As major retailers develop AI assistants capable of planning and shopping tasks, a recent incident at Woolworths reveals the risks of humanising these systems, prompting calls for tighter oversight and clearer boundaries to maintain customer trust. Major retailers are racing to build AI assistants that can plan meals, organise events and take over whole shopping tasks, but an early mishap at one supermarket shows how quickly attempts to humanise those systems can backfire. Industry cheerleading for “delightfully human” agents sits uneasily alongside growing evidence that relatability experiments can leave customers unsettled rather than reassured. (Sources: Guardian, Livemint) Woolworths’ virtual assistant…
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A Swedish investigation has revealed that contractors employed by Meta in Kenya have accessed and reviewed highly sensitive first-person footage from Ray-Ban smart glasses, raising serious concerns over consent, data handling, and privacy violations, prompting regulatory scrutiny and legal action. A Swedish investigation has prompted renewed scrutiny of Meta’s Ray-Ban…
Investigations reveal that recordings from Meta’s Ray‑Ban smart glasses are routinely sent to Kenyan staff for annotation, exposing users to private moments and raising serious privacy concerns about AI data handling and transparency. Swedish investigative reporting has revealed that recordings captured by Meta’s Ray‑Ban smart glasses are routinely routed to…
Church ministers, faith leaders and researchers gather in Rome to address the escalating use of artificial intelligence in creating covert, satanic and abusive content, amid growing legal and technological challenges. Church ministers and faith leaders from across the globe are attending a week-long programme in Rome that organisers say aims…
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has begun systematically using AI-generated drafts paired with human editing, sparking discussion on the future of community journalism and trust in automated news reporting. “This article was produced with assistance from AI tools and reviewed by Cleveland.com staff,” reads the note appended to each piece the…
Optometrists are moving beyond novelty, integrating specialist AI models into clinical practice to enhance diagnosis, education, and workflow efficiency, while emphasising the importance of regulation and clinician oversight. Optometrist Kishan Devraj used his continuing professional development session at 100% Optical to argue that artificial intelligence is moving from novelty to…
Colombia’s Supreme Court faced a paradox when its own AI detection tools flagged its ruling as largely AI-generated, exposing the limitations and reliability issues of current forensic AI technologies in legal proceedings. Colombia’s Supreme Court has dismissed a cassation appeal after concluding the filing was produced with the aid of…
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A Facebook page mimicking NZ News Hub circulates fabricated images and videos of recent New Zealand events, highlighting the rising threat of AI-generated falsehoods in journalism and social media. A Facebook page styling itself as NZ News Hub has been circulating fabricated images and synthetic video that present themselves as…
Anthropic commits to keeping its conversational AI Claude free of advertising, contrasting with OpenAI’s plans to trial ads within ChatGPT, sparking debate over trust, regulation, and business models in AI services. Anthropic has publicly vowed that its conversational AI, Claude, will remain free of advertising, setting a clear counterpoint to…
A Kansas federal court has penalised lawyers for submitting fabricated legal authorities sourced from AI tools, highlighting growing concerns over unchecked AI reliance in legal practice amid mounting sanctions across the US. A federal district judge in Kansas has imposed monetary and professional sanctions on five lawyers after finding that…
New York has enacted laws requiring disclosure of synthetic performers and consent for digital replicas of deceased persons, signalling a significant shift in AI oversight that impacts colleges, cultural institutions, and media producers from mid-2026. New York has moved to tighten transparency around artificial intelligence in advertising and to extend…
Microsoft has unveiled the Publisher Content Marketplace, a central platform designed to simplify licensing and monetisation for news publishers and AI system builders amidst a patchwork of existing arrangements and emerging models. Microsoft has unveiled a centralised licensing platform intended to bridge a growing rift between news publishers and companies…
UNICEF calls for urgent legal and technological measures to combat the surge in AI-generated sexual imagery of children, highlighting gaps in current laws and the need for international cooperation. The United Nations children’s agency has urged governments to make the creation, possession and distribution of AI-generated sexual images of children…
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