Spain's Policía Nacional is investigating three minors in Puertollano (Ciudad Real) suspected of using AI apps to turn photos from the social media profiles of female students and teachers at their school into sexual images and videos, then sharing them with other pupils. Police say they recovered more than 100 files with up to 61 victims, 22 believed to be minors.
Spain's data protection agency (AEPD) has sanctioned the Universidad Internacional Valenciana (VIU) over an online exam monitoring system that obliged students, without valid alternatives, to undergo continuous AI facial recognition and second-camera surveillance. The AEPD found no lawful basis for the biometric processing, rejecting the university's consent and public-interest arguments; the resolution can be appealed.
A viral Instagram video shared by the account naughtyworld appears to show a man, whom viewers call a contractor, photographing a rough dirt road, having an AI image tool turn it into a gleaming cement-concrete road, and sending the picture on WhatsApp to a government engineer, who then passes the bill without a shovel being lifted.
Developers including the creator of SpeechMap say DeepSeek's R1-0528 model, launched in late May, produces language and internal traces resembling Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro, TechCrunch reports, fuelling suspicions it was trained on Gemini outputs. OpenAI reportedly found evidence earlier linking DeepSeek to distillation; DeepSeek has said R1 was developed from its own V3 model.
Germany's Bundeskartellamt said in a preliminary assessment that Amazon's use of algorithms and statistical models to cap third-party sellers' prices, demoting, excluding from ads or removing from the buy box offers it deems too high, may breach competition law. Amazon rejected the findings, saying changes would hurt customers and sellers, and can respond before a final decision.
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said Monday that 10 of the 16 websites targeted in his lawsuit over AI-generated non-consensual explicit images of adults and minors are offline or inaccessible in California. One defendant, Briver, agreed to a permanent injunction and $100,000 in civil penalties, he said. The city says the sites drew 200 million visitors in the first six months of 2024.
