Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the past few months, it has broken containment.

Meta is weighing a facial recognition add-on for smart glasses; the feature is called Name Tag, raising stalking and data ...

It is not feasible, nor indeed ethical, to run a facial recognition system against all images on the internet.

The LFR system not only identifies individuals based on their face biometrics, but is part of a platform that also connects them to their friends and family.

This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a ...

Humanoid robots are becoming harder to distinguish from real people, and a new study ...

Here's where GPT-5.4 Thinking begins to really shine. When I asked GPT-5.2, "Do you think social media has improved or worsened communication in society?" I got back a two-line answer. Both thoughts ...