Meta announced Wednesday that it is rolling out Scam Alert, an optional on-device machine learning tool for WhatsApp that flags scam messages without giving Meta or any other entity access to private …
Nvidia is collaborating with major Wall Street firms to orchestrate a financing initiative that could channel as much as $500 billion into AI infrastructure, according to a report from Inside AI. The …
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a policy statement last month that would treat ideological bias in AI systems as an 'unfair and deceptive practice' under Section 5 of the FTC Act, potentia…
Three U.S. representatives introduced the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act in late July, a bipartisan bill authored by the News/Media Alliance that would require AI stealth crawlers to disclose their ident…
A statutory definition of an AI system has applied across the European Union since 2 February 2025, and the European Commission's guidelines specify that the capacity to infer is the key condition, ex…
Public Knowledge, Fight for the Future and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed joint comments with the Federal Trade Commission on July 31, 2026, urging the agency to withdraw its proposed policy…
Cisco IT reduced toll fraud by 70% and manual investigation effort by 60% by applying AI and machine learning to its enterprise voice security, using a composite risk-scoring engine that combines rule…
The Senate Commerce Committee will mark up five bills Wednesday, including the Kids Online Safety Act, which would require online platforms to exercise 'reasonable care' in designing features for user…
The Federal Trade Commission issued a sweeping ban on foreign imports of advanced robots, including humanoids, quadrupeds, and wheeled robots, marking an expansion of the Trump administration's AI pro…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Public Knowledge, and Fight for the Future filed joint comments urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to withdraw its proposed policy statement on AI accu…
The Federal Trade Commission's proposed policy statement on AI accuracy, issued July 1 by Chairman Andrew Ferguson, has drawn First Amendment objections from Free Press and other stakeholders, who arg…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a sweeping ban on foreign imports of advanced robots, including humanoids, quadrupeds, and wheeled robots, citing national security risks from data collection…
The Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint against Hims and Hers Health, Inc., a telehealth company, over allegations related to its business practices. The FTC's action targets the company's …
AI-related fines and settlements against major technology companies have surpassed $3.5 billion since 2022, according to research compiled in 2026, with the largest single item being Anthropic's $1.5 …
The US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against telehealth company Hims and Hers, alleging it shared users' health information with Meta and Snap, including data on erectile dysfunction treatm…
Nvidia Corp. is reportedly guaranteeing $250 billion in third-party financing for OpenAI data-center expansion, a sum equal to roughly 80% of Nvidia's annual revenue, according to a skeptical analysis…
The CHATBOT Act, introduced in the U.S. Senate as S. 4407, would require all AI chatbot providers to implement federally prescribed family accounts that give parents full access to teens' conversation…
OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts originating from Cambodia that were used to facilitate fake-review job scams, as disclosed in a case study from its February 2025 threat report. The acc…
Columbia Law School's Center for Law and the Economy reported on July 30, 2026, that Amazon's Alexa for Shopping and Walmart's Sparky can detect contradictions in some 'Made in USA' listings but do no…
Time has begun serving ads to AI bots in an attempt to monetize bot traffic, with CEO Jonah Goodhart of Mobian noting that influencing AI agents could become more important than influencing humans. Se…