AI-powered fraud now accounts for 40% of data breaches, driving global losses past $534 billion annually, as tools like FraudGPT fuel synthetic identities and deepfakes — forcing companies like OpenAI and TransUnion into an urgent AI-versus-AI arms race to fight back.
Google is relaunching the Fitbit app as Google Health on May 19, featuring a redesigned interface and an AI-powered coaching tool built with Gemini that delivers personalized fitness, sleep, and medical insights — with existing users automatically transitioned and Google reaffirming it will never use health data for ads.
The Golden Globes announce new AI eligibility rules, permitting AI-assisted productions while banning AI-generated performances, unauthorized digital likeness use, and voice replication, as human creative authorship must remain the driving force.
Meta deploys AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect and remove users under 13 by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues in photos, just days after a New Mexico jury orders the company to pay $375 million for failing to protect minors on its platforms.
Taylor Swift makes an unprecedented legal move by trademarking her voice and stage image to combat AI deepfakes, as legal experts call it an untested but emerging strategy addressing critical gaps that copyright law alone cannot fill.
Sam Altman's World launches a full-stack human verification system at its Lift Off event, partnering with Match Group, Zoom, DocuSign, and Razer to combat bots, deepfakes, and AI impersonation across dating, video calls, document signing, gaming, and AI agent workflows.
DoorDash is paying delivery workers to film their surroundings and record their voices for AI training through a new feature called Tasks, but security experts warn the biometric and spatial data collected can never be deleted once embedded in AI systems, raising serious privacy alarms for participants and bystanders alike.
World and Coinbase launch AgentKit beta, enabling verified humans to delegate their World ID to AI agents, creating cryptographically-backed 'human-backed agents' that combat Sybil attacks and bring trust to an increasingly autonomous agentic web.
Discord delays its global age verification rollout to 2026 after user backlash, promising expanded options including credit card verification and on-device facial estimation, while maintaining compliance in countries like the UK and Australia where legal requirements already exist.
Apple acquires Israeli AI startup Q.ai for nearly $2 billion in its second-largest deal ever, gaining revolutionary technology that reads facial expressions and micro-movements to enable silent speech communication with Siri through future headphones and glasses.