A CBC News investigation with Bellingcat, Politiken and Tjekdet says hospital pharmacist David Do had a central role running MrDeepFakes, which hosted tens of thousands of non-consensual deepfake porn videos and images. Do told a reporter 'I don't know anything about that'; the site shut down May 4, and he was no longer employed by Oak Valley Health as of May 15.
Police detained 72 suspects in simultaneous raids across 28 provinces, centered on Istanbul, targeting a network accused of luring victims through AI-supported fake investment websites and contacting them from call-center-like setups. Investigators say about 65 million lira was taken in 21 incidents alone, and some $500 million in illegal gains moved via 41 shell companies to a Cambodia-based crypto exchange.
A San Francisco federal judge conditionally certified a nationwide collective action in Mobley v. Workday, which alleges Workday's algorithm-based screening tools discriminated against job seekers aged 40 or over. Judge Rita F. Lin said that if the collective runs to 'hundreds of millions', as Workday says, 'that is because Workday has been plausibly accused of discriminating against a broad swath of applicants'.
Brian E. Mitchell, representing Magpul Industries in a patent suit against Mission First Tactical Group, admitted at an April 28 hearing that his claim construction chart was nearly all fabricated by AI: two of 22 written-description citations were real, and none of 26 prosecution-history citations. Judge Karen S. Marston indicated any sanctions would fall on Mitchell, not Magpul.
Bitdefender says scammers are spreading AI-generated Facebook videos of presidential candidates George Simion and Nicușor Dan promoting a fake government 'Neptun Deep' investment that promises every Romanian RON 9,000 a month for a RON 1,400 'activation' payment. The Simion video has been removed; the Dan version remained active and spreading ahead of the May 18 election.
At the Francisco Josephinum in Wieselburg, 24 of 200 candidates got past the internet block during the German Matura exam, giving them forbidden access to AI such as ChatGPT, director Martin Kerschbaumer said. Teachers checked all papers; only one student, caught online by supervisors, was proven to have used it and must resit in autumn.
Virologist Roberto Burioni says AI-made videos on TikTok show him promoting drugs, supplements and therapies, typically in fake studio interviews with Fabio Fazio; one account using his name and photo has over 26,000 followers and remains up despite his reports. Burioni says scammed people email him, some asking why products they ordered never arrived.
