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Restaurant menus with AI-generated food images are going viral for their off-putting aesthetic. But AI’s impact on modern menus runs even deeper.

The Relay Q, due next year, is the latest attempt to reposition voice as the most seamless method for human-computer interaction.

SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.

The people-search tool ClarityCheck says its reverse image search service is “private and secure”—but it left a database containing more than 9 million image files exposed.

At a press conference outside Madison Square Garden, politicians, musicians, and privacy advocates argued for tighter restrictions on how public venues deploy biometric surveillance.

Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.

fMRI scans show happiness, fear, anger, and sadness have distinct brain activity patterns in doggy brains.

A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.

There are many companies manufacturing adversarial clothing designed to confuse facial recognition systems. It’s a cool idea, but I worry that it’s mostly security theater: “Our patterns play with that chaos, confuse algorithms and make it way harder to pin you down,” he said. Bell, however, said “none of these products are tried and tested, and a lot of these surveillance technologies can deal with a little resistance … [but] even if the designs don’t necessarily work perfectly, fashion is also a visible sign of resistance. “This is consumers collectively coming together to make a visible statement.”...

Last month, the story broke (alternate link ) that Madison Square Garden uses facial recognition software on everyone entering the facility, and—among other groups—flags activists that oppose using facial recognition. Turns out that the system was shut off for Taylor Swift’s wedding. Evan Greer—one of the people that MSG alerts on— comments : Ironically, Swift herself has reportedly used facial recognition at her own concerts to identify stalkers. This “privacy for me, surveillance for thee” attitude feels like a perfect encapsulation of the future we’re already living in: one where wealthy elites can afford privacy, while the rest of us are forced to live in a corporate surveillance panopticon...

A HIPAA-compliant AI voice agent for healthcare typically costs $40,000-$150,000 to build, depending on call complexity and EHR integration, plus $2,000-$15,000/month to operate. The build cost isn't dominated by the speech model — it's dominated by the compliance and data-retention layer wrapped around it. Most cost estimates for "AI voice agents" quietly assume a sales or support use case, where a wrong transcription costs you an annoyed customer. In healthcare, a wrong transcription in a medication name or a dropped consent statement is a liability. That difference reshapes the budget. Where the money actually goes 1. Speech recognition (10-20% of build cost) This is the smallest line item, despite being the part founders worry about most. You have three options: Managed API with a BAA (e.g., enterprise-tier Deepgram, Azure Speech, Google Healthcare API) — fastest to ship, but you're paying per-minute and locked into the vendor's accuracy on medical terminology. Fine-tuned open-weight model — better accuracy on clinical vocabulary and accents, but adds MLOps overhead. Self-hosted model — highest control over data residency, needed if your contracts or state law prohibit sending PHI to a third party. If your patient population speaks Gulf Arabic or another dialect underserved by mainstream ASR, budget separately for this — see our breakdown on Arabic speech recognition costs for how accent and dialect coverage move accuracy and price independently of the base model choice. 2. Compliance infrastructure (30-40% of build cost) This is where healthcare voice AI diverges hardest from a generic voice bot: Business Associate Agreements with every vendor in the call path (ASR, LLM, telephony, storage) Encryption at rest and in transit, with key management you can audit Role-based access control on transcripts and recordings Immutable audit logs of who accessed what patient data and when The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services publishes the actual HIPAA Security R

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.

Google's selfie videos can be used for account access, AI Avatars, and age verification.

Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.

We know that ICE wants to deploy eyeglasses with facial recognition that can identify people in real time. Turns out Meta is prototyping the feature with a Pentagon supplier. (Alternate news story.)

Tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors.

Lawsuit: "Police let an error-prone AI system stand in for an investigation."

From anti-drone tech to face recognition, 2026 World Cup stadiums in the US, Canada, and Mexico are subjecting fans to an array of surveillance tech. Here’s what you need to know.

Meta won't say why or whether it's coming back.

Scientists in Finland found bees could solve an insect version of the classic "box-and-banana" problem.