A California state senator has introduced a bill to ban the sale of AI chatbot-enabled toys for four years. The move follows incidents where such toys gave dangerous advice to children. The bill’s fate is uncertain, facing potential veto from the governor.
California has launched its Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP), allowing residents to request personal data deletion from over 500 registered data brokers in one go. The system is live now, but the real enforcement and heavy fines for non-compliance don’t kick in until August 2026.
Meta has officially updated its privacy policy to use data from user interactions with its AI services, like the Meta AI chatbot, for targeted ads. The change, announced in October, has prompted a coalition of 36 advocacy groups to call for an FTC investigation. Over a billion people use Meta AI mon
Poland has formally asked the European Commission to investigate TikTok for allegedly failing to stop AI-generated Russian disinformation. The content, which has since been removed, featured calls for Poland to leave the European Union. This escalates ongoing EU scrutiny of major platforms ahead of
A lone hacker is threatening to leak a database containing information on over 2.3 million Wired subscribers. While some verification suggests the data is real, security experts warn the hacker’s motives are purely financial. Condé Nast has not yet commented on the alleged breach.
A new study reveals AI-generated human faces are now essentially impossible to distinguish from real photos. Even people trained to spot fakes performed poorly, raising serious questions about trust and misinformation online.
China’s internet regulator has proposed new measures that would force AI chatbots to get your explicit permission before using your conversations for training. The draft rules, open for feedback until late January, aim to boost safety but could slow down how quickly these AI models learn and improve
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration can proceed with a massive $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications. The decision is a major setback for U.S. tech companies that rely on the program, but legal challenges are far from over.
According to a review on XDA-Developers, the Comet browser from Perplexity uses AI to tackle research chaos. Its key features include cross-tab analysis, voice queries, and file uploads to pull data from documents. The writer found it cut down on tedious tab-hopping and manual searching.
Google has filed a lawsuit against Texas-based SerpApi, accusing it of using fake searches to scrape copyrighted material from search results. The lawsuit, filed Friday in California, follows similar action from Reddit against the same company.
