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Loop Capital analyst Rick Paterson downgrades Canadian National Railway (NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/CNI#NYSE">CNI</a>) from Hold to Sell.

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Baird analyst Shrenik Kothari downgrades CrowdStrike Holdings (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/CRWD#NASDAQ">CRWD</a>) from Outperform to Neutral and raises the price target from $390 to $430.

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Shares of Triumph Group, Inc. (NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/TGI#NYSE">TGI</a>) rose sharply in today's pre-market trading after the company agreed to be acquired by affiliates of Warburg Pincus and Berkshire Partners in an all-cash transaction valued at <a href="https://www.benzinga.com/quote/TGI">approximately $3 billion.</a>
Triumph Group shares jumped 36.5% to $25.57 in the pre-market trading session.
Here are some other stocks moving in pre-market trading.
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Gainers</h3>
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<li>MDJM Ltd (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/UOKA#NASDAQ">UOKA</a>) gained 194% to $0.3822 in pre-market trading.</li>
<li>Reborn Coffee, Inc. (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/REBN#NASDAQ">REBN</a>) rose 65.6% to $5.47 in pre-market trading after jumping more than 62% on Friday.</li>
<li>Blue Hat Interactive Entertainment Technology (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/BHAT#NASDAQ">BHAT</a>) gained 41% to $0.0509 in pre-market trading after declining around 10% on Friday.</li>
<li>SilverBox Corp IV (NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/SBXD#NYSE">SBXD</a>) gained 33.8% to $13.50 in pre-market trading.</li>
<li>William Penn Bancorporation (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/WMPN#NASDAQ">WMPN</a>) shares jumped 24.7% to $15.74 in pre-market trading.</li>
<li>Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Limited (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/KC#NASDAQ">KC</a>) rose 17.3% to $14.75 in pre-market trading after declining 5% on Friday.</li>
<li>Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/SHEN#NASDAQ">SHEN</a>) gained 10.2% to $11.90 in pre-market trading. Glo Fiber, powered by Shenandoah Telecommunications, announced the expansion of its fiber network in Lancaster, Ohio.</li>
<li>Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/SSYS#NASDAQ">SSYS</a>) shares climbed 9.2% to $10.17 in pre-market trading. Stratasys reported preliminary fourth-quarter revenue of $150.1 million to $150.5 million and net income of $8.1 million to $8.6 million. The company also secured a $120 million investment from Fortissimo Capital, strengthening balance sheet for growth.</li>
<li>GH Research PLC (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/GHRS#NASDAQ">GHRS</a>) gained 6.5% to $11.29 in pre-market trading after gaining over 9% on Friday.</li>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Losers</h3>
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<li>Viracta Therapeutics, Inc (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/VIRX#NASDAQ">VIRX</a>) shares fell 49.2% to $0.0770 in pre-market trading after declining over 3% on Friday.</li>
<li>Cyngn Inc. (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/CYN#NASDAQ">CYN</a>) dipped 47.2% to $0.1425 in pre-market trading after dipping 19% on Friday.</li>
<li>Heramba Electric plc (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/PITA#NASDAQ">PITA</a>) shares fell 33.2% to $0.5880 in pre-market trading.</li>
<li>Perfect Moment Ltd. (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/PMNT#NASDAQ">PMNT</a>) fell 23.7% to $0.5330 in today's pre-market trading.</li>
<li>Envirotech Vehicles, Inc. (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/EVTV#NASDAQ">EVTV</a>) shares tumbled 23.4% to $0.3477 in pre-market trading after jumping 31% on Friday. Envirotech Vehicles recently announced it has received orders for 48 vehicles to New Jersey.</li>
<li>Focus Universal Inc. (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/FCUV#NASDAQ">FCUV</a>) fell 21.4% to $4.79 in pre-market trading after gaining 62% on Friday. Focus Universal recently announced a reverse stock split.</li>
<li>Unisys Corporation (NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/UIS#NYSE">UIS</a>) fell 18.8% to $5.41 in pre-market trading. Unisys will release its fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 financial results on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, after the close of markets.</li>
<li>AleAnna, Inc. (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/ANNA#NASDAQ">ANNA</a>) fell 13.9% to $10.01 in pre-market trading.</li>
<li>Torrid Holdings Inc. (NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/CURV#NYSE">CURV</a>) declined 11.6% to $6.24 in pre-market trading after gaining 5% on Friday.</li>
<li>Kornit Digital Ltd. (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/KRNT#NASDAQ">KRNT</a>) shares dipped 6.7% to $27.10 in pre-market trading. Kornit Digital will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended Dec. 31, 2024, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.</li>
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Central Japan Railway (OTC:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/CJPRY#OTC">CJPRY</a>) reported quarterly earnings of $0.10 per share. This is a 11.11 percent increase over earnings of $0.09 per share from the same period last year. The company reported $3.24 billion in sales this quarter. This is a 5.22 percent increase over sales of $3.08 billion the same period last year.

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Central Japan Railway Q3 EPS $0.10 Up From $0.09 YoY, Sales $3.24B Up From $3.08B YoY

Loop Capital analyst Rick Paterson downgrades Union Pacific (NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/UNP#NYSE">UNP</a>) from Hold to Sell and lowers the price target from $265 to $200.

Loop Capital Downgrades Union Pacific to Sell, Lowers Price Target to $200

Shares of Michael Saylor&#8216;s MicroStrategy Inc (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/MSTR#NASDAQ">MSTR</a>) declined over 5% in premarket hours on Monday after Bitcoin (CRYPTO: <a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/quote/btc/usd">BTC</a>) <a href="https://www.benzinga.com/25/02/43425613/bitcoin-crashes-below-92000-ethereum-dogecoin-slump-as-trumps-tariff-war-spooks-investors-analyst">prices fell</a>.
What Happened: Bitcoin, along with other cryptocurrencies tumbled after President Donald Trump&#8216;s tariff war pounded the capital markets.
After falling on Sunday below $92,000 for the first time since Jan. 13, BTC recovered to 95,152.35, on Monday, still down 4.2%, during the publication of this article.
Bitcoin&#8217;s levered play MicroStrategy was down 5.81% to $315.35 per share, following the former&#8217;s decline.
This also followed Friday&#8217;s announcement of 8% 7.3 million preferred shares with a strike price of $80.00 apiece, with settlement expected on Feb. 5.
The company acquired an additional 10,107 Bitcoin this week, extending its buying spree to twelve consecutive weeks and bringing its total holdings to 471,107 BTC.
The cryptocurrency market, along with equity futures struggled as Trump <a href="https://www.benzinga.com/economics/macro-economic-events/25/01/43398182/trumps-25-tariffs-could-slaughter-canada-mexico-economies-hit-us-auto-industry-analysts-warn">imposed tariffs</a> on major trade partners, a decision that could disrupt crucial supply chains throughout North America and affect economies. 
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Why It Matters: Saylor was featured on the Forbes front cover last week titled &#8220;The Bitcoin Alchemist.&#8221; Ed Yardeni and Eric Wallerstein in their QuickTakes note mentioned that &#8220;the magazine has also featured a few rising stars who subsequently crashed and burned.&#8221;
After BTC&#8217;s Sunday crash, the note stated, &#8220;In any event: We have been warned.&#8221;
The exchange-traded fund, Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/QQQ#NASDAQ">QQQ</a>) tracking Nasdaq 100 declined 1.60% to $513.92. MSTR underperformed the gauge by falling 5.08% to $317.78 per share.
Mizuho recently initiated coverage on the company with an ‘outperform' rating and a $515 price target, describing it as a "Lever for the Believer" in Bitcoin.
The average price target among 13 <a href="https://www.benzinga.com/quote/MSTR/analyst-ratings">analysts tracked by Benzinga</a> is $454.54 with a ‘buy' rating. The estimates range from $690 to $140 apiece. Recent ratings from Mizuho, Benchmark, and Benchmark suggest a $605 target, implying a potential upside of 91.85%.
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Loop Capital analyst Rick Paterson downgrades FedEx (NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/FDX#NYSE">FDX</a>) from Buy to Hold and lowers the price target from $365 to $283.

Loop Capital Downgrades FedEx to Hold, Lowers Price Target to $283

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Johnson Outdoors (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/JOUT#NASDAQ">JOUT</a>) reported quarterly losses of $(1.49) per share which missed the analyst consensus estimate of $(1.30) by 14.62 percent. This is a 492.11 percent decrease over earnings of $0.38 per share from the same period last year. The company reported quarterly sales of $107.65 million which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $104.73 million by 2.79 percent. This is a 22.36 percent decrease over sales of $138.64 million the same period last year.

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Johnson Outdoors Q1 EPS $(1.49) Misses $(1.30) Estimate, Sales $107.65M Beat $104.73M Estimate

Jefferies analyst Suneet Kamath downgrades Brighthouse Finl (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/BHF#NASDAQ">BHF</a>) from Buy to Hold and announces $64 price target.

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Jefferies Downgrades Brighthouse Finl to Hold, Announces $64 Price Target

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US Stocks Likely To Open Lower As Trump Imposes Tariffs On China, Canada, And Mexico: Expert Notes Feb Worst Month In Post-Election Years

East Japan Railway (OTC:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/EJPRY#OTC">EJPRY</a>) reported quarterly earnings of $0.07 per share. This is a 65 percent decrease over earnings of $0.20 per share from the same period last year. The company reported $4.80 billion in sales this quarter. This is a 1.12 percent increase over sales of $4.75 billion the same period last year.

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East Japan Railway Q3 EPS $0.07 Down From $0.20 YoY, Sales $4.80B Up From $4.75B YoY

Jefferies analyst Surinder Thind downgrades Sapiens Intl Corp (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/SPNS#NASDAQ">SPNS</a>) from Buy to Hold and lowers the price target from $36 to $28.

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Jefferies Downgrades Sapiens Intl Corp to Hold, Lowers Price Target to $28

Jefferies analyst Surinder Thind upgrades SS&amp;C Techs Hldgs (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/SSNC#NASDAQ">SSNC</a>) from Hold to Buy and raises the price target from $70 to $94.

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Jefferies Upgrades SS&C Techs Hldgs to Buy, Raises Price Target to $94

The Q3 earnings report for Kyocera (OTC:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/KYOCY#OTC">KYOCY</a>) was released on Monday, February 3, 2025 at 02:00 AM.
Here's what investors need to know about the latest announcement.
<h3>Earnings</h3>
Kyocera missed estimated earnings by -162.0%, reporting an EPS of $-0.08 versus an estimate of $0.13.
Revenue was down $194.00 million from the same period last year.
<h3>Performance in Previous Earnings</h3>
The company missed on EPS by $0.08 in the last quarter, resulting in a 4.0% drop share price change the following day.

To track all earnings releases for Kyocera <a href="https://www.benzinga.com/quote/KYOCY/earnings">visit their earnings calendar here.</a> 
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Kyocera (OTC:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/KYOCY#OTC">KYOCY</a>) reported quarterly losses of $(0.08) per share which missed the analyst consensus estimate of $0.13 by 161.54 percent. This is a 150 percent decrease over earnings of $0.16 per share from the same period last year. The company reported quarterly sales of $3.24 billion which missed the analyst consensus estimate of $3.28 billion by 1.22 percent. This is a 5.65 percent decrease over sales of $3.43 billion the same period last year.

Kyocera Q3 EPS $(0.08) Misses $0.13 Estimate, Sales $3.24B Miss $3.28B Estimate

Telsey Advisory Group analyst Dana Telsey maintains Peloton Interactive (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/PTON#NASDAQ">PTON</a>) with a Market Perform and maintains $11 price target.

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Telsey Advisory Group Maintains Market Perform on Peloton Interactive, Maintains $11 Price Target

U.S. stocks settled lower on Friday, with the Dow Jones index falling more than 300 points during the session.
Wall Street analysts make new stock picks on a daily basis. Unfortunately for investors, not all analysts have particularly impressive track records at predicting market movements. Even when it comes to one single stock, analyst ratings and price targets can vary widely, leaving investors confused about which analyst&#8217;s opinion to trust.
Benzinga&#8217;s Analyst Ratings API is a collection of the highest-quality stock ratings curated by the Benzinga news desk via direct partnerships with major sell-side banks. Benzinga displays overnight ratings changes on a daily basis three hours prior to the U.S. equity market opening. Data specialists at investment dashboard provider Toggle.ai recently uncovered that the analyst insights Benzinga Pro subscribers and Benzinga readers regularly receive can successfully be used as trading indicators to outperform the stock market.
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Analyst: Trevor Walsh
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<li>Analyst Firm: JMP Securities</li>
<li>Ratings Accuracy: 90%</li>
<li>Latest Rating: Maintained a Market Outperform rating on Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/PL#NYSE">PL</a>) and raised the price target from $4.5 to $6.5 on Jan. 30. This analyst sees around 11% upside in the stock.</li>
<li>Recent News: On Jan. 29, Planet signed a $230 million commercial agreement for Pelican Satellites.</li>
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Analyst: Zachary Fadem
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<li>Analyst Firm: Wells Fargo</li>
<li>Ratings Accuracy: 86%</li>
<li>Latest Rating: Maintained an Equal-Weight rating on Brinker International, Inc. (NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/EAT#NYSE">EAT</a>) and increased the price target from $145 to $175 on Jan. 30. This analyst sees a 3% decline in the stock.</li>
<li>Recent News: On Jan. 29, Brinker International reported better-than-expected second-quarter results.</li>
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Analyst: Alexander Paris 
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<li>Analyst Firm: Barrington Research</li>
<li>Ratings Accuracy: 86%</li>
<li>Latest Rating: Maintained an Outperform rating on Adtalem Global Education Inc. (NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/ATGE#NYSE">ATGE</a>) and increased price target from $115 to $120 on Jan. 31. This analyst sees around 12% upside in the stock.</li>
<li>Recent News: On Jan. 30, Adtalem Global Education reported better-than-expected second-quarter financial results and raised its FY25 guidance.</li>
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Analyst: Rob Owens
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<li>Analyst Firm: Piper Sandler</li>
<li>Ratings Accuracy: 86%</li>
<li>Latest Rating: Maintained an Overweight rating on Atlassian Corporation (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/TEAM#NASDAQ">TEAM</a>) and raised the price target from $310 to $365 on Jan. 31. This analyst sees around 21% surge in the stock.</li>
<li>Recent News: On Jan. 30, Atlassian reported better-than-expected second-quarter financial results.</li>
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Analyst: Andres Sheppard
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<li>Analyst Firm: Cantor Fitzgerald</li>
<li>Ratings Accuracy: 85%</li>
<li>Latest Rating: Maintained a Neutral rating on Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/TSLA#NASDAQ">TSLA</a>) and boosted the price target from $365 to $425 on Jan. 30. This analyst sees more than 8% upside in the stock.</li>
<li>Recent News: Tesla has started production of its refreshed Model Y across its four factories around the globe including its gigafactory in Texas, the company said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.</li>
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We live in a world where facts dissolve into fiction faster than ever. A new plague of deception—fueled not by biology but by algorithms—is spreading globally. Call it the "infodemic," a storm of AI-generated lies, hyper-realistic deepfakes, and synthetic documents, many originating from Chinese tech labs. As those AI tools become increasingly sophisticated in deception, they can corrode trust in more than one way, posing risks to democracy, art, our finances and even love. With elections in over 50 nations looming by 2025, the stakes are existential.
Open-source AI's dark side
Currently, platforms like Midjourney and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/technology/openai-deepfake-detector.html">OpenAI's tools </a>have put safeguards in place to prevent misuse, ensuring that content like deepfakes stay out of circulation online as much as possible. However, open-source models can be fine-tuned and weaponized by those with bad intent, empowering scammers to spread disinformation, deepfakes and fraud.&nbsp;
When AI steals the spotlight
The cases of AI scams are probably the most publicized in the entertainment industry. Hollywood in particular now battles synthetic impostors on a regular basis. Public figures must contend with the potential for their likeness to be ripped off for someone else's gain, with deepfakes infiltrating platforms like X on a daily basis, whether it's to offer fake brand endorsements or to generate scandals. This ease of creation, coupled with the vast reach of social media platforms, creates a potent combination for disseminating misinformation and scams.
But not everyone sees this as a loss. Take Grimes, who leases her voice to AI clones for royalties—a "deepfake-as-a-service" model. This begs a grim question: Do artists have to auction their identities to stay relevant?&nbsp;
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Algorithmic love lies</h3>
Famous artists aside, none of us are safe, particularly when it comes to finding real love. Forget poorly photoshopped profiles—today's catfishing involves AI-generated personas so convincing they mimic celebrities.
With Chinese platforms like DeepSeek, with reasoning capabilities equivalent to ChatGPT, and open source generators like Flux giving users an ability to generate deepfakes with remarkable accuracy, it becomes increasingly challenging for even the most digitally savvy individuals to see through a lie.&nbsp;
According to the FBI, last year 19,000 Americans fell victim to romance scams, losing $1.3 billion. Solutions like watermarking AI content exist, but without global enforcement, fraudsters thrive in the gaps.
How many more Brad Pitt deepfake scams do we need to live through before we do something about it? Platforms <a href="https://venturebeat.com/games/ai-or-not-raises-5m-to-stop-ai-fraud-deepfakes-and-misinformation/">detecting AI</a> across videos, images and texts already help millions of people verify AI generated content, helping them save their money, and even marriages in this case.&nbsp;
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Beijing's "document mills"</h3>
Another area requiring fast innovation in the realm of fraud detection is KYC scams. Open-source AI models, fine-tuned well, produce fake passports and contracts indistinguishable from real ones. These tools slip past banks' KYC checks, forcing financial institutions into an expensive arms race. Biometric-based fraud has gone up 40% in 2024 and is showing no signs of slowing down. HSBC now uses AI "detectives" to hunt forged documents—a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.
We need to start a discussion about how banks can create an actual filter protecting their customers from falling prey to the next KYC scam.&nbsp;
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Synthetic news and political manipulation</h3>
Finally, even platforms that used to signify public trust are not safe anymore. Last year, AI impersonated the BBC, publishing fabricated stories about politicians. The fallout wasn't just embarrassment—it was a warning. In 2025, as billions vote globally, such scams need to be taken more seriously. The attack won't come from hackers, but from code written in Shenzhen or Shanghai.
This is already a reality in China. For example, a disinformation <a href="https://jamestown.org/program/deepfakes-with-chinese-characteristics-prc-influence-operations-in-2024/">campaign </a>aimed at DPP presidential candidate Lai Ching-Te was flooded with deepfake content. Manipulated videos, using synthesized versions of Lai&#8217;s voice, misleadingly showed him endorsing a coalition between the KMT and TPP, and inaccurately depicted him discussing DPP scandals. While sharing content across platforms is a staple in influence operations, Beijing&#8217;s ability to shape the information landscape, particularly on Chinese social media, grows with each byte of data it gathers. This data empowers them to craft disinformation with precision, aimed at individuals based on their unique beliefs.&nbsp;
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Fighting back</h3>
In the context of sustained US-China tensions, information warfare plays an increasingly vital role in shaping perceptions and influencing outcomes. This necessitates internet users to start scrutinizing what they see online in a much greater detail, building a new habit of scanning content for synthetic fingerprints, merging human skepticism with machine precision. At the other end of the spectrum, organizations need to step up their game in how they protect their users and customers against AI fraud. Social platforms should authenticate users, and banks must start investigating API integrations for creating additional security layers preventing KYC failures.
While Western regulators ponder changes at a snail's pace, making very little progress in the past 10 years, Chinese AI firms export tools that turbocharge disinformation in a way that makes it impossible to discern what's real, and the time to act is now.
The infodemic feeds on indifference. Without action, we'll inhabit a world where authenticity is extinct—a place where every video, voice, or contract could be a lie. The antidote? Licensing models to credit creators, detection tech to expose fakes, and ethical guardrails for AI platforms. By 2026, we'll learn whether we are able to tame this crisis—or if&nbsp; it will consume us.

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