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Fraudsters are using AI-generated video and audio to impersonate pastors and even the pope, pairing deepfakes with hard-to-trace crypto requests. Here’s how churches can protect trust, verify messages, and harden payments.

Online matchmaking dominates, AI features are exploding, and yet the cultural ideal still favors spontaneous, offline sparks. Here’s how product leaders can navigate the paradox—nudging users off-screen without losing engagement.

Hundreds of billions are pouring into AI-ready data centers, reshaping economies—and straining power and water systems. Here’s the scale, the risks, and the planning playbook.

AI agents that can see your desktop, inbox, messages, and business systems promise radical automation—and unprecedented exposure. Here’s what the risks look like and how governance must evolve.

Google’s 2025 focus advanced Gemini’s scale and agentic capabilities while pushing deep integration across Workspace. Here’s what changed—and how businesses can turn it into productivity gains.

Investigations and policy briefs warn that mainstream generative tools can be misused to undress women in photos, fueling deepfake pornography at scale. Here’s what leaders across marketing, product, and trust-and-safety need to know—and do—now.