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Safety & Security

Apple tightens App Store rules against AI nudify apps

Apps that let people make or share content, including AI apps, must now guard against nonconsensual intimate images. Apps that hide features until after Apple’s review can be removed, and their makers’ accounts closed.

Apple updated its App Review Guidelines on October 16. Rule 1.2 now names nonconsensual intimate imagery and covers AI content creation apps. A new rule, 2.5.19, says that hiding undocumented features in an app, for example through code obfuscation, is grounds for removing the app and closing the developer’s account.

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Safety & Security

AI child abuse images already top all of 2025, IWF says

The UK watchdog found 6,310 illegal AI-made images in the first half of 2026, 40% more than in all of last year. It asks the EU to agree a long-delayed law on detecting such material.

The Internet Watch Foundation said on October 5 that its analysts assessed 6,310 AI-generated images of child sexual abuse from January to June 2026. That is 40% more than the 4,512 it found in the whole of 2025. Girls appear in 98% of the images where age and gender were recorded.

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Policy & Law

Appeals court pauses Minnesota’s AI nude-image ban for xAI

A one-line order lets Elon Musk’s AI company avoid the state’s “nudification” law while it appeals. The court gave no reasons and has not ruled on whether the law is constitutional.

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted xAI an injunction pending appeal on October 2. Minnesota cannot enforce its ban on tools that “nudify” photos of real people against the company while the case goes on. A lower court had refused the same request in September.

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Agents & Apps

ChatGPT Images 2.5 makes editing faster

The real upgrade is better control.

OpenAI says its new image model keeps important details during repeated edits and cuts waiting time. New sketch and comment tools also give people clearer ways to guide the result.

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