In August 2025, security researchers at Guardio Labs built a fake medical-results page with an ordinary CAPTCHA checkbox. Hidden behind it, in text no human could see, sat instructions written for an AI. When Perplexity’s
Air Canada learned an expensive lesson in February 2024. A grieving passenger had asked the airline’s website chatbot about bereavement fares, got the wrong answer, and booked on the strength of it. When the case
Apple Music has a DJ living inside it now. AutoMix, which arrived with iOS 26, analyzes each song’s audio and beat-matches it to the next one. It’s genuinely clever. It also never leaves Apple’s app.
For most of 2024, choosing an AI video tool meant choosing a model. You signed up for Runway or Pika, later Sora, and accepted whatever that engine did badly. That habit looks dated in 2026.