Michael Smith pleads guilty in a landmark 8 million AI music streaming fraud case, as prosecutors and platforms warn of ...

From 2017 to 2024, 52-year-old Michael Smith, from Cornelius, North Carolina, and his co-conspirators ran a large-scale fraud scheme that artificially boosted the stream counts of ...

North Carolina musician Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to collecting over $10 million in royalty payments through a massive ...

Michael Smith pleads guilty to stealing $8 million from artists using AI-generated songs and bot accounts to manipulate streaming platforms.

Crypto scam uses fake AI chatbot impersonating Google's Gemini AI to promote fraudulent 'Google Coin' cryptocurrency. Malwarebytes researchers expose scam.

Customer conversations with chatbots can include contact information and personal details that make it easier for scammers to ...

A fake Gemini-style chatbot is pushing a bogus Google Coin presale, using Google branding and scripted AI replies to lure victims into crypto payments.

A artificial intelligence AI is profoundly transforming the music industry — from creation to distribution. But a recent case ...

Agentic AI commerce is under development at Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and other large payment organizations, and many of these ...