The European Union is bringing OpenAI’s ChatGPT under its strictest online platform rules, signaling that Brussels increasingly views widely used artificial intelligence services not only as AI models but also as mass-market information platforms capable of creating systemic risks. The European Commission on Monday (Aug....
Congress may need to decide whether the public should receive a direct financial stake in the wealth generated by artificial intelligence, according to a Friday (Aug. 28) report from the Congressional Research Service. The report outlined possible equity-sharing structures while warning of difficult trade-offs involving...
Angelo Palivos built Petwealth after losing his own pet to an illness that a diagnostic lab couldn’t catch in time. That loss became the company’s founding premise. Veterinary care moves too slowly and too reactively, and pet owners are often waiting on lab results when...
Scalable Capital became the first bank in Europe to open its investment platform directly to outside artificial intelligence assistants on Aug. 25, letting customers connect ChatGPT, Claude or Grok to a real brokerage account holding actual money, Scalable Capital said in its announcement. The German...
Cybercriminals are targeting users of Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence (AI) platform with malware that can steal authenticated login sessions, potentially allowing attackers to access accounts without passwords or two-factor authentication. Cyber Security News reported Monday (Aug. 31) that several information-stealing malware families, including Vidar, Lumma,...
Instagram says its users don’t appreciate discovering that a human-looking profile is actually AI-generated. To that end, the Meta-owned social media platform announced Monday (Aug. 31) that it is taking steps to make sure AI-created profiles are clearer. That means renaming Instagram’s AI creator label to “AI-generated profile”...
Cigna is expanding artificial intelligence tools designed to identify patients who need help before their conditions worsen. The effort is projected to cut medical costs by about $200 million over three years, Cigna said in a July 23 press release. The expansion will reach 20%...
QuickBooks and Mailchimp maker Intuit has launched a partnership with artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity. The collaboration, announced in a Monday (Aug. 31) news release , will integrate those two pieces of business software into Perplexity Computer, the company’s agentic AI assistant. The integration is designed to bridge the “gap...
OpenAI has reportedly begun giving some major customers a new payment option. Under this system, these clients pay only when the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) does its job, The Information reported Sunday (Aug. 30), citing a source familiar with the matter. The report notes that this previously unreported...