Amazon AI tool blindsides merchants by offering products without their knowledge
Sometime around Christmas, Sarah Burzio noticed that the holiday sales bump for her stationery business included some mysterious new customers: a flurry of orders from anonymous email addresses associated with Amazon.com Inc.
UK regulator opens probe into X over sexualised AI imagery
UK media regulator Ofcom on Jan 12 launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk's X over its AI chatbot Grok's image-creation feature that has been used to produce sexualised deepfakes.
Apple chooses Google's Gemini AI to power Siri
Tech giants Apple and Google announced on Jan 12 a multi-year partnership that will see Apple's next-generation artificial intelligence features, including its Siri assistant, be powered by Google's Gemini technology.
Google's Gemini seeks edge in AI for online shopping
Google on Jan 11 unveiled a new iteration of its professional Gemini AI suite geared toward online retail, seeking to create seamless interactions for shoppers from product searches to customer service.
Musk’s Grok AI blocked in Indonesia, Malaysia over sexual images
Indonesia and Malaysia restricted access to Elon Musk's Grok AI over the weekend, becoming the first countries to ban the artificial intelligence system over its generation of sexual content.
OpenAI may want users to start interacting with AI in a different way
Can OpenAI get the public to change their ways when it comes to using ChatGPT?
US woman's story of US$1mil loss held up as warning of romance scams
Health care worker Jackie Crenshaw is holding herself up as an example of how not to find true love.
Metaverse is out, while AI does the laundry: CES 2026's biggest tech
Not long since it hit peak hype in 2022, the metaverse now barely features in the latest models of smart glasses.
As a shooting unfolded at Brown University, students turned to anonymous app for answers before official alerts
When a gunman began firing inside an academic building on the Brown University campus, students didn't wait for official alerts warning of trouble. They got information almost instantly, in bits and bursts – through phones vibrating in pockets, messages from strangers, rumors that felt urgent because they might keep someone alive.
Musk's AI chatbot faces global backlash over sexualised images of women and children
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is facing a backlash from governments around the world after a recent surge in sexualised images of women and children generated without consent by the artificial intelligence-powered tool.
