Disney offers $20M for Character.AI's scandal-hit chatbot tech

A Wired investigation found hundreds of seemingly mundane AI apps hiding features for creating sexually abusive deepfakes, including nonconsensual intimate imagery. The finding matters because these tools can enable abuse and harassment while evading app-store and platform moderation.

China’s Ministry of Commerce issued Announcement No. 48, described as the country’s first frontier AI export controls. The move could affect global AI technology supply chains and trade, marking a significant shift in China’s export-control policy.

U.S. workers took home the smallest share of national income since at least 1947, according to the report. The decline shows economic gains increasingly flowing to capital rather than labor, with implications for inequality, wages, and household spending.

Britain’s traditional landline phone network will be switched off in 100 days, and the deadline will not be extended. The change affects households, businesses, and vulnerable people who rely on landlines or connected devices such as alarms.

MIT Technology Review reports that the agentic web—where AI agents act on users' behalf across websites and services—is becoming a reality. The shift could change how people search, shop, and interact online, while raising questions about trust, control, and security.