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A top Pizza Hut franchisee says the chain's rollout of an AI-powered delivery system turned once-speedy pizza orders into a cold, late-arriving mess --- and cratered a business that had been outperforming nearly every other operator in the system.

In a lawsuit filed on May 6 in Texas Business Court, franchisee Chaac Pizza Northeast accused Pizza Hut of forcing stores to adopt Dragontail, a delivery-management platformthat Pizza Hut described as using artificial intelligence

Russian-speaking hackers used SpaceX's (SPCX.O), opens new tab AI coding assistant, Cursor, to help break in to a Belgian chemical company and at least six other firms earlier this year, according to data reviewed by Reuters and reports issued on Thursday by cybersecurity companies Gambit Security and ‌CloudSek.

The cybercriminals' AI-boosted hacking spree is the latest example of how rogue actors are using commercial AI tools to carry out intrusions. Gambit's chief strategy officer, Curtis Simpson, said it also showed how AI providers were

An email offering an interview with Terry Gross may sound like a career-making opportunity. But a string of messages using the name of the longtime "Fresh Air" host has instead led recipients into an increasingly elaborate scam.

Authors, entertainers and other public figures have reported receiving highly personalized invitations from people claiming to represent Gross, WHYY, NPR or the "Fresh Air" production team. The messages include detailed references to the target's work, proposed interview topics and what appears to be a professional booking process.

Jennifer M. Black, a professor of h

When Seth Rudetsky received an invitation to appear on Nikki Glaser's podcast, he had no particular reason to think it wasn't real.

Rudetsky, the Broadway performer and SiriusXM host, gets asked to do podcasts all the time. Better yet, this one was offering him between $4,000 and $5,000 to appear. "Oh my God, they're actually paying for a podcast," he remembers thinking. A Glaser fan, Rudetsky quickly said yes.

The invitation also seemed to know an awful lot about him. It mentioned his Broadway cruise and his work with Sara Bareilles --- the k

FIRST IN PI --- FARA FRIDAY: Israel has launched a new campaign to influence how large-language models like ChatGPT are answering questions about Gaza and the Israel Defense Forces amid declining public support for the country across the U.S. political spectrum.

--- French PR firm Havas Media, which runs the lion's share of Israel's FARA-registered foreign influence work