Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Thursday October 17th, 2024 and we begin with

Shrinkflation unshrinking in the face of frustrated customers.

Pepsi co, the owner of Lays, Doritos,

Tostitos, and Ruffles, says it will put more chips in some bags

to lure back shoppers tired of paying more for less.

Customer Protection Site Consumer World

found that some versions of the tostitos and Ruffles chips

shrank by as much as two ounces over the past years,

and says the reversal is overdue.

It's about time, said one consumer world official,

chip lovers have suffered through years of downsizing.

PepsiCo, the largest manufacturer of salty snacks in the US

says declining snack sales this year prompted the decision.

According to CNN, experts expect the company's competitors to follow suit.

With the competitors to follow suit.

With the race for the White House neck and neck, artificial intelligence is getting in

on the action in what could be a dangerous way. Experts tell the Washington Post they are working to weed out audio

impersonations or so-called deep fakes of both Vice President

Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump that could confuse

voters in the days leading up to the election. More than 30 states have

introduced measures to ban election-related dupes but enforcers don't always get it right.

Here are some tells everyday listeners can look out for.

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