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Starting August 2, AI chatbots and deepfakes in Europe need labels. But the tougher protections, the ones that actually shield you from AI decisions in hiring a
San Francisco is forcing Apple and Google to pull apps that turn ordinary photos into fake sexual images. The scariest part? Those apps were sitting in the same
A federal appeals court just ruled that years of daily biometric scans count as one legal claim, not thousands. The math changed. Your rights didn't, but you ne
A store near you might already be scanning your face at the door. Monroe County wants retailers to say so out loud. Here's why that small ask is a much bigger d
Grocery Outlet is quietly scanning faces at Bay Area store entrances using AI software called SAFR. Shoppers in California have no legal right to be told it's h
Meta's smart-glasses app had finished facial-recognition code sitting inside it on 50 million phones, before anyone turned it on. The question nobody's asking l
Anthropic quietly started asking users for government-issued ID to use Claude. OpenAI got federal approval for GPT-5.6. The next AI fight isn't about what AI ca
A teacher in India didn't need a deepfake to have her reputation shredded online. The mere question, "is this real or AI?", did the damage. Here's why that's a
South Korea just let payment apps verify your government ID in real time. That's not just a fintech story, it's a preview of how scammers will come for you next
The next time an app asks you to verify your identity, it might not just be checking your email, it could be plugging straight into a national government ID sys
A single criminal operation ran 15,500 lookalike investment websites, complete with deepfake celebrity interviews, and your brain was the real target. Here's wh
When regular people start showing up outside AI labs asking them to slow down, that's not a tech story anymore, it's everyone's story. Here's what just changed
