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A new Gallup and Stop Scams Alliance survey reveals that 12% of successful scams in 2025 involved AI or deepfakes, affecting roughly 15 million U.S. adults. Americans lost an estimated $68 billion to fraud last year—equivalent to Delta Airlines' annual revenue. The survey highlights how AI-powered scams are becoming harder to detect and causing severe financial and emotional distress.
Adobe unveiled GenStudio for Commerce Media Networks, enabling global retailers to help brands advertise across their platforms. The AI-powered platform automatically creates advertiser profiles and creative assets from existing business content, supporting both new and experienced commerce media advertisers with direct activation within retailers' advertising networks.
Google announced that Gemini's personalized AI image generation is now free for all eligible US users, removing a barrier that previously limited the feature to Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers. The feature uses the Nano Banana image model combined with Personal Intelligence to create context-aware images based on data from Google Photos, Gmail, and other connected services. Users can now generate images reflecting their interests without detailed prompts.
Researchers at Australian National University developed a training method that nearly doubled people's ability to detect AI-generated faces, with some participants achieving near-perfect accuracy. Instead of looking for visual glitches, the approach teaches people to recognize broader patterns like symmetry and memorability—qualities where AI faces drift toward statistical averages while real human faces embrace distinctive imperfections.
Music streaming service TIDAL introduced a policy that demonetizes fully AI-generated music, preventing these tracks from earning royalties or direct-to-fan sales revenue. Starting July 15, the platform will label 100% AI-generated content with an AI badge and remove tracks that impersonate artists, joining competitors like Spotify, Deezer, and Apple Music in addressing the flood of synthetic content.
The Vancouver Police Department triggered public outrage after posting images of a drug bust marked "made with AI" on social media. The AI-edited photo showed currency mislabeled and raised concerns about fabricating evidence. Despite replacing the images and claiming AI was only used to remove names, skepticism persists about police using AI to manipulate official communications.
Wall Street Journal tech columnist Joanna Stern exposed a persistent problem with AI-generated knockoffs on Apple Books that mimic her work. Despite Apple removing fraudulent listings, new copies continue to surface in a digital whack-a-mole scenario. The issue highlights how generative AI has made it effortless for bad actors to flood digital marketplaces with copyright-infringing content.
DuckDuckGo's AI chatbot falsely reported that President Donald Trump died of rabies, fed by a coordinated Reddit campaign from r/poisonai. The 45,000-member subreddit deliberately posts absurd misinformation to expose AI reliability concerns. The incident reveals how AI data poisoning can manipulate search engines that rely on third-party AI models and user-generated content.
University of Washington researchers created PaperTok, an AI tool that converts dense academic papers into 45-second videos for platforms like TikTok. The platform uses Google Gemini to generate scripts while keeping scientists in control at every step. The goal is to combat AI-generated misinformation by enabling researchers to communicate their own findings through accessible scientific research.
Hasbro is under fire for reportedly asking child voice actors on Peppa Pig to sign contracts allowing AI recreations of their voices. The Agents of Young Performers Association has launched an open letter signed by over 1,000 industry professionals, arguing children cannot provide informed consent for minors and demanding full exemption from AI usage in contracts involving young performers.
CD Projekt Red joint CEO Michał Nowakowski says fully AI-generated games are on the horizon, with AI studios claiming they can launch games in just three weeks. But he doubts flooding the market with AI-driven content will succeed, as concerns grow about platform saturation and quality games getting buried under what players call 'AI slop.'
Superhuman has acquired GPTZero, the AI detection startup that helps identify AI-generated content. The deal brings together GPTZero's 19 million users and $30 million in annual recurring revenue with Superhuman's AI writing platform. The acquisition aims to build trust and transparency in AI workflows, though critics note the irony of an AI writing company buying an AI detector.
Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett unveiled the Human Consent Registry at the European Parliament, a free tool allowing anyone to control how AI systems use their name, image, voice, and likeness. Backed by Hollywood stars including Javier Bardem, Meryl Streep, and Tom Hanks, the registry offers three consent levels and aims to establish identity as intellectual property in the AI age.
ByteDance revealed Seedance 2.5 at its Beijing conference, an AI video generation model that creates 30-second native 4K videos from a single prompt. The model accepts up to 50 multimodal reference inputs, a significant jump from its predecessor's 12. But copyright concerns loom as Hollywood studios previously forced delays over training data issues.
AI company ElevenLabs has released a 13-hour audiobook of Homer's The Odyssey featuring a licensed replica of Michael Caine's voice. The 93-year-old actor partnered with the $11 billion company to clone his iconic voice for the cinematic multicast audiobook, which took just six weeks to produce. The project arrives ahead of Christopher Nolan's film adaptation and intensifies Hollywood's debate over AI voice cloning, consent, and the future of creative work.
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