Judge William Stickman IV struck motion-to-dismiss briefs filed by attorney Tyrone Blackburn for the defendant in Thomas Dexter Jakes' defamation case. The judge found fabricated quotations, including from the court's own opinion, and ordered Blackburn to show cause why he should not be sanctioned. The court presumed generative AI drafted the briefs; Blackburn said his new research system had "an AI element."
A Bengaluru woman lost nearly Rs 35 lakh over eight months after a Facebook ad featuring deepfake videos of Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy led her to a fake trading website, she told police. The fraudsters displayed profits, then demanded a declaration charge and dues to release her funds, and tried to extort more with a fabricated money-laundering case.
A federal judge in Miami on June 26, 2025 refused Tesla summary judgment on design-defect and failure-to-warn claims over an April 25, 2019 Key Largo crash, in which a Model S using Autopilot, its driver reaching for a dropped phone, hit a parked Tahoe that struck two pedestrians, killing one. Punitive damages may go to trial; Tesla won on two other claims.
An FBI affidavit accuses James Strahler II, 37, of Ohio, of stalking at least 10 people and sending AI-generated pornographic imagery of them, some depicting sex with relatives, to their families and coworkers, and of demanding nude images from some to make it stop. His searches allegedly included "Undress ai" and "best undress app". Arrested at his workplace on June 12, he remains in custody.
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Chief US District Judge Dolly M. Gee ordered attorney John D. Tran to explain why Rhema Law Group PC should not be sanctioned, after an opposition brief that appeared AI-assisted cited two cases the court could not find. One citation, supposedly denying a motion to strike, led to an appellee's brief in a Texas manslaughter appeal.
Nanyang Technological University will have a panel including AI experts assess the appeal of one of three students given zero marks for an essay over AI use; she says she was accused over citation errors and use of a reference organiser. NTU said a second student's appeal was rejected because she had admitted using Gen AI.
Scammers used AI to clone the voice and image of Antena 3 Noticias presenter Manu Sánchez and a nutritionist, faking an interview in which the pair promote supposed miracle slimming pills. Sánchez says the real interview was recorded at Christmas to talk about excesses, and that his astonishment has become "deep anger".
