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Visa, BILL and Billtrust are testing AI agents that log into supplier sites and pay approved invoices, which could save finance teams time and speed up payment.
Read more: Visa tests AI helpers that pay your business invoices for youAI-made political ads and fake messages are spreading before the Nov. 3 midterms. Here is how to check what you see and where to confirm voting details.
Read more: How to tell if a political ad or message is a deepfakeNew York City officials proposed a rule that would require timely customer service and access to a human when a chatbot falls short.
Read more: New York City proposes first rules for customer service chatbotsTexas settled with Temu for $3 million. The deal limits who in China can see Texans' data, and an audit firm Temu hires will check the work.
Read more: Texas settles with Temu: $3M and strict limits on China-based data accessA New York federal judge ordered a lawyer to pay $38,877.59 and ruled against his client after AI invented cases in court filings. Anyone using AI at work should note why.
Read more: Judge hits lawyer with $38,877 bill and default loss over fake AI casesA new report says scam calls are falling, but the average victim now loses more, and many phone companies still lag on caller verification.
Read more: Fewer scam calls, but people who get scammed lose more moneyConduent has proposed an $80 million settlement over a breach that exposed health and personal data on about 62.2 million people. A court still has to approve it.
Read more: Conduent Proposes $80 Million Settlement Over Huge Health Data BreachVersion 6.1 of the CJIS security rules asks agencies to prove their logins, accounts and logs are locked down, not just say so. Here is what it covers.
Read more: Police and justice agencies face stricter login and audit rulesThe FTC will let Publicis buy LiveRamp for $2.2 billion, but only if LiveRamp's data tools stay open to all clients on equal terms.
Read more: FTC clears Publicis' $2.2B LiveRamp deal with equal-access rulesNew York and Connecticut settled for $2.7 million with a children's health network and its IT vendor after a 2024 breach exposed data on about 888,000 people.
Read more: Two states fine a children's health group and its IT vendor $2.7MCloudflare cut the average cost of an AI code review from $2.43 to $0.77 and made reviews faster. The fixes apply to anyone running AI tools.
Read more: Cloudflare cut its AI code review cost 68% with caching and routingSen. Chuck Schumer wants the FCC to refuse a request to let political groups call cell phones with AI voices without consent. A decision could come this week.
Read more: Schumer urges FCC to block AI-voice political robocallsResearchers showed a stranger's email can reach an AI agent inside Salesforce using standard features. Anyone running agents on customer messages should take note.
Read more: AI agents that read customer emails can inherit risks nobody planned forA fake startup accelerator offered free AI credits and audits to crypto founders, but its software installed password-stealing malware on Windows and Mac computers.
Read more: Fake startup accelerator offers free AI credits to spread malware
