Two billionaires appeared in ads promising a sure thing. Neither one of them ever said a word. Their faces were fake — and by the time regulators caught up, about one billion rand had vanished from ordinary people's accounts.

The last time you filled out a form for a new job, there was probably a line asking whether anyone in your family has had cancer, or diabetes, or heart disease. In Illinois, answering that question is legally the same thin

Forty-two state attorneys general have formed a coalition to go after companies that use artificial intelligence to make decisions about people. Not the companies building the A.I. The companies using it.

Only one in a thousand people can look at a fake video and know it's fake. That's not a typo. When researchers showed people A.I.-generated footage next to real footage, about one-tenth of one percent

In October twenty twenty-five, a company that verifies people's ages lost seventy thousand ID photos in a single breach. That same season, a dating app leaked seventy-two thousand selfies. These were

For years, kids got past age checks the same way — they just typed in a fake birthday. That trick is dying. The next time your child signs up for an app, it might ask for their face instead.

Three seconds. That's how much of your voice a scammer needs to build a working copy of you. And according to research compiled by security firm Vectra A.I., that three second sample already produces

Five seconds. That's all the audio a text-to-speech program needs to build a usable copy of your voice. Five seconds of a voicemail, a video you posted, a phone call you didn't think twice about.

A million children in Brazil had their faces scanned every single day — just to take attendance. The system stored those faces for as long as a kid stayed enrolled. That's up to fourteen years — for a

Imagine proving you're old enough to visit a website — without handing over your name, your birthday, or a photo of your driver's license. The European Union just built exactly that. It works. It's ready.