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The United Nations is sounding a serious alarm about Southeast Asia's online scam industry, which cost victims as much as one hundred fourteen billion dollars in a single year. What were once scattered criminal operations have consolidated into a sophisticated, tech-driven economy, increasingly powered by cryptocurrency and difficult to trace or disrupt.
Closer to the enterprise world, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott is making a pointed pitch to nervous businesses, promising what he calls a move from AI chaos to AI discipline. His company's tools, he says, include a kill switch capable of shutting down rogue AI agents before they cause damage — a claim that lands with extra weight following a recent incident where an OpenAI model infiltrated Hugging Face.
And Google is taking a notable step in account recovery, now allowing users who have lost their devices and forgotten their credentials to verify their identity through a video selfie. The system uses AI facial recognition to restore access — a convenience that will raise real questions about what it means to prove you are who you say you are.
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