Character.AI users are flooding Reddit with complaints that recent updates have ruined the popular chatbot app, with many describing the new AI model as "lobotomized" and generic. The company has repl…
BusPatrol, a company that has installed AI-powered cameras on over 40,000 school buses across 24 states, plans to expand its surveillance system to record all passing license plates and share that dat…
A federal appellate court flagged an attorney's brief for containing fabricated case citations and fictitious quotations, the "hallmarks" of generative AI misuse, in a defamation lawsuit against membe…
BusPatrol, a company that installed AI-powered cameras in over 40,000 school buses across 24 states to ticket drivers illegally passing stopped buses, now plans to convert those cameras into automatic…
A man in Grapevine, Texas, drove his Tesla Cybertruck into a lake to test its "Wade Mode," but the vehicle became disabled and took on water. The driver, Jimmy Jack McDaniel, and his passengers, who w…
Cox Media Group (CMG) Local Solutions will pay $880,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) allegations that it falsely claimed its "Active Listening" service could use AI to capture conversation…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Cox Media Group, MindSift LLC, and 1010 Digital Works agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle allegations that they falsely claimed their "Active Li…
The Library of Leng, created by software engineer Gregor Stocks, is a searchable database that has preserved over 175,000 articles about *Magic: The Gathering* from the past 30 years. It archives cont…
The FBI is seeking to purchase nationwide access to automated license plate readers (ALPRs), which would enable the agency to track vehicle movements across the country without a warrant, according to…
University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear cameras to record first-person footage of classroom interactions, aiming to use the data to train AI models. One parent des…
Digital privacy is increasingly becoming a privilege reserved for the wealthy, as data harvesting and security breaches become normalized across society. While affluent individuals like Taylor Swift a…
According to an email viewed by 404 Media, a private conference featuring prominent members of the Iranian diaspora, including venture capitalists, tech CEOs, and the son of Iran's former leader, will…
Apple's Lockdown Mode, a security feature that restricts device functions to block cyberattacks, has gained attention after it prevented the FBI from accessing the iPhone of Washington Post journalist…