deepfakes
Deepfake incidents impersonating US government officials are accelerating, with synthetic voice and video being deployed in social engineering attacks against senior figures and federal staff.
AI Agents
Stripe's Link digital wallet now supports autonomous AI agents, letting them complete purchases on behalf of users — a major step toward agentic commerce infrastructure.
Spotify
Spotify is rolling out a 'Verified by Spotify' badge to help listeners distinguish human-made music from AI-generated tracks, as synthetic audio floods streaming platforms.
AI Infrastructure
Hyperscalers' Q1 2026 earnings validated massive AI infrastructure bets — and immediately raised the spending ceiling again. Here's what Google, Microsoft, and Meta's accelerating CapEx means for the AI compute landscape.
Alphabet
Alphabet is signaling another major capital expenditure expansion through 2027 to meet what it calls 'unprecedented' AI demand, with implications for compute capacity powering Gemini, Veo, and the broader generative media stack.
deepfake detection
A new public-private R&D working group has launched to coordinate deepfake detection, response protocols, and digital authenticity research across government and industry stakeholders.
OpenAI
ChatGPT app downloads are decelerating as competition intensifies from Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude, raising questions about OpenAI's growth narrative ahead of a potential IPO.
AI Personas
Shapes is a new messaging app that places customizable AI characters directly into group chats alongside human users, raising fresh questions about synthetic personas and digital authenticity in everyday conversations.
DeepSeek
Chinese tech giants are scrambling for Huawei's Ascend AI chips following DeepSeek's V4 launch, signaling a strategic pivot away from Nvidia hardware and reshaping the global AI compute landscape.
OpenAI
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are heading to a high-stakes courtroom battle over OpenAI's transformation from nonprofit to commercial powerhouse, with implications for AI governance and competition.
AI Safety
A new research approach evaluates whether generative models have been fine-tuned for harmful content like CSAM without requiring the models to actually produce such content, offering a safer auditing pathway for AI safety teams.
Anthropic
Anthropic is partnering with Adobe and other creative platforms to integrate Claude into design and content workflows, expanding the AI assistant's footprint in creative production tooling.