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Apple Inc. faces a $32.5 billion class action lawsuit alleging that its Photos app collected Illinois residents' biometric data through facial recognition without proper written consent, violating the Illinois Biometric …
Apple briefly removed Telegram from the iOS App Store on Monday after finding content that violated its guidelines prohibiting child sexual abuse material, but restored the app within hours after Telegram removed the con…
Parents across the U.S. are increasingly upset as grandparents gift their grandchildren AI-generated picture books, often created without consent using family photos and names, according to a Wired report. Services like …
Donors are holding AI wealth at enormous risk while giving it away at close to minimum risk, according to a donation adviser's Substack piece. The adviser recommends de-risking the wealth that funds giving, diversifying …
At least 37 people have been arrested in U.S. protests over AI data centers this year, according to a report from Futurism. The arrests occurred in communities across the country, including Oklahoma, Indiana, and Kansas,…
Kim Seong-kon, a columnist for The Korea Herald, warns that Generations Alpha and Beta, born from 2010 onward, will face a future dominated by AI competition, democratic erosion, totalitarian surveillance, and post-truth…
Elon University launched its first AI Play camp in June, where middle school students played tic-tac-toe by writing and following fixed instructions to mimic AI agents, highlighting a shift in children's play as generati…
Hobby programming communities such as OSDev, LangDev, and the demoscene are increasingly hostile toward LLM usage, viewing it as a form of cheating that undermines the hard-fought process of mastering difficult fields. T…
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said an extortionist planted AI-modified child sexual abuse material to manipulate Apple into briefly removing Telegram from the App Store on Monday night for about 40 minutes. Durov warned of a …
Apple Inc. filed a 41-page lawsuit in Northern California federal court on July 10, accusing OpenAI of orchestrating a systematic effort to steal trade secrets related to hardware designs and manufacturing processes thro…
A growing body of legal scholarship argues that large language model outputs are not 'speech' under the First Amendment, potentially allowing stricter regulation, according to Lawfare. In Garcia v. Character Technologies…
Enterprises deploying AI agents face runaway costs and security risks without proper governance, warns a new technical guide from Kusum Singh. The article details how a single rogue agent can incur $500K per month in exp…
Western Union launched Stablecard, a Rain-powered Visa card that lets users hold and spend dollar-backed stablecoins anywhere Visa is accepted, as part of its broader digital asset strategy that includes the USDPT stable…
Artificial intelligence now powers over 80% of digital advertising decisions, with the AI-driven ad tech market projected to reach $370 billion by 2028 and 40% of ad creative AI-assisted. The systems use collaborative fi…
California actor Mario Lopez faced online backlash and deleted an AI-generated video of his niece Kalia “YaYa” Wong after viewers described it as “creepy” and accused it of sexualizing her. The video, shared on X and Ins…
OpenAI's first-ever brand trip, which sent influencers to the luxury Wildflower Farms resort in New York's Hudson Valley to promote its new ChatGPT Work tool, sparked online backlash as commenters accused the creators of…
LiteLLM, an AI gateway that routes requests between applications and LLM providers, is vulnerable to hijacking attacks that can intercept conversations, steal API keys, and manipulate responses, according to a security a…
OpenAI has responded to Apple's trade-secret lawsuit, calling it 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal' and arguing that Apple's own security lapses allowed former employees to access its systems. OpenAI released reda…
OpenAI published a blog post on Monday titled 'Apple is getting this wrong,' rebutting Apple's trade-secret lawsuit and accusing the iPhone maker of presenting a misleading account. The post highlighted errors in Apple's…
At least 15 attackers have exploited a Coldcard vulnerability, with estimated losses growing to $100 million across three confirmed attack waves, according to Galaxy Research, citing new victim reports. Galaxy Digital's …