Digital arrest: How India’s fastest-growing scam uses fake investigations and video calls to siphon off croresThey pose as the police, put you under ‘digital arrest’, and tether you to a video call till your savings are gone. How India’s fastest gro...
08 Jun, 2026, 11.13 AM IST
UK MP sues Musk's xAI over fake sexualised imagesA British lawmaker has filed a case at London's High Court against Elon Musk's xAI after its Grok chatbot tool was used to create fake sexu...
04 Jun, 2026, 08.18 PM IST
Forensic experts call for AI-driven playbook to counter deepfakes and digital scamsFinancial crime is evolving rapidly with AI-generated deepfakes and complex fraud rings. Traditional methods are no longer sufficient. Expe...
04 Jun, 2026, 08.02 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: What Pronto’s new video recording feature means for your privacyPronto's service professionals — who provide cleaning, washing, and meal preparation services — record their activities, generating videos ...
24 May, 2026, 07.48 PM IST
Google unveils Gemini Omni to push AI beyond chatbots into full-scale video creationGoogle has launched Gemini Omni, a multimodal AI model focused on cinematic video generation and conversational editing. The platform can c...
21 May, 2026, 04.36 PM IST
Big Donald Trump order on AI, cybersecurity coming soon as White House begins crackdown on deepfakesDonald Trump on AI: This comes as the United States on Tuesday began enforcing a law requiring tech platforms to remove deepfakes and other...
20 May, 2026, 06.51 AM IST
Google I/O 2026: Google Enters Its 'Agentic Gemini Era'At Google I/O 2026, Sundar Pichai unveiled Google’s vision for an “Agentic Gemini Era,” where AI moves beyond simple assistants to autonomo...
20 May, 2026, 12.36 AM IST
France hands Musk X probe to investigating judgeFrench regulators have launched a probe into Elon Musk regarding potential misdeeds on his social media network, X. The investigation scrut...
07 May, 2026, 10.48 PM IST
EU countries, lawmakers clinch provisional deal on watered-down AI rulesEU countries and European Parliament lawmakers have agreed to a watered-down AI Act, delaying implementation for high-risk systems until De...
07 May, 2026, 10.04 AM IST
How to spot an investment scam before it spots youIndia's digital investment boom is fueling a surge in cybercrime, with financial fraud leading the charge. Criminals are increasingly using...
29 Apr, 2026, 10.44 AM IST
Amid Mythos concerns, FM Nirmala Sitharaman asks financial sector to be 'exceptionally vigilant'Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has called for heightened cybersecurity vigilance across the financial sector. She highlighted that adv...
25 Apr, 2026, 04.07 PM IST
YouTube offers deepfake detection to HollywoodYouTube is now offering Hollywood celebrities and entertainers a free deepfake detection tool to combat AI-driven impersonations. This expa...
24 Apr, 2026, 01.24 PM IST
Constant AI labelling, lasting pain: Why govt's label mandate could reshape social mediaIndia's MeitY is proposing a significant new rule for social media platforms. Platforms must now display labels on synthetic content contin...
23 Apr, 2026, 12.28 AM IST
Elon Musk skips hearing in French probe of XTech billionaire Elon Musk on Monday did not appear at a summons for questioning in a French probe into X and its AI chatbot, Grok, over al...
20 Apr, 2026, 10.33 PM IST
Bot or not: World ID 4.0, Sam Altman’s `proof of human' for the AI eraSam Altamns's Tools for Humanity launched World ID 4.0, an enhanced, open-source human verification protocol. This upgrade introduces key r...
19 Apr, 2026, 04.10 PM IST
Online users in the US top the world in creating sexually explicit deepfakes, India ranks secondA survey reveals that the United States leads in visits to websites creating sexually explicit deepfake images using generative AI, with 59...
31 Dec, 2024, 10.11 AM IST
Deepfake anyone? AI synthetic media tech enters perilous phaseHow increasingly sophisticated technology is applied is one of the complexities facing synthetic media software, where machine learning is ...
13 Dec, 2021, 01.57 PM IST