Scammers are increasingly turning to AI-generated celebrity deepfakes to make fraud feel familiar, personal, and urgent—an approach that’s now showing up in TikTok ads. According to authentication company Copyleaks, the latest wave of scams uses realistic videos featuring well-known public…
Meet Shapes is positioning itself as something more than a chatbot wrapper. Instead of treating AI as a separate tool you summon when you need an answer, the app brings AI characters into the same social space as other people—turning…
Artificial intelligence is often introduced to the public as a kind of magic—something that “understands,” “predicts,” or “creates” with little explanation of what happens between the input and the output. But in the real economy, AI rarely arrives as a…
China has reportedly hit the brakes on the next wave of robotaxi expansion. According to Bloomberg, regulators have suspended new licenses for autonomous vehicles following a high-profile disruption involving Baidu’s driverless taxis in Wuhan last month. The decision, described by…
GitHub’s security team moved with unusual speed last month after researchers reported a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability tied to the company’s internal git infrastructure. According to GitHub’s own account of the incident, the work—from initial validation to deployment—was…
Scout AI’s latest funding round—reported at $100 million—lands with a particular kind of momentum: not just more money for a model, but more runway for an entire approach to building AI systems that can operate in the messy, time-sensitive world…
General Motors is preparing a major AI upgrade for millions of drivers, and it’s doing it the way modern carmakers increasingly do everything: over the air. The company says it will bring Google’s Gemini AI assistant to roughly four million…
Robotaxis are no longer a novelty that lives only in carefully fenced test zones. Over the past few years, the industry has moved from “can it drive?” to “can it drive reliably, at scale, across many cities, in many weather…
Memory chipmakers are beginning to hear a new kind of request from their biggest customers—one that sounds less like a negotiation and more like a risk-management plan. According to recent comments from SK hynix and Samsung, buyers who once treated…
In court on Tuesday, Elon Musk did something he has done many times outside of it: he told a familiar story about an earlier personal relationship—one he’s recounted in interviews and in conversations with Walter Isaacson while Isaacson was writing…
Today marked the start of Musk v. Altman, with the first witness sworn in and Elon Musk himself taking a seat that—at least from the perspective of observers in the courtroom—seemed to draw more attention than the opening moments of…
Elon Musk’s first moments on the witness stand in the OpenAI case with Sam Altman were not delivered like a typical corporate deposition. They were delivered like a narrative—one that began long before any of the companies at the center…