Bay Area mother loses thousands to AI voice cloning kidnapping scam
A Bay Area mother lost thousands of dollars to a sophisticated scam using AI voice cloning to mimic her daughter's voice in a fake kidnapping scheme.

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A Bay Area mother lost thousands of dollars to a sophisticated scam using AI voice cloning to mimic her daughter's voice in a fake kidnapping scheme.

Ferrari and IBM are leveraging AI to transform the official Ferrari fan app, using data-driven storytelling to deepen engagement with global F1 fans.

NVIDIA introduces Gated DeltaNet-2, a linear attention layer that decouples erase and write gates to improve memory efficiency and long-context retrieval.

Pope Leo XIV will release 'Magnifica Humanitas,' an encyclical on AI and human dignity, joined by Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah at the Vatican.

Researchers have identified a vulnerability in Claude Code's network sandbox that could allow AI agents to bypass security boundaries and access unauthorized...
Microsoft Research unveils Fara1.5, a family of browser agents (4B, 9B, 27B) that outperform OpenAI and Gemini models on the Online-Mind2Web benchmark.

South Korean police are seeking an arrest warrant for a YouTuber accused of using AI-generated audio and fake evidence to defame actor Kim Soo-hyun.

OpenAI's reasoning model has achieved a breakthrough on Paul Erdős's planar unit distance problem, marking a milestone in AI-assisted mathematical research.

Alibaba introduces Qwen3.7-Max, a reasoning agent model featuring a 1M-token context window and enhanced autonomous execution for complex coding and workflows.

The Angeline development in Florida is the first community to use AI-powered robotic beehives to monitor health and reduce colony collapse by 70%.

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