more horrifying side of things, AI-generated child abuse videos are now being pushed at industrial scale on Facebook. And finally, if you think Tesla’s electric cars rock, one woman got her life turned into a nightmare when her former partner hijacked the car using an app to harass her.

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Amazon has quietly rolled out one of the more practical AI upgrades to hit streaming in a while: a new lip-sync technology on Prime Video that uses artificial intelligence and visual effects to match actors' mouth movements to dubbed dialogue. The feature is designed to eliminate the uncanny disconnect that has long plagued foreign-language content when watched in translation, where the audio and on-screen facial expressions feel perpetually out of step. Amazon describes the system as one that "synchronizes actors' lip movements with human-dubbed audio, creating a seamless viewing experience that allows audiences to remain fully immersed in the story." For now the technology supports English only and is launching with the first two seasons of Maxton Hall, with the show's upcoming third season set to use it as well.

Amazon is not the first to pursue this kind of solution. YouTube has been developing its own AI-powered autodubbing system that, as a YouTube product lead explained to Digital Trends last year, modifies pixels on screen to match translated speech, a similar approach to what Amazon appears to be deploying on Prime Video. Amazon says it plans to expand the lip-sync feature to more films and television shows in the near future, which would make dubbed foreign-language content a significantly more watchable experience across its catalog.

A Sydney man has been convicted of using a Tesla app to remotely control and harass a domestic abuse victim, in a case that illustrates how connected-vehicle technology can become a tool of coercive control. Enrico Pucci, 50, was found guilty of 30 domestic violence-related charges against his former partner, Stacey, following a four-year campaign of abuse. Judge Peter Feather sentenced him to two years and three months with a non-parole period of 15 months at Parramatta Local Court, describing the offences as reflecting "a pattern of behaviour designed to entrench power and compliance."

Pucci gained access to Stacey's Tesla by offering to help her navigate the car's technology, persuading her to register the vehicle in his name so he could manage the app on her behalf. A month after the relationship ended in late 2025, he used that access to add a parental control profile to the car, one that gave him the ability to restrict its speed, lock the doors, set curfew hours, and manipulate the climate controls. Over several days in November, he alternated the car's temperature between extremes and repeatedly activated Valet Mode, capping the vehicle's speed at 40 kilometers per hour while Stacey was driving on public roads. He also attempted seven times to remotely disconnect the car from its charging port.

Meta's Facebook platform has been overrun with AI-generated videos depicting graphic violence against children, babies slapped, toddlers kicked, young children chained in freezers, whipped, burned, and starved, and the company has shown little urgency to remove them. An investigation by Futurism found the accounts uploading this content to be effectively endless, with creators producing the material at industrial scale using what appears to be cutting-edge AI video generation. Many of the videos attract thousands of reactions from users who appear to believe the abuse is real, leaving horrified comments or, in some cases, requesting follow-up videos.

When contacted with specific examples, Meta removed some of the flagged videos but left others online, including footage of a young girl shut inside a chest freezer and a boy discarded in a trash can. In a controlled test, reporters reported eight accounts sharing the content to Meta's standard moderation system; only two were removed, with timelines exceeding a week, and the company initially responded to several reports by stating the accounts did not violate its Community Standards. The same week, a separate Wired report revealed Meta had accepted advertising money from apps that generated sexual imagery of children, underscoring a broader pattern of the company's indifference to child safety on its platforms. Meta has invested hundreds of billions of dollars toward AI development and already appears to have deployed recommendation systems capable of identifying the abuse content at scale, meaning the technical capacity to detect and remove these videos almost certainly exists.

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