Chinese app 'Are You Dead Yet' rockets to number one on China's App Store by alerting emergency contacts when users fail to check in daily, attracting massive investment interest and solo dwellers seeking safety nets.
Roblox's new AI age verification system catastrophically backfires as it misidentifies children as adults and vice versa, leading to verified accounts of 9-year-olds selling for $4 on eBay while users easily fool the system with fake faces and drawings, causing chat activity to plummet 50% and developers to demand reversal …
Apple and Google announce a groundbreaking multi-year partnership that will integrate Google's Gemini AI technology into Apple's next-generation Siri and Intelligence features, promising more personalized experiences while maintaining Apple's privacy standards through on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute.
Apple unveils Apple Intelligence, a groundbreaking AI system launching across iPhone, iPad, and Mac this fall that revolutionizes Siri with natural language processing, introduces custom image and emoji creation tools, and maintains user privacy through on-device processing while integrating ChatGPT capabilities for enhanced productivity and personalization.
OpenAI partners with Common Sense Media to back California's Parents & Kids Safe AI Act ballot initiative, which would require age verification for minors using AI, ban targeted advertising to children, mandate company audits, and prohibit sharing kids' data without parental consent.
Anthropic blocks xAI from accessing Claude through third-party apps and closes loopholes that allowed users to bypass expensive API pricing, forcing high-volume customers into official commercial channels.
Protege Health secures $30 million from Andreessen Horowitz to expand its AI data marketplace that connects organizations with proprietary datasets to AI developers seeking training data, including medical records and imaging while ensuring privacy compliance.
New macOS app AgentNotch transforms your Mac's notch into a real-time dashboard for AI coding assistants, tracking Claude Code and OpenAI Codex activity, token usage, and costs with color-coded indicators while keeping all data completely local.
Millions worldwide turn to AI chatbots for therapy amid a global mental health crisis affecting over a billion people, but experts remain divided as some users find relief while others face dangerous outcomes including alleged chatbot-related suicides, raising concerns about privacy and human judgment deterioration.
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri predicts AI content will dominate social media so completely that platforms should abandon detecting fake material and instead focus on cryptographically verifying authentic camera-captured images, while urging creators to embrace raw, unflattering photos to prove their content is real.