Newsday, Condé Nast, the Los Angeles Times, Politico and other News/Media Alliance members sued Cohere in federal court in Manhattan. They allege it used more than 4,000 of their articles without permission to train its systems and create content, and attributed fake content to publishers. Cohere called the suit "misguided and frivolous".
An 18-month investigation by the Dating Apps Reporting Project reports that Match Group kept Denver cardiologist Stephen Matthews on its apps for years after he was first reported for rape, with Hinge's algorithm even promoting him as a "Standout". Matthews was sentenced to 158 years to life in October 2024. Reporters' tests found banned Tinder users could easily rejoin.
An xAI affiliate applied to the Shelby County Health Department to run 15 natural gas turbines around the clock at its Memphis "Colossus" supercomputer site through June 2030, despite earlier characterizations of them as temporary. The application lists hazardous air pollutant emissions of 11.51 tons per year; the EPA cap for a single source is 10 tons.
Police at Lucknow's Hazratganj station registered an FIR under the BNS and IT Act over a viral deepfake video showing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in a skullcap. BJP leader Rajkumar Tiwari lodged the complaint against a Facebook account named "Pyara Islam". Lucknow Police said necessary action had been taken.
NHK said Chinese subtitles on an English-language report about the Japan-U.S. summit referred to the Senkaku Islands as the "Diaoyu Islands". The broadcaster blamed an automatic translation system that uses Google's AI and ended its nine-language subtitling service. NHK President Nobuo Inaba said NHK must urgently develop its own AI translation system.
The Queensland Industrial Relations Commission gave no weight to five purported Fair Work Commission decisions cited by a self-represented applicant after the commissioner and an associate could not locate any of them. The applicant said some came from general internet searches. Dismissing the reinstatement application, the commission called it a salutary lesson on relying on search engines or artificial intelligence.
