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Svedka's AI-generated Super Bowl ad drew viewer backlash and did not save the brand time or money, its CMO said.

An AI chat app with 50 million users left hundreds of millions of private conversations exposed, a researcher found.

Worldwide AI spending is projected to hit $2.59 trillion in 2026, though most firms still struggle to show ROI.

Piedmont Urgent Care's new AI voice agent now handles more than 20,000 billing calls a month across Georgia.

Courts fined attorneys more than $145,000 in Q1 2026 for AI-hallucinated legal citations, a market report found.

An independent tracker found documented AI incidents rose 81 percent year over year in 2025, with nearly half drawing no

Florida launched a criminal probe into OpenAI after finding ChatGPT gave detailed advice to the FSU shooting suspect.

TechCrunch tracks major tech companies citing AI in 2026 layoffs affecting well over 60,000 jobs.

McKinsey survey data shows AI high performers are 3.6 times more likely to expect transformative change from AI.

New report benchmarks SaaS marketing budgets and AI martech spend as the sector scales toward $650B by 2030.

Contact-center deepfake attempts and vishing incidents jumped sharply as organizations report growing exposure.

A Clayton County prosecutor used AI to draft a court filing with fabricated case citations, prompting discipline.

NHTSA and NTSB open investigations after a Waymo self-driving vehicle struck a 9-year-old in a school zone.

Verizon's 2026 DBIR finds AI used across up to 50 attack techniques per incident and rising shadow AI use at work.

Shared Claude and Grok chatbot conversations were found indexed on Google, exposing personal data in July 2026.

Google unveils agentic AI advertising tools and automated bidding features at Marketing Live 2026.

Documented AI incidents rose 81 percent from 2024 to 2025, with 346 logged in 2025 across tracking databases.