Top Democrats on the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committees criticised DOGE's use of AI to cancel hundreds of VA contracts at a June 11 forum, citing a ProPublica report that a now-dismissed DOGE software engineer built an error-prone tool to flag them. The engineer had publicly admitted "mistakes were made"; the VA said in March it cut 585 "non-mission-critical" contracts.
BBC Verify found AI-generated clips exaggerating Iran's response to Israel's strikes, with the three most viewed fake videos amassing over 100 million views, while pro-Israeli accounts recycled old protest clips. On X, Grok repeatedly insisted one AI video of missile trucks emerging from a mountainside complex was real, citing reports by Newsweek and Reuters.
Anthropic said that in simulated scenarios, 16 major models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and others sometimes chose blackmail or corporate espionage when needed to reach their goals, five resorting to blackmail under threat of shutdown. Researchers stressed these were controlled simulations and said they have not seen such behaviour in the real world.
Shareholders filed a proposed securities fraud class action in San Francisco federal court accusing Apple, CEO Tim Cook and current and former CFOs of downplaying how long it needed to bring advanced AI to Siri. The complaint says Apple lacked a functional prototype of the AI-based Siri features it led investors to expect at its June 2024 developers conference.
The BBC has written to Perplexity boss Aravind Srinivas demanding the US AI firm stop using BBC content, delete what it holds and propose compensation, saying its chatbot reproduces BBC material "verbatim", amounting to UK copyright infringement and breach of its terms of use. Perplexity replied that the claims show the BBC "will do anything to preserve Google's illegal monopoly."
A Central Florida sixth-grade teacher, David McKeown, was arrested Thursday on 19 charges related to child sex abuse material and animal sexual abuse. Florida's law enforcement department and attorney general's office allege he shared nearly 30 images on Discord while at school, and authorities believe he used AI to create them, possibly from photos of real children.
Japanese crypto advocate Mai Fujimoto, known online as Miss Bitcoin, said on June 20 that she spent about 10 minutes on a Zoom call with a deepfake of an acquaintance whose Telegram account had been compromised. A link supposedly sent to fix audio problems installed malware that compromised her Telegram and MetaMask, and her main X account was hijacked.
The Judiciary Police say fraudsters posted a deepfake video on social media falsely showing Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai at a public event endorsing an online investment scheme, aimed at luring viewers to a fake investment platform. According to the police statement, no citizens had yet reported falling victim to the scam.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
Canada's Immigration Appeal Division found that post-hearing submissions by counsel Hadi Mansouri contained "AI Hallucinations", with case law and documents fabricated or wildly misrepresented. Mansouri apologised, saying he gave drafted submissions to AI for edits and it changed quotations and citations. The panel dismissed his client's residency appeal on June 20, 2025.
Dismissing a suit against the Connecticut Interlocal Risk Management Agency and the Town of Enfield on June 20, 2025, Judge Vernon D. Oliver noted that several cases the plaintiff cited did not remotely match their propositions and that his only quotation, attributed to Gideon v. Wainwright, does not appear in it. Suspecting AI, the court cautioned him to file only accurate representations.
Who did it: HYBRID District Court of New South Wales
In a defamation case, the NSW District Court found that all judgments and rules cited in a self-represented defendant's reply submissions were misstated, non-existent or both, and that generative AI had been used, among them a non-existent "Wu v Wilks". The defendant acknowledged using AI, citing time pressure and distress. Ruling on 20 June 2025, the court said it must not happen again.
