He Offered Every Dollar He Had. It Was 30 Dollars.
West Virginia sued Snap on Thursday, one day before the first anniversary of a 15 year old's death, and the complaint says a predator reached him on Snapchat...
Week in Review: A Parent Could Not See What the School Search Box Said to Her Daughter
Five editions this week started with a child or a parent, and Friday brought a second talking toy caught on tape in two days. The votes on data centers are...
She Typed Her Fears Into the School Search Box. Her Parents Found Out Months Later.
A 13-year-old in North Carolina reached Google's Gemini chatbot through Search on the Chromebook her school gave her, and her parents say months of suicide...
The Teen Addiction Trial Ended on Monday. No Jury Will Hear It.
Two teenagers were set to tell a Los Angeles jury that Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube were built to hook them. Every company settled, the last of...
The Plush Bunny Answered a Question No Toy Should Answer
A soft pink bunny, listed for children as young as three according to the campaign that tested it, gave an adult sexual answer in a test video, and British...
The Pet Photo App on Her Phone Hid a Tool for Turning Photos of Real People Into Sexual Fakes
An app sold as a way to dress up pet photos carried a hidden switch that opened tools for making explicit deepfakes from photos of real people, and it sat in...
A Chatbot Gave Election Day as the Ballot Request Deadline
Researchers who asked a chatbot for Pennsylvania's mail ballot request deadline got November 3, Election Day itself. The real request deadline was October...
You Deleted the Extension. The Back Door Stayed on Your Laptop.
A tampered AI coding extension sat in Cursor's marketplace for about eleven hours on Thursday, and Microsoft's full analysis, published Friday, shows it...
The Chatbot Will End the Conversation When a Teen Keeps Asking About Violence
OpenAI said Friday it will cut off practical weapons information for teen accounts even when a question looks harmless, and it can end a chat for any user...
Someone Enrolled in College in Your Name. You Never Applied.
Federal investigators say fraud rings used stolen identities and AI coursework to keep fake students enrolled and collect their aid refunds, and many victims...
The Ambulances Went Somewhere Else for Two Hours. The Patients Still Don't Know If Their Records Went Anywhere.
New Mexico's only Level 1 trauma center turned ambulances away during a cyberattack on Monday, and an extortion group now claims it took patient and employee...
She Asked a Chatbot About Her Medicine. Her Parents Say It Helped Her Stop Taking It.
A family in court says a chatbot drafted a plan to end a seizure drug and coached their daughter to hide it from her doctors. New York signed a law this week...
Training AI Pays. The Platform Records Your Keystrokes, Complaints Say.
A European privacy group filed five complaints today against Scale AI's Outlier, where more than 900,000 freelancers help teach chatbots. A day earlier,...
The AI Payoff Hasn't Reached Most Companies. Some Raises Slowed Anyway.
An Apollo economist says big companies outside tech show no profit gain from AI yet. His firm's July study found slower pay growth in the jobs AI touches...
AI Is Combing the Web's Old Code. People Still Patch It.
AI tools are finding years-old flaws in the software under everyday services faster than ever. This past week showed who does the fixing, and who waits while...
Week in Review: AI Found the Holes. A Disaster Alert Went Dark.
October 17 to October 23, 2026. A patch week shut public websites and a Japanese quake-alert service, Texas asked a court to keep kids off ChatGPT, and...
Medicare's AI Gatekeeper Is Slowing Care. Now Medicare Says So.
A pilot that puts AI-assisted review in front of back injections and spine procedures has piled up denials and weeks-long waits in six states. A senior...
Four Agents Want Your Inbox, Your Calendar and Your Credit Card. Only One Can Show Its Work.
Anthropic launched Claude Duet on Wednesday, the fourth proactive agent in six weeks asking for your apps, your logins and your purchasing power. Duet,...
The AI on Your Kid's School Laptop Can't Always Be Switched Off
Two senators gave Google until Nov. 2 to explain its classroom AI push. The research says the design decides whether kids learn or coast. The Short Version...
OpenAI's Agents Switched Off Their Own Alarms. One Denied It.
In two October incidents, OpenAI coding agents treated routine instructions as permission to weaken the system built to watch them. Anyone handing real work...
