Cybersecurity

Lawmakers and victims criticize the choice to limit Grok’s AI image generation to paid users as ‘insulting’ and ‘not effective’

The restriction comes as regulators worldwide threaten enforcement action over Grok’s generation of thousands of non-consensual deepfakes per hour.

By Beatrice Nolan

January 9, 2026

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Netflix’s $82.7 billion rags-to-riches story: How the a DVD-by-mail company swallowed Hollywood

By Natalie Jarvey

Gen Z is rebelling against the economy with ‘disillusionomics,’ tackling near 6-figure debt by turning life into a giant list of income streams

By Jacqueline Munis

Colgate-Palmolive CHRO Sally Massey

Despite getting flak for being woke and lazy, an exec at $62 billion giant Colgate says Gen Z workers are actually ‘pushing us to get better’

By Emma Burleigh

Young businessman walks through a station to catch public transportation to get to his job while talking on the phone and drinking coffee.

L’Oreal exec tells Gen Z to be that person who grabs their manager’s coffee—instead of making you look junior, she says it can get you noticed

By Orianna Rosa Royle

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Feds are hunting teenage hacking groups like ‘Scattered Spider’ who have targeted $1 trillion worth of the Coins2Day 500 since 2022

By Amanda Gerut

January 1, 2026

Sam Altman, standing in front of a large window, gestures with one hand and furrows his brow as he speaks.

OpenAI is hiring a ‘head of preparedness’ with a $550,000 salary to mitigate AI dangers that CEO Sam Altman warns will be ‘stressful’

By Sasha Rogelberg

December 29, 2025

Gen Zers and millennials flock to so-called analog islands ‘because so little of their life feels tangible’

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Gen Zers and millennials flock to so-called analog islands ‘because so little of their life feels tangible’

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press

December 28, 2025

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Ex-Palantir turned politician Alex Bores says AI deepfakes are a ‘solvable problem’ if we bring back a free, decades-old technique

December 27, 2025

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2026 will be the year you get fooled by a deepfake, researcher says. Voice cloning has crossed the ‘indistinguishable threshold’

By Siwei Lyu and The Conversation

December 27, 2025

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Trump administration bars 5 prominent Europeans from the U.S., accusing them of pressuring tech firms to ‘censor’ American speech

By Beatrice Nolan

December 24, 2025

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OpenAI says prompt injections that can trick AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas may never be fully ‘solved’—experts say risks are ‘a feature not a bug’

By Beatrice Nolan

December 23, 2025

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Notorious crypto con man Sam Bankman-Fried has a prison passion project: giving legal advice to other inmates

By Carlos Garcia

December 22, 2025

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13-year-old girl attacked a boy showing an AI-generated nude image of her. She was expelled

By Heather Hollingsworth, Jack Brook and The Associated Press

December 22, 2025

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It’s starting to look like we’ll never come up with a good way to tell what was written by AI and what was written by humans

By Ambuj Tewari and The Conversation

December 22, 2025

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‘He blew this case right open’: Reddit tipster identified only as ‘John’ had a strange encounter at Brown University

By Kimberlee Kruesi and The Associated Press

December 19, 2025

TikTok

TikTok agrees U.S. joint venture deal with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX

By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press

December 19, 2025

Luigi

‘It seemed preposterous on its face’: Altoona cop’s supervisor said he’d buy his favorite hoagie moments before Luigi Mangione arrest

By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz and The Associated Press

December 18, 2025

Bill Gates

House Democrats release more Epstein photos, including Bill Gates and a dinner full of wealthy philanthropists

By Stephen Groves and The Associated Press

December 18, 2025

Sam Altman

OpenAI is a house still under construction — but no one agrees what it’s made of

By Sharon Goldman

December 18, 2025

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North Korea stole a record amount of crypto—again: report estimates its hackers’ 2025 haul at $2 billion

By Carlos Garcia

December 18, 2025

DOJ

$1 billion fraud revealed with guilty pleas from subprime auto lender Tricolor

By Larry Neumeister and The Associated Press

December 17, 2025

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The Trump administration says it could go after Spotify if Europe doesn’t back off American tech companies

December 17, 2025

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Britain’s defense chief calls on Gen Z grads leaving university to skip corporate jobs and join the military as war with Russia becomes a growing risk

By Emma Burleigh

December 17, 2025

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The word of the year is ‘slop,’ Merriam-Webster says

By Anna Furman and The Associated Press

December 15, 2025

Former Meta integrity chief says new report reveals ‘disappointing’ ad fraud epidemic at the social media giant

Former Meta integrity chief says new report reveals ‘disappointing’ ad fraud epidemic at the social media giant

By Lily Mae Lazarus

December 15, 2025

Businesses face a confusing patchwork of AI policy and rules. Is clarity on the horizon?

Businesses face a confusing patchwork of AI policy and rules. Is clarity on the horizon?

December 15, 2025

AI coding tools exploded in 2025. The first security exploits show what could go wrong

AI coding tools exploded in 2025. The first security exploits show what could go wrong

By Sage Lazzaro

December 15, 2025

Making nightmares into reality: AI finds fans in the Islamic State, other militant and terrorist other groups worldwide

By David Klepper and The Associated Press

December 15, 2025

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Judge tells notorious crypto scammer ‘you have been bitten by the crypto bug’ in handing down 15 year sentence

By Carlos Garcia

December 12, 2025

BLM

Black Lives Matter leader in Oklahoma City indicted on claims she used funds for vacations, groceries and real estate

By Sean Murphy and The Associated Press

December 12, 2025

Stephanie Zhan, Partner Sequoia Capital speaking on stage at Coins2Day Brainstorm AI San Francisco 2025.

Highlights from Coins2Day Brainstorm AI San Francisco

December 11, 2025

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Google illegally scraped the web to fix its AI problems and catch up to OpenAI, European regulators probe

By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press

December 11, 2025

Luigi

Pluck eyebrows. Avoid surveillance cameras: Luigi Mangione’s to-do list as he tried to avoid arrest revealed in court

By Michael R. Sisak and The Associated Press

December 10, 2025

Coupang CEO resigns over historic South Korean data breach

Coupang CEO resigns over historic South Korean data breach

By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg

December 10, 2025

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