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Microsoft announced it coordinated an industry-wide disruption of EvilTokens, a subscription phishing service sold via Telegram since February that used an AI chatbot to help criminals analyze compromised inboxes and craft convincing fraud emails. The platform compromised 12,000 accounts across 10,000 organizations worldwide, mostly in the US, and Microsoft seized 50 websites and 150 domains as UK police arrested two suspects.
CNN reports a Pentagon analyst used an AI chatbot to assess a Chinese vessel's cargo, and the tool falsely concluded it carried nuclear weapons components by blending open-source data with classified signals intelligence. The false finding nearly led US forces to seize the ship before officials realized the assessment was fabricated by the AI.
According to The Information, Meta is building a new smart glasses model called Luna that drops the built-in camera found in its current lineup. Instead, the device relies on six microphones and a side button to let wearers talk directly to Meta's AI chatbot and its Muse AI agent. The glasses could debut as soon as next week's Meta Connect event in Menlo Park.
Meta is reportedly developing a new line of smart glasses, dubbed Luna, that will not include cameras, according to The Information. The devices, expected to launch in October in Clubmaster and Burbank styles, will feature six microphones and ear-facing speakers so users can talk to Meta's AI assistant via a side button, but will lack the recording capability found in Meta's Ray-Ban glasses.
Meta is reportedly building a camera-less version of its Ray-Ban smart glasses, codenamed Luna, following widespread criticism that the camera-equipped models enabled covert recording and harassment. The new glasses would retain six microphones for voice interaction with Meta's AI assistants but drop the camera entirely, and could debut as soon as next week's Meta Connect conference.
According to The Information, Meta is developing a new smart glasses line called Luna that omits the camera found in its current models. The glasses will reportedly come in two styles, Clubmaster and Burbank, and feature six microphones plus ear-facing speakers for interacting with Meta's AI assistant via a side button. Meta may reveal Luna at its Connect conference on September 23-24, with shipping possibly starting in October.
Walt Disney World is rolling out a beta AI assistant on its booking site and app, built on Google's Gemini but limited to official Disney data. Guests will be able to ask conversational questions about hotels, resorts, and amenities, and receive AI-generated summaries on pricing and availability before being directed to booking links. The beta will initially reach randomly selected guests in the US and Canada, excluding Lightning Lane and dining reservations for now.
A viral clip shows ChatGPT's Voice feature confidently miscounting the letter 'e' in 'seventeen,' claiming there are three when there are actually four. When the user, a content creator called Husk, corrected it, the chatbot repeatedly refused to concede the point even after spelling out the word itself. An OpenAI employee later clarified the voice assistant was running on an older model, GPT-Live-1, not GPT-6 as the bot itself claimed, and that it failed to delegate the query to a more capable model.
Meta says it has corrected an issue in its AI assistant after a viral video showed the tool generating an invasive suggested question, 'Who is the child passenger?', beneath a Facebook video of Instagram user Kalie Robins and her daughter. Robins says the chatbot then pulled together details about her children's ages, location, and even old deleted photos from posts made by her and her relatives.
Siskiyou County rescuers pulled three young men off Mount Shasta after they used Google's Gemini chatbot to plan their climb. The group started at 3am, missed the noon turnaround guideline, summited at 7pm, and had to be rescued after spending the night in Mud Creek Canyon.
Anthropic released a Claude iPhone app update this week that adds CarPlay support, letting drivers resume recent chats or start new voice conversations from their car's display. This makes Claude the fifth major AI chatbot to support CarPlay, following ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok, and Meta AI, which added the feature just days earlier.
A tech guide highlights ways students can use AI tools like ChatGPT to create customized quizzes, flashcards and video summaries from dense course materials, tailoring study methods to different learning styles. It also points to project-management apps such as Taskade, which cost between $10 and $50 monthly, as a way to ease coordination headaches in group assignments.