The airline believes AI poses security risks and may violate DOT and FAA rules. United Airlines has announced it will change ticking policies to restrict AI agents' from booking flights through its website, third-party travel agencies and flight aggregators. The airline joins a growing number of businesses, including JPMorgan Chase and Amazon, which block agents from using their products to avoid the security and privacy issues associated with them. Giving something like your payment details or log-in credentials to an agent can expose sensitive information and lead to unintended purchases, account changes or use of MileagePlus miles, United says. Allowing an AI agent to complete a booking could also violate existing airline regulations from the Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration.

The chatbot was already available through the Google Maps app. Continuing on its apparent quest to ensure the chatbot is on as many screens, speakers and experiences as possible, Google has brought the Gemini app to Apple CarPlay . It's available starting today for all supported Gemini Live languages. Google previously made the AI assistant available on CarPlay through the Google Maps app . Now, you'll be able to access it just by tapping the Gemini icon on your display.

The Chinese company wants to compete with Meta's Muse. ByteDance wants to take on Meta's Muse with its own AI agent. The company is readying an AI assistant that could be revealed in the coming weeks, reports . The report doesn't detail what the agent will be called or how it will work, but says that it will serve a similar role to Meta's Muse. Muse has already drawn more than 10 million users and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has predicted the AI agent could generate more revenue per user than its existing family of apps.

You'll be able to access Visual Intelligence from a new tab in the tablet's Camera app. Apple users willing to install beta versions of its OS updates can get their hands on upcoming features sooner than most, as long as they're comfortable contending with the possibility of buggy software or apps breaking. And one such feature is the Siri Mode that's already available in the camera app on supported iPhones . It's also coming to compatible iPads as part of iPadOS 27.3 and will let you ask Siri AI questions about things you point your tablet's camera at. We got our first look at this mode when Apple properly unveiled Siri AI at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June this year.

What is the'Dead Internet Theory' and should humanity be worried? What is the'Dead Internet Theory' and should humanity be worried? When spending time online today, do you ever get the feeling that digital life has become eerily less human? Perhaps social media posts seem a bit, or you get the sneaking suspicion the customer service representative you are chatting with is actually a bot. If this sounds familiar, you aren't alone: a paradigm called the dead internet theory has been gaining momentum in the last several years, positing that the internet is increasingly dominated by non-human activity, including bots and AI-generated content.

Sony shipped over 160 million PlayStation 2 units over its 13-year run. You might expect newer consoles to dominate lifetime sales lists. After all, the industry is several times bigger than it was two decades ago. But all-time console sales are a blend of old and new, with Sony's second home console, the PlayStation 2, hanging onto the top spot. However, the PS2's lead is shrinking.

The state's research center will check AI companies' work instead of taking their word. As the federal government essentially leaves us all at the mercy of the AI industry, New York is taking matters into its own hands. On Tuesday, Governor Kathy Hochul launched the nation's first state-run AI testing program. Instead of trusting AI companies to police themselves, New York's system will task independent researchers with checking their work. The stakes are too high to simply take AI companies at their word, Hochul stated in a press release. The work will be handled by the New York Center for AI Responsibility and Research at Binghamton University.

NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 has presets you should know about NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 has presets you should know about Like it or lump it, there's no getting away from upscalers if you're a PC gamer who loves modern AAA titles. For those on the NVIDIA side of the divide, the company's Deep Learning Super Sampling tech is increasingly needed if you want to run graphically demanding games at high frame rates with ray tracing whacked all the way up. If you regularly deploy DLSS 4.5 in games, there are tweaks you can make through the NVIDIA app to squeeze better performance and cleaner visuals from your favorite titles. The internet remains very upset about NVIDIA's DLSS 5, and rightfully so. Thankfully, DLSS 4.5 is focused purely on delivering the best balance between image quality and performance, not needlessly yassifying in-game character models. We'll run you through DLSS 4.5's K, L, and M presets, how they compare to each other, and what hardware is best suited to each.

The Formula 2030 has inflatable seats, a pop-up LiDAR sensor and physical buttons. Polestar's new concept EV understands the assignment: build hype for the brand by showcasing a futuristic car that gets auto enthusiasts drooling. But if you live in the US, you can't buy the Formula 2030. To be fair, nobody can buy it, since it's a concept. However, unless something changes, Americans won't be able to buy the future EVs it inspires, either.

Gemini for healthcare is in preview now, with some big-name partners already on board. Google Cloud has officially announced Gemini for healthcare, bringing agentic AI to the sector. In a press release, Google said that the new initiative aims to unify the disparate clinical, operational, and administrative systems central to healthcare delivery and health plan operations. So rather than scraping the web to diagnose or advise treatments to medical professionals at the point of care, it sounds like Gemini will be used primarily to improve workflow efficiency. The healthcare-focused assistant is built on top of the universal Gemini agent, and connects to third-party systems to gather information from health records, billing platforms and official guidelines.