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On May 7, 2026, Telegram became the first billion-user messaging platform to enable native, direct communication between autonomous AI bots — a capability that developers and AI researchers have ...

This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Law enforcement bodies are looking into the activity of a deepfake bot, which is believed to have been used to produce explicit images of underage girls.

Update: Telegram has informed Business Today that it has removed the bot. Here's the official statement from Telegram: The distribution of private data (doxing) is ...