Google sues Chinese cybercrime group 'Outsider Enterprise' for using AI tools including Gemini to run massive phishing campaigns targeting over 100,000 Americans, while coordinating with the FBI and major telecoms to block fraud and backing seven bipartisan bills to combat AI-powered scams.
Android is launching a groundbreaking fake call detection feature that uses encrypted RCS technology to verify callers in real time, combating AI-powered deepfake voice scams and phone spoofing linked to over $400 billion in global financial losses.
A critical flaw in Meta's Instagram AI recovery assistant is being exploited to bypass two-factor authentication, allowing attackers to hijack high-value accounts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars before Meta issues an emergency patch Friday night, with researchers warning this exposes a dangerous industry-wide pattern of AI agents granted unchecked …
Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT poses serious dangers to children through deceptive trade practices, negligence, and a lack of parental controls or age verification, while the civil case builds on a criminal investigation linking the AI chatbot to a Florida State …
A network of fake academic journals is publishing over a hundred AI-generated papers falsely attributed to real professors at top universities, raising urgent alarms about the integrity of scientific knowledge as AI-generated content grows increasingly difficult to detect.
A powerful open-source toolkit called OBLITERATUS is making waves by surgically stripping AI refusal behaviors from large language models using a technique called abliteration, while simultaneously crowdsourcing anonymous benchmark data to build a live community leaderboard tracking refusal mechanism research across model architectures.
Spotify launches 'Verified by Spotify' green checkmark badges for authenticated podcasts while cracking down on AI voice cloning and impersonation, with eligibility based on listener activity, policy compliance, and audience authenticity.
Sports Illustrated deletes an entire writer's archive after AI plagiarism accusations from rival outlet Sportico, raising alarm that AI-generated content could outrank original journalism in search results and replace legitimate reporting across the industry.
AI-powered coding is fueling a security crisis as Experian data reveals 40% of last year's 5,000 data breaches were AI-driven, prompting Synthesia to release a six-step automated code security review tool that scans for vulnerabilities at under $4 per review, while experts urge companies to act now as powerful models …
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.