What AI is doing to tech

The password you had to remember loses its official backing to passkeys, yet passkeys remain a minority of sign-ins on major sites, by one vendor's count.

When the real data runs dry, models start training on worlds they invent — reality reflected in a hall of mirrors.

A generation grows up with AI companions in the room, and childhood quietly rewrites what it means to have a friend.

A House proposal would tax major AI companies on tokens or revenue at rates tied to unemployment, while the monthly AI subscription is expected to cost more.

Screen time moves from family habit to public policy, with Britain planning an under-16 social media ban and critics warning its age checks will reach every user.

A company now advertises what it cannot see about its own users, and that absence of data has become the argument shoppers are choosing over speed or scale.

A display is migrating off the phone and onto a pair of ordinary-looking glasses, and manufacturing is now racing to keep pace with how fast people are buying them.

OpenAI is pairing an invisible watermark with C2PA metadata in its image outputs, betting that one proof layer alone was never going to hold.

Synthetic data has a ceiling: labs that hit the limits of public and generated datasets are buying dead startups' real archives to train on.

Researchers warn that AI agents can fill in online surveys and slip past the checks meant to catch bots. Counts of how many already do differ by panel.

When any image can be rewritten with a sentence, the raw, unretouched frame turns into a statement of trust that brands and platforms reach for.

The machine nudges your posture, your tone, your habits in the moment, all day — a coach that never once looks away.

People rent out fine-tuned versions of their own skill, style and voice, and expertise starts trading like any stock.

Cameras are starting to sign a photo as real the moment the shutter closes, while most people still judge fakes by eye rather than by a credential.

As generated content floods every feed, platforms are rebuilding editorial surfaces where a real person, not an algorithm, decides what gets shown first.

Advertising's self-regulator says an AI marketing claim must hold for the model actually shipped, not the research behind it. Federal orders already bar misleading AI claims, with real money attached.