Amazon is making its AI-upgraded Alexa+ assistant available to everyone in the U.S. Alexa+ launched last year in an "early access" preview, meaning consumers had to join a waitlist or buy a new device ...

It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other. By Gregory Cowles Gregory Cowles is senior editor of ...

A Georgia elementary school assistant principal has been accused of brazenly stealing 98 items worth about $1,000 from Walmart using a “stacking” scheme at self-checkout kiosks. Courtney Janell Shaw, ...

Security researchers are warning of insecure deployments in enterprise environments of the Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) AI assistant, which can lead to leaking API keys, OAuth tokens, conversation ...

What just happened? Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing its voice assistant of unlawfully recording private conversations and sharing them in ways that may ...

Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleges its voice assistant violated users’ privacy. Google denied any wrongdoing but agreed to settle to avoid the cost and ...

Google has agreed to a $68 million settlement regarding claims that its voice assistant inappropriately spied on smartphone users. Plaintiffs claimed that the company’s Google Assistant platform began ...

Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged the technology giant's voice assistant had illegally recorded users and then shared their private conversations with ...

A ruling on office correspondence etiquette. Joann writes: My co-workers like to send voice memos to explain some complex dynamic or dump unfiltered thoughts into the void. I hate it. I don’t want to ...

Using only natural language instructions, researchers were able to bypass Google Gemini's defenses against malicious prompt injection and create misleading events to leak private Calendar data.

Apple and Google have entered an AI technology partnership reportedly worth as much as US$5 billion, according to industry sources cited by the Financial Times. Meanwhile, Bloomberg reported that ...