An AI Avatar Just Fooled Nearly Half the People Who Talked to It
Tavus says its new Griffin model convinced 26 of 54 people they were talking to a real human during a one-minute video call, up from 2.4% for its…
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A Japanese Car-Sharing App Just Confirmed 6.6 Million Accounts Were Exposed
Times Car, a major Japanese car-sharing service, confirmed an attacker had access to its systems for nearly a…
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Amazon Wants Investors to Buy Its Nvidia Chips So It Can Keep Using Them
Amazon is reportedly exploring an $8 billion deal that would shift ownership of its newest Nvidia AI chips…
A Federal Judge Just Spared Google’s Ad Business From a Breakup, With Strings Attached
Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected the Justice Department's push to force Google to sell off its ad exchange, ordering…
Meta Parts Ways With the AI Safety Team It Poached Four Months Ago
Four months after pulling three co-founders of AI security startup Virtue AI into its Superintelligence Labs, Meta has…
Tesla Now Lets You Drive Away From a Supercharger Still Plugged In
Tesla added a feature called Emergency Drive Away that lets drivers shift into Drive while still plugged into…
New Mexico Wants $40 Billion From Meta Over Cambridge Analytica, Again
New Mexico asked a judge to order Meta to pay between $35 billion and $40 billion in penalties…
Google Just Told Website Owners: Fact-Check Your AI Content or Else
Google updated its help documentation on AI-generated content, adding language calling it "critical" for site owners to manually…
Cloudflare Will Now Let You Charge AI Agents by the Request, Paid in Crypto
Cloudflare moved two new products into beta on September 30: Monetization Gateway, which lets websites charge AI agents…
Your Next Galaxy Phone Costs More Because Robots Need RAM Too
Samsung raised the price of every Galaxy S26 model by $100 in the US, citing rising memory chip…
A Federal Judge Just Told Publishers Their Google Traffic Was Never Promised to Anyone
A federal judge dismissed Penske Media's antitrust lawsuit against Google over AI Overviews, ruling that publishers never had…
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