U.S. citizens who visit Mexico are being warned that they may be at risk of being kidnapped by people who lure them in through dating apps, according to federal officials. The U.S. Consulate General Guadalajara warned that the victims of such schemes were kidnapped in Puerto Vallarta and Nuevo Nayarit areas in recent months, according to a news release. The consulate did not say how often this type of crime has occurred or whether any suspects have been arrested. Victims and their family members were extorted for large amounts of money in order to be released, officials said. Some of the victims met their captors in residences or hotel rooms.

Turning text into videos is one of the latest AI skills creating a buzz. And Microsoft is offering a free way to transform your ideas into quick video clips. Introduced on Monday, the Bing Video Creator is now accessible through the Bing mobile app and is coming soon to Bing on the desktop and Copilot Search. "Bing Video Creator represents our efforts to democratize the power of AI video generation," Microsoft said in its blog post. "We believe creativity should be effortless and accessible to help you satisfy your answer-seeking process."

This week, I'm wondering what my first jobs in journalism would have been like had generative AI been around. In other news: Elon Musk leaves a trail of chaos, and influencers are selling the text they fed to AI to make art. Generative artificial intelligence may eliminate the job you got with your diploma still in hand, say executives who offered grim assessments of the entry-level job market last week in multiple forums. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, which makes the multifunctional AI model Claude, told Axios last week that he believes that AI could cut half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and send overall unemployment rocketing to 20% within the next five years. One explanation why an AI company CEO might make such a dire prediction is to hype the capabilities of his product.

Google is cooked ... cooked like a luxurious, rich, decadent, yet tender steak on the Fourth of July. I know that sounds dramatic, but we could be witnessing the slow demise of Google as we know it. Testifying in Google's antitrust trial, Apple's head of services, Eddy Cue, confirmed that fewer iPhone users are using Google Search on Safari and are instead turning to AI. Now, before you think I'm writing Google's obituary, let me be clear. Like I've said before, I'm confident they'll figure it out, even if that means changing their business model.

Samsung users might have Perplexity-powered features on future devices. According to a report from Bloomberg, Samsung is "nearing a wide-ranging deal" to bring Perplexity search capabilities to the upcoming Galaxy S26 series. That could include the Perplexity app pre-loaded on Samsung devices, Perplexity search features within Samsung's web browser, and possibly integrating Perplexity with Samsung's Bixby virtual assistant. Samsung is also reportedly a major investor in Perplexity's latest funding round, which seeks to raise 500 million at a 14 billion valuation, said the outlet. Samsung was early to bring AI features to its devices, claiming the Galaxy S24 series was the "first AI phone."

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is only a week away. The WWDC 2025 kicks off on Monday, June 9 at 10 a.m. The event will feature the new software generation for the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, Vision Pro, and Apple TV. This developer conference also marks one year since the company entered the AI space with the announcement of Apple Intelligence. As a result, all eyes are on Apple and its much-awaited updates on the progress of Apple Intelligence, such as when the upgraded Siri update will be rolled out to devices and what new features will be coming next.

What message does Ukraine's Operation Spider's Web send to Russia and US? Ukraine carries out large-scale drone strikes on multiple Russian airbases.Read more Eighteen months in the making, Ukraine's Operation Spider's Web saw hundreds of AI-trained drones target military aircraft deep inside Russia's borders. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Sunday's attacks will go down in history. He followed them up with a proposal for an unconditional ceasefire as the two sides met in Istanbul. The European Union is preparing its 18th package of sanctions on Russia, while US President Donald Trump has threatened to use "devastating" measures against Russia if he feels the time is right. So, is the time right now?

We're exactly one week out from Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2025 -- and we expect the event to bring major changes to the iPhone's iOS software. So far, we have more rumors than facts about the updates to iOS, but these rumors are all but confirmed. Last week, we learned that Apple would be leaping from iOS 18.5 to iOS 26, switching to a new year-based naming convention for iOS (and macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS), as first reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who has a rock-solid history of major Apple scoops. What changes can we expect from iOS 26 and WWDC 2025? Apple is teasing the June 9 event with a banner and "Sleek peek" tagline but is otherwise quiet.

Lanyard-clad attendees with branded tote bags and pink-shirted volunteers flowed through London's Brick Lane on Monday, marking the launch of the inaugural SXSW London festival. Taking place over multiple stages and venues in Shoreditch and Hoxton, SXSW London has officially kicked off its first full day of panels, keynotes, demonstrations, movie premieres, and music gigs. And luckily, Londoners are no strangers to a queue, with SXSW's penchant for long lines outside Austin venues replicated in the UK capital. Playing to the strengths of fellow conferences, the biggest topics of SXSW London are the impact of AI on essentially anything you could think of, the creator economy and online communities, and self-driving tech -- I spied a Wayve autonomous vehicle carefully navigating the pedestrian-filled Brick Lane (with a human driver behind the wheel, just in case). London mayor Sadiq Khan officially launched the festival with a speech Monday morning, championing London as "a global centre for AI investment and innovation," emphasising a focus on ethical and accessible AI development, and playing to the audience with a ChatGPT anecdote.

We introduce a fairness-aware dataset for job recommendation in advertising, designed to foster research in algorithmic fairness within real-world scenarios. It was collected and prepared to comply with privacy standards and business confidentiality. An additional challenge is the lack of access to protected user attributes such as gender, for which we propose a solution to obtain a proxy estimate. Despite being anonymized and including a proxy for a sensitive attribute, our dataset preserves predictive power and maintains a realistic and challenging benchmark. This dataset addresses a significant gap in the availability of fairnessfocused resources for high-impact domains like advertising - the actual impact being having access or not to precious employment opportunities, where balancing fairness and utility is a common industrial challenge. We also explore various stages in the advertising process where unfairness can occur and introduce a method to compute a fair utility metric for the job recommendations in online systems case from a biased dataset. Experimental evaluations of bias mitigation techniques on the released dataset demonstrate potential improvements in fairness and the associated trade-offs with utility.