A grand jury indicted Linwei Ding on seven counts of economic espionage and seven of theft of trade secrets. Ding is a software engineer who was previously charged with four counts of trade secret theft. Prosecutors allege he uploaded more than 1,000 confidential Google files on its AI supercomputing hardware and software to his personal account while tied to China-based tech companies.
Security researchers say obfuscated script on DeepSeek's web login page connects to infrastructure owned by China Mobile, a state-owned telecom the FCC denied authority to operate in the US in 2019. Feroot Security found the code and two academics confirmed it, though the researchers saw no data sent to China Mobile in North American tests, and DeepSeek did not respond.
India's biggest news organisations, including The Indian Express, The Hindu, the India Today group and NDTV, are seeking to join ANI's Delhi High Court suit alleging OpenAI used its content to train ChatGPT without permission. ANI seeks 20m rupees ($230,000); OpenAI denies the allegations and argues the court should not hear the publishers, whose applications have not yet been admitted.
Attorneys for Elon Musk and Tesla say they will move to dismiss with prejudice Alcon Entertainment's suit, which alleges that after Alcon refused rights, Tesla used an AI model to duplicate "Blade Runner 2049" imagery for a promotional event. Alcon, which also sued Warner Bros. Discovery and intends to oppose the motion, seeks to bar further distribution plus unspecified damages.
Chris Gatlin spent 17 months in jail after a facial recognition program matched him to a grainy surveillance photo of an assault suspect on St. Louis' Metrolink. Bodycam video showed the victim, who warned of memory problems, initially picking two others before an officer urged him to keep looking; the case was dismissed, and a lawyer is suing on Gatlin's behalf.
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A self-represented taxpayer quoted Copilot's version of paragraph 2.20 of a 1992 Explanatory Memorandum to argue for a larger disability tax offset. Deputy President O'Donovan found the document had no paragraph 2.20, said submitting unverified AI material was not consistent with a party's duty to assist the Tribunal, and affirmed the decisions under review.
Whoopi Goldberg deviated from a planned commercial break on The View to warn viewers about a phony Instagram weight-loss ad showing her "AI-mouthed" selling "bad weight-loss drugs". Goldberg said she doesn't sell anything, had nothing to do with the ad and doesn't know who made it, adding that it was "a lot of BS".
A Correctiv and NewsGuard investigation found the Russian influence operation Storm-1516 has set up over 100 websites using AI to spread disinformation before Germany's elections, including fabricated sexual misconduct allegations against Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock. The operation is linked to former US police officer John Mark Dougan, who is reportedly funded by Russia's GRU and denies involvement.
