Visa, Mastercard and Ant International team up on a trust framework for AI agent payments
A shared Know-Your-Agent standard would let a wallet, card network or online store recognize a trusted AI agent from another company’s payment system without giving up its own risk checks. Visa, Mastercard and Ant International have begun working on...
Clearview tested an AI tool to build police dossiers from facial-recognition leads
The prototype would comb through websites and photos to piece together where a person lives and works, which social accounts they use...
AI chatbots often wrongly reassure sleep apnoea patients their symptoms aren't serious, study finds
The models gave way most where the risk was highest, researchers told Europe's respiratory-medicine congress, including with a patient...
Researchers test AI safety training that targets harmful requests without blocking entire topics
The approach was tested on political prompts. False refusals fell from 33% to 4%, while the model’s rejection of harmful requests...
AI adds a third to US GDP but barely lifts workers’ total income — Anthropic’s 2030 scenario
The extreme scenario assumes AI automates existing knowledge work without creating new tasks for those workers. Employment in these occupations falls by...