Author
Devin Brooks
Reporter, Benchmark Lab
Devin focuses on benchmark integrity and translates technical evaluation details into plain-language takeaways.
Profile
- Beat: Benchmark design, reproducibility checks, and model-evaluation caveats
- Based in: Chicago, IL
- Background: Tracks how benchmark claims hold up under reruns and documents setup differences that affect results.
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Stories by Devin Brooks
- Real-Time AI Video Generation Arrives — and So Do the Deepfake Fears (3/21/2026)
- Blackburn Unveils 300-Page Federal AI Bill Targeting Copyright and Deepfakes (3/18/2026)
- EU AI Act Deepfake Labeling Requirements Take Effect August 2026 (3/15/2026)
- Senate GOP Deploys Hyper-Realistic AI Deepfake of Texas Candidate in Midterm Ad (3/13/2026)
- DEFIANCE Act Clears Senate Unanimously, Awaits House Vote on Deepfake Civil Remedies (3/8/2026)
- Pentagon Threatens to Invoke Defense Production Act Against Anthropic Over AI Guardrails (2/24/2026)
- OpenAI Expands Sora Image-to-Video with People Under New Guardrails (2/24/2026)
- Runway Gen-4.5 Faces Early Tests on Prompt Adherence (2/24/2026)
- Quality Is Sexy, but Cost per Second Is Quietly Running the Whole Market (2/23/2026)
- Benchmark Hype Is Out, Reproducibility Receipts Are In (2/23/2026)
- Watermarks Help, But Provenance Is Still a Full-Stack Problem (2/23/2026)
- Deepfake News Cycles Need a Correction Culture, Not Just Faster Publishing (2/23/2026)
- Court Blocks OpenAI From Using "Cameo" Name, Forcing Another Product Reset (2/17/2026)
- Platform Response Still Lags as Nudify Tooling Quality Improves (1/27/2026)
- Nudify Tooling Gets Darker, Raising Immediate Harm Risks for Synthetic Video (1/26/2026)
- False-ID Incident Raises the Verification Bar for Synthetic Video Coverage (1/24/2026)
- California Deepfake and AI Transparency Laws Take Effect January 1 (1/1/2026)
- Study Finds Over 20% of Videos Shown to New YouTube Users Are AI Slop (12/27/2025)
- Three Key Copyright Decisions From 2025 Set the Stage for AI Video Litigation in 2026 (12/23/2025)
- Pulitzer Winner and Journalists Sue OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Three Others Over Training Data (12/22/2025)
- TikTok Drops New Community Guidelines With Stricter AI Content Labeling (12/4/2025)