In a bid to boost US dominance in artificial intelligence, President Trump unveils an 'AI Action Plan' that seeks to cut environmental regulations for faster construction of AI supercomputers and data centers while promoting 'American values' to counter perceived liberal bias in AI systems.
Meta purges 135,000 Instagram accounts exploiting minors and bolsters safeguards for teenage users, taking action amid growing scrutiny over child safety on social media platforms.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of an 'impending, significant fraud crisis' as AI can now impersonate voices and videos, defeating voice authentication used by financial institutions, raising alarm about malicious AI development outpacing defenses.
Delta Air Lines embraces AI pricing, aiming for 20% of fares to be personalized by 2025, up from 3% currently, raising privacy concerns over potential price discrimination.
Hugging Face hosts over 5,000 AI models capable of recreating real faces, raising ethical concerns after their migration from Civitai, a platform used for nonconsensual pornography.
Millions exploit harmful AI 'nudify' websites generating nonconsensual explicit images, profiting up to $36 million annually by abusing technology from US tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Cloudflare.
A vulnerability in McDonald's AI hiring chatbot McHire exposes personal data of 64 million job applicants before being swiftly fixed by the fast-food giant after researchers' notification.
McDonald's AI hiring tool leaks millions of applicants' personal data as hackers exploit security flaws to access names, emails, and phone numbers by guessing a simple password.
OpenAI fortifies defenses with measures like information tenting, biometric access controls, and offline isolation of proprietary technology to protect against corporate espionage, foreign adversaries, and internal leaks.
Google faces EU antitrust complaint as Independent Publishers Alliance accuses tech giant of exploiting web content for AI summaries in Google Search, harming publishers who cannot opt out without vanishing from search results.